Gordon Schiff

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi System dynamics and dysfunctionalities: levers for overcoming emergency department overcrowding
    Gordon D Schiff
    Brigham and Women s Hospital Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Division of General Medicine Primary Care Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:1255-61. 2011
  2. ncbi Principles of conservative prescribing
    Gordon D Schiff
    Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Arch Intern Med 171:1433-40. 2011
  3. ncbi Medical error: a 60-year-old man with delayed care for a renal mass
    Gordon D Schiff
    Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
    JAMA 305:1890-8. 2011
  4. ncbi Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Third Floor, Boston, MA 02120, USA
    Arch Intern Med 169:1881-7. 2009
  5. ncbi Introduction to special theme issue on health insurance in the United States
    Gordon Schiff
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
    Med Care 46:1003-8. 2008
  6. ncbi Minimizing diagnostic error: the importance of follow-up and feedback
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Am J Med 121:S38-42. 2008
  7. ncbi Negative appendectomy rate in the era of CT: an 18-year perspective
    Ali S Raja
    Center for Evidence Based Imaging, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 256:460-5. 2010
  8. ncbi Participation in an ambulatory e-pharmacovigilance system
    Jennifer S Haas
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
    Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 19:961-9. 2010
  9. ncbi Ability of practitioners to identify solid oral dosage tablets
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, John Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Am J Health Syst Pharm 63:838-43. 2006
  10. ncbi Failure to recognize and act on abnormal test results: the case of screening bone densitometry
    Peter Cram
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:90-7. 2005

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi System dynamics and dysfunctionalities: levers for overcoming emergency department overcrowding
    Gordon D Schiff
    Brigham and Women s Hospital Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Division of General Medicine Primary Care Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:1255-61. 2011
    ....
  2. ncbi Principles of conservative prescribing
    Gordon D Schiff
    Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Arch Intern Med 171:1433-40. 2011
    ....
  3. ncbi Medical error: a 60-year-old man with delayed care for a renal mass
    Gordon D Schiff
    Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
    JAMA 305:1890-8. 2011
    ..Emerging test management systems and critical test follow-up recommendations illustrate how applying these principles can enhance this important aspect of patient safety...
  4. ncbi Diagnostic error in medicine: analysis of 583 physician-reported errors
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Third Floor, Boston, MA 02120, USA
    Arch Intern Med 169:1881-7. 2009
    ..To better understand the types, causes, and prevention of such errors, we surveyed clinicians to solicit perceived cases of missed and delayed diagnoses...
  5. ncbi Introduction to special theme issue on health insurance in the United States
    Gordon Schiff
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
    Med Care 46:1003-8. 2008
  6. ncbi Minimizing diagnostic error: the importance of follow-up and feedback
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Am J Med 121:S38-42. 2008
  7. ncbi Negative appendectomy rate in the era of CT: an 18-year perspective
    Ali S Raja
    Center for Evidence Based Imaging, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Radiology 256:460-5. 2010
    ....
  8. ncbi Participation in an ambulatory e-pharmacovigilance system
    Jennifer S Haas
    Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
    Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 19:961-9. 2010
    ....
  9. ncbi Ability of practitioners to identify solid oral dosage tablets
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, John Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Am J Health Syst Pharm 63:838-43. 2006
    ..Physicians' and pharmacists' ability to correctly identify three commonly used oral dosage forms was assessed...
  10. ncbi Failure to recognize and act on abnormal test results: the case of screening bone densitometry
    Peter Cram
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:90-7. 2005
    ..Failure to follow up on abnormal test results is common. A model was developed to capture the reasons why providers did not take action on abnormal test results...
  11. ncbi Missed hypothyroidism diagnosis uncovered by linking laboratory and pharmacy data
    Gordon D Schiff
    Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, 1900 W Polk Street, Rm 901, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
    Arch Intern Med 165:574-7. 2005
    ....
  12. ncbi Evaluating physician performance at individualizing care: a pilot study tracking contextual errors in medical decision making
    Saul J Weiner
    Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
    Med Decis Making 27:726-34. 2007
    ..The purpose of this study was to develop and test a methodology for measuring physicians' performance at contextualizing care and compare it to their performance at planning biomedically appropriate care...
  13. ncbi Introduction: Communicating critical test results
    Gordon D Schiff
    Department of Medicine, Cook County Stroger Hospital, Chicago, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:63-5, 61. 2005
    ..The need for improving the timeliness of the communication of critical test results is reflected in a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal and is the basis for this special issue of the Journal...