People Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

Risk factors for early hospital readmission in patients with AIDS and pneumonia. Journal of general internal medicine 1999.
Grant RW, Charlebois ED, Wachter RM.

Intensive care of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: time for a reassessment? The American review of respiratory disease 1988.
Luce JM, Wachter RM, Hopewell PC.

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

A new doctor in the house: ethical issues in hospitalist systems. JAMA 1999.
Pantilat SZ, Alpers A, Wachter RM.

Attitudes of medical residents regarding intensive care for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Archives of internal medicine 1988.
Wachter RM, Cooke M, Hopewell PC, Luce JM.

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.

Safe but sound: patient safety meets evidence-based medicine. JAMA 2002.
Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, Wachter RM.

Hospitalist staffing requirements. Effective clinical practice : ECP 1999.
Lurie JD, Wachter RM.

Ethical dilemmas about intensive care for patients with AIDS. Reviews of infectious diseases 1987.
Lo B, Raffin TA, Cohen NH, 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.

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.

The evolution of the hospitalist model in the United States. The Medical clinics of North America 2002.
Wachter RM.

The potential size of the hospitalist workforce in the United States. The American journal of medicine 1999.
Lurie JD, Miller DP, Lindenauer PK, Wachter RM, Sox HC.

Symptomatic hypotension induced by nifedipine in the acute treatment of severe hypertension. Archives of internal medicine 1987.
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.

Patient safety at ten: unmistakable progress, troubling gaps. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2009.
Wachter RM.

The 100,000 Lives Campaign: A scientific and policy review. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2006.
Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ.

Improved survival with highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients with severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. AIDS (London, England) 2003.
Morris A, Wachter RM, Luce J, Turner J, Huang L.

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

The evolution of the hospitalist movement in the USA. Clinical medicine (London, England) 2002.
Baudendistel TE, Wachter RM.

Financial implications of implementing a hospitalist program. Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 1999.
Wachter RM, Whitcomb WF, Nelson JR.

Intensive care of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Outcome and changing patterns of utilization. The American review of respiratory disease 1986.
Wachter RM, Luce JM, Turner J, Volberding P, Hopewell PC.

Early Initiation of Sacubitril/Valsartan in Patients With Acute Heart Failure and Renal Dysfunction: An Analysis of the TRANSITION Study. Journal of cardiac failure 2023.
Straburzynska-Migaj E, Senni M, Wachter R, Fonseca C, Witte KK, Mueller C, Lonn E, Butylin D, Noe A, Schwende H, Lawrence D, Suryawanshi B, Pascual-Figal D, of TRANSITION Investigators.

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.

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.

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

Quality grand rounds: the case for patient safety. Annals of internal medicine 2006.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG, Markowitz AJ, Smith M, Saint S.

Implementation of a voluntary hospitalist service at a community teaching hospital: improved clinical efficiency and patient outcomes. Annals of internal medicine 2002.
Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Baron RB, Goldman L.

Learning from our mistakes: quality grand rounds, a new case-based series on medical errors and patient safety. Annals of internal medicine 2002.
Wachter RM, Shojania KG, Saint S, Markowitz AJ, Smith M.

An introduction to the hospitalist model. Annals of internal medicine 1999.
Wachter RM.

Lethargy and confusion after total nephrectomy. Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1986.
Wachter RM, Fields S.

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

Hospitalists and the practice of inpatient medicine: results of a survey of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians. Annals of internal medicine 1999.
Lindenauer PK, Pantilat SZ, Katz PP, Wachter RM.

The impact of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome on medical residency training. The New England journal of medicine 1986.
Wachter RM.

Patient safety movement in neurological surgery: the current state and future directions. Journal of neurosurgery 2019.
Sankaran S, Andrews JP, Chicas M, Wachter RM, Berger MS.

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

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.

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.

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.

Is ambulatory patient safety just like hospital safety, only without the "stat"? Annals of internal medicine 2006.
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.

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

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.

A Licensure Framework for Autonomous Clinical AI. JAMA 2026.
Bergman A, Wachter RM, Emanuel EJ.

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.

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

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.

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

Intensive care of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2002.
Morris A, Creasman J, Turner J, Luce JM, Wachter RM, Huang L.

Delayed Second Dose versus Standard Regimen for Covid-19 Vaccination. The New England journal of medicine 2021.
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The patient provider relationship and the hospitalist movement. Introduction. Disease-a-month : DM 2002.
Pantilat SZ, Wachter RM.

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.

The Market Dynamics for Third-Party AI Tools Trying to Compete With Electronic Health Record Developers. JAMA 2026.
Adler-Milstein J, Murray SG, 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.