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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Hospitalists, value and the future. Future hospital journal 2016.
Hoffman A, Hatefi A, Wachter R.

Attending physicians on ward rounds--reply. JAMA 2013.
Wachter RM, Verghese AC.

Investing in the future: building an academic hospitalist faculty development program. Journal of hospital medicine 2011.
Sehgal NL, Sharpe BA, Auerbach AA, 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.

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

How AI will redefine care delivery: the rise of the generalist-specialist. Health Affairs Scholar 2026.
Kocher B, Nolan-Mangini S, Wachter RM.

The unintended consequences of measuring quality on the quality of medical care. The New England journal of medicine 2000.
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.

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

Development and implementation of a balanced scorecard in an academic hospitalist group. Journal of hospital medicine 2013.
Hwa M, Sharpe BA, Wachter RM.

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.

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.

International teleradiology. The New England journal of medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

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.

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.

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

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 wisdom and justice of not paying for "preventable complications". JAMA 2008.
Pronovost PJ, Goeschel CA, Wachter RM.

The "dis-location" of U.S. medicine--the implications of medical outsourcing. The New England journal of medicine 2006.
Wachter RM.

Measuring the Return on Investment for Clinician-Facing Artificial Intelligence Technologies. JAMA internal medicine 2026.
Rotenstein LS, Wachter RM, Bates DW.

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

Delayed Second Dose versus Standard Regimen for Covid-19 Vaccination. The New England journal of medicine 2021.
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A hidden complication of heart disease. Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1988.
Wachter RM, Tierney LM.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The future of general surgery. JAMA 2008.
Maa J, Wachter RM, Gosnell JE, Harris HW.

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.

Interview of Robert M. Wachter, MD. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015.
Wachter RM, Kerbel RB, Aung KK.

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.

Why diagnostic errors don't get any respect--and what can be done about them. Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010.
Wachter RM.

The state of hospital medicine in 2008. The Medical clinics of North America 2008.
Wachter RM.

Clinical problem-solving. One surprise after another. The New England journal of medicine 2005.
Leeper NJ, Wener LS, Dhaliwal G, Saint S, 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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inpatient Understanding of Their Care Team and Receipt of Mixed Messages: a Two-Site Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of general internal medicine 2023.
Atkinson MK, Wazir M, Barkoudah E, Khalil H, Mani S, Harrison JD, Yao-Cohen E, Weiss R, To C, Bambury EA, Cimino J, Mora R, Maru J, Curatola N, Juergens N, Schnipper JL.

Discharge by Noon: Toward a Better Understanding of Benefits and Costs. Journal of hospital medicine 2021.
Zorian A, Shine D, Mourad M.