People Publications

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.

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

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

Why is it so hard for academic medical centers to succeed in value-based care? Health Affairs Scholar 2023.
Kocher B, 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.

Preparing Clinicians for a Clinical World Influenced by Artificial Intelligence. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022.
James CA, Wachter RM, Woolliscroft JO.

Reimagining Electronic Clinical Communication in the Post-Pager, Smartphone Era. JAMA 2016.
Khanna RR, Wachter RM, Blum M.

Bringing diagnosis into the quality and safety equations. JAMA 2012.
Graber ML, Wachter RM, Cassel CK.

Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project. Quality & safety in health care 2010.
Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM.

Color-coded wristbands: promoting safety or confusion? Journal of hospital medicine 2007.
Sehgal NL, Wachter RM.

Hospitalists in the United States--mission accomplished or work in progress? The New England journal of medicine 2004.
Wachter RM.

Outcomes of intensive care for patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Archives of internal medicine 2000.
Nickas G, Wachter RM.

Decisions about resuscitation: inequities among patients with different diseases but similar prognoses. Annals of internal medicine 1989.
Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hearst N, Lo B.

Focusing on Digital Health Equity. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021.
Lyles CR, Wachter RM, Sarkar U.

CLINICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING. A Breakthrough Diagnosis. The New England journal of medicine 2015.
Murray SG, Wachter RM, Cho KC, Dhaliwal G.

Disciplining doctors for misconduct: character matters, but so does competence. BMJ quality & safety 2012.
Wachter RM.

Responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety: hospital board and medical staff leadership challenges. Chest 2010.
Goeschel CA, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ.

Identification of inpatient DNR status: a safety hazard begging for standardization. Journal of hospital medicine 2007.
Sehgal NL, Wachter RM.

Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (four volume series) Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (four volume series). 2004.
Shojania KG, McDonald KM, Wachter RM, Owens DK..

The unintended consequences of measuring quality on the quality of medical care. The New England journal of medicine 2000.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG.

Life-sustaining treatment for patients with AIDS. Chest 1989.
Wachter RM, Luce JM, Lo B, Raffin TA.

Building a Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) Program. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2021.
Judson TJ, Mourad M, Wachter RM.

Effects of Interdisciplinary Team Care Interventions on General Medical Wards: A Systematic Review. JAMA internal medicine 2015.
Pannick S, Davis R, Ashrafian H, Byrne BE, Beveridge I, Athanasiou T, Wachter RM, Sevdalis N.

The attending physician on the wards: finding a new homeostasis. JAMA 2012.
Wachter RM, Verghese A.

Accountability measures--using measurement to promote quality improvement. The New England journal of medicine 2010.
Chassin MR, Loeb JM, Schmaltz SP, Wachter RM.

The surgical hospitalist: a new solution for emergency surgical care? Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2007.
Maa J, Gosnell JE, Carter JT, Wachter RM, Harris HW.

Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. 2004.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG..

Assessment of prognosis in patients with community-acquired pneumonia who require mechanical ventilation. Chest 2000.
Pascual FE, Matthay MA, Bacchetti P, Wachter RM.

An acute exacerbation of P. carinii pneumonia. Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1989.
Epstein L, Libby E, Wachter RM.

Rates and Characteristics of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Hospitalists. Journal of hospital medicine 2021.
Schaffer AC, Yu-Moe CW, Babayan A, Wachter RM, Einbinder JS.

Hospital medicine in 2015: Remarkable successes and a crucial crossroads. Journal of hospital medicine 2015.
Wachter RM.

Predictors of likelihood of speaking up about safety concerns in labour and delivery. BMJ quality & safety 2012.
Lyndon A, Sexton JB, Simpson KR, Rosenstein A, Lee KA, Wachter RM.

Potential unintended consequences due to Medicare's "no pay for errors" rule? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents. Journal of general internal medicine 2010.
Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB.

The GAAP in quality measurement and reporting. JAMA 2007.
Pronovost PJ, Miller M, Wachter RM.

Intensivist consultation and outcomes in critically ill patients. JAMA 2003.
Wachter RM.

Unreliability of physician "report cards" to assess cost and quality of care. JAMA 2000.
Shojania KG, Wachter RM.

Intensive care for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Intensive care medicine 1989.
Luce JM, Wachter RM.

Delayed Second Dose versus Standard Regimen for Covid-19 Vaccination. The New England journal of medicine 2021.
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Interview of Robert M. Wachter, MD. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015.
Wachter RM, Kerbel RB, Aung KK.

Personal accountability in healthcare: searching for the right balance. BMJ quality & safety 2012.
Wachter RM.

Bleeding talent: a lesson from industry on embracing physician workforce challenges. Journal of hospital medicine 2010.
Kneeland PP, Kneeland C, Wachter RM.

Drug withdrawals in the United States: a systematic review of the evidence and analysis of trends. Current drug safety 2007.
Issa AM, Phillips KA, Van Bebber S, Nidamarthy HG, Lasser KE, Haas JS, Alldredge BK, Wachter RM, Bates DW.

Hospitalists: the new model of inpatient medical care in the United States. European journal of internal medicine 2003.
Flanders SA, Wachter RM.

Training future hospitalists. The Western journal of medicine 1999.
Hauer KE, Flanders SA, Wachter RM.

A hidden complication of heart disease. Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1988.
Wachter RM, Tierney LM.

The Risks of Prescribing Hydroxychloroquine for Treatment of COVID-19-First, Do No Harm. JAMA internal medicine 2020.
DeJong C, Wachter RM.

A Conversation With Robert Wachter, MD. Reality Bytes: Medicine's Bumpy Ride Into the Digital Age. Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.) 2015.
Wachter R, Wehrwein P.

Specialty hospitalists: analyzing an emerging phenomenon. JAMA 2012.
Nelson JR, Wellikson L, Wachter RM.

The relationship between hospitalists and primary care physicians. Annals of internal medicine 2010.
Wachter RM.

The surgical hospitalist: a new model for emergency surgical care. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2007.
Maa J, Carter JT, Gosnell JE, Wachter R, Harris HW.