Publications

Peer-Reviewed

*Indicates that I directly supervised the first author.

1. Post, B. Chowdhury, P., Harris, A., Alinezhad, F., Kennedy, W., Ferdows, N., Young, G. (forthcoming). Hospital-Physician Integration and Differences in the Use of Orthopedic Care Across Race and Ethnicity. Medical Care. 

2. Ferdows, N. B., Kosar, C., Adhiraki, D., Panagiotou, O., Rahman, M. (2025) “Greater Physician Supply Associated with Lower Mortality in Rural Counties: A 23-Year County-Level Longitudinal Observational Study”, INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision and Financing. https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580251380412 

3. Cheng M.*, Kennedy, W., Post, B., Ferdows, N. B. (2025). Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Discharge Disposition Among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Ischemic Stroke, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2025.105847    

4. Ferdows, N.B., Aranda, M. (2025) Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Risk and Protective Factors of Dementia in the United States, Clinical Gerontologist. doi: 10.1080/07317115.2025.2534651

5. Rivera-Hernandez, Kumar, A., Ferdows, N.B., Chou, L., Keeney, T., Ferdows, N.B, Karmarkar, A., Ottenbacher K. (2022) Healthcare Utilization and Costs Among High-Need and Frail Mexican American Medicare Beneficiaries, PLOS One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262079.

6. Rivera-Hernandez, M., Matos-Moreno, A., Ferdows, N.B., Kumar, A. (2021) Posthospital Nursing Home Utilization and Quality Indicators Among Medicare Beneficiaries in Puerto Rico: Comparison With the United States, JAMDA, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.11.005.

7. Rivera-Hernandez, M., Ferdows, N.B., Kumar, A. (2020) The Impact of the Covid-19 Epidemic on Older Adults in Rural and Urban Areas in Mexico, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa227.

8. Ferdows, N.B., Aranda, M., Baldwin, J., Baghban, S., Kumar, A. (2020) Assessment of Racial Disparities in Mortality Rates Among Older Adults Living in US Rural vs Urban Counties From 1968 to 2016, JAMA Network Open, 3(8):e2012241. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12241.

9. Ferdows, N. B., & Rahman, M. (2020). Evolution of the Nursing Home Industry in States With Different Certificate of Need Policies. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 21(4), 559–561.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2019.09.014 

10. Kosar, C., Loomer, L., Ferdows, N.B., Panagiotou, O., Trivedi, A., Rahman, M. (2020) Rural-Urban differences in Postacute Care Utilization and Outcomes, JAMA Netw Open., 3(1), e1918738, doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.18738.

11. Ferdows, N. B., Jensen, G. A., & Tarraf, W. (2018). Healthy Aging after Age 65: A Life-Span Health Production Function Approach. Research on aging, 40(5), 480-507. doi: 10.1177/0164027517713312.

12. Jensen, G. A., Salloum, R. G., Hu, J., Ferdows, N. B., & Tarraf, W. (2015). A slow start: use of preventive services among seniors following the Affordable Care Act's enhancement of Medicare benefits in the US. Preventive medicine, 76, 37-42. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.03.023

13. Ferdows, N.B., Keshvari, A., & Ferdows, A.B. (2011). Productivity Analysis of Iranian Manufacturing Industries: Data Envelopment Analysis. Performance, Management and Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of DEA, P: 168-174. ISBN: 978 1 85449 481 8.

14. Feizpour, M.A., Ferdows, N.B., & Ghorbani, A. (2009). Industrial Structure and the Minimum Efficient Scale of Iran’s Industry: Case Study of Food Processing Industry. Knowledge & Technology, 1(1), p: 1-23. doi:10.22067/fb.v1i1.4034.

Unpublished Work

Direct and Indirect Effects of Childhood Circumstances on Healthy Aging (with Jensen & Tarraf at Wayne State University)

Gender Differences in Healthy Aging: A Lifespan Health Production Approach

Do ACO-affiliated Hospitals discharge Patients to Higher Quality Skilled Nursing Facilities (with Rahman and Mor at Brown University)

Thesis

Essays on Healthy Aging from the Perspective of a Health Production Function [Dissertation], Wayne State University; 2016.

Productivity Analysis of Iranian Manufacturing Industries: Data Envelopment Analysis [Dissertation], Yazd University; 2009.