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Relationship between patient medication adherence and subsequent clinical inertia in type 2 diabetes glycemic managementRichard Grant
General Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 30:807-12. 2007..We assessed the relationship between patients' initial medication adherence and subsequent regimen intensification among patients with persistently elevated A1C levels...
Identifying primary care patients at risk for future diabetes and cardiovascular disease using electronic health recordsMarie France Hivert
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 9:170. 2009..Prevention of diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) is possible but identification of at-risk patients for targeting interventions is a challenge in primary care...- Changes in glycemic control from 1996 to 2006 among adults with type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal cohort studyKaren J Blumenthal
The Diabetes Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 10:158. 2010..Our objectives were to examine temporal changes in HbA1c and lipid levels over a 10-year period and to identify predictors of metabolic control in a longitudinal patient cohort... - Documentation of body mass index and control of associated risk factors in a large primary care networkStephanie A Rose
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky, 740 South Limestone Street, Kentucky Clinic K507, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 9:236. 2009..We evaluated current documentation of BMI, and documentation and control of associated risk factors by BMI category, based on electronic health records from a 12-clinic primary care network... - Frequent outpatient contact and decreasing medication affordability in patients with diabetes from 1997 to 2004Richard W Grant
General Medicine Units, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50-9 Staniford St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 29:1386-8. 2006 - Loss-of-function CYP2C9 variants: finding the correct clinical role for Type 2 diabetes pharmacogenetic testingRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 50 59 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther 8:339-43. 2010.... - Prevalence of basic information technology use by U.S. physiciansRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, The Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1150-5. 2006..Information technology (IT) has been advocated as an important means to improve the practice of clinical medicine... - Design and implementation of a web-based patient portal linked to an ambulatory care electronic health record: patient gateway for diabetes collaborative careRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Diabetes Technol Ther 8:576-86. 2006.... - New models of population management for patients with diabetes--using informatics tools to support primary careRichard W Grant
General Medicine Unit and Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 74:S220-4. 2006..In this review we present two recent population management interventions within our health system that illustrate the principles of Information Processing and Clinical Action in diabetes care... - Prevalence and treatment of low HDL cholesterol among primary care patients with type 2 diabetes: an unmet challenge for cardiovascular risk reductionRichard W Grant
General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 30:479-84. 2007..We identified prevalence and predictors of low HDL cholesterol, characterized current lipid therapy, and estimated the theoretical benefit of more effective HDL cholesterol-raising methods among patients with type 2 diabetes... - How doctors choose medications to treat type 2 diabetes: a national survey of specialists and academic generalistsRichard W Grant
General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 30:1448-53. 2007..However, the process by which physicians choose glucose-lowering medicines is poorly understood. We sought to study the means by which physicians choose medications for type 2 diabetic patients... - Invited commentary: untangling the web of diabetes causality in African AmericansRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:388-90; discussion 391-2. 2007..Efforts to effectively address the problem of disparities in the prediabetic state will require greater interdisciplinary collaboration between unfamiliar disciplines and wider implementation of the randomized clinical trial design... - The decision to intensify therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes: results from an experiment using a clinical case vignetteRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 22:513-20. 2009..We used a video case vignette to assess whether patient or physician demographic variables influence the decision to intensify therapy... - Overcoming barriers to evidence-based diabetes careRichard W Grant
General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Curr Diabetes Rev 2:261-9. 2006..We also describe recent results of controlled trials of population-level, informatics-based interventions to improve diabetes care... - Translating clinical evidence into the practice of diabetes careRichard W Grant
50-9 Staniford St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Curr Diabetes Rev 3:217. 2007 
The clinical application of genetic testing in type 2 diabetes: a patient and physician surveyR W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabetologia 52:2299-305. 2009..Little is known about current physician and patient views regarding type 2 diabetes genetic testing. We hypothesised that physician and patient views would differ regarding the impact of genetic testing on motivation and adherence...- Practice-linked online personal health records for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trialRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 9 Staniford St, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1776-82. 2008..Web-based personal health records (PHRs) have been advocated as a means to improve type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) care. However, few Web-based systems are linked directly to the electronic medical record (EMR) used by physicians... - Trends in complexity of diabetes care in the United States from 1991 to 2000Richard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Ninth Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:1134-9. 2004..During the decade from 1991 to 2000, the standard of care for diabetes mellitus evolved to require more intensive management of glycemia, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels... - A controlled trial of population management: diabetes mellitus: putting evidence into practice (DM-PEP)Richard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2299-305. 2004..Population-level strategies to organize and deliver care may improve diabetes management. We conducted a multiclinic controlled trial of population management in patients with type 2 diabetes... - Should the insulin resistance syndrome be treated in the elderly?Richard W Grant
The General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Drugs Aging 21:141-51. 2004..For elderly patients, recent studies have conclusively demonstrated the safety and efficacy of pharmacological management of elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels... - Impact of population management with direct physician feedback on care of patients with type 2 diabetesRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 26:2275-80. 2003..We also identified potential patient-related barriers to effective diabetes management... - Impact of concurrent medication use on statin adherence and refill persistenceRichard W Grant
General Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:2343-8. 2004..Effective therapy for chronic illness requires daily medication adherence (DMA) for prolonged periods. Overall medical regimen complexity may represent one barrier to successful adherence... - Quality of diabetes care in U.S. academic medical centers: low rates of medical regimen changeRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 28:337-442. 2005..To assess both standard and novel diabetes quality measures in a national sample of U.S. academic medical centers... - Clinical inertia in the management of Type 2 diabetes metabolic risk factorsR W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabet Med 21:150-5. 2004..We assessed intensification of medical therapy over time, comparing the management of hyperglycaemia, hypertension, and hyperlipidaemia... - Diabetes oral medication initiation and intensification: patient views compared with current treatment guidelinesRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 9 Staniford St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabetes Educ 37:78-84. 2011..The purpose of this study was to compare patient perceptions about medication management with principles underlying American Diabetes Association (ADA) published treatment algorithms... - Internet use among primary care patients with type 2 diabetes: the generation and education gapRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:470-3. 2005..The Internet represents a promising tool to improve diabetes care... - Improving adherence and reducing medication discrepancies in patients with diabetesRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114 2517, USA
Ann Pharmacother 37:962-9. 2003..To improve medication adherence by reducing self-reported adherence barriers, and to identify medication discrepancies by comparing physician-prescribed and patient-reported medical regimens... - Polypharmacy and medication adherence in patients with type 2 diabetesRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 26:1408-12. 2003..To determine medication adherence and predictors of suboptimal adherence in a community cohort of patients with diabetes and to test the hypothesis that adherence decreases with increased number of medicines prescribed... - Medication adherence before an increase in antihypertensive therapy: a cohort study using pharmacy claims dataRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Clin Ther 27:773-81. 2005..Less than one third of patients with hypertension achieve optimal blood pressure control. Poor medication adherence has been identified as one contributor to uncontrolled blood pressure... - Design of a randomized trial of diabetes genetic risk testing to motivate behavior change: the Genetic Counseling/lifestyle Change (GC/LC) Study for Diabetes PreventionRichard W Grant
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Clin Trials 8:609-15. 2011..The efficacy of diabetes genetic risk testing to motivate behavior change for diabetes prevention is currently unknown... - Management of the metabolic syndromeR W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Panminerva Med 47:219-28. 2005..Currently, the standard of care includes active identification and aggressive management of traditional cardiovascular risk factors with an emphasis on healthy lifestyle changes to reduce weight and increase physical fitness... - Differentiating symptoms of depression from diabetes-specific distress: relationships with self-care in type 2 diabetesJ S Gonzalez
Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, One Bowdoin Square, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabetologia 51:1822-5. 2008..We expected that symptoms of depression would be associated with poorer diabetes self-care, independent of diabetes-specific distress... - Mobile phone technology for children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a parent surveyVenessa Pena
Center for Connected Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Diabetes Sci Technol 3:1481-9. 2009.... - Association of diabetes-related emotional distress with diabetes treatment in primary care patients with Type 2 diabetesL M Delahanty
MGH Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Diabet Med 24:48-54. 2007..To characterize the determinants of diabetes-related emotional distress by treatment modality (diet only, oral medication only, or insulin)... - Symptoms of depression prospectively predict poorer self-care in patients with Type 2 diabetesJ S Gonzalez
Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabet Med 25:1102-7. 2008..To examine prospectively the association of depression symptoms with subsequent self-care and medication adherence in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus... - Correlates of health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetesD J Wexler
Diabetes Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Diabetologia 49:1489-97. 2006..We assessed the impact of medical comorbidities, depression, and treatment intensity on quality of life in a large primary care cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes... - Risk factors for coronary artery disease in patients with elevated high-density lipoprotein cholesterolDoreen DeFaria Yeh
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Cardiol 99:1-4. 2007..25 to 0.99, p = 0.046) than patients with normal HDL levels and CAD. In conclusion, patients with high HDL and CAD had a similar or lower prevalence of traditional CAD risk factors compared with patients with normal HDL levels and CAD... - Comparison of hyperglycemia, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia management in patients with type 2 diabetesRichard W Grant
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Am J Med 112:603-9. 2002..Given the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes, increased screening for hypercholesterolemia and more aggressive drug therapy for hypercholesterolemia and hypertension are needed... - Diabetes Risk Perception and Intention to Adopt Healthy Lifest yles Among Primary Care PatientsMarie France Hivert
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 32:1820-2. 2009..To examine perceived risk of developing diabetes in primary care patients... - Physician ability to assess rheumatoid arthritis disease activity using an electronic medical record-based disease activity calculatorDeborah S Collier
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Arthritis Rheum 61:495-500. 2009..To assess physicians' concordance with Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) categories calculated by an electronic medical record (EMR)-embedded disease activity calculator, as well as attitudes toward this application... - A rheumatology-specific informatics-based application with a disease activity calculatorDeborah S Collier
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Arthritis Rheum 61:488-94. 2009..To design a rheumatology-specific tool with a disease activity calculator integrated into the electronic medical records (EMRs) at our institution and assess physicians' attitudes toward the use of this tool... - Patient-physician connectedness and quality of primary careSteven J Atlas
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 150:325-35. 2009..Among all patients seen by a physician, some will be more strongly connected to their physician than others, but the effect of connectedness on measures of physician performance is not known... - Implementing practice-linked pre-visit electronic journals in primary care: patient and physician use and satisfactionJonathan S Wald
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:502-6. 2010..013), helpful to patients in visit preparation (66% vs 20%; p=0.082), and would recommend them to colleagues (78% vs 22%; p=0.0143). eJournal integration into practice warrants further study... - Diabetes connected health: a pilot study of a patient- and provider-shared glucose monitoring web applicationAlice J Watson
Center for Connected Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Diabetes Sci Technol 3:345-52. 2009..Real-time sharing of blood glucose results with providers could improve communication and lead to more timely medication titration. New technology platforms are available to support the delivery of innovative models of care delivery... - A cluster-randomized trial of a primary care informatics-based system for breast cancer screeningSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:154-61. 2011..Information technology offers the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of delivering efficient, evidence-based health care... - Hypertension and diabetes prevalence among U.S. Hispanics by country of origin: the National Health Interview Survey 2000-2005Lina P Pabon-Nau
Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:847-52. 2010..Despite their diverse cultural origins, Hispanics in the US are generally studied as a single ethnic group... - Relationship between patient panel characteristics and primary care physician clinical performance rankingsClemens S Hong
School of Medicine, Harvard University, and General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JAMA 304:1107-13. 2010..Physicians have increasingly become the focus of clinical performance measurement... - Queuing theory to guide the implementation of a heart failure inpatient registry programAdrian H Zai
Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:516-23. 2009.... - Mammography FastTrack: an intervention to facilitate reminders for breast cancer screening across a heterogeneous multi-clinic primary care networkWilliam T Lester
Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 7th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:187-95. 2009..Overall, 63% of patients were successfully contacted. Systematic population-based efforts are promising tools to improve preventative care... - A culturally tailored navigator program for colorectal cancer screening in a community health center: a randomized, controlled trialSanja Percac-Lima
Chelsea HealthCare Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chelsea, MA 02150, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:211-7. 2009..Minority racial/ethnic groups have low colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates... - Sex disparities in treatment of cardiac risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetesDeborah J Wexler
Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 28:514-20. 2005..Diabetes eliminates the protective effect of female sex on the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). We assessed sex differences in the treatment of CHD risk factors among patients with diabetes... - Barriers to the treatment of hepatitis C. Patient, provider, and system factorsJames A Morrill
General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:754-8. 2005..Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is both prevalent and undertreated... - Randomized controlled trial of an informatics-based intervention to increase statin prescription for secondary prevention of coronary diseaseWilliam T Lester
Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:22-9. 2006..Suboptimal treatment of hyperlipidemia in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is well documented. We report the impact of a computer-assisted physician-directed intervention to improve secondary prevention of hyperlipidemia... - Cost of an informatics-based diabetes management programBonnie B Blanchfield
Institute of Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02124, USA
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 22:249-54. 2006..This study identifies the costs to design, develop, implement, and operate an innovative informatics-based registry and disease management system (POPMAN) to manage type 2 diabetes in a primary care setting... - Treatment of cardiac risk factors among patients with schizophrenia and diabetesAnthony P Weiss
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 02114, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:1145-52. 2006..The appropriateness and effectiveness of the outpatient medical management of cardiac risk factors for patients with diabetes who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia or a related psychotic syndrome were examined... - Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providersSteven J Atlas
General Medicine Division, Medical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:973-8. 2006..Evaluating the quality of care provided by individual primary care physicians (PCPs) may be limited by failing to know which patients the PCP feels personally responsible for... - Using regular expressions to abstract blood pressure and treatment intensification information from the text of physician notesAlexander Turchin
Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Partners HealthCare System, 93 Worcester Street, Suite 201, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:691-5. 2006..8%, specificity of 95.0%, and precision of 85.9%. Regular expressions can be an effective method for focused information extraction tasks related to high-priority disease areas such as hypertension... - Prevalence of hyper- and hypoglycemia among inpatients with diabetes: a national survey of 44 U.S. hospitalsDeborah J Wexler
Massachusetts General Hospital, Bulfinch 408, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 30:367-9. 2007 - Design and implementation of a web-based patient portal linked to an electronic health record designed to improve medication safety: the Patient Gateway medications moduleJeffrey L Schnipper
Academic Hospitalist Service and Associate Physician, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Inform Prim Care 16:147-55. 2008..Further analyses will determine the effects of this module on important medication-related outcomes and identify further enhancements needed to improve on this approach... - Prevalence of elevated hemoglobin A1c among patients admitted to the hospital without a diagnosis of diabetesDeborah J Wexler
Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes Center, Bulfinch 408, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 93:4238-44. 2008..One in four hospitalized patients has diagnosed diabetes. The prevalence of unrecognized, or undiagnosed, diabetes among hospitalized patients is not well established... - Designing healthcare information technology to catalyse change in clinical careWilliam T Lester
Laboratory of Computer Science, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Inform Prim Care 16:9-19. 2008..The authors present a review of disease management as well as a conceptual framework to guide the development of more effective health information technology (HIT) tools for translating clinical information into clinical action... - Lessons from implementing a combined workflow-informatics system for diabetes managementAdrian H Zai
Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 15:524-33. 2008.... - Reevaluating the digital divide: current lack of internet use is not a barrier to adoption of novel health information technologyAlice J Watson
Diabetes Care 31:433-5. 2008 - Depression, self-care, and medication adherence in type 2 diabetes: relationships across the full range of symptom severityJeffrey S Gonzalez
Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Diabetes Care 30:2222-7. 2007..We examined the association between depression, measured as either a continuous symptom severity score or a clinical disorder variable, with self-care behaviors in type 2 diabetes... - Implementing a web-based home monitoring system within an academic health care network: barriers and facilitators to innovation diffusionAlexandra C Pelletier
Partners Center for Connected Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Diabetes Sci Technol 5:32-8. 2011..Using the framework of the diffusion of innovation theory, we review the implementation and examine lessons learned as we continue to deploy DC across the health care network... - Risk factors for early hospital readmission in patients with AIDS and pneumoniaR W Grant
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 14:531-6. 1999..Additional AIDS comorbidity and recent antecedent hospitalization were also risk factors; however, demographics and measures of acute illness during index hospitalization did not predict early readmission... - Medication adherence and racial differences in A1C controlAlyce S Adams
Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 31:916-21. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine medication adherence and other self-management practices as potential determinants of higher glycemic risk among black relative to white patients... - Race differences in long-term diabetes management in an HMOAlyce S Adams
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Diabetes Care 28:2844-9. 2005..We examined race differences in diabetes outcomes over 4-8 years in a single HMO... - Rapid identification of myocardial infarction risk associated with diabetes medications using electronic medical recordsJohn S Brownstein
Children s Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Diabetes Care 33:526-31. 2010..Our use of usual care electronic data sources from a large hospital network represents an innovative approach to rapid safety signal detection that may enable more effective postmarketing drug surveillance... - Intensification of diabetes medication and risk for 30-day readmissionN J Wei
Massachusetts General Hospital, Diabetes Center Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Diabet Med 30:e56-62. 2013..To examine the association of in-hospital diabetes regimen intensification with subsequent 30-day risk for unplanned readmission/emergency department admission... - Perceived impact of diabetes genetic risk testing among patients at high phenotypic risk for type 2 diabetesSarah M Markowitz
Wells College, Aurora, New York, USA
Diabetes Care 34:568-73. 2011..There is minimal experience to guide how best to clinically implement such testing so that results (e.g., "higher" or "lower" relative genetic risk) improve rather than reduce patient motivation for behavior change... - Impact of active drug use on antiretroviral therapy adherence and viral suppression in HIV-infected drug usersJulia H Arnsten
AIDS Research Program, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
J Gen Intern Med 17:377-81. 2002..Interventions to improve adherence should focus on reducing cocaine use, developing adaptive coping skills, and identifying and treating depression... - Next generation of health information tools: where do we go from here?Richard W Grant
Mayo Clin Proc 83:745-6. 2008
Research Grants
- Overcoming Barriers to Evidence-Based Diabetes CareRichard Grant; Fiscal Year: 2007..Completing these objectives will enhance his ability to conduct patient-centered research and to achieve his goal of becoming an independent patient-oriented researcher in diabetes care ..