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Allison Gilbert

Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
DUMC Box 102505, Durham, NC 27705
DUMC Box 102505, Durham, NC 27701

Featured Works


Differential service utilization associated with trauma-informed integrated treatment for women with co-occurring disorders.

Journal article Adm Policy Ment Health · November 2012 Featured Publication Women with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and trauma histories vary greatly in symptom severity and use of support services. This study estimated differential effects of an integrated treatment intervention (IT) across sub-groups of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental illness and firearm violence.

Journal article JAMA · September 7, 2011 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Service Utilization Patterns as Predictors of Response to Trauma-Informed Integrated Treatment for Women With Co-occurring Disorders.

Journal article J Dual Diagn · July 2011 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: The current study examined whether clinical responses to an integrated treatment intervention among women with co-occurring disorders and histories of abuse varied according to their service use patterns at baseline. METHODS: Data were from a na ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reductions in arrest under assisted outpatient treatment in New York.

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · October 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: Individuals with serious mental illness have a relatively high risk of criminal justice involvement. Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is a legal mechanism that mandates treatment for individuals with serious mental illness who are unlikely to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Continuing medication and hospitalization outcomes after assisted outpatient treatment in New York.

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · October 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether persons with mental illness who undergo a period of involuntary outpatient commitment continue to receive prescribed medications and avoid psychiatric hospitalization after outpatient commitment ends. METHODS: Data on ... Full text Link to item Cite

Robbing Peter to pay Paul: did New York State's outpatient commitment program crowd out voluntary service recipients?

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · October 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether New York State's assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) program disadvantaged voluntary service recipients by directing services toward court-ordered individuals. METHODS: Administrative data from the New York State Offi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessing outcomes for consumers in New York's assisted outpatient treatment program.

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · October 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether New York State's assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) program, a form of involuntary outpatient commitment, improves a range of policy-relevant outcomes for court-ordered individuals. METHODS: Administrative data from ... Full text Link to item Cite

Barriers to the adoption and implementation of preventive dental services in primary medical care.

Journal article Pediatrics · March 2010 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To determine the barriers to adopting preventive oral health procedures in medical primary care. METHODS: Medical providers who participated in a Medicaid demonstration in North Carolina completed questionnaires reporting their experiences with ... Full text Link to item Cite

Psychiatric advance directives and reduction of coercive crisis interventions.

Journal article J Ment Health · January 1, 2008 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Psychiatric advance directives are intended to enable self-determined treatment for patients who lose decisional capacity, and thus reduce the need for coercive interventions such as police transport, involuntary commitment, seclusion and restr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cost-effectiveness of pharmacotherapies for nicotine dependence in primary care settings: a multinational comparison.

Journal article Tob Control · June 2006 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incremental cost-effectiveness of the first-line pharmacotherapies (nicotine gum, patch, spray, inhaler, and bupropion) for smoking cessation across six Western countries-Canada, France, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and ... Full text Link to item Cite

The cost effectiveness of pharmacological smoking cessation therapies in developing countries: a case study in the Seychelles.

Journal article Tob Control · June 2004 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: To examine the incremental cost effectiveness of the five first line pharmacological smoking cessation therapies in the Seychelles and other developing countries. DESIGN: A Markov chain cohort simulation. SUBJECTS: Two simulated cohorts of smoke ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the first-line therapies for nicotine dependence.

Journal article Eur J Clin Pharmacol · July 2003 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: Nicotine dependence is the major obstacle for smokers who want to quit. Guidelines have identified five effective first-line therapies, four nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs)--gum, patch, nasal spray and inhaler--and bupropion. Studying the ... Full text Link to item Cite