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| Carlton R MooreSummaryAffiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Medical errors related to discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient settingCarlton Moore
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:646-51. 2003..To determine the prevalence of medical errors related to the discontinuity of care from an inpatient to an outpatient setting, and to determine if there is an association between these medical errors and adverse outcomes...
Factors associated with time to follow-up of severe hyperkalemia in the ambulatory settingCarlton Moore
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Med Qual 22:428-37. 2007..Few studies have investigated the time it takes physicians to follow up abnormal outpatient laboratory results...
Factors associated with reductions in patients' analgesia at hospital dischargeCarlton Moore
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Palliat Med 9:41-9. 2006..To describe the patterns of opioid prescribing and the factors associated with reductions in the potency of patients' analgesic medications at the time of hospital discharge...
Follow-up of markedly elevated serum potassium results in the ambulatory setting: implications for patient safetyCarlton R Moore
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1470 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:115-24. 2006..The median time to a repeat potassium level was 6 days (range, 0-445). Patients > or = 65 years old had a lower likelihood of having repeat testing within 1 week (odds ratio = 0.38, P = .03)...
Tying up loose ends: discharging patients with unresolved medical issuesCarlton Moore
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1470 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:1305-11. 2007..This study evaluates the frequency with which hospital physicians recommend outpatient workups to address patients' unresolved medical problems and the impact that availability of discharge summaries has on workup completion...
Validity of clinical prediction rules for isolating inpatients with suspected tuberculosis. A systematic reviewJuan P Wisnivesky
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:947-52. 2005..The purpose of this study is to systematically review decision rules to predict the patient's risk for active pulmonary TB at the time of admission to the hospital...
Improving the management of pain in hospitalized adultsR Sean Morrison
Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1033-9. 2006..Pain is a major quality issue. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a series of interventions on pain management...
Physician attitudes toward opioid prescribing for patients with persistent noncancer painJenny J Lin
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Clin J Pain 23:799-803. 2007..We sought to determine if there is a differential impact on internists and geriatricians of the factors that adversely affect attitudes toward opioid prescribing...
Acceptability of severe pain among hospitalized adultsCatherine L Maroney
Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
J Palliat Med 7:443-50. 2004..Given recent research linking high intensity pain to adverse outcomes, future studies directed at improving the management of pain need to target both pain intensity and patients' beliefs about the acceptability of severe pain...
Follow-up of outpatient test results: a survey of house-staff practices and perceptionsJenny J Lin
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:178-84. 2006..Barriers to timely follow-up included lack of a reminder system (40%), difficulty accessing results (24%), too many competing demands on time (27%), and uncertainty about who should follow up on results (16%)...
