Kevin Grumbach, MD
Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

He served as Vice President for Population Health for the UCSF Health system from 2015-2018. His research and scholarship on the primary care workforce, innovations in the delivery of primary care, racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions, and community health improvement have widely influenced policy and practice. With Tom Bodenheimer, he co-authored the best-selling textbook on health policy, Understanding Health Policy - A Clinical Approach, now in its 8th edition, and the book, Improving Primary Care – Strategies and Tools for a Better Practice, published by McGraw Hill. He received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Health Resources and Services Administration Award for Health Workforce Research on Diversity, the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education, and the UCSF Chancellor’s Public Service Award, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Grumbach has been an advisor to Congressional Committees and government agencies on primary care and health reform and a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and served on the Steering Committee of San Francisco Health Improvement Partnerships. He was a founding member of the California Physicians Alliance and is a member of Physicians for a National Health Program. He practices family medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Lakeshore Family Medicine Center at UCSF Health.

• COVID-19 Vaccination Perceptions Among Young Adults of Color in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Health equity 2022 Rios-Fetchko F, Carson M, Gonzalez Ramirez M, Butler JZ, Vargas R, Cabrera A, Gallegos-Castillo A, LeSarre M, Liao M, Woo K, Ellis R, Liu K, Doyle B, Leung L, Grumbach K, Fernandez A
• Messaging About COVID-19 Safety Measures Is Counterproductive in Cancer Screening Outreach: Results of a Pragmatic Randomized Trial.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2022 Grumbach K, Gagliardi K, Coleman Hernandez S, Intinarelli G
• A Call to Improve Health by Achieving the Learning Health Care System.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Collard HR, Grumbach K
• Addressing the challenges of conducting community-engaged research during COVID-19: Rapid development and evaluation of a COVID-19 Research Patient and Community Advisory Board (PCAB).
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2022 Harrison JD, Palmer NRA, Cabrera A, Fleisher P, Wong E, LeSarre M, Grumbach K, Banta J, Tealer L, Reynolds A, Wassmann A, Rose T, Nguyen T
• COVID-19 vaccination readiness among multiple racial and ethnic groups in the San Francisco Bay Area: A qualitative analysis.
  PloS one 2022 Butler JZ, Carson M, Rios-Fetchko F, Vargas R, Cabrera A, Gallegos-Castillo A, LeSarre M, Liao M, Woo K, Ellis R, Liu K, Burra A, Ramirez M, Doyle B, Leung L, Fernandez A, Grumbach K
• Race-ethnicity and COVID-19 Vaccination Beliefs and Intentions: A Cross-Sectional Study among the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Vaccines 2021 Weng Y, Lu D, Bollyky J, Jain V, Desai M, Lindan C, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Doernberg SB, Holubar M, Sample H, Huang B, Maldonado Y, Rutherford GW, Grumbach K
• Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Annals of epidemiology 2021 Lindan CP, Desai M, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Bollyky J, Sample H, Weng Y, Cheng Y, Dahlen A, Hedlin H, Grumbach K, Henne J, Garcia S, Gonzales R, Craik CS, Rutherford G, Maldonado Y
• Revitalizing the U.S. Primary Care Infrastructure.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T, Cohen D, Phillips RL, Stange KC, Westfall JM
• Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination: From Individual Readiness to Health System Readiness
  JAMA Health Forum. 2021 Grumbach K, Carson M, Harris OO.
• Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination: From Individual Readiness to Health System Readiness.
  JAMA health forum 2021 Grumbach K, Carson M, Harris OO
• Association of Race/Ethnicity With Likeliness of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Health Workers and the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Grumbach K, Judson T, Desai M, Jain V, Lindan C, Doernberg SB, Holubar M
• Lower Likelihood of Burnout Among Family Physicians From Underrepresented Racial-Ethnic Groups.
  Annals of family medicine 2021 Douglas M, Coman E, Eden AR, Abiola S, Grumbach K
• Primary Care Clinician Burnout and Engagement Association With Clinical Quality and Patient Experience.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021 Willard-Grace R, Knox M, Huang B, Hammer H, Kivlahan C, Grumbach K
• Public policy and health in the Trump era.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Woolhandler S, Himmelstein DU, Ahmed S, Bailey Z, Bassett MT, Bird M, Bor J, Bor D, Carrasquillo O, Chowkwanyun M, Dickman SL, Fisher S, Gaffney A, Galea S, Gottfried RN, Grumbach K, Guyatt G, Hansen …
• It should not require a pandemic to make community engagement in research leadership essential, not optional.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2021 Grumbach K, Cottler LB, Brown J, LeSarre M, Gonzalez-Fisher RF, Williams CD, Michener JL, Nease DE, Tandon D, Varma DS, Eder M
• Sponsoring Institution Interests, Not National Plans, Shape Physician Workforce in the United States.
  Family medicine 2020 Rittenhouse DR, Ament AS, Grumbach K
• Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2020 Dai M, Willard-Grace R, Knox M, Larson SA, Magill MK, Grumbach K, Peterson LE
• An Automated Telephone Call System Improves the Reach and Cost-effectiveness of Panel Management Outreach for Cancer Screening.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2020 Gagliardi KS, Coleman S, Intinarelli G, Karliner L, Appelle N, Taylor B, Grumbach K
• Electronic health records and burnout: Time spent on the electronic health record after hours and message volume associated with exhaustion but not with cynicism among primary care clinicians.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Adler-Milstein J, Zhao W, Willard-Grace R, Knox M, Grumbach K
• A Longitudinal Study of Trends in Burnout During Primary Care Transformation.
  Annals of family medicine 2019 Grumbach K, Knox M, Huang B, Hammer H, Kivlahan C, Willard-Grace R
• WHAT'S IN A NAME? DEPARTMENTS OF FAMILY MEDICINE AND ….
  Annals of family medicine 2019 Weidner A, Grumbach K, Gilchrist V, Zweig S, Davis A
• The Shared Principles of Primary Care: A Multistakeholder Initiative to Find a Common Voice.
  Family medicine 2019 Epperly T, Bechtel C, Sweeney R, Greiner A, Grumbach K, Schilz J, Stream G, O'Connor M
• Burnout and Health Care Workforce Turnover.
  Annals of family medicine 2019 Willard-Grace R, Knox M, Huang B, Hammer H, Kivlahan C, Grumbach K
• Physician Burnout and Higher Clinic Capacity to Address Patients' Social Needs.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2019 De Marchis E, Knox M, Hessler D, Willard-Grace R, Olayiwola JN, Peterson LE, Grumbach K, Gottlieb LM
• How Is Family Medicine Engaging Patients at the Practice-Level?: A National Sample of Family Physicians.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2018 Sharma AE, Knox M, Peterson LE, Willard-Grace R, Grumbach K, Potter MB
• Maslach Burnout Inventory and a Self-Defined, Single-Item Burnout Measure Produce Different Clinician and Staff Burnout Estimates.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Knox M, Willard-Grace R, Huang B, Grumbach K
• Higher Perceived Clinic Capacity to Address Patients' Social Needs Associated with Lower Burnout in Primary Care Providers.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2018 Olayiwola JN, Willard-Grace R, Dubé K, Hessler D, Shunk R, Grumbach K, Gottlieb L
• Corrigendum to "Shared decision making in contraceptive counseling" [Contraception (2017) 95:452-455].
  Contraception 2017 Dehlendorf C, Grumbach K, Schmittdiel JA, Steinauer J
• Quality and Content of Patient-Provider Communication About Contraception: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2017 Dehlendorf C, Anderson N, Vittinghoff E, Grumbach K, Levy K, Steinauer J
• Provider, Patient, and Practice Factors Shape Hepatitis B Prevention and Management by Primary Care Providers.
  Journal of clinical gastroenterology 2017 Mukhtar NA, Kathpalia P, Hilton JF, Lau G, Yu A, Grumbach K, Nguyen TT, Chan D, Khalili M
• Engaging patients in primary care practice transformation: theory, evidence and practice.
  Family practice 2017 Sharma AE, Grumbach K
• Achieving Health Equity Through Community Engagement in Translating Evidence to Policy: The San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership, 2010-2016.
  Preventing chronic disease 2017 Grumbach K, Vargas RA, Fleisher P, Aragón TJ, Chung L, Chawla C, Yant A, Garcia ER, Santiago A, Lang PL, Jones P, Liu W, Schmidt LA
• Development and field testing of a decision support tool to facilitate shared decision making in contraceptive counseling.
  Patient education and counseling 2017 Dehlendorf C, Fitzpatrick J, Steinauer J, Swiader L, Grumbach K, Hall C, Kuppermann M
• Perspectives in Primary Care: Family Medicine in a Divided Nation.
  Annals of family medicine 2017 Romano MJ, Grumbach K
• Shared decision making in contraceptive counseling.
  Contraception 2017 Dehlendorf C, Grumbach K, Schmittdiel JA, Steinauer J
• Weighting Primary Care Patient Panel Size: A Novel Electronic Health Record-Derived Measure Using Machine Learning.
  JMIR medical informatics 2016 Rajkomar A, Yim JW, Grumbach K, Parekh A
• The Personal Doctoring Manifesto: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2016 DeVoe JE, Barnes K, Morris C, Campbell K, Morris-Singer A, Westfall JM, Grumbach K
• Development of a survey instrument to measure patient experience of integrated care.
  BMC health services research 2016 Walker KO, Stewart AL, Grumbach K
• Association of the quality of interpersonal care during family planning counseling with contraceptive use.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2016 Dehlendorf C, Henderson JT, Vittinghoff E, Grumbach K, Levy K, Schmittdiel J, Lee J, Schillinger D, Steinauer J
• In Reply to Rasouli and Willson.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Chen RM, Grumbach K
• Are Time-Limited Grants Likely to Stimulate Sustained Growth in Primary Care Residency Training? A Study of the Primary Care Residency Expansion Program.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Chen RM, Petterson S, Bazemore A, Grumbach K
• ADVANCING THE PRIMARY/SPECIALTY CARE INTERFACE THROUGH ECONSULTS AND ENHANCED REFERRALS.
  Annals of family medicine 2015 Davis A, Gilchrist V, Grumbach K, James P, Kallenberg R, Shipman SA
• To be or not to be comprehensive.
  Annals of family medicine 2015 Grumbach K
• Panel management, team culture, and worklife experience.
  Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare 2015 Willard-Grace R, Dubé K, Hessler D, O'Brien B, Earnest G, Gupta R, Shunk R, Grumbach K
• Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2015 Grumbach K, Olayiwola JN
• The panel management questionnaire: a tool to measure panel management capability.
  The Permanente journal 2015 Rogers EA, Hessler D, Dube K, Willard-Grace R, Gupta R, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Educational and individual factors associated with positive change in and reaffirmation of medical students' intention to practice in underserved areas.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014 Boscardin CK, Grbic D, Grumbach K, O'Sullivan P
• Electronic health record availability among advanced practice registered nurses and physicians.
  The American journal of managed care 2014 Coffman JM, Spetz J, Grumbach K, Fix M, Bindman AB
• Evolving perspectives on population health management.
  Annals of family medicine 2014 James P, Kuzel A, Thompson B, Davis A, Grumbach K
• 'But my patients are sicker!'.
  Journal of primary health care 2014 Grumbach K
• Transforming from centers of learning to learning health systems: the challenge for academic health centers.
  JAMA 2014 Grumbach K, Lucey CR, Johnston SC
• Team structure and culture are associated with lower burnout in primary care.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2014 Willard-Grace R, Hessler D, Rogers E, Dubé K, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• The 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care.
  Annals of family medicine 2014 Bodenheimer T, Ghorob A, Willard-Grace R, Grumbach K
• The patient-centered medical home is not a pill: implications for evaluating primary care reforms.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Grumbach K
• Patient perceptions of integrated care: confused by the term, clear on the concept.
  International journal of integrated care 2013 Walker KO, Labat A, Choi J, Schmittdiel J, Stewart AL, Grumbach K
• The primary care extension program: a catalyst for change.
  Annals of family medicine 2013 Phillips RL, Kaufman A, Mold JW, Grumbach K, Vetter-Smith M, Berry A, Burke BT
• Women's preferences for contraceptive counseling and decision making.
  Contraception 2012 Dehlendorf C, Levy K, Kelley A, Grumbach K, Steinauer J
• Estimating a reasonable patient panel size for primary care physicians with team-based task delegation.
  Annals of family medicine 2012 Altschuler J, Margolius D, Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Integrating community health centers into organized delivery systems can improve access to subspecialty care.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Neuhausen K, Grumbach K, Bazemore A, Phillips RL
• Integrating public health and primary care systems: potential strategies from an IOM report.
  JAMA 2012 Landon BE, Grumbach K, Wallace PJ
• Predictors of students' success in community college nursing programs.
  The Journal of nursing education 2012 Seago JA, Keane D, Chen E, Spetz J, Grumbach K
• Facilitating improvement in primary care: the promise of practice coaching.
  Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund) 2012 Grumbach K, Bainbridge E, Bodenheimer T
• Multi-specialty family planning training: collaborating to meet the needs of women.
  Contraception 2012 Steinauer J, Dehlendorf C, Grumbach K, Landy U, Darney P
• Specialty choice and practice location of physician alumni of University of California premedical postbaccalaureate programs.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2012 Lupton K, Vercammen-Grandjean C, Forkin J, Wilson E, Grumbach K
• The association among specialty, race, ethnicity, and practice location among California physicians in diverse specialties.
  Journal of the National Medical Association 2012 Walker KO, Moreno G, Grumbach K
• A study of physician recommendations for reversible contraceptive methods using standardized patients.
  Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health 2011 Dehlendorf C, Grumbach K, Vittinghoff E, Ruskin R, Steinauer J
• Commentary: Adopting postbaccalaureate premedical programs to enhance physician workforce diversity.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011 Grumbach K
• Do physicians with self-reported non-English fluency practice in linguistically disadvantaged communities?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Moreno G, Walker KO, Morales LS, Grumbach K
• Health reform, academic health centers, and family medicine.
  Annals of family medicine 2010 Hall M, Grumbach K, Association of Departments of Family Medicine
• Recommendations for intrauterine contraception: a randomized trial of the effects of patients' race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2010 Dehlendorf C, Ruskin R, Grumbach K, Vittinghoff E, Bibbins-Domingo K, Schillinger D, Steinauer J
• Self-reported fluency in non-english languages among physicians practicing in California.
  Family medicine 2010 Moreno G, Walker KO, Grumbach K
• Practice profile. A safety-net system gains efficiencies through 'eReferrals' to specialists.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010 Chen AH, Kushel MB, Grumbach K, Yee HF
• System-based participatory research in health care: an approach for sustainable translational research and quality improvement.
  Annals of family medicine 2010 Schmittdiel JA, Grumbach K, Selby JV
• The multi-stakeholder movement for primary care renewal and reform.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010 Grundy P, Hagan KR, Hansen JC, Grumbach K
• The effect of patient gynecologic history on clinician contraceptive counseling.
  Contraception 2010 Dehlendorf C, Ruskin R, Darney P, Vittinghoff E, Grumbach K, Steinauer J
• Title VII is critical to the community health center and National Health Service Corps workforce.
  American family physician 2010 Harrison B, Rittenhouse DR, Phillips RL, Grumbach K, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS
• Redesign of the health care delivery system: a Bauhaus "form follows function" approach.
  JAMA 2009 Grumbach K
• A lifeline for primary care.
  The New England journal of medicine 2009 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K, Berenson RA
• A health care cooperative extension service: transforming primary care and community health.
  JAMA 2009 Grumbach K, Mold JW
• How leaky is the health career pipeline? Minority student achievement in college gateway courses.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009 Alexander C, Chen E, Grumbach K
• Impact of Title VII training programs on community health center staffing and national health service corps participation.
  Annals of family medicine 2008 Rittenhouse DR, Fryer GE, Phillips RL, Miyoshi T, Nielsen C, Goodman DC, Grumbach K
• Medical liability insurance as a barrier to the provision of abortion services in family medicine.
  American journal of public health 2008 Dehlendorf CE, Grumbach K
• College students' perceptions of their experiences: what do minority students think?
  The Journal of nursing education 2008 Wong ST, Seago JA, Keane D, Grumbach K
• Disparities in human resources: addressing the lack of diversity in the health professions.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2008 Grumbach K, Mendoza R
• Does having more physicians lead to better health system performance?
  JAMA 2008 Goodman DC, Grumbach K
• Measuring attributes of success of college students in nursing programs: a psychometric analysis.
  Journal of nursing measurement 2008 Seago JA, Wong ST, Keane D, Grumbach K
• Foreign versus domestic education of physicians for the United States: a case study of physicians of South Asian ethnicity in California.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2007 Mertz E, Jain R, Breckler J, Chen E, Grumbach K
• A descriptive analysis of abortion training in family medicine residency programs.
  Family medicine 2007 Brahmi D, Dehlendorf C, Engel D, Grumbach K, Joffe C, Gold M
• Integrating abortion training into family medicine residency programs.
  Family medicine 2007 Dehlendorf C, Brahmi D, Engel D, Grumbach K, Joffe C, Gold M
• The role of medical education in reducing health care disparities: the first ten years of the UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Ko M, Heslin KC, Edelstein RA, Grumbach K
• Physician perceptions of practice environment and professional satisfaction in California: from urban to rural.
  The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association 2007 Luman K, Zweifler J, Grumbach K
• Effectiveness of University of California postbaccalaureate premedical programs in increasing medical school matriculation for minority and disadvantaged students.
  JAMA 2006 Grumbach K, Chen E
• College students' perceptions of nursing: a GEE approach.
  Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.) 2006 Seago JA, Spetz J, Keane D, Grumbach K
• The nursing shortage: is it really about image?
  Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives 2006 Seago JA, Spetz J, Alvarado A, Keane D, Grumbach K
• Shared decision making and the experience of partnership in primary care.
  Annals of family medicine 2006 Saba GW, Wong ST, Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Somkin CP, Wilson CC, Grumbach K
• Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2005 Wilson E, Chen AH, Grumbach K, Wang F, Fernandez A
• Impact of the University of California, Los Angeles/Charles R. Drew University Medical Education Program on medical students' intentions to practice in underserved areas.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2005 Ko M, Edelstein RA, Heslin KC, Rajagopalan S, Wilkerson L, Colburn L, Grumbach K
• Primary care, generalism, public good: déjà vu? Again!
  Annals of internal medicine 2005 Larson EB, Roberts KB, Grumbach K
• The future of generalism in medicine.
  Annals of internal medicine 2005 Larson EB, Grumbach K, Roberts KB
• The effect of health insurance on medical care utilization and implications for insurance expansion: a review of the literature.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2005 Buchmueller TC, Grumbach K, Kronick R, Kahn JG
• Medical student, physician, and public perceptions of health care disparities.
  Family medicine 2004 Wilson E, Grumbach K, Huebner J, Agrawal J, Bindman AB
• Physician organization and care management in California: from cottage to Kaiser.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004 Rittenhouse DR, Grumbach K, O'Neil EH, Dower C, Bindman A
• No exit: an evaluation of measures of physician attrition.
  Health services research 2004 Rittenhouse DR, Mertz E, Keane D, Grumbach K
• Access to Spanish-speaking physicians in California: supply, insurance, or both.
  The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 2004 Yoon J, Grumbach K, Bindman AB
• How much public health in public health nursing practice?
  Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 2004 Grumbach K, Miller J, Mertz E, Finocchio L
• Can health care teams improve primary care practice?
  JAMA 2004 Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T
• Group medical visits for low-income women with chronic disease: a feasibility study.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2004 Miller D, Zantop V, Hammer H, Faust S, Grumbach K
• Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2004 Fernandez A, Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Rosenthal A, Stewart AL, Wang F, Pérez-Stable EJ
• NAPNES board of directors position paper regarding supply, demand, and use of licensed practical nurses.
  The Journal of practical nursing 2004 Seago JA, Spetz J, Chapman S, Dyer W, Grumbach K
• Trends in physician participation in Medicaid. The California experience.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2003 Bindman AB, Yoon J, Grumbach K
• Electronic technology: a spark to revitalize primary care?
  JAMA 2003 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Who is caring for the underserved? A comparison of primary care physicians and nonphysician clinicians in California and Washington.
  Annals of family medicine 2003 Grumbach K, Hart LG, Mertz E, Coffman J, Palazzo L
• Cross-cultural education in U.S. medical schools: development of an assessment tool.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2003 Peña Dolhun E, Muñoz C, Grumbach K
• Chronic illness, comorbidities, and the need for medical generalism.
  Annals of family medicine 2003 Grumbach K
• Improving timely access to primary care: case studies of the advanced access model.
  JAMA 2003 Murray M, Bodenheimer T, Rittenhouse D, Grumbach K
• Closing the loop: physician communication with diabetic patients who have low health literacy.
  Archives of internal medicine 2003 Schillinger D, Piette J, Grumbach K, Wang F, Wilson C, Daher C, Leong-Grotz K, Castro C, Bindman AB
• Fighting hand to hand over physician workforce policy.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002 Grumbach K
• Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes.
  JAMA 2002 Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Piette J, Wang F, Osmond D, Daher C, Palacios J, Sullivan GD, Bindman AB
• Specialists, technology, and newborns--too much of a good thing.
  The New England journal of medicine 2002 Grumbach K
• The ramifications of specialty-dominated medicine.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002 Grumbach K
• Measuring shortages of hospital nurses: how do you know a hospital with a nursing shortage when you see one?
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2001 Grumbach K, Ash M, Seago JA, Spetz J, Coffman J
• Specialists' and primary care physicians' participation in medicaid managed care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2001 Backus L, Osmond D, Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Phuong L, Bindman AB
• Unlocking specialists' attitudes toward primary care gatekeepers.
  The Journal of family practice 2001 Pena-Dolhun E, Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Osmond D, Bindman AB
• Hospital registered nurse shortages: environmental, patient, and institutional predictors.
  Health services research 2001 Seago JA, Ash M, Spetz J, Coffman J, Grumbach K
• Racial/ethnic disparities in nursing.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2001 Coffman JM, Rosenoff E, Grumbach K
• Primary care physicians' experience with disease management programs.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2001 Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Osmond DH, Bindman AB
• Identifying communities with low dentist supply in California.
  Journal of public health dentistry 2001 Mertz EA, Grumbach K
• Insuring the uninsured: time to end the aura of invisibility.
  JAMA 2000 Grumbach K
• Friend or foe? How primary care physicians perceive hospitalists.
  Archives of internal medicine 2000 Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Goitein L, Vranizan K, Osmond DH, Bindman AB
• Racial and ethnic differences in a patient survey: patients' values, ratings, and reports regarding physician primary care performance in a large health maintenance organization.
  Medical care 2000 Murray-García JL, Selby JV, Schmittdiel J, Grumbach K, Quesenberry CP
• Medicaid managed care's impact on safety-net clinics in California.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2000 Bindman AB, Grumbach K, Bernheim S, Vranizan K, Cousineau M
• Screening and intervention for intimate partner abuse: practices and attitudes of primary care physicians.
  JAMA 1999 Rodriguez MA, Bauer HM, McLoughlin E, Grumbach K
• Resolving the gatekeeper conundrum: what patients value in primary care and referrals to specialists.
  JAMA 1999 Grumbach K, Selby JV, Damberg C, Bindman AB, Quesenberry C, Truman A, Uratsu C
• Quality of primary care practice in a large HMO according to physician specialty.
  Health services research 1999 Grumbach K, Selby JV, Schmittdiel JA, Quesenberry CP
• Congestive heart failure hospitalizations and survival in California: patterns according to race/ethnicity.
  American heart journal 1999 Alexander M, Grumbach K, Remy L, Rowell R, Massie BM
• Mandatory reporting of intimate partner violence to police: views of physicians in California.
  American journal of public health 1999 Rodriguez MA, McLoughlin E, Bauer HM, Paredes V, Grumbach K
• Primary care physicians' experience of financial incentives in managed-care systems.
  The New England journal of medicine 1998 Grumbach K, Osmond D, Vranizan K, Jaffe D, Bindman AB
• Independent practice association physician groups in California.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 1998 Grumbach K, Coffman J, Vranizan K, Blick N, O'Neil EH
• Physician supply and medical education in California. A comparison with national trends.
  The Western journal of medicine 1998 Grumbach K, Coffman JM, Young JQ, Vranizan K, Blick N
• Selection and exclusion of primary care physicians by managed care organizations.
  JAMA 1998 Bindman AB, Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Jaffe D, Osmond D
• Primary care and patient perceptions of access to care.
  The Journal of family practice 1997 Stewart AL, Grumbach K, Osmond DH, Vranizan K, Komaromy M, Bindman AB
• Charges for obstetric liability insurance and discontinuation of obstetric practice in New York.
  The Journal of family practice 1997 Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Rennie D, Luft HS
• Capitation or decapitation: keeping your head in changing times.
  JAMA 1996 Bodenheimer TS, Grumbach K
• Physician payment and the game of risk.
  The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 1996 Grumbach K
• The role of black and Hispanic physicians in providing health care for underserved populations.
  The New England journal of medicine 1996 Komaromy M, Grumbach K, Drake M, Vranizan K, Lurie N, Keane D, Bindman AB
• Regionalization of cardiac surgery in the United States and Canada. Geographic access, choice, and outcomes.
  JAMA 1995 Grumbach K, Anderson GM, Luft HS, Roos LL, Brook R
• Hospitalization for congestive heart failure. Explaining racial differences.
  JAMA 1995 Alexander M, Grumbach K, Selby J, Brown AF, Washington E
• The challenge of defining and counting generalist physicians: an analysis of Physician Masterfile data.
  American journal of public health 1995 Grumbach K, Becker SH, Osborn EH, Bindman AB
• Graduate medical education and physician practice location. Implications for physician workforce policy.
  JAMA 1995 Seifer SD, Vranizan K, Grumbach K
• The reconfiguration of US medicine.
  JAMA 1995 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Health care policy: a clinical approach. Mechanisms for controlling costs.
  JAMA 1995 Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T
• The organization of health care.
  JAMA 1995 Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T
• Painful vs painless cost control.
  JAMA 1994 Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T
• Reimbursing physicians and hospitals.
  JAMA 1994 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Paying for health care.
  JAMA 1994 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Refusing care to emergency department of patients: evaluation of published triage guidelines.
  Annals of emergency medicine 1994 Lowe RA, Bindman AB, Ulrich SK, Norman G, Scaletta TA, Keane D, Washington D, Grumbach K
• Brief report: fatal seronegative ehrlichiosis in a patient with HIV infection.
  The New England journal of medicine 1993 Paddock CD, Suchard DP, Grumbach KL, Hadley WK, Kerschmann RL, Abbey NW, Dawson JE, Anderson BE, Sims KG, Dumler JS
• Variation in physicians' recommendations about revisit interval for three common conditions.
  The Journal of family practice 1993 Petitti DB, Grumbach K
• Managing primary care in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
  The New England journal of medicine 1993 Grumbach K, Fry J
• Financing universal health insurance: taxes, premiums, and the lessons of social insurance.
  Journal of health politics, policy and law 1992 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• How effective is drug treatment of hypercholesterolemia? A guided tour of the major clinical trials for the primary care physician.
  The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice 1991 Grumbach K
• How many physicians can we afford?
  JAMA 1991 Grumbach K, Lee PR
• National health insurance and the problems of American medicine.
  Family medicine 1991 Bodenheimer T, Grumbach K
• Physician payment in the 1990s: factors that will shape the future.
  Annual review of public health 1990 Lee PR, Grumbach K, Jameson WJ
• Reins or fences: a physician's view of cost containment.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 1990 Grumbach K, Bodenheimer T