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Hospitalist and Internal Medicine Leaders' Perspectives of Early Discharge Challenges at Academic Medical Centers. Journal of hospital medicine 2017.
Patel H, Fang MC, Mourad M, Green A, Wachter RM, Murphy RD, Harrison JD.

Responding to clinicians who fail to follow patient safety practices: perceptions of physicians, nurses, trainees, and patients. Journal of hospital medicine 2013.
Driver TH, Katz PP, Trupin L, Wachter RM.

The hazards of drawing conclusions from before-and-after studies of system-level interventions: knowing may not be enough. Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2011.
Cabana MD, Wachter RM.

Diagnostic errors and patient safety. JAMA 2009.
Wachter RM, Holmboe ES.

Expected and unanticipated consequences of the quality and information technology revolutions. JAMA 2006.
Wachter RM.

Caregiver perceptions of the reasons for delayed hospital discharge. Effective clinical practice : ECP 2001.
Minichiello TM, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM.

The emerging role of "hospitalists" in the American health care system. The New England journal of medicine 1996.
Wachter RM, Goldman L.

Pragmatic Insights on Patient Safety Priorities and Intervention Strategies in Ambulatory Settings. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2017.
Sarkar U, McDonald K, Motala A, Smith P, Zipperer L, Wachter RM, Shanman R, Shekelle PG.

Changing our culture to advance patient safety: the 2013 AANS Presidential Address. Journal of neurosurgery 2013.
Berger MS, Wachter RM, Greysen SR, Lau CY.

Effective physician-nurse communication: a patient safety essential for labor and delivery. American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2011.
Lyndon A, Zlatnik MG, Wachter RM.

Refocusing the lens: patient safety in ambulatory chronic disease care. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009.
Sarkar U, Wachter RM, Schroeder SA, Schillinger D.

Proposed standards for quality improvement research and publication: one step forward and two steps back. Quality & safety in health care 2006.
Pronovost P, Wachter R.

Who will pay for the value of hospitalists? The American journal of managed care 2001.
Wachter RM.

Intensive care for patients with AIDS: clinical and ethical issues. Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift 1995.
Wachter RM.

Automatic detection of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with ischaemic stroke: better than routine diagnostic workup? European journal of neurology 2017.
Uphaus T, Grings A, Gröschel S, Müller A, Weber-Krüger M, Wachter R, Gröschel K.

Observation status for hospitalized patients: a maddening policy begging for revision. JAMA internal medicine 2013.
Wachter RM.

How does context affect interventions to improve patient safety? An assessment of evidence from studies of five patient safety practices and proposals for research. BMJ quality & safety 2011.
Ovretveit JC, Shekelle PG, Dy SM, McDonald KM, Hempel S, Pronovost P, Rubenstein L, Taylor SL, Foy R, Wachter RM.

Growth in care provided by hospitalists. The New England journal of medicine 2009.
Wachter RM.

Effect of the inpatient general medicine rotation on student pursuit of a generalist career. Journal of general internal medicine 2006.
Arora V, Wetterneck TB, Schnipper JL, Auerbach AD, Kaboli P, Wachter RM, Levinson W, Humphrey HJ, Meltzer D.

Hospitalists' perceptions of their residency training needs: results of a national survey. The American journal of medicine 2001.
Plauth WH, Pantilat SZ, Wachter RM, Fenton CL.

Cost and outcome of intensive care for patients with AIDS, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and severe respiratory failure. JAMA 1995.
Wachter RM, Luce JM, Safrin S, Berrios DC, Charlebois E, Scitovsky AA.

International Exchange and American Medicine. The New England journal of medicine 2017.
Armstrong K, Anderson ME, Carethers JM, Loscalzo J, Parmacek MS, Wachter RM, Zeidel ML.

Bringing continuing medical education to the bedside: the University of California, San Francisco Hospitalist Mini-College. Journal of hospital medicine 2013.
Sehgal NL, Wachter RM, Vidyarthi AR.

Critical conversations: a call for a nonprocedural "time out". Journal of hospital medicine 2011.
Sehgal NL, Fox M, Sharpe BA, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen M, Wachter RM.

I-CaRe: a case review tool focused on improving inpatient care. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009.
Lee JH, Vidyarthi AR, Sehgal NL, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM.

International teleradiology. The New England journal of medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

Does continuity of care matter? No: discontinuity can improve patient care. The Western journal of medicine 2001.
Wachter RM.

Rationing health care: preparing for a new era. Southern medical journal 1995.
Wachter RM.

The Limits of Clinician Vigilance as an AI Safety Bulwark. JAMA 2024.
Adler-Milstein J, Redelmeier DA, Wachter RM.

Development of a high-value care culture survey: a modified Delphi process and psychometric evaluation. BMJ quality & safety 2016.
Gupta R, Moriates C, Harrison JD, Valencia V, Ong M, Clarke R, Steers N, Hays RD, Braddock CH, Wachter R.

Focusing on value: this time is different. Journal of hospital medicine 2013.
Auerbach AD, Wachter RM.

Filling the black hole of hospital discharge (editorial in response to article by Walz et al.,J Gen Intern Med 2011). Journal of general internal medicine 2011.
Wachter RM, Auerbach AD.

A multidisciplinary teamwork training program: the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) experience. Journal of general internal medicine 2008.
Sehgal NL, Fox M, Vidyarthi AR, Sharpe BA, Gearhart S, Bookwalter T, Barker J, Alldredge BK, Blegen MA, Wachter RM.

The "dis-location" of U.S. medicine--the implications of medical outsourcing. The New England journal of medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

The benefits of using hospitalists. Health Forum journal 2001.
Wachter RM.

Respiratory failure from severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Entering the third era. Chest 1994.
Wachter RM, Luce JM.

Comparing frequency of booster vaccination to prevent severe COVID-19 by risk group in the United States. Nature communications 2024.
Park HJ, Gonsalves GS, Tan ST, Kelly JD, Rutherford GW, Wachter RM, Schechter R, Paltiel AD, Lo NC.

Rethinking medical ward quality. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2016.
Pannick S, Wachter RM, Vincent C, Sevdalis N.

Progress in patient safety: a glass fuller than it seems. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2013.
Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM.

The hospitalist field turns 15: new opportunities and challenges. Journal of hospital medicine 2011.
Wachter RM.

Public reporting of antibiotic timing in patients with pneumonia: lessons from a flawed performance measure. Annals of internal medicine 2008.
Wachter RM, Flanders SA, Fee C, Pronovost PJ.

Impact of reduced duty hours on residents' educational satisfaction at the University of California, San Francisco. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2006.
Vidyarthi AR, Katz PP, Wall SD, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD.

Hospitals and hospitalists can reach across the "quality chasm" by restructuring inpatient care. Cost & quality : CQ 2001.
Wachter R.

The ethical appropriateness of using prognostic scoring systems in clinical management. Critical care clinics 1994.
Luce JM, Wachter RM.

COVID-19 and Patient Safety-Lessons From 2 Efforts to Keep People Safe. JAMA internal medicine 2024.
Wachter RM.

Measurement, Certification, and Quality: Meeting Enduring Challenges with Modern Tools. Ophthalmology 2016.
Wachter RM.

Access to primary care and visits to emergency departments in England: a cross-sectional, population-based study. PloS one 2013.
Cowling TE, Cecil EV, Soljak MA, Lee JT, Millett C, Majeed A, Wachter RM, Harris MJ.

Inability of providers to predict unplanned readmissions. Journal of general internal medicine 2011.
Allaudeen N, Schnipper JL, Orav EJ, Wachter RM, Vidyarthi AR.

Quality of primary care and hospital admissions for diabetes mellitus in England. The Journal of ambulatory care management 2008.
Bottle A, Millett C, Xie Y, Saxena S, Wachter RM, Majeed A.

Clinical problem-solving. One surprise after another. The New England journal of medicine 2005.
Leeper NJ, Wener LS, Dhaliwal G, Saint S, Wachter RM.

Response to David Meltzer's paper "Hospitalists and the doctor-patient relationship". The Journal of legal studies 2001.
Wachter RM.

Advance directives for patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Critical care clinics 1993.
Wachter RM, Lo B.

Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Deliver on Its Promise in Health Care? JAMA 2023.
Wachter RM, Brynjolfsson E.

The Search for Better Patient Handoff Tools. JAMA internal medicine 2016.
Schoenfeld AJ, Wachter RM.

Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review. Annals of internal medicine 2013.
Rennke S, Nguyen OK, Shoeb MH, Magan Y, Wachter RM, Ranji SR.

Commentary: Medical malpractice and patient safety: tear down that wall! Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011.
Alper EJ, Wachter RM.

The wisdom and justice of not paying for "preventable complications". JAMA 2008.
Pronovost PJ, Goeschel CA, Wachter RM.

Hospital Medicine (2nd Edition) Hospital Medicine (2nd Edition) 2005.
Wachter RM, Hollander H, Goldman L..

Implications of the hospitalist model for medical students' education. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2001.
Hauer KE, Wachter RM.

Screening women of childbearing age for human immunodeficiency virus. A cost-benefit analysis. Archives of internal medicine 1992.
Brandeau ML, Owens DK, Sox CH, Wachter RM.

The Hospitalist Movement 25 Years Later. Annual review of medicine 2023.
Kulkarni SA, Wachter RM.

Zero to 50,000 - The 20th Anniversary of the Hospitalist. The New England journal of medicine 2016.
Wachter RM, Goldman L.

Strategies to improve patient safety: the evidence base matures. Annals of internal medicine 2013.
Wachter RM, Pronovost P, Shekelle P.

Investing in the future: building an academic hospitalist faculty development program. Journal of hospital medicine 2011.
Sehgal NL, Sharpe BA, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM.

Perspectives on medical outsourcing and telemedicine--rough edges in a flat world? The New England journal of medicine 2008.
Singh SN, Wachter RM.

The faces of errors: a case-based approach to educating providers, policymakers, and the public about patient safety. Joint Commission journal on quality and safety 2004.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG.

Assessing hospital quality: a review for clinicians. Effective clinical practice : ECP 2001.
Shojania KG, Showstack J, Wachter RM.

AIDs, activism, and the politics of health. The New England journal of medicine 1992.
Wachter RM.

The Disappointing Impact of Interventions to Prevent Hospital Readmissions. JAMA internal medicine 2023.
Wachter RM.

Web Exclusives. Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes - Hospitalists and Digital Medicine-Overcoming the Productivity Paradox. Annals of internal medicine 2016.
Wachter RM.

The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now. Annals of internal medicine 2013.
Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM, McDonald KM, Schoelles K, Dy SM, Shojania K, Reston JT, Adams AS, Angood PB, Bates DW, Bickman L, Carayon P, Donaldson L, Duan N, Farley DO, Greenhalgh T, Haughom JL, Lake E, Lilford R, Lohr KN, Meyer GS, Miller MR, Neuhauser DV, Ryan G, Saint S, Shortell SM, Stevens DP, Walshe K.

The role of theory in research to develop and evaluate the implementation of patient safety practices. BMJ quality & safety 2011.
Foy R, Ovretveit J, Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Taylor SL, Dy S, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Rubenstein LV, Wachter RM.

The future of general surgery. JAMA 2008.
Maa J, Wachter RM, Gosnell JE, Harris HW.

Effects of hospitalist attending physicians on trainee satisfaction with teaching and with internal medicine rotations. Archives of internal medicine 2004.
Hauer KE, Wachter RM, McCulloch CE, Woo GA, Auerbach AD.

Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. 2001.
Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, Wachter RM..

Critical care of patients with AIDS. JAMA 1992.
Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hopewell PC.

Oral Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir in Non-hospitalized Vaccinated Patients with Covid-19. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2022.
Ganatra S, Dani SS, Ahmad J, Kumar A, Shah J, Abraham GM, McQuillen DP, Wachter RM, Sax PE.

Financial incentives and mortality: taking pay for performance a step too far. BMJ quality & safety 2016.
Gupta K, Wachter RM, Kachalia A.

Making health care safer II: an updated critical analysis of the evidence for patient safety practices. Evidence report/technology assessment 2013.
Shekelle PG, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ, Schoelles K, McDonald KM, Dy SM, Shojania K, Reston J, Berger Z, Johnsen B, Larkin JW, Lucas S, Martinez K, Motala A, Newberry SJ, Noble M, Pfoh E, Ranji SR, Rennke S, Schmidt E, Shanman R, Sullivan N, Sun F, Tipton K, Treadwell JR, Tsou A, Vaiana ME, Weaver SJ, Wilson R, Winters BD.

Comanagement of surgical patients between neurosurgeons and hospitalists. Archives of internal medicine 2010.
Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Cheng HQ, Maselli J, McDermott M, Vittinghoff E, Berger MS.

The state of hospital medicine in 2008. The Medical clinics of North America 2008.
Wachter RM.

The patient safety movement will help, not harm, quality. Annals of internal medicine 2004.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG.

Making health care safer: a critical analysis of patient safety practices. Evidence report/technology assessment (Summary) 2001.
Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, Wachter RM, Markowitz AJ.

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and respiratory failure in AIDS. Improved outcomes and increased use of intensive care units. The American review of respiratory disease 1991.
Wachter RM, Russi MB, Bloch DA, Hopewell PC, Luce JM.

Readmission Reduction as a Hospital Quality Measure: Time to Move on to More Pressing Concerns? JAMA 2022.
Cram P, Wachter RM, Landon BE.

Advancing the next generation of handover research and practice with cognitive load theory. BMJ quality & safety 2016.
Young JQ, Wachter RM, Ten Cate O, O'Sullivan PS, Irby DM.

Attending physicians on ward rounds--reply. JAMA 2013.
Wachter RM, Verghese AC.

Republished paper: Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project. Postgraduate medical journal 2010.
Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM.

Medicare's decision to withhold payment for hospital errors: the devil is in the det. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2008.
Wachter RM, Foster NE, Dudley RA.

Medical and surgical comanagement after elective hip and knee arthroplasty: a randomized, controlled trial. Annals of internal medicine 2004.
Huddleston JM, Long KH, Naessens JM, Vanness D, Larson D, Trousdale R, Plevak M, Cabanela M, Ilstrup D, Wachter RM.

Physician attitudes toward and prevalence of the hospitalist model of care: results of a national survey. The American journal of medicine 2000.
Auerbach AD, Nelson EA, Lindenauer PK, Pantilat SZ, Katz PP, Wachter RM.

The Fragile Coalition: Scientists, Activists and AIDS The Fragile Coalition: Scientists, Activists and AIDS. 1991.
Wachter RM..

Nailing the nuance on COVID-19. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022.
Wachter RM.

Hospitalists, value and the future. Future hospital journal 2016.
Hoffman A, Hatefi A, Wachter R.

Development and implementation of a balanced scorecard in an academic hospitalist group. Journal of hospital medicine 2013.
Hwa M, Sharpe BA, Wachter RM.

Why diagnostic errors don't get any respect--and what can be done about them. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010.
Wachter RM.

Neurohospitalists: an emerging model for inpatient neurological care. Annals of neurology 2008.
Josephson SA, Engstrom JW, Wachter RM.

The end of the beginning: patient safety five years after 'to err is human'. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004.
Wachter RM.

Debunking myths about the hospitalist movement. The American journal of medicine 2000.
Wachter RM.

Intensive care for patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and respiratory failure. Are we prepared for our new success? Chest 1989.
Wachter RM, Luce JM.