Prathibha Varkey

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Affiliation: Mayo Clinic
Country: USA

Publications

  1. Innovation in health care: a primer
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:382-8
  2. Improving medication reconciliation in the outpatient setting
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:286-92
  3. Basics of quality improvement in health care
    Prathibha Varkey
    Divison of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Mayo Clin Proc 82:735-9
  4. Intestinal parasitic infection among new refugees to Minnesota, 1996-2001
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Travel Med Infect Dis 5:223-9
  5. Sero-epidemiology of hepatitis B among new refugees to Minnesota
    Chris Ugwu
    Department of Medicine, Buffalo Clinic, University of Minnesota, Buffalo, MN, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 10:469-74
  6. Complexity science: core concepts and applications for medical practice
    Ashok M Patel
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic
    Minn Med 91:40-2
  7. The impact of a quality improvement program on employee satisfaction in an academic microsystem
    Prathibha Varkey
    Quality Improvement and Innovation Program, Division of Preventive Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:215-21
  8. Vertical versus lateral thinking
    James S Hernandez
    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    Physician Exec 34:26-8
  9. Teaching quality improvement: a collaboration project between medicine and engineering
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:296-301
  10. Validity evidence for an OSCE to assess competency in systems-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement: a preliminary investigation
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Acad Med 83:775-80

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Publications24

  1. Innovation in health care: a primer
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:382-8
    ..This article provides a primer on innovation for quality improvement practitioners and physician leaders who play a key role in creating innovation and environments for innovations to flourish...
  2. Improving medication reconciliation in the outpatient setting
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:286-92
    ..46 in Phase II. The majority of discrepancies were minor. DISCUSSION: A multifaceted intervention including various members of the health care provider team (and the patient) is crucial to enhancing medication reconciliation...
  3. Basics of quality improvement in health care
    Prathibha Varkey
    Divison of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Mayo Clin Proc 82:735-9
    ..Key quality improvement concepts and methodologies, including plan-do-study-act, six-sigma, and lean strategies, are discussed, and the differences between quality improvement and quality-of-care research are explored...
  4. Intestinal parasitic infection among new refugees to Minnesota, 1996-2001
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Travel Med Infect Dis 5:223-9
    ....
  5. Sero-epidemiology of hepatitis B among new refugees to Minnesota
    Chris Ugwu
    Department of Medicine, Buffalo Clinic, University of Minnesota, Buffalo, MN, USA
    J Immigr Minor Health 10:469-74
    ....
  6. Complexity science: core concepts and applications for medical practice
    Ashok M Patel
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic
    Minn Med 91:40-2
    ..The goal of this article is to help physicians understand the basic concepts of complexity science and how they might be applied to medical practice...
  7. The impact of a quality improvement program on employee satisfaction in an academic microsystem
    Prathibha Varkey
    Quality Improvement and Innovation Program, Division of Preventive Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:215-21
    ..Further research is needed to study systems changes that enhance employee satisfaction and their impact on patient and financial outcomes...
  8. Vertical versus lateral thinking
    James S Hernandez
    Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    Physician Exec 34:26-8
    ..Traditional medical training may actually impede a physician's ability to solve complex problems because it is based on vertical, linear and traditional thinking...
  9. Teaching quality improvement: a collaboration project between medicine and engineering
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:296-301
    ..004) from 7.33 prerotation to 11.89 postrotation. Further research is necessary to study the effectiveness, efficacy, and scope of using engineering expertise in QI education initiatives...
  10. Validity evidence for an OSCE to assess competency in systems-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement: a preliminary investigation
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Acad Med 83:775-80
    ..The study OSCE was well suited to assess SBP and PBLI. The evidence gathered through this study lays the foundation for future validation work...
  11. An innovative method to assess negotiation skills necessary for quality improvement
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 23:350-5
    ..3%) or agreed (66.7%) that the OSCE station was an authentic assessment tool. Further research is needed to study the predictive validity of such an OSCE and its application to assessing other quality improvement competencies...
  12. The effect of computerized physician-order entry on outpatient prescription errors
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
    Manag Care Interface 20:53-7
    ..The pharmacist plays a critical role in the prevention of prescription errors, as the errors discovered in the study would have reached the patients if not for their interception by these health care professionals...
  13. Multidisciplinary approach to inpatient medication reconciliation in an academic setting
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Department of Pharmacy, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, and Department of Family Medicine, Park Nicollett Methodist Hospital, St Louis Park, USA
    Am J Health Syst Pharm 64:850-4
    ....
  14. Service delivery innovations at Mayo Clinic
    Prathibha Varkey
    Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA
    Minn Med 88:39-42
    ....
  15. The Aging Game: improving medical students' attitudes toward caring for the elderly
    Prathibha Varkey
    Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 7:224-9
    ..Longitudinal assessment of the effect of the aging game in maintaining the positive effect on empathy and attitudes toward caring for the elderly and especially in clinical practice needs to be done...
  16. Mayo Clinic office visit. Patient safety. An interview with Prathibha Varkey, M.D., M.P.H
    Prathibha Varkey
    Mayo Clin Womens Healthsource 10:7-8
  17. Medication reconciliation implementation in an academic center
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 21:293-5
  18. An experiential interdisciplinary quality improvement education initiative
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 21:317-22
    ....
  19. Telemedicine applications in occupational medicine
    Prathibha Varkey
    Mayo Clinic, USA
    Minn Med 89:46-8
    ..More rigorous research evaluating the applications of telemedicine in occupational health care is needed...
  20. The epidemiology of tuberculosis among primary refugee arrivals in Minnesota between 1997 and 2001
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
    J Travel Med 14:1-8
    ..1; p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Screening and treatment for latent and active TB should be actively managed among refugees resettling in the United States, as this is common and can have significant public health implications...
  21. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination as an educational tool in patient safety
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:48-53
    ..The OSCE approximates a "live clinical setting" and provides an opportunity for the assessment of situational awareness and response, as well as formative and summative feedback to students...
  22. Educating to improve patient care: integrating quality improvement into a medical school curriculum
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Baldwin 5A, 200 1st SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Am J Med Qual 22:112-6
    ..This curriculum prepares physicians in training to be knowledgeable about common systems issues and medical errors in clinical practice and has the potential for application in undergraduate medical education...
  23. Cryptosporidiosis outbreak in a recreational swimming pool in Minnesota
    Lionel S Lim
    Olmsted County Public Health Services, Division of Disease, Prevention, and Control, Rochester, MN 55904, USA
    J Environ Health 67:16-20, 28, 27; quiz 31-2
    ..Health care providers also must consider testing specifically for cryptosporidiosis when a patient presents with persistent diarrhea...
  24. Confronting bioterrorism: physicians on the front line
    Prathibha Varkey
    Division of Preventive Medicine and Occupational Medicine and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    Mayo Clin Proc 77:661-72
    ..Despite the unpredictable nature of bioterrorism, disaster preparedness and knowledge of essential diagnostic and epidemiological principles can contribute substantially toward combating this new threat...