Terrence E. Murphy

Associate Research Scientist
Section of Geriatrics

Research Interests

Dr. Murphy is a member of the biostatistics staff of the Program on Aging. With twelve years experience in the design and manufacture of clinical instrumentation and advanced training in engineering statistics, he is interested in the application of engineering tools to research on aging. Current areas of investigation include multivariate statistics for characterization of multiple co–morbidity, robust design techniques for assessing the tradeoffs of multiple medication use, and the use of hierarchical models, propensity scores, and Bayesian techniques to enhance the analysis of non-randomized interventional designs such as the fall–related utilization of healthcare services by older persons in the state of Connecticut.

Selected Recent Publications

• Pisani MA, Murphy TE, Araujo KLB, Slattum P, Van Ness PH, Inouye SK. Benzodiazepine and opioid use and the duration of ICU delirium in an older population. Critical Care Medicine; 2008; In Press.
• Murphy TE, Agostini JV, Van Ness PH, Peduzzi P, Tinetti ME, Allore HG. Assessing the probabilities of harms and benefits of multiple medication use. J Aging Health. 2008 Sep;20(6):694-709. Epub 2008 Jul 14. PMID: 18625759
• Tinetti ME, Baker DI, King M, Gottschalk M, Murphy TE, Acampora D, Carlin BP, Leo-Summers L, Allore HG. Effect of diseemination of evidence in reducing injuries from falls. N Engl J Med; 2008; 359:252-261. PMID: 18635430
• Allore HG, Murphy TE. An examination of effect estimation in factorial and standardly-tailored designs. Clin Trials. 2008;5(2):121-30. PMID: 18375650
• Murphy TE, Tinetti ME, Allore HG. Hierarchical models to evaluate translational research: Connecticut collaboration for fall prevention. Contemp Clin Trials. 2008 May;29(3):343-50. Epub 2007 Oct 26. PMID: 18054289
• Pisani MA, Murphy TE, Van Ness PH, Araujo KLB, Inouye SK. Admission characteristics associated with delirium in older patients in a medical intensive care unit. Arch Intern Med. 2007 Aug 13-27;167(15):1629-34. PMID: 17698685
• Van Ness PH, Murphy TE, Araujo KLB, Pisani MA, Allore HG. The use of missingness–screens in clinical epidemiological research has implications in model fitting. J Clin Epidemiol. 2007 Dec;60(12):1239-45. Epub 2007 Jul 25. PMID: 17998078
• Murphy TE, Tsui K-L. (2007) Performance Measures for Robust Design, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Ruggeri F, Kenett R, and Faltin FW (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp 1352-1356.
• Murphy TE, Tsui K-L, McShane-Vaughn M. (2007) Signal-to-Noise Ratios for Robust Design, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Ruggeri F, Kenett R, and Faltin FW (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp 1808-1813.
• Jiang W, Murphy TE, Tsui K–L., Statistical methods for quality and productivity improvement. Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics 2006, Chapter 10. ISBN: 1–85233–806–7.
• Yang Z, Chen, VCP, Chang , ME , Murphy,TE, Tsai JCC. Mining and modeling for a metropolitan Atlanta ozone pollution decision–making framework. IIE Transactions, Special Issue on Data Mining, COSMOS technical report 04–2006.
• Murphy TE, Tsui, K–L, Allen, JK. A review of robust design methods for multiple responses. Research in Engineering Design; 2004: 201–215.

Education:	B.A., Temple University , 1983 M.S., Rochester Institute of Technology, 1998 M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001 Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology , 2004
Training:	Postdoc: Minority Educational Development, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005

Contact

Mailing Address
Section of Geriatrics
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
20 York Street
New Haven, CT 06510

E-mail
terrence.murphy@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-737-2295

Fax
203-785-4823