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| M K WyniaSummaryAffiliation: American Medical Association Country: USA Publications
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Physician manipulation of reimbursement rules for patients: between a rock and a hard placeM 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...
Shared expectations for protection of identifiable health care information: report of a national consensus processM 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...
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...
Medicine. The bioterrorist threat and access to health careMatthew K Wynia
Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Science 296:1613. 2002
Ethical challenges in preparing for bioterrorism: barriers within the health care systemMatthew 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...
Effects of different monetary incentives on the return rate of a national mail survey of physiciansJ 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...
Oversimplifications I: physicians don't do public healthMatthew K Wynia
Institute for Ethics, American Medical Association
Am J Bioeth 5:4-5. 2005
Breaching confidentiality to protect the public: evolving standards of medical confidentiality for military detaineesMatthew 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...
Light from the flames of Hell: remembrance and lessons of the Holocaust for today's medical professionMatthew K Wynia
Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
Isr Med Assoc J 9:186-8. 2007
Physicians' preparedness for bioterrorism and other public health prioritiesG 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...
When pestilence prevails...physician responsibilities in epidemicsSamuel J Huber
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Am J Bioeth 4:W5-11. 2004....
Ready and willing? Physicians' sense of preparedness for bioterrorismG 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...
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...
Ethics and public health emergencies: restrictions on libertyMatthew 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...
Oversimplifications II: Public health ethics ignores individual rightsMatthew K Wynia
Am J Bioeth 5:6-8. 2005
What can doctors do about health literacy?Matthew K Wynia
MedGenMed 8:1. 2006
Ethics and public health emergencies: encouraging responsibilityMatthew 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?..
Public health, public trust and lobbyingMatthew 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...
Improving access to health care: a consensus ethical framework to guide proposals for reformMark A Levine
Hastings Cent Rep 37:14-9. 2007
Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health careWally 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....
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...
A qualitative study of physicians' engagement in reducing healthcare disparitiesSusanne K Vanderbilt
Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:1315-22. 2007....
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
Development of a measure of physician engagement in addressing racial and ethnic health care disparitiesG 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...
Ethics and public health emergencies: rationing vaccinesMatthew K Wynia
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:4-7. 2006....
Ensuring fairness in coverage decisions: applying the American Medical Association Ethical Force Program's consensus report to managed care pharmacyJ 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
Measuring deception: test-retest reliability of physicians' self-reported manipulation of reimbursement rules for patientsJonathan 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...
Physicians as citizensMatthew K Wynia
JAMA 291:2075-6; author reply 2076-7. 2004
The social-contract model of professionalism: baby or bath water?Jacob E Kurlander
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 4:33-6. 2004
Falling into line: the impact of utilization review hassles on physicians' adherence to insurance contractsSaul J Weiner
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
J Clin Ethics 15:139-48. 2004
Public health principlism: the precautionary principle and beyondMatthew K Wynia
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:3-4. 2005
Consequentialism and harsh interrogationsMatthew 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...
Science, faith and AIDS: the battle over harm reductionMatthew K Wynia
Am J Bioeth 5:3-4. 2005
Mercy coming under strainMatthew K Wynia
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 4:74-6. 2004
Judging public health research: epistemology, public health and the lawMatthew K Wynia
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 5:4-7. 2005
What is managed care anyway?Abraham P Schwab
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:36-7. 2006
Risk and trust in public health: a cautionary taleMatthew K Wynia
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:3-6. 2006
Markets and public health: pushing and pulling vaccines into productionMatthew K Wynia
American Medical Association, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:3-6. 2006
African American physicians and organized medicine, 1846-1968: origins of a racial divideRobert 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...
