Peer-Reviewed Publications

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  1. Reger, M., Legler, A., Lauver, M., Tenso, K., Manchester, C., Griffin, C., Strombotne, K., Landes, S., Porter, S., Bourgeois, J., Garrido, M. (2023) Caring Letters Sent by a Clinician or Peer to At-Risk Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open.

  2. Li, Y., Legler, A., Tenso, K., Garrido, M., Pizer, S. (2023) Impact of Medical Training Programs on Time to Fill Physician Vacancies at the Veterans Health Administration. Medical Care, 10-1097.

  3. Tenso, K., Strombotne, K., Feyman, Y., Auty, S. G., L., Legler, A., & Griffith, K. N. (2023). Excess Mortality at Veterans Health Administration Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Medical Care.

  4. Tenso, K., Avila, C. J. D., Garrido, M., Lauver, M., Reger, M., Legler, A. & Strombotne, K. (2023) The Use of Crisis Line Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of General Hospital Psychiatry.

  5. Tenso, K., Pizer, S.& Palani, S. (2023) Delivery System Emergency Department Capacity and its Effect on Non-system Service Utilization. Academic Emergency Medicine.

  6. Palani, S., Garrido, M., Tenso, K. & Pizer, S. (2022) Community Care ED Use and Specialty Care Leakage from Veterans Health Administration Hospitals. Academic Emergency Medicine.

  7. Minegishi, T., Garrido, M. M., Lewis, E. T., Oliva, E. M., Pizer, S. D., Strombotne, K. L., Trafton, J.A., Tenso, K., Sohoni, P.S. & Frakt, A. B. (2022). Randomized Policy Evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM). Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1-5.

  8. Tenso, K. (2022). Public Health Students to Fight COVID-19 Worldwide, Not Just at Home. American Journal of Public Health, 112(4), 595-597.

  9. Feyman, Y., Auty, S. G., Tenso, K., Strombotne, K. L., Legler, A., & Griffith, K. N. (2022). County-Level Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Excess Mortality Among US Veterans: A Population-Based Study. The Lancet Regional Health-Americas, 5, 100093.

  10. Flores, M. W., Lê Cook, B., Mullin, B., Halperin‐Goldstein, G., Nathan, A., Tenso, K., & Schuman‐Olivier, Z. (2020). Associations between neighborhood‐level factors and opioid‐related mortality: A multi‐level analysis using death certificate data. Addiction, 115(10), 1878-1889.

Working papers and papers under review

  1. Tenso, K., Garrido, M., Kabdiyeva, A., Li, Y., Legler, A., Sadej, I. & Pizer, S. (2023) Medical Training Program Size and Clinical Staff Productivity and Turnover. Under Review.

  2. Tenso, K., Garrido, M., Strombotne, K., Szolovits, P. (2024) Machine Learning for Suicide Death and Non-Fatal Attempt Prediction: Assessing the Role of Facility-Level Variables. In Preparation.

  3. Tenso, K., Strombotne, K., Szolovits, P., Garrido, M. (2024) Machine Learning-Based Suicide Prediction: Investigating Bias Across Racial, Ethnic, Sex, and Age Groups. In Preparation.Tenso, K., Pizer, S., Garrido, M., Strombotne, K. (2023) Virtual Mental Health Care Utilization and Non-Fatal Suicide Attempts. In Preparation.

  4. 1.Tenso, K., Pizer, S., Garrido, M., Strombotne, K. (2023) Virtual Mental Health Care Utilization and Non-Fatal Suicide Attempts. In Preparation.