Lecturer on Population Medicine, DACP Other
Internal Medicine
Dr. Jerry H. Gurwitz, MD
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Jerry Gurwitz works in the field of Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School. University of Massachusetts Medical School has a rank of 49 in research and a 12 in primary care He over the years received 3 awards: "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program", "Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Jerry H. Gurwitz, MD has written publications. He has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Comparative Effectiveness of Statin Therapy in Chronic Kidney Disease and Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study.' He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Comparative Effectiveness of Statin Therapy in Chronic Kidney Disease and Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
- Use of atypical antipsychotics in nursing homes and pharmaceutical marketing.
- Rationales that Providers and Family Members Cited for the Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia.
- Association of Early Post-Discharge Follow-Up by a Primary Care Physician and 30-Day Rehospitalization Among Older Adults.
- The Complex Relationship of Race to Outcomes in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
- Cognitive status in patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure.
- Persistent medication affordability problems among disabled medicare beneficiaries after part d, 2006-2011.
- Factors Associated with Ordering Laboratory Monitoring of High-Risk Medications.
- Hospital-Level Variation in Use of Cardiovascular Testing for Adults With Incident Heart Failure: Findings from the Cardiovascular Research Network Heart Failure Study.
- An electronic health record-based intervention to increase follow-up office visits and decrease rehospitalization in older adults.
- Systematic Review of the Use of Online Questionnaires of Older Adults.
- Venous Thromboembolism in Older Adults: A Community-based Study.
- Individual and Composite Study Endpoints: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff.
- Response to the letter by Mol.
- RE: Drug risk assessment and data reuse.
- Antipsychotic Use in Nursing Homes Varies by Psychiatric Consultant.
- Guideline Concordance of Testing for Hyperkalemia and Kidney Dysfunction During Initiation of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Therapy in Patients with Heart Fail...
- Adverse Drug Events After Hospital Discharge in Older Adults: Types, Severity, and Involvement of Beers Criteria Medications.
- A critical review of methods to evaluate the impact of FDA regulatory actions.
- Knowledge of and Perceived Need for Evidence-Based Education About Antipsychotic Medications Among Nursing Home Leadership and Staff.
- Re-using Mini-Sentinel data following rapid assessments of potential safety signals via modular analytic programs.
- Risk Factors for Adverse Outcomes by Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in a Contemporary Heart Failure Population.
- Patient completion of laboratory tests to monitor medication therapy: a mixed-methods study.
- Atrial fibrillation and outcomes in heart failure with preserved versus reduced left ventricular ejection fraction.
- Contemporary Prevalence and Correlates of Incident Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
- Cost-related Medication Nonadherence in Older Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- Antipsychotic use among nursing home residents.
- Comparison of Medication Practices in Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Versus Those With Reduced Ejection Fraction (from the Cardiovascular Research Network [...
- Patterns of comorbidity in older adults with heart failure: the Cardiovascular Research Network PRESERVE study.
- Increase in the proportion of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction with do-not-resuscitate orders already in place between 2001 and 2007: a nonconcur...
- Dementia and risk of adverse warfarin-related events in the nursing home setting.
- An Exploration of Safety Climate in Nursing Homes.
- Validation of acute myocardial infarction in the Food and Drug Administration's Mini-Sentinel program.
- Time Trends in Medication Use and Expenditures in Older Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- Antipsychotic medication use among children and risk of diabetes mellitus.
- Immediate financial impact of computerized clinical decision support for long-term care residents with renal insufficiency: a case study.
- Predicting Nursing Home Adherence to a Clinical Trial Intervention: Lessons for the Conduct of Cluster Randomized Trials.
- Baseline and Follow-up Laboratory Monitoring of Cardiovascular Medications.
- Quality measurement of medication monitoring in the "meaningful use" era.
- Beyond the Prescription: Medication Monitoring and Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults.
- Pharmacogenomics: Is This the Final Chapter in the Remarkable Story of Warfarin?
- Medicare Part D and Changes in Prescription Drug Use and Cost Burden: National Estimates for the Medicare Population, 2000 to 2007.
- Age-based exclusions from cardiovascular clinical trials: implications for elderly individuals (and for all of us): comment on "the persistent exclusion of older ...
- Exclusion of older adults and women from recent trials of acute coronary syndromes.
- Randomized trial of a warfarin communication protocol for nursing homes: an SBAR-based approach.
- Declining length of stay for patients hospitalized with AMI: impact on mortality and readmissions.
- Development and pilot testing of guidelines to monitor high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting.
- Out-of-pocket burden of health care spending and the adequacy of the Medicare Part D low-income subsidy.
- Effect of clinical decision support on psychotropic medication prescribing in the long-term care setting.
- Medicare part D's exclusion of benzodiazepines and fracture risk in nursing homes.
- Unexplained variation across US nursing homes in antipsychotic prescribing rates.
- Nursing home residents and enrollment in Medicare Part D.
- Nurse-physician communication in the long-term care setting: perceived barriers and impact on patient safety.
- Prescribers and pharmaceutical representatives: why are we still meeting?
- Computerized clinical decision support during medication ordering for long-term care residents with renal insufficiency.
- Medication errors among adults and children with cancer in the outpatient setting.
- Nursing time devoted to medication administration in long-term care: clinical, safety, and resource implications.
- Pay-for-performance in nursing homes.
- Trends in prehospital delay in patients with acute myocardial infarction (from the Worcester Heart Attack Study).
- Comparative effectiveness of different beta-adrenergic antagonists on mortality among adults with heart failure in clinical practice.
- Effect of computerized provider order entry with clinical decision support on adverse drug events in the long-term care setting.
- The Cardiovascular Research Network: a new paradigm for cardiovascular quality and outcomes research.
- Twenty-year trends in the incidence of stroke complicating acute myocardial infarction: Worcester Heart Attack Study.
- Can pay-for-performance take nursing home care to the next level?
- Identification of patients with arthritis and arthritis-related functional limitation using administrative data.
- Medicare beneficiaries and free prescription drug samples: a national survey.
- Antipsychotic therapy and short-term serious events in older adults with dementia.
- Cost-related medication nonadherence and spending on basic needs following implementation of Medicare Part D.
- The effect of computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support on the rates of adverse drug events: a systematic review.
- Cluster randomized trials: opportunities and barriers identified by leaders of eight health plans.
- Computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support in long-term care facilities: costs and benefits to stakeholders.
- Comparative effectiveness of beta-adrenergic antagonists (atenolol, metoprolol tartrate, carvedilol) on the risk of rehospitalization in adults with heart failure.
- Antipsychotic drug use and mortality in older adults with dementia.
- Patients at-risk for cost-related medication nonadherence: a review of the literature.
- The safety of warfarin therapy in the nursing home setting.
- Variation in nursing home antipsychotic prescribing rates.
- Racial differences in tumor stage and survival for colorectal cancer in an insured population.
- Adverse drug events resulting from patient errors in older adults.
- Effect of New York State regulatory action on benzodiazepine prescribing and hip fracture rates.
- An interview with Jerry Gurwitz. Interview by David Bates.
- Statin therapy and risks for death and hospitalization in chronic heart failure.
- Polypharmacy with oral antidiabetic agents: an indicator of poor glycemic control.
- Disclosure of medical errors: what factors influence how patients respond?
- Prescribers' responses to alerts during medication ordering in the long term care setting.
- Patterns and predictors of mammography utilization among breast cancer survivors.
- Serious adverse drug effects--seeing the trees through the forest.
- Identifying unrecognized peripheral arterial disease among asymptomatic patients in the primary care setting.
- Baseline laboratory monitoring of cardiovascular medications in elderly health maintenance organization enrollees.
- The costs associated with adverse drug events among older adults in the ambulatory setting.
- Physicians' assessments of adjuvant tamoxifen's effectiveness in older patients with primary breast cancer.
- Computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support in the long-term care setting: insights from the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.
- Atypical antipsychotics and parkinsonism.
- The incidence of adverse drug events in two large academic long-term care facilities.
- Potentially inappropriate medication use by elderly persons in U.S. Health Maintenance Organizations, 2000-2001.
- The age/gender interface in geriatric pharmacotherapy.
- Health plan members' views on forgiving medical errors.
- Incidence of hospitalized rhabdomyolysis in patients treated with lipid-lowering drugs.
- Strategies for detecting adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting.
- Polypharmacy: a new paradigm for quality drug therapy in the elderly?
- Exclusion of elderly women from published randomized trials of stress incontinence surgery.
Schools
University Of Massachusetts Medical School
University Mass Hospital
Harvard Med School
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
- Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
University of Massachusetts -
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Hospital
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UMass Memorial Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1609821032 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | GURWITZ | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | JERRY | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 015013203 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Internal Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 1682.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 14.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.83 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1609821032 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | GURWITZ |
| First Name Of The Provider | JERRY |
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