People Publications

Promoting Trust Between Patients and Physicians in the Era of Artificial Intelligence. JAMA 2019.
Nundy S, Montgomery T, Wachter RM.

Development of a hospital-based program focused on improving healthcare value. Journal of hospital medicine 2014.
Moriates C, Mourad M, Novelero M, Wachter RM.

Can healthcare go from good to great? Journal of hospital medicine 2011.
Driver TH, Wachter RM.

Perspective: Physician leadership in quality. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009.
Pronovost PJ, Miller MR, Wachter RM, Meyer GS.

The expanding role of hospitalists in the United States. Swiss medical weekly 2006.
Sehgal NL, Wachter RM.

Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalists. Disease-a-month : DM 2002.
Pantilat SZ, Lindenauer PK, Katz PP, Wachter RM.

The hospitalist movement: ten issues to consider. Hospital practice (1995) 1999.
Wachter RM.

Ripping and filing Journal articles. The New England journal of medicine 1984.
Wachter RM.

Reimagining Specialty Consultation in the Digital Age: The Potential Role of Targeted Automatic Electronic Consultations. JAMA 2019.
Wachter RM, Judson TJ, Mourad M.

Grading residents' clinical performance: unique opportunities and challenges. Journal of general internal medicine 2014.
Liao JM, Wachter RM.

Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation. Journal of hospital medicine 2011.
Schmaltz SP, Williams SC, Chassin MR, Loeb JM, Wachter RM.

Entering the second decade of the patient safety movement: the field matures: comment on "disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patients' ratings of the quality of care". Archives of internal medicine 2009.
Wachter RM.

Tracking progress in patient safety: an elusive target. JAMA 2006.
Pronovost PJ, Miller MR, Wachter RM.

The "continuity visit" and the hospitalist model of care. Disease-a-month : DM 2002.
Wachter RM, Pantilat SZ.

Implications of the hospitalist movement for academic departments of medicine: lessons from the UCSF experience. The American journal of medicine 1999.
Wachter RM, Goldman L.

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Will the Value Match the Hype? JAMA 2019.
Emanuel EJ, Wachter RM.

Hospitalist workload: the search for the magic number. JAMA internal medicine 2014.
Wachter RM.

"July effect": impact of the academic year-end changeover on patient outcomes: a systematic review. Annals of internal medicine 2011.
Young JQ, Ranji SR, Wachter RM, Lee CM, Niehaus B, Auerbach AD.

California hospital leaders' views of hospitalists: meeting needs of the present and future. Journal of hospital medicine 2009.
Vasilevskis EE, Knebel RJ, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD.

The hospitalist movement 10 years later: life as a Swiss army knife. MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

The patient provider relationship and the hospitalist movement. Introduction. Disease-a-month : DM 2002.
Pantilat SZ, Wachter RM.

The hospitalist movement and its implications for the care of hospitalized children. Pediatrics 1999.
Bellet PS, Wachter RM.

Restricting the Number of Open Patient Records in the Electronic Health Record: Is the Record Half Open or Half Closed? JAMA 2019.
Wachter RM, Murray SG, Adler-Milstein J.

Computerised provider order entry combined with clinical decision support systems to improve medication safety: a narrative review. BMJ quality & safety 2014.
Ranji SR, Rennke S, Wachter RM.

Improving follow-up of high-risk psychiatry outpatients at resident year-end transfer. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2011.
Young JQ, Pringle Z, Wachter RM.

Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety. The New England journal of medicine 2009.
Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ.

Trends in market demand for internal medicine 1999 to 2004: an analysis of physician job advertisements. Journal of general internal medicine 2006.
Auerbach AD, Chlouber R, Singler J, Lurie JD, Bostrom A, Wachter RM.

The hospitalist movement 5 years later. JAMA 2002.
Wachter RM, Goldman L.

The hospitalist movement and the future of academic general internal medicine. Journal of general internal medicine 1998.
Wachter RM, Flanders S.

Transforming concepts in patient safety: a progress report. BMJ quality & safety 2018.
Gandhi TK, Kaplan GS, Leape L, Berwick DM, Edgman-Levitan S, Edmondson A, Meyer GS, Michaels D, Morath JM, Vincent C, Wachter R.

Safety in numbers: the development of Leapfrog's composite patient safety score for U.S. hospitals. Journal of patient safety 2014.
Austin JM, D'Andrea G, Birkmeyer JD, Leape LL, Milstein A, Pronovost PJ, Romano PS, Singer SJ, Vogus TJ, Wachter RM.

What context features might be important determinants of the effectiveness of patient safety practice interventions? BMJ quality & safety 2011.
Taylor SL, Dy S, Foy R, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Ovretveit J, Pronovost PJ, Rubenstein LV, Wachter RM, Shekelle PG.

Impact of duty-hour restriction on resident inpatient teaching. Journal of hospital medicine 2009.
Mazotti LA, Vidyarthi AR, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD, Katz PP.

Managing discontinuity in academic medical centers: strategies for a safe and effective resident sign-out. Journal of hospital medicine 2006.
Vidyarthi AR, Arora V, Schnipper JL, Wall SD, Wachter RM.

Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalists. The American journal of medicine 2001.
Pantilat SZ, Lindenauer PK, Katz PP, Wachter RM.

Effect of evaluator and resident gender on the American Board of Internal Medicine evaluation scores. Journal of general internal medicine 1998.
Rand VE, Hudes ES, Browner WS, Wachter RM, Avins AL.

Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2025.
Wachter RM.

Resolving the Productivity Paradox of Health Information Technology: A Time for Optimism. JAMA 2018.
Wachter RM, Howell MD.

Impact of universal health insurance coverage on hypertension management: a cross-national study in the United States and England. PloS one 2014.
Dalton AR, Vamos EP, Harris MJ, Netuveli G, Wachter RM, Majeed A, Millett C.

A framework for classifying patient safety practices: results from an expert consensus process. BMJ quality & safety 2011.
Dy SM, Taylor SL, Carr LH, Foy R, Pronovost PJ, Ovretveit J, Wachter RM, Rubenstein LV, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Shekelle PG.

Academic year-end transfers of outpatients from outgoing to incoming residents: an unaddressed patient safety issue. JAMA 2009.
Young JQ, Wachter RM.

Reflections: the hospitalist movement a decade later. Journal of hospital medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

The "continuity visit" and the hospitalist model of care. The American journal of medicine 2001.
Wachter RM, Pantilat SZ.

Reorganizing an academic medical service: impact on cost, quality, patient satisfaction, and education. JAMA 1998.
Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Bindman AB, Goldman L.

Addressing Inpatient Hyponatremia Through Targeted Automatic E-consults: A Pilot Randomized Trial. Journal of general internal medicine 2024.
Judson TJ, Lo L, Demko JE, Mourad M, Liu KD, Wachter RM, Lopez I, Tummalapalli SL.

Understanding Patient Safety, 3rd Edition Understanding Patient Safety, 3rd Edition. 2018.
Wachter RM, Gupta K..

Diagnostic errors: central to patient safety, yet still in the periphery of safety's radar screen1). Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2014.
Wachter RM.

Advancing the science of patient safety. Annals of internal medicine 2011.
Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM, Taylor SL, Dy SM, Foy R, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Ovretveit J, Rubenstein LV, Adams AS, Angood PB, Bates DW, Bickman L, Carayon P, Donaldson L, Duan N, Farley DO, Greenhalgh T, Haughom J, Lake ET, Lilford R, Lohr KN, Meyer GS, Miller MR, Neuhauser DV, Ryan G, Saint S, Shojania KG, Shortell SM, Stevens DP, Walshe K.

Applying Toyota Production System principles to a psychiatric hospital: making transfers safer and more timely. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009.
Young JQ, Wachter RM.

Could computerization harm patient safety? MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

A pneumonia practice guideline and a hospitalist-based reorganization lead to equivalent efficiency gains. The American journal of managed care 2001.
Reddy JC, Katz PP, Goldman L, Wachter RM.

A model hospitalist training program. The hospitalist 1998.
Hauer KE, Wachter RM.

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.