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| AMY L WATERMANSummaryAffiliation: Washington University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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The emotional impact of medical errors on practicing physicians in the United States and CanadaAmy D Waterman
Department of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:467-76. 2007..Being involved in medical errors can compound the job-related stress many physicians experience. The impact of errors on physicians was examined...
Addressing racial and ethnic disparities in live donor kidney transplantation: priorities for research and interventionAmy D Waterman
Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Semin Nephrol 30:90-8. 2010....- Optimal transplant education for recipients to increase pursuit of living donationAmy D Waterman
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Prog Transplant 18:55-62. 2008..Inadequate transplant education may stop kidney patients from beginning or completing evaluation or limit recipients from considering living donation... - Patient concerns about medical errors in emergency departmentsThomas E Burroughs
Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, St Louis University, MO 63104, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:57-64. 2005.... - Kidney patients' intention to receive a deceased donor transplant: development of stage of change, decisional balance and self-efficacy measuresAmy D Waterman
Washington University School of Medicine, General Medical Sciences, Campus Box 8005, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110 1093, USA
J Health Psychol 15:436-45. 2010..These brief, reliable instruments with good psychometric properties can guide the development of improved, individually-tailored transplant education for patients... 
Attitudes and behaviors of African Americans regarding early detection of kidney diseaseAmy D Waterman
Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Kidney Dis 51:554-62. 2008..To inform interventions, the National Kidney Disease Education Program surveyed African Americans about their attitudes and behaviors regarding early detection of kidney disease and screening...- Lost opportunities: how physicians communicate about medical errorsJane Garbutt
Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 27:246-55. 2008..Efforts to promote error reporting might not reach their potential unless physicians become more effectively engaged in reporting errors at their institutions... - Brief report: Hospitalized patients' attitudes about and participation in error preventionAmy D Waterman
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:367-70. 2006.... - Living donation decision making: recipients' concerns and educational needsAmy D Waterman
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Prog Transplant 16:17-23. 2006..Both donors and recipients thought that training on how to make the donation request and education about living donors' motivations for donation and transplant experience could help more renal patients pursue living donation... - Clinical classification schemes for predicting hemorrhage: results from the National Registry of Atrial Fibrillation (NRAF)Brian F Gage
Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am Heart J 151:713-9. 2006..Our objective was to find a bleeding classification scheme that could quantify the risk of hemorrhage in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation... - One organ donation, three perspectives: experiences of donors, recipients, and third parties with living kidney donationThomas E Burroughs
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Prog Transplant 13:142-50. 2003.... - Effect of warfarin nonadherence on control of the International Normalized RatioAmy D Waterman
Division of General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Washington University, Campus Box 8005, 660 S Euclid, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 61:1258-64. 2004..The frequency and causes of ab- errant International Normalized Ratios (INRs) in warfarin recipients and the percentage explainable by warfarin nonadherence were studied... - Warfarin dose reduction vs watchful waiting for mild elevations in the international normalized ratioGerald A Banet
Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Chest 123:499-503. 2003..3, and reducing the dose for patients who have a greater INR or an increased risk of hemorrhage. Warfarin dose reductions > 20% should be avoided for mildly elevated INRs... - Potential living kidney donors' health education use and comfort with donationAmy D Waterman
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Prog Transplant 14:233-40. 2004..Their knowledge of donation varies and they need clear information about medical testing and support coping with any negative donation outcomes... - Accuracy of ICD-9-CM codes for identifying cardiovascular and stroke risk factorsElena Birman-Deych
Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Med Care 43:480-5. 2005..Where feasible, review of additional data (eg, physician notes or imaging studies) should be used to confirm the diagnosis of valvular disease, arterial peripheral embolus, intracranial hemorrhage, and deep venous thrombosis... - US and Canadian physicians' attitudes and experiences regarding disclosing errors to patientsThomas H Gallagher
Departments of Medicine and Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington School of Medicine, 4311 11th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1605-11. 2006..Yet, little is known about the malpractice environment's actual effect on physicians' error disclosure attitudes and experiences... - The attitudes and experiences of trainees regarding disclosing medical errors to patientsAndrew A White
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98105 4608, USA
Acad Med 83:250-6. 2008..To measure trainees' attitudes and experiences regarding medical error and error disclosure... - Patients' and physicians' attitudes regarding the disclosure of medical errorsThomas H Gallagher
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Box 356178, Seattle, WA 98195 0001, USA
JAMA 289:1001-7. 2003..Disclosure of errors to patients is desired by patients and recommended by ethicists and professional organizations, but little is known about how patients and physicians think medical errors should be discussed... - Substitution of generic warfarin for Coumadin in an HMO settingPaul E Milligan
Division of General Medical Sciences, Barnes-Jewish Hospital Blood Thinner Clinic, School of Medicine, Washington University, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110-1093, USA
Ann Pharmacother 36:764-8. 2002..Our findings suggest that HMOs can safely substitute at least 1 generic formulation of warfarin without extra monitoring... - Patients' concerns about medical errors during hospitalizationThomas E Burroughs
Center for Outcome Research, St Louis University, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:5-14. 2007..Multiwave telephone interviews were conducted in 2002 with 1,656 inpatients from 12 Midwestern hospitals regarding patients' conceptualization of medical errors and perceived risk of seven types of medical errors... - Choosing your words carefully: how physicians would disclose harmful medical errors to patientsThomas H Gallagher
Departments of Medicine and Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington School of Medicine, 4311 11th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1585-93. 2006..Little is known about how physicians approach disclosure. The objective of the present study was to describe how physicians disclose errors to patients...
Research Grants
- Increasing Donation by Helping Recipients AskAmy Waterman; Fiscal Year: 2007..At the conclusion of this project, I will have developed and validated two health education interventions that may help recipients ask living donors to donate. I also will have collected pilot data for a future R01 submission. ..