Jean Digitale, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

Her research interests include improving quality and safety in pediatric hospital care using electronic health record data, clinical informatics, and advanced analytics.

• Differential Use of Outpatient Palliative Care by Demographic and Clinical Characteristics.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2023 Digitale JC, Nouri SS, Cohen EL, Calton BA, Rabow MW, Pantilat SZ, Bischoff KE
• Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes in vaccinated patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative study.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023 Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium
• Extubation in neurocritical care patients: the ENIO international prospective study.
  Intensive care medicine 2022 Cinotti R, Mijangos JC, Pelosi P, Haenggi M, Gurjar M, Schultz MJ, Kaye C, Godoy DA, Alvarez P, Ioakeimidou A, Ueno Y, Badenes R, Suei Elbuzidi AA, Piagnerelli M, Elhadi M, Reza ST, Azab MA, McCredie …
• Genetic variation that determines TAPBP expression levels associates with the course of malaria in an HLA allotype-dependent manner.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022 Walker-Sperling V, Digitale JC, Viard M, Martin MP, Bashirova A, Yuki Y, Ramsuran V, Kulkarni S, Naranbhai V, Li H, Anderson SK, Yum L, Clifford R, Kibuuka H, Ake J, Thomas R, Rowland-Jones S, Rek J, …
• Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection Outcomes in Vaccinated Patients with Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2022 Ge J, Digitale JC, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC, N3C Consortium
• The Effect of Readmission for Phototherapy on Early Breast Milk Feeding.
  Hospital pediatrics 2022 Digitale JC, Chang PW, Li SX, Kuzniewicz MW, Newman TB
• A cause should not be automatically taken as an effect modifier of other causes: author's reply.
  Journal of clinical epidemiology 2022 Digitale JC, Martin JN, Glymour MM
• Update on Phototherapy and Childhood Cancer in a Northern California Cohort.
  Pediatrics 2021 Digitale JC, Kim MO, Kuzniewicz MW, Newman TB
• Tutorial on directed acyclic graphs.
  Journal of clinical epidemiology 2021 Digitale JC, Martin JN, Glymour MM
• Study Designs to Assess Real-World Interventions to Prevent COVID-19.
  Frontiers in public health 2021 Digitale JC, Stojanovski K, McCulloch CE, Handley MA
• Association of Inhibitory Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Ligands With Higher Plasmodium falciparum Parasite Prevalence.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2021 Digitale JC, Callaway PC, Martin M, Nelson G, Viard M, Rek J, Arinaitwe E, Dorsey G, Kamya M, Carrington M, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Feeney ME
• The effect of hospital phototherapy on early breastmilk feeding.
  Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology 2021 Digitale JC, Chang PW, Li SX, Kuzniewicz MW, Newman TB
• HLA Alleles B*53:01 and C*06:02 Are Associated With Higher Risk of P. falciparum Parasitemia in a Cohort in Uganda.
  Frontiers in immunology 2021 Digitale JC, Callaway PC, Martin M, Nelson G, Viard M, Rek J, Arinaitwe E, Dorsey G, Kamya M, Carrington M, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Feeney ME
• New Statin Use and Mortality in Older Veterans.
  JAMA 2020 Digitale JC, Newman TB
• Gut Bacterial Diversity and Growth among Preschool Children in Burkina Faso.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2020 Digitale J, Sié A, Coulibaly B, Ouermi L, Dah C, Tapsoba C, Bärnighausen T, Lebas E, Arzika AM, Glymour MM, Keenan JD, Doan T, Oldenburg CE
• Assessment of an adolescent-girl-focused nutritional educational intervention within a girls' empowerment programme: a cluster randomised evaluation in Zambia.
  Public health nutrition 2020 Hewett PC, Willig AL, Digitale J, Soler-Hampejsek E, Behrman JR, Austrian K
• The impact of the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) on short and long term social, economic, education and fertility outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Zambia.
  BMC public health 2020 Austrian K, Soler-Hampejsek E, Behrman JR, Digitale J, Jackson Hachonda N, Bweupe M, Hewett PC
• Correlates of Contraceptive Use and Health Facility Choice among Young Women in Malawi.
  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2016 Digitale J, Psaki S, Soler-Hampejsek E, Mensch BS
• Randomized evaluation and cost-effectiveness of HIV and sexual and reproductive health service referral and linkage models in Zambia.
  BMC public health 2016 Hewett PC, Nalubamba M, Bozzani F, Digitale J, Vu L, Yam E, Nambao M