People Publications

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age 2015.
Wachter RM.

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

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

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

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

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

English National Health Service's savings plan may have helped reduce the use of three 'low-value' procedures. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015.
Coronini-Cronberg S, Bixby H, Laverty AA, Wachter RM, Millett C.

Associations between Internet-based patient ratings and conventional surveys of patient experience in the English NHS: an observational study. BMJ quality & safety 2012.
Greaves F, Pape UJ, King D, Darzi A, Majeed A, Wachter RM, Millett C.

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

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

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.

Revitalizing grand rounds in the time of COVID. BMC medical education 2024.
Santhosh L, Rosenstein LA, Wachter RM.

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

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.

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

Ethics in Conflict: Moral Distress as a Root Cause of Burnout. Journal of general internal medicine 2019.
Dzeng E, Wachter RM.

National hospital ratings systems share few common scores and may generate confusion instead of clarity. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015.
Austin JM, Jha AK, Romano PS, Singer SJ, Vogus TJ, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ.

High-profile investigations into hospital safety problems in England did not prompt patients to switch providers. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012.
Laverty AA, Smith PC, Pape UJ, Mears A, Wachter RM, Millett C.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Six habits of highly successful health information technology: powerful strategies for design and implementation. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2019.
Ray JM, Ratwani RM, Sinsky CA, Frankel RM, Friedberg MW, Powsner SM, Rosenthal DI, Wachter RM, Melnick ER.

Reverse epidemiology in different stages of heart failure. International journal of cardiology 2015.
Güder G, Gelbrich G, Edelmann F, Wachter R, Pieske B, Pankuweit S, Maisch B, Prettin C, Brenner S, Morbach C, Berliner D, Deubner N, Ertl G, Angermann CE, Störk S.

Associations between Web-based patient ratings and objective measures of hospital quality. Archives of internal medicine 2012.
Greaves F, Pape UJ, King D, Darzi A, Majeed A, Wachter RM, Millett C.

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

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

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

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

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

Patient safety is not elective: a debate at the NPSF Patient Safety Congress. BMJ quality & safety 2014.
McTiernan P, Wachter RM, Meyer GS, Gandhi TK.

Renaissance of hospital generalists. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2012.
Wachter RM, Bell D.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Improving the quality and safety of care on the medical ward: A review and synthesis of the evidence base. European journal of internal medicine 2014.
Pannick S, Beveridge I, Wachter RM, Sevdalis N.

Understanding Patient Safety Understanding Patient Safety. 2012.
Wachter RM..

Cross-sectional analysis of hospitalist prevalence and quality of care in California. Journal of hospital medicine 2010.
Vasilevskis EE, Knebel RJ, Dudley RA, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Effects of a multicentre teamwork and communication programme on patient outcomes: results from the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) project. BMJ quality & safety 2011.
Auerbach AD, Sehgal NL, Blegen MA, Maselli J, Alldredge BK, Vittinghoff E, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Patient whiteboards as a communication tool in the hospital setting: a survey of practices and recommendations. Journal of hospital medicine 2010.
Sehgal NL, Green A, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen MA, Wachter RM.

Complications and patient satisfaction after periacetabular pelvic osteotomy. International orthopaedics 2007.
Biedermann R, Donnan L, Gabriel A, Wachter R, Krismer M, Behensky H.

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

Understanding the new vocabulary of healthcare reform. Journal of hospital medicine 2010.
Wachter RM.

What will board certification be-and mean-for hospitalists? Journal of hospital medicine 2007.
Wachter RM.

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..

The Molecular Medicine Investigation Unit: Linking Patient Care and Scientific Inquiry in Physician-Scientist Training. Journal of graduate medical education 2020.
Berger A, Matloubian M, Shah NP, Wachter RM, DeRisi JL, Anderson M.

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..

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

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.

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.

Patient safety at 10 years: how far have we come? What's next? OR manager 2010.
Wachter R.

The impact of duty hours on resident self reports of errors. Journal of general internal medicine 2007.
Vidyarthi AR, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Katz PP.

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

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.

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

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.

"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.

Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria. 2010.
Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM (editors)..

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