Robert Wachter, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

He coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is often considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing medical specialty in the U.S. history. He is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has written two books on safety and quality, including Understanding Patient Safety, the world’s top selling safety primer. His 2015 book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, was a New York Times science bestseller. In 2004, he received the John M. Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honor in patient safety. Thirteen times, Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked him as one of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the U.S.; he was #1 on the list in 2015. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2020-23, his tweets on Covid-19 were viewed over 500 million times by 275,000 followers and served as a trusted source of information on the pandemic. In 2024, he chaired groups examining the impact of AI on patient safety (for the Lucian Leape Institute of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and on health professions education (for the Josiah Macy Foundation).

• Addressing Inpatient Hyponatremia Through Targeted Automatic E-consults: A Pilot Randomized Trial.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Judson TJ, Lo L, Demko JE, Mourad M, Liu KD, Wachter RM, Lopez I, Tummalapalli SL
• Revitalizing grand rounds in the time of COVID.
  BMC medical education 2024 Santhosh L, Rosenstein LA, Wachter RM
• Are Artificial Intelligence-Generated Replies the Answer to the Electronic Health Record Inbox Problem?
  JAMA network open 2024 Rotenstein LS, Wachter RM
• Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir for Acute COVID-19 in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease and Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
  JACC. Advances 2024 Patel R, Dani SS, Khadke S, Kumar A, Ahmad J, Saji AM, Shah J, Mehta N, Wener K, McQuillen DP, Abraham G, Faust J, Maley J, Patel S, Mullington J, Wachter RM, Mosenthal A, Sax PE, Ganatra S
• The Limits of Clinician Vigilance as an AI Safety Bulwark.
  JAMA 2024 Adler-Milstein J, Redelmeier DA, Wachter RM
• Comparing frequency of booster vaccination to prevent severe COVID-19 by risk group in the United States.
  Nature communications 2024 Park HJ, Gonsalves GS, Tan ST, Kelly JD, Rutherford GW, Wachter RM, Schechter R, Paltiel AD, Lo NC
• COVID-19 and Patient Safety-Lessons From 2 Efforts to Keep People Safe.
  JAMA internal medicine 2024 Wachter RM
• The Hospitalist Movement 25 Years Later.
  Annual review of medicine 2023 Kulkarni SA, Wachter RM
• The Disappointing Impact of Interventions to Prevent Hospital Readmissions.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Wachter RM
• Why is it so hard for academic medical centers to succeed in value-based care?
  Health affairs scholar 2023 Kocher B, Wachter RM
• Oral Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir in Nonhospitalized Vaccinated Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Ganatra S, Dani SS, Ahmad J, Kumar A, Shah J, Abraham GM, McQuillen DP, Wachter RM, Sax PE
• Readmission Reduction as a Hospital Quality Measure: Time to Move on to More Pressing Concerns?
  JAMA 2022 Cram P, Wachter RM, Landon BE
• Nailing the nuance on COVID-19.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2022 Wachter RM
• Preparing Clinicians for a Clinical World Influenced by Artificial Intelligence.
  JAMA 2022 James CA, Wachter RM, Woolliscroft JO
• Focusing on Digital Health Equity.
  JAMA 2021 Lyles CR, Wachter RM, Sarkar U
• Building a Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) Program.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Judson TJ, Mourad M, Wachter RM
• Rates and Characteristics of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Hospitalists.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2021 Schaffer AC, Yu-Moe CW, Babayan A, Wachter RM, Einbinder JS
• Delayed Second Dose versus Standard Regimen for Covid-19 Vaccination.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Kadire SR, Wachter RM, Lurie N
• The Risks of Prescribing Hydroxychloroquine for Treatment of COVID-19-First, Do No Harm.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 DeJong C, Wachter RM
• Sharing Health Care Data With Digital Giants: Overcoming Obstacles and Reaping Benefits While Protecting Patients.
  JAMA 2020 Wachter RM, Cassel CK
• Ethics in Conflict: Moral Distress as a Root Cause of Burnout.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Dzeng E, Wachter RM
• The Molecular Medicine Investigation Unit: Linking Patient Care and Scientific Inquiry in Physician-Scientist Training.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2020 Berger A, Matloubian M, Shah NP, Wachter RM, DeRisi JL, Anderson M
• Patient safety movement in neurological surgery: the current state and future directions.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2019 Sankaran S, Andrews JP, Chicas M, Wachter RM, Berger MS
• Six habits of highly successful health information technology: powerful strategies for design and implementation.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2019 Ray JM, Ratwani RM, Sinsky CA, Frankel RM, Friedberg MW, Powsner SM, Rosenthal DI, Wachter RM, Melnick ER
• Integrating Health Care Technologies: Challenges and Lessons Learned from One Medical Center's Experience.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2019 Gupta K, Wachter RM
• Promoting Trust Between Patients and Physicians in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.
  JAMA 2019 Nundy S, Montgomery T, Wachter RM
• Restricting the Number of Open Patient Records in the Electronic Health Record: Is the Record Half Open or Half Closed?
  JAMA 2019 Wachter RM, Murray SG, Adler-Milstein J
• Transforming concepts in patient safety: a progress report.
  BMJ quality & safety 2018 Gandhi TK, Kaplan GS, Leape L, Berwick DM, Edgman-Levitan S, Edmondson A, Meyer GS, Michaels D, Morath JM, Vincent C, Wachter R
• Understanding Patient Safety, 3rd Edition
  Understanding Patient Safety, 3rd Edition. 2018 Wachter RM, Gupta K.
• Hospitalist and Internal Medicine Leaders' Perspectives of Early Discharge Challenges at Academic Medical Centers.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Patel H, Fang MC, Mourad M, Green A, Wachter RM, Murphy RD, Harrison JD
• Pragmatic Insights on Patient Safety Priorities and Intervention Strategies in Ambulatory Settings.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2017 Sarkar U, McDonald K, Motala A, Smith P, Zipperer L, Wachter RM, Shanman R, Shekelle PG
• Automatic detection of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with ischaemic stroke: better than routine diagnostic workup?
  European journal of neurology 2017 Uphaus T, Grings A, Gröschel S, Müller A, Weber-Krüger M, Wachter R, Gröschel K
• International Exchange and American Medicine.
  The New England journal of medicine 2017 Armstrong K, Anderson ME, Carethers JM, Loscalzo J, Parmacek MS, Wachter RM, Zeidel ML
• Development of a high-value care culture survey: a modified Delphi process and psychometric evaluation.
  BMJ quality & safety 2016 Gupta R, Moriates C, Harrison JD, Valencia V, Ong M, Clarke R, Steers N, Hays RD, Braddock CH, Wachter R
• Rethinking medical ward quality.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2016 Pannick S, Wachter RM, Vincent C, Sevdalis N
• Measurement, Certification, and Quality: Meeting Enduring Challenges with Modern Tools.
  Ophthalmology 2016 Wachter RM
• The Search for Better Patient Handoff Tools.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Schoenfeld AJ, Wachter RM
• Web Exclusives. Annals for Hospitalists Inpatient Notes - Hospitalists and Digital Medicine-Overcoming the Productivity Paradox.
  Annals of internal medicine 2016 Wachter RM
• Financial incentives and mortality: taking pay for performance a step too far.
  BMJ quality & safety 2016 Gupta K, Wachter RM, Kachalia A
• Advancing the next generation of handover research and practice with cognitive load theory.
  BMJ quality & safety 2016 Young JQ, Wachter RM, Ten Cate O, O'Sullivan PS, Irby DM
• Hospitalists, value and the future.
  Future hospital journal 2016 Hoffman A, Hatefi A, Wachter R
• Reimagining Electronic Clinical Communication in the Post-Pager, Smartphone Era.
  JAMA 2016 Khanna RR, Wachter RM, Blum M
• CLINICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING. A Breakthrough Diagnosis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2015 Murray SG, Wachter RM, Cho KC, Dhaliwal G
• Effects of Interdisciplinary Team Care Interventions on General Medical Wards: A Systematic Review.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Pannick S, Davis R, Ashrafian H, Byrne BE, Beveridge I, Athanasiou T, Wachter RM, Sevdalis N
• Hospital medicine in 2015: Remarkable successes and a crucial crossroads.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Wachter RM
• Interview of Robert M. Wachter, MD.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2015 Wachter RM, Kerbel RB, Aung KK
• A Conversation With Robert Wachter, MD. Reality Bytes: Medicine's Bumpy Ride Into the Digital Age.
  Managed care (Langhorne, Pa.) 2015 Wachter R, Wehrwein P
• The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age
  The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age 2015 Wachter RM
• English National Health Service's savings plan may have helped reduce the use of three 'low-value' procedures.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015 Coronini-Cronberg S, Bixby H, Laverty AA, Wachter RM, Millett C
• National hospital ratings systems share few common scores and may generate confusion instead of clarity.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015 Austin JM, Jha AK, Romano PS, Singer SJ, Vogus TJ, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ
• Reverse epidemiology in different stages of heart failure.
  International journal of cardiology 2015 Güder G, Gelbrich G, Edelmann F, Wachter R, Pieske B, Pankuweit S, Maisch B, Prettin C, Brenner S, Morbach C, Berliner D, Deubner N, Ertl G, Angermann CE, Störk S, Competence Network Heart Failure …
• Patient safety is not elective: a debate at the NPSF Patient Safety Congress.
  BMJ quality & safety 2014 McTiernan P, Wachter RM, Meyer GS, Gandhi TK
• Improving the quality and safety of care on the medical ward: A review and synthesis of the evidence base.
  European journal of internal medicine 2014 Pannick S, Beveridge I, Wachter RM, Sevdalis N
• Development of a hospital-based program focused on improving healthcare value.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Moriates C, Mourad M, Novelero M, Wachter RM
• Grading residents' clinical performance: unique opportunities and challenges.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Liao JM, Wachter RM
• Hospitalist workload: the search for the magic number.
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Wachter RM
• Computerised provider order entry combined with clinical decision support systems to improve medication safety: a narrative review.
  BMJ quality & safety 2014 Ranji SR, Rennke S, Wachter RM
• Safety in numbers: the development of Leapfrog's composite patient safety score for U.S. hospitals.
  Journal of patient safety 2014 Austin JM, D'Andrea G, Birkmeyer JD, Leape LL, Milstein A, Pronovost PJ, Romano PS, Singer SJ, Vogus TJ, Wachter RM
• Impact of universal health insurance coverage on hypertension management: a cross-national study in the United States and England.
  PloS one 2014 Dalton AR, Vamos EP, Harris MJ, Netuveli G, Wachter RM, Majeed A, Millett C
• Diagnostic errors: central to patient safety, yet still in the periphery of safety's radar screen1).
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2014 Wachter RM
• Responding to clinicians who fail to follow patient safety practices: perceptions of physicians, nurses, trainees, and patients.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Driver TH, Katz PP, Trupin L, Wachter RM
• Changing our culture to advance patient safety: the 2013 AANS Presidential Address.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2013 Berger MS, Wachter RM, Greysen SR, Lau CY
• Observation status for hospitalized patients: a maddening policy begging for revision.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Wachter RM
• Bringing continuing medical education to the bedside: the University of California, San Francisco Hospitalist Mini-College.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Sehgal NL, Wachter RM, Vidyarthi AR
• Focusing on value: this time is different.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Auerbach AD, Wachter RM
• Progress in patient safety: a glass fuller than it seems.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2013 Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM
• Access to primary care and visits to emergency departments in England: a cross-sectional, population-based study.
  PloS one 2013 Cowling TE, Cecil EV, Soljak MA, Lee JT, Millett C, Majeed A, Wachter RM, Harris MJ
• Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.
  Annals of internal medicine 2013 Rennke S, Nguyen OK, Shoeb MH, Magan Y, Wachter RM, Ranji SR
• Strategies to improve patient safety: the evidence base matures.
  Annals of internal medicine 2013 Wachter RM, Pronovost P, Shekelle P
• The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now.
  Annals of internal medicine 2013 Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM, McDonald KM, Schoelles K, Dy SM, Shojania K, Reston JT, Adams AS, Angood PB, Bates DW, Bickman L, Carayon P, Donaldson L, Duan N, Farley DO, Greenhalgh T, …
• Making health care safer II: an updated critical analysis of the evidence for patient safety practices.
  Evidence report/technology assessment 2013 Shekelle PG, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ, Schoelles K, McDonald KM, Dy SM, Shojania K, Reston J, Berger Z, Johnsen B, Larkin JW, Lucas S, Martinez K, Motala A, Newberry SJ, Noble M, Pfoh E, Ranji SR, …
• Attending physicians on ward rounds--reply.
  JAMA 2013 Wachter RM, Verghese AC
• Development and implementation of a balanced scorecard in an academic hospitalist group.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Hwa M, Sharpe BA, Wachter RM
• Bringing diagnosis into the quality and safety equations.
  JAMA 2012 Graber ML, Wachter RM, Cassel CK
• Disciplining doctors for misconduct: character matters, but so does competence.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Wachter RM
• The attending physician on the wards: finding a new homeostasis.
  JAMA 2012 Wachter RM, Verghese A
• Predictors of likelihood of speaking up about safety concerns in labour and delivery.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Lyndon A, Sexton JB, Simpson KR, Rosenstein A, Lee KA, Wachter RM
• Personal accountability in healthcare: searching for the right balance.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Wachter RM
• Specialty hospitalists: analyzing an emerging phenomenon.
  JAMA 2012 Nelson JR, Wellikson L, Wachter RM
• Associations between Internet-based patient ratings and conventional surveys of patient experience in the English NHS: an observational study.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Greaves F, Pape UJ, King D, Darzi A, Majeed A, Wachter RM, Millett C
• High-profile investigations into hospital safety problems in England did not prompt patients to switch providers.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Laverty AA, Smith PC, Pape UJ, Mears A, Wachter RM, Millett C
• Associations between Web-based patient ratings and objective measures of hospital quality.
  Archives of internal medicine 2012 Greaves F, Pape UJ, King D, Darzi A, Majeed A, Wachter RM, Millett C
• Renaissance of hospital generalists.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2012 Wachter RM, Bell D
• Understanding Patient Safety
  Understanding Patient Safety. 2012 Wachter RM.
• Effects of a multicentre teamwork and communication programme on patient outcomes: results from the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) project.
  BMJ quality & safety 2011 Auerbach AD, Sehgal NL, Blegen MA, Maselli J, Alldredge BK, Vittinghoff E, Wachter RM
• Can healthcare go from good to great?
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Driver TH, Wachter RM
• Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Schmaltz SP, Williams SC, Chassin MR, Loeb JM, Wachter RM
• "July effect": impact of the academic year-end changeover on patient outcomes: a systematic review.
  Annals of internal medicine 2011 Young JQ, Ranji SR, Wachter RM, Lee CM, Niehaus B, Auerbach AD
• Improving follow-up of high-risk psychiatry outpatients at resident year-end transfer.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2011 Young JQ, Pringle Z, Wachter RM
• What context features might be important determinants of the effectiveness of patient safety practice interventions?
  BMJ quality & safety 2011 Taylor SL, Dy S, Foy R, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Ovretveit J, Pronovost PJ, Rubenstein LV, Wachter RM, Shekelle PG
• A framework for classifying patient safety practices: results from an expert consensus process.
  BMJ quality & safety 2011 Dy SM, Taylor SL, Carr LH, Foy R, Pronovost PJ, Ovretveit J, Wachter RM, Rubenstein LV, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Shekelle PG
• Advancing the science of patient safety.
  Annals of internal medicine 2011 Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM, Taylor SL, Dy SM, Foy R, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Ovretveit J, Rubenstein LV, Adams AS, Angood PB, Bates DW, Bickman L, Carayon P, Donaldson L, Duan N, Farley DO, …
• The hazards of drawing conclusions from before-and-after studies of system-level interventions: knowing may not be enough.
  Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine 2011 Cabana MD, Wachter RM
• Effective physician-nurse communication: a patient safety essential for labor and delivery.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2011 Lyndon A, Zlatnik MG, Wachter RM
• How does context affect interventions to improve patient safety? An assessment of evidence from studies of five patient safety practices and proposals for research.
  BMJ quality & safety 2011 Ovretveit JC, Shekelle PG, Dy SM, McDonald KM, Hempel S, Pronovost P, Rubenstein L, Taylor SL, Foy R, Wachter RM
• Critical conversations: a call for a nonprocedural "time out".
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Sehgal NL, Fox M, Sharpe BA, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen M, Wachter RM
• Filling the black hole of hospital discharge (editorial in response to article by Walz et al.,J Gen Intern Med 2011).
  Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Wachter RM, Auerbach AD
• The hospitalist field turns 15: new opportunities and challenges.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Wachter RM
• Inability of providers to predict unplanned readmissions.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Allaudeen N, Schnipper JL, Orav EJ, Wachter RM, Vidyarthi AR
• Commentary: Medical malpractice and patient safety: tear down that wall!
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011 Alper EJ, Wachter RM
• Investing in the future: building an academic hospitalist faculty development program.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Sehgal NL, Sharpe BA, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM
• The role of theory in research to develop and evaluate the implementation of patient safety practices.
  BMJ quality & safety 2011 Foy R, Ovretveit J, Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Taylor SL, Dy S, Hempel S, McDonald KM, Rubenstein LV, Wachter RM
• Comanagement of surgical patients between neurosurgeons and hospitalists.
  Archives of internal medicine 2010 Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Cheng HQ, Maselli J, McDermott M, Vittinghoff E, Berger MS
• Republished paper: Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project.
  Postgraduate medical journal 2010 Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM
• Why diagnostic errors don't get any respect--and what can be done about them.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2010 Wachter RM
• Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project.
  Quality & safety in health care 2010 Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM
• Responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety: hospital board and medical staff leadership challenges.
  Chest 2010 Goeschel CA, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ
• Accountability measures--using measurement to promote quality improvement.
  The New England journal of medicine 2010 Chassin MR, Loeb JM, Schmaltz SP, Wachter RM
• Potential unintended consequences due to Medicare's "no pay for errors" rule? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB
• Bleeding talent: a lesson from industry on embracing physician workforce challenges.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Kneeland PP, Kneeland C, Wachter RM
• The relationship between hospitalists and primary care physicians.
  Annals of internal medicine 2010 Wachter RM
• Cross-sectional analysis of hospitalist prevalence and quality of care in California.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Vasilevskis EE, Knebel RJ, Dudley RA, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD
• Patient whiteboards as a communication tool in the hospital setting: a survey of practices and recommendations.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Sehgal NL, Green A, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen MA, Wachter RM
• Understanding the new vocabulary of healthcare reform.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Wachter RM
• Patient safety at 10 years: how far have we come? What's next?
  OR manager 2010 Wachter R
• Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria
  Assessing the Evidence for Context-Sensitive Effectiveness and Safety of Patient Safety Practices: Developing Criteria. 2010 Shekelle PG, Pronovost PJ, Wachter RM (editors).
• Patient safety at ten: unmistakable progress, troubling gaps.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2009 Wachter RM
• Perspective: Physician leadership in quality.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009 Pronovost PJ, Miller MR, Wachter RM, Meyer GS
• Entering the second decade of the patient safety movement: the field matures: comment on "disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patients' ratings of the quality of care".
  Archives of internal medicine 2009 Wachter RM
• California hospital leaders' views of hospitalists: meeting needs of the present and future.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2009 Vasilevskis EE, Knebel RJ, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD
• Balancing "no blame" with accountability in patient safety.
  The New England journal of medicine 2009 Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ
• Impact of duty-hour restriction on resident inpatient teaching.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2009 Mazotti LA, Vidyarthi AR, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD, Katz PP
• Academic year-end transfers of outpatients from outgoing to incoming residents: an unaddressed patient safety issue.
  JAMA 2009 Young JQ, Wachter RM
• Applying Toyota Production System principles to a psychiatric hospital: making transfers safer and more timely.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009 Young JQ, Wachter RM
• Diagnostic errors and patient safety.
  JAMA 2009 Wachter RM, Holmboe ES
• Refocusing the lens: patient safety in ambulatory chronic disease care.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009 Sarkar U, Wachter RM, Schroeder SA, Schillinger D
• Growth in care provided by hospitalists.
  The New England journal of medicine 2009 Wachter RM
• I-CaRe: a case review tool focused on improving inpatient care.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009 Lee JH, Vidyarthi AR, Sehgal NL, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM
• A multidisciplinary teamwork training program: the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) experience.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Sehgal NL, Fox M, Vidyarthi AR, Sharpe BA, Gearhart S, Bookwalter T, Barker J, Alldredge BK, Blegen MA, Wachter RM, Triad for Optimal Patient Safety Project
• Public reporting of antibiotic timing in patients with pneumonia: lessons from a flawed performance measure.
  Annals of internal medicine 2008 Wachter RM, Flanders SA, Fee C, Pronovost PJ
• Quality of primary care and hospital admissions for diabetes mellitus in England.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2008 Bottle A, Millett C, Xie Y, Saxena S, Wachter RM, Majeed A
• The wisdom and justice of not paying for "preventable complications".
  JAMA 2008 Pronovost PJ, Goeschel CA, Wachter RM
• Perspectives on medical outsourcing and telemedicine--rough edges in a flat world?
  The New England journal of medicine 2008 Singh SN, Wachter RM
• The future of general surgery.
  JAMA 2008 Maa J, Wachter RM, Gosnell JE, Harris HW
• The state of hospital medicine in 2008.
  The Medical clinics of North America 2008 Wachter RM
• Medicare's decision to withhold payment for hospital errors: the devil is in the det.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2008 Wachter RM, Foster NE, Dudley RA
• Neurohospitalists: an emerging model for inpatient neurological care.
  Annals of neurology 2008 Josephson SA, Engstrom JW, Wachter RM
• Color-coded wristbands: promoting safety or confusion?
  Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Sehgal NL, Wachter RM
• Identification of inpatient DNR status: a safety hazard begging for standardization.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Sehgal NL, Wachter RM
• The surgical hospitalist: a new solution for emergency surgical care?
  Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 2007 Maa J, Gosnell JE, Carter JT, Wachter RM, Harris HW
• The GAAP in quality measurement and reporting.
  JAMA 2007 Pronovost PJ, Miller M, Wachter RM
• Drug withdrawals in the United States: a systematic review of the evidence and analysis of trends.
  Current drug safety 2007 Issa AM, Phillips KA, Van Bebber S, Nidamarthy HG, Lasser KE, Haas JS, Alldredge BK, Wachter RM, Bates DW
• The surgical hospitalist: a new model for emergency surgical care.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2007 Maa J, Carter JT, Gosnell JE, Wachter R, Harris HW
• Complications and patient satisfaction after periacetabular pelvic osteotomy.
  International orthopaedics 2007 Biedermann R, Donnan L, Gabriel A, Wachter R, Krismer M, Behensky H
• What will board certification be-and mean-for hospitalists?
  Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Wachter RM
• The impact of duty hours on resident self reports of errors.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Vidyarthi AR, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Katz PP
• The 100,000 Lives Campaign: A scientific and policy review.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2006 Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ
• Quality grand rounds: the case for patient safety.
  Annals of internal medicine 2006 Wachter RM, Shojania KG, Markowitz AJ, Smith M, Saint S
• Is ambulatory patient safety just like hospital safety, only without the "stat"?
  Annals of internal medicine 2006 Wachter RM
• The expanding role of hospitalists in the United States.
  Swiss medical weekly 2006 Sehgal NL, Wachter RM
• Tracking progress in patient safety: an elusive target.
  JAMA 2006 Pronovost PJ, Miller MR, Wachter RM
• The hospitalist movement 10 years later: life as a Swiss army knife.
  MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine 2006 Wachter RM
• Trends in market demand for internal medicine 1999 to 2004: an analysis of physician job advertisements.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2006 Auerbach AD, Chlouber R, Singler J, Lurie JD, Bostrom A, Wachter RM
• Managing discontinuity in academic medical centers: strategies for a safe and effective resident sign-out.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2006 Vidyarthi AR, Arora V, Schnipper JL, Wall SD, Wachter RM
• Reflections: the hospitalist movement a decade later.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2006 Wachter RM
• Could computerization harm patient safety?
  MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine 2006 Wachter RM
• Expected and unanticipated consequences of the quality and information technology revolutions.
  JAMA 2006 Wachter RM
• Proposed standards for quality improvement research and publication: one step forward and two steps back.
  Quality & safety in health care 2006 Pronovost P, Wachter R
• Effect of the inpatient general medicine rotation on student pursuit of a generalist career.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2006 Arora V, Wetterneck TB, Schnipper JL, Auerbach AD, Kaboli P, Wachter RM, Levinson W, Humphrey HJ, Meltzer D
• International teleradiology.
  The New England journal of medicine 2006 Wachter RM
• The "dis-location" of U.S. medicine--the implications of medical outsourcing.
  The New England journal of medicine 2006 Wachter RM
• Impact of reduced duty hours on residents' educational satisfaction at the University of California, San Francisco.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2006 Vidyarthi AR, Katz PP, Wall SD, Wachter RM, Auerbach AD
• Clinical problem-solving. One surprise after another.
  The New England journal of medicine 2005 Leeper NJ, Wener LS, Dhaliwal G, Saint S, Wachter RM
• Hospital Medicine (2nd Edition)
  Hospital Medicine (2nd Edition) 2005 Wachter RM, Hollander H, Goldman L.
• The faces of errors: a case-based approach to educating providers, policymakers, and the public about patient safety.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and safety 2004 Wachter RM, Shojania KG
• Effects of hospitalist attending physicians on trainee satisfaction with teaching and with internal medicine rotations.
  Archives of internal medicine 2004 Hauer KE, Wachter RM, McCulloch CE, Woo GA, Auerbach AD
• The patient safety movement will help, not harm, quality.
  Annals of internal medicine 2004 Wachter RM, Shojania KG
• Medical and surgical comanagement after elective hip and knee arthroplasty: a randomized, controlled trial.
  Annals of internal medicine 2004 Huddleston JM, Long KH, Naessens JM, Vanness D, Larson D, Trousdale R, Plevak M, Cabanela M, Ilstrup D, Wachter RM, Hospitalist-Orthopedic Team Trial Investigators
• The end of the beginning: patient safety five years after 'to err is human'.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004 Wachter RM
• Hospitalists in the United States--mission accomplished or work in progress?
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Wachter RM
• Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (four volume series)
  Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies (four volume series). 2004 Shojania KG, McDonald KM, Wachter RM, Owens DK.
• Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
  Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. 2004 Wachter RM, Shojania KG.
• Intensivist consultation and outcomes in critically ill patients.
  JAMA 2003 Wachter RM
• Hospitalists: the new model of inpatient medical care in the United States.
  European journal of internal medicine 2003 Flanders SA, Wachter RM
• Improved survival with highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients with severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
  AIDS (London, England) 2003 Morris A, Wachter RM, Luce J, Turner J, Huang L
• Implementation of a voluntary hospitalist service at a community teaching hospital: improved clinical efficiency and patient outcomes.
  Annals of internal medicine 2002 Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Baron RB, Goldman L
• Intensive care of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2002 Morris A, Creasman J, Turner J, Luce JM, Wachter RM, Huang L
• Safe but sound: patient safety meets evidence-based medicine.
  JAMA 2002 Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, Wachter RM
• The evolution of the hospitalist model in the United States.
  The Medical clinics of North America 2002 Wachter RM
• The evolution of the hospitalist movement in the USA.
  Clinical medicine (London, England) 2002 Baudendistel TE, Wachter RM
• Learning from our mistakes: quality grand rounds, a new case-based series on medical errors and patient safety.
  Annals of internal medicine 2002 Wachter RM, Shojania KG, Saint S, Markowitz AJ, Smith M
• Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalists.
  Disease-a-month : DM 2002 Pantilat SZ, Lindenauer PK, Katz PP, Wachter RM
• The "continuity visit" and the hospitalist model of care.
  Disease-a-month : DM 2002 Wachter RM, Pantilat SZ
• The patient provider relationship and the hospitalist movement. Introduction.
  Disease-a-month : DM 2002 Pantilat SZ, Wachter RM
• The hospitalist movement 5 years later.
  JAMA 2002 Wachter RM, Goldman L
• Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalists.
  The American journal of medicine 2001 Pantilat SZ, Lindenauer PK, Katz PP, Wachter RM
• The "continuity visit" and the hospitalist model of care.
  The American journal of medicine 2001 Wachter RM, Pantilat SZ
• A pneumonia practice guideline and a hospitalist-based reorganization lead to equivalent efficiency gains.
  The American journal of managed care 2001 Reddy JC, Katz PP, Goldman L, Wachter RM
• Caregiver perceptions of the reasons for delayed hospital discharge.
  Effective clinical practice : ECP 2001 Minichiello TM, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM
• Who will pay for the value of hospitalists?
  The American journal of managed care 2001 Wachter RM
• Hospitalists' perceptions of their residency training needs: results of a national survey.
  The American journal of medicine 2001 Plauth WH, Pantilat SZ, Wachter RM, Fenton CL
• Does continuity of care matter? No: discontinuity can improve patient care.
  The Western journal of medicine 2001 Wachter RM
• The benefits of using hospitalists.
  Health Forum journal 2001 Wachter RM
• Hospitals and hospitalists can reach across the "quality chasm" by restructuring inpatient care.
  Cost & quality : CQ 2001 Wachter R
• Response to David Meltzer's paper "Hospitalists and the doctor-patient relationship".
  The Journal of legal studies 2001 Wachter RM
• Implications of the hospitalist model for medical students' education.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2001 Hauer KE, Wachter RM
• Assessing hospital quality: a review for clinicians.
  Effective clinical practice : ECP 2001 Shojania KG, Showstack J, Wachter RM
• Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices
  Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. 2001 Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, Wachter RM.
• Making health care safer: a critical analysis of patient safety practices.
  Evidence report/technology assessment (Summary) 2001 Shojania KG, Duncan BW, McDonald KM, Wachter RM, Markowitz AJ
• Physician attitudes toward and prevalence of the hospitalist model of care: results of a national survey.
  The American journal of medicine 2000 Auerbach AD, Nelson EA, Lindenauer PK, Pantilat SZ, Katz PP, Wachter RM
• Debunking myths about the hospitalist movement.
  The American journal of medicine 2000 Wachter RM
• Outcomes of intensive care for patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
  Archives of internal medicine 2000 Nickas G, Wachter RM
• The unintended consequences of measuring quality on the quality of medical care.
  The New England journal of medicine 2000 Wachter RM, Shojania KG
• Assessment of prognosis in patients with community-acquired pneumonia who require mechanical ventilation.
  Chest 2000 Pascual FE, Matthay MA, Bacchetti P, Wachter RM
• Unreliability of physician "report cards" to assess cost and quality of care.
  JAMA 2000 Shojania KG, Wachter RM
• Training future hospitalists.
  The Western journal of medicine 1999 Hauer KE, Flanders SA, Wachter RM
• Risk factors for early hospital readmission in patients with AIDS and pneumonia.
  Journal of general internal medicine 1999 Grant RW, Charlebois ED, Wachter RM
• A new doctor in the house: ethical issues in hospitalist systems.
  JAMA 1999 Pantilat SZ, Alpers A, Wachter RM
• Hospitalist staffing requirements.
  Effective clinical practice : ECP 1999 Lurie JD, Wachter RM
• The potential size of the hospitalist workforce in the United States.
  The American journal of medicine 1999 Lurie JD, Miller DP, Lindenauer PK, Wachter RM, Sox HC
• Financial implications of implementing a hospitalist program.
  Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 1999 Wachter RM, Whitcomb WF, Nelson JR
• An introduction to the hospitalist model.
  Annals of internal medicine 1999 Wachter RM
• Hospitalists and the practice of inpatient medicine: results of a survey of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians.
  Annals of internal medicine 1999 Lindenauer PK, Pantilat SZ, Katz PP, Wachter RM
• The hospitalist movement: ten issues to consider.
  Hospital practice (1995) 1999 Wachter RM
• Implications of the hospitalist movement for academic departments of medicine: lessons from the UCSF experience.
  The American journal of medicine 1999 Wachter RM, Goldman L
• The hospitalist movement and its implications for the care of hospitalized children.
  Pediatrics 1999 Bellet PS, Wachter RM
• The hospitalist movement and the future of academic general internal medicine.
  Journal of general internal medicine 1998 Wachter RM, Flanders S
• Effect of evaluator and resident gender on the American Board of Internal Medicine evaluation scores.
  Journal of general internal medicine 1998 Rand VE, Hudes ES, Browner WS, Wachter RM, Avins AL
• Reorganizing an academic medical service: impact on cost, quality, patient satisfaction, and education.
  JAMA 1998 Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Bindman AB, Goldman L
• A model hospitalist training program.
  The hospitalist 1998 Hauer KE, Wachter RM
• Intensive care for patients with AIDS: clinical and ethical issues.
  Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift 1995 Wachter RM
• Cost and outcome of intensive care for patients with AIDS, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and severe respiratory failure.
  JAMA 1995 Wachter RM, Luce JM, Safrin S, Berrios DC, Charlebois E, Scitovsky AA
• Rationing health care: preparing for a new era.
  Southern medical journal 1995 Wachter RM
• Respiratory failure from severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Entering the third era.
  Chest 1994 Wachter RM, Luce JM
• The ethical appropriateness of using prognostic scoring systems in clinical management.
  Critical care clinics 1994 Luce JM, Wachter RM
• Advance directives for patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
  Critical care clinics 1993 Wachter RM, Lo B
• Screening women of childbearing age for human immunodeficiency virus. A cost-benefit analysis.
  Archives of internal medicine 1992 Brandeau ML, Owens DK, Sox CH, Wachter RM
• AIDs, activism, and the politics of health.
  The New England journal of medicine 1992 Wachter RM
• Critical care of patients with AIDS.
  JAMA 1992 Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hopewell PC
• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and respiratory failure in AIDS. Improved outcomes and increased use of intensive care units.
  The American review of respiratory disease 1991 Wachter RM, Russi MB, Bloch DA, Hopewell PC, Luce JM
• The Fragile Coalition: Scientists, Activists and AIDS
  The Fragile Coalition: Scientists, Activists and AIDS. 1991 Wachter RM.
• Intensive care for patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and respiratory failure. Are we prepared for our new success?
  Chest 1989 Wachter RM, Luce JM
• Decisions about resuscitation: inequities among patients with different diseases but similar prognoses.
  Annals of internal medicine 1989 Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hearst N, Lo B
• Life-sustaining treatment for patients with AIDS.
  Chest 1989 Wachter RM, Luce JM, Lo B, Raffin TA
• An acute exacerbation of P. carinii pneumonia.
  Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1989 Epstein L, Libby E, Wachter RM
• Intensive care for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
  Intensive care medicine 1989 Luce JM, Wachter RM
• A hidden complication of heart disease.
  Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1988 Wachter RM, Tierney LM
• Intensive care of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: time for a reassessment?
  The American review of respiratory disease 1988 Luce JM, Wachter RM, Hopewell PC
• Attitudes of medical residents regarding intensive care for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
  Archives of internal medicine 1988 Wachter RM, Cooke M, Hopewell PC, Luce JM
• Ethical dilemmas about intensive care for patients with AIDS.
  Reviews of infectious diseases 1987 Lo B, Raffin TA, Cohen NH, Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hopewell PC
• Symptomatic hypotension induced by nifedipine in the acute treatment of severe hypertension.
  Archives of internal medicine 1987 Wachter RM
• Intensive care of patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Outcome and changing patterns of utilization.
  The American review of respiratory disease 1986 Wachter RM, Luce JM, Turner J, Volberding P, Hopewell PC
• Lethargy and confusion after total nephrectomy.
  Hospital practice (Office ed.) 1986 Wachter RM, Fields S
• The impact of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome on medical residency training.
  The New England journal of medicine 1986 Wachter RM
• Ripping and filing Journal articles.
  The New England journal of medicine 1984 Wachter RM