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A daughter's dutyTerry L Wahls
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:887-8. 2008
Rehabilitation with neuromuscular electrical stimulation leads to functional gains in ambulation in patients with secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis: a case series reportTerry L Wahls
Veterans Administration, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Altern Complement Med 16:1343-9. 2010..Gait disability in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) or primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) rarely improves...
Patient- and system-related barriers for the earlier diagnosis of colorectal cancerTerry L Wahls
VA Iowa City Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
BMC Fam Pract 10:65. 2009..A cohort of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients represents an opportunity to study missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis...
Proposed interventions to decrease the frequency of missed test resultsTerry L Wahls
Iowa City Department of Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, USA
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract 14:51-6. 2009....
The primer never writtenTerry Wahls
Division of General Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
Am J Med 121:549. 2008
Diagnostic errors and abnormal diagnostic tests lost to follow-up: a source of needless waste and delay to treatmentTerry Wahls
Veterans Administration Iowa City Healthcare System, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 30:338-43. 2007..The rate of missed results and associated treatment delay are discussed. The system factors and human factors that contribute to these errors are discussed along with strategies that can be adopted to reduce these errors...
The continuing problem of missed test results in an integrated health system with an advanced electronic medical recordTerry Wahls
Iowa City Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:485-92. 2007..Missed results can cause needless treatment delays. However, there is little data about the magnitude of this problem and the systems that clinics use to manage test results...
The frequency of missed test results and associated treatment delays in a highly computerized health systemTerry L Wahls
Iowa City Department of Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, USA
BMC Fam Pract 8:32. 2007..Few data exist concerning the frequency of missed results and associated treatment delays within the Veterans Health Administration (VA)...
Telling the worldTerry L Wahls
Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:61-2. 2008
Predicting resource utilization in a Veterans Health Administration primary care population: comparison of methods based on diagnoses and medicationsTerry L Wahls
Medical Service, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Med Care 42:123-8. 2004..The findings suggest that diagnosis-based measures could be preferable for ambulatory case-mix adjustment and are valid across a wide range of populations...
Failure to recognize newly identified aortic dilations in a health care system with an advanced electronic medical recordJennifer R S Gordon
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Iowa City Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Ann Intern Med 151:21-7, W5. 2009..Concern is growing about missed test results, but data assessing their effect on patient safety are limited...
Barriers to obesity management: a pilot study of primary care cliniciansValerie Forman-Hoffman
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice CRIISP Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, USA
BMC Fam Pract 7:35. 2006..The purpose of our study was to identify barriers to the effective management of obesity in VHA primary care settings...
Prevalence of delayed clinician response to elevated prostate-specific antigen valuesKenneth G Nepple
Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Mayo Clin Proc 83:439-45. 2008..To assess the frequency of delayed response to an abnormal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value...
Delayed clinician responses to elevated prostate-specific antigen valuesThomas Sinsky
Mayo Clin Proc 83:961-2; author reply 962. 2008
