M K Wynia

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Affiliation: American Medical Association
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Physician manipulation of reimbursement rules for patients: between a rock and a hard place
    M K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill 60610, USA
    JAMA 283:1858-65. 2000
  2. ncbi Shared expectations for protection of identifiable health care information: report of a national consensus process
    M K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 16:100-11. 2001
  3. ncbi Patient protection and risk selection: do primary care physicians encourage their patients to join or avoid capitated health plans according to the patient's health status?
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago Ill, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 17:40-7. 2002
  4. ncbi Medicine. The bioterrorist threat and access to health care
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    Science 296:1613. 2002
  5. ncbi Ethical challenges in preparing for bioterrorism: barriers within the health care system
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    Am J Public Health 94:1096-102. 2004
  6. ncbi Effects of different monetary incentives on the return rate of a national mail survey of physicians
    J B VanGeest
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
    Med Care 39:197-201. 2001
  7. ncbi Oversimplifications I: physicians don't do public health
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association
    Am J Bioeth 5:4-5. 2005
  8. ncbi Breaching confidentiality to protect the public: evolving standards of medical confidentiality for military detainees
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 7:1-5. 2007
  9. ncbi Light from the flames of Hell: remembrance and lessons of the Holocaust for today's medical profession
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    Isr Med Assoc J 9:186-8. 2007
  10. ncbi Physicians' preparedness for bioterrorism and other public health priorities
    G Caleb Alexander
    MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 13:1238-41. 2006

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Publications39

  1. ncbi Physician manipulation of reimbursement rules for patients: between a rock and a hard place
    M K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill 60610, USA
    JAMA 283:1858-65. 2000
    ..Health plan utilization review rules are intended to enforce insurance contracts and can alter and constrain the services that physicians provide to their patients. Physicians can manipulate these rules, but how often they do so is unknown...
  2. ncbi Shared expectations for protection of identifiable health care information: report of a national consensus process
    M K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 16:100-11. 2001
    ..This report lays out areas of consensus that may be amenable to performance measurement on protecting the privacy, confidentiality and security of identifiable health information...
  3. ncbi Patient protection and risk selection: do primary care physicians encourage their patients to join or avoid capitated health plans according to the patient's health status?
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago Ill, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 17:40-7. 2002
    ..Though insurance risk selection has been well documented among organizations paid on a prospective basis, such physician-level risk selection has not been studied...
  4. ncbi Medicine. The bioterrorist threat and access to health care
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    Science 296:1613. 2002
  5. ncbi Ethical challenges in preparing for bioterrorism: barriers within the health care system
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    Am J Public Health 94:1096-102. 2004
    ..Treatment might fail if physicians do not accept their professional duty to treat patients during epidemics. Each of these potential ethical barriers to preparedness must be addressed by physicians and society...
  6. ncbi Effects of different monetary incentives on the return rate of a national mail survey of physicians
    J B VanGeest
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
    Med Care 39:197-201. 2001
    ..The present study seeks to further examine the effects of incentive size on response rates to a national mail survey of physicians...
  7. ncbi Oversimplifications I: physicians don't do public health
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association
    Am J Bioeth 5:4-5. 2005
  8. ncbi Breaching confidentiality to protect the public: evolving standards of medical confidentiality for military detainees
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 7:1-5. 2007
    ..For the public health system, this experience is a reminder of the importance of confidentiality in creating trustworthy, and effective, means to protect the public's health...
  9. ncbi Light from the flames of Hell: remembrance and lessons of the Holocaust for today's medical profession
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
    Isr Med Assoc J 9:186-8. 2007
  10. ncbi Physicians' preparedness for bioterrorism and other public health priorities
    G Caleb Alexander
    MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 13:1238-41. 2006
    ..Earlier surveys showed low physician bioterrorism preparedness but did not assess physicians' general public health preparedness, compare the preparedness of emergency and primary care physicians, or assess temporal trends...
  11. ncbi When pestilence prevails...physician responsibilities in epidemics
    Samuel J Huber
    University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
    Am J Bioeth 4:W5-11. 2004
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  12. ncbi Ready and willing? Physicians' sense of preparedness for bioterrorism
    G Caleb Alexander
    Division of General Internal Medicine, MacLean Center for Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Hospitals, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 22:189-97. 2003
    ..Preparing physicians for bioterrorism should entail providing practical knowledge, preventive steps to minimize risk, and reinforcement of the profession's ethical duty to treat...
  13. ncbi Do physicians not offer useful services because of coverage restrictions?
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 22:190-7. 2003
    ..It can be frustrating for doctors to discuss uncovered services with their patients, but open communication is necessary for shared decision making and to improve coverage decisions...
  14. ncbi Ethics and public health emergencies: restrictions on liberty
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 7:1-5. 2007
    ..Moreover, ethical principles of reciprocity, transparency, non-discrimination and accountability should guide any implementation of quarantine...
  15. ncbi Oversimplifications II: Public health ethics ignores individual rights
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 5:6-8. 2005
  16. ncbi What can doctors do about health literacy?
    Matthew K Wynia
    MedGenMed 8:1. 2006
  17. ncbi Ethics and public health emergencies: encouraging responsibility
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 7:1-4. 2007
    ..responsibilities during crises? To whom do they apply? Should they be more explicit - and hence more circumscribed - or less explicit and hence largely aspirational? And how can public health policies encourage responsible actions?..
  18. ncbi Public health, public trust and lobbying
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 7:4-7. 2007
    ..The public health community has also been affected. What is the lesson to be learned from this story? Public health communication relies on public trust...
  19. ncbi Improving access to health care: a consensus ethical framework to guide proposals for reform
    Mark A Levine
    Hastings Cent Rep 37:14-9. 2007
  20. ncbi Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care
    Wally R Smith
    Division of Quality Health Care, Center on Health Disparities, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23298 0306, USA
    Ann Intern Med 147:654-65. 2007
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  21. ncbi Mandating vaccination: what counts as a "mandate" in public health and when should they be used?
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 7:2-6. 2007
    ..To enforce this mandate, those who refuse vaccination should be required to sign a waiver, and patients - especially those at high risk from flu - should be informed when they receive care from unvaccinated practitioners...
  22. ncbi A qualitative study of physicians' engagement in reducing healthcare disparities
    Susanne K Vanderbilt
    Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    J Natl Med Assoc 99:1315-22. 2007
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  23. ncbi Laying the groundwork for a defense against participation in torture?
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, USA
    Hastings Cent Rep 38:11-3. 2008
  24. ncbi Development of a measure of physician engagement in addressing racial and ethnic health care disparities
    G Caleb Alexander
    The University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Health Serv Res 43:773-84. 2008
    ..To develop a measure of physician engagement in addressing health care disparities...
  25. ncbi Ethics and public health emergencies: rationing vaccines
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 6:4-7. 2006
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  26. ncbi Ensuring fairness in coverage decisions: applying the American Medical Association Ethical Force Program's consensus report to managed care pharmacy
    J Russell Teagarden
    Clinical Practices and Therapeutics, Medco Health Solutions, Inc, 100 Parsons Pond Drive, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417, USA
    Am J Health Syst Pharm 63:1749-54. 2006
  27. ncbi Measuring deception: test-retest reliability of physicians' self-reported manipulation of reimbursement rules for patients
    Jonathan B VanGeest
    American Medical Association, USA
    Med Care Res Rev 59:184-96. 2002
    ..Specifically, the three items reported here can be used to produce a reliable summary measure of physicians' manipulation of reimbursement rules to help patients obtain care that physicians perceive as necessary...
  28. ncbi Physicians as citizens
    Matthew K Wynia
    JAMA 291:2075-6; author reply 2076-7. 2004
  29. ncbi The social-contract model of professionalism: baby or bath water?
    Jacob E Kurlander
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 4:33-6. 2004
  30. ncbi Falling into line: the impact of utilization review hassles on physicians' adherence to insurance contracts
    Saul J Weiner
    University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
    J Clin Ethics 15:139-48. 2004
  31. ncbi Public health principlism: the precautionary principle and beyond
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 5:3-4. 2005
  32. ncbi Consequentialism and harsh interrogations
    Matthew K Wynia
    Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 5:4-6. 2005
    ..Wynia, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Institute for Ethics of the American Medical Association as our new Contributing Editor. If you have comments or suggestions regarding this feature, please email us at manuscript@ bioethics.net...
  33. ncbi Science, faith and AIDS: the battle over harm reduction
    Matthew K Wynia
    Am J Bioeth 5:3-4. 2005
  34. ncbi Mercy coming under strain
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 4:74-6. 2004
  35. ncbi Judging public health research: epistemology, public health and the law
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 5:4-7. 2005
  36. ncbi What is managed care anyway?
    Abraham P Schwab
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 6:36-7. 2006
  37. ncbi Risk and trust in public health: a cautionary tale
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 6:3-6. 2006
  38. ncbi Markets and public health: pushing and pulling vaccines into production
    Matthew K Wynia
    American Medical Association, USA
    Am J Bioeth 6:3-6. 2006
  39. ncbi African American physicians and organized medicine, 1846-1968: origins of a racial divide
    Robert B Baker
    The Union Graduate College Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Program, and Department of Philosophy, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
    JAMA 300:306-13. 2008
    ..The effects of this history have been far reaching for the medical profession and, in particular, the legacy of segregation, bias, and exclusion continues to adversely affect African American physicians and the patients they serve...