People Publications

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.

Are Artificial Intelligence-Generated Replies the Answer to the Electronic Health Record Inbox Problem? JAMA network open 2024.
Rotenstein LS, Wachter RM.

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.

Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir for Acute COVID-19 in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease and Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. JACC. Advances 2024.
Patel R, Dani SS, Khadke S, Kumar A, Ahmad J, Saji AM, Shah J, Mehta N, Wener K, McQuillen DP, Abraham G, Faust J, Maley J, Patel S, Mullington J, Wachter RM, Mosenthal A, Sax PE, Ganatra S.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Promoting Prenatal Penicillin Allergy Evaluations: A Multi-Year Process Improvement Study. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2024.
Tsao LR, Wen S, Lamar RC, Irani RA, Otani IM.

Increased expression of urokinase during atherosclerotic lesion development causes arterial constriction and lumen loss, and accelerates lesion growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002.
Falkenberg M, Tom C, DeYoung MB, Wen S, Linnemann R, Dichek DA.