Professor of Medicine, UCLA

Internal Medicine

Neil Wenger practices Internal Medicine. He studied medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is a top medical college. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is ranked 13 in research and 7 in primary care medicine He has 4 awards "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Top Doctors:LA Area", "Top Doctors:Southern California" and "Town & Country Magazine: Top Doctors". Neil S. Wenger, MD is a published physician as well. He has 99 publications published. The latest was: Effect of Physician Delegation to Other Healthcare Providers on the Quality of Care for Geriatric Conditions. He is registered with Medicare.

Publications

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• Effect of Physician Delegation to Other Healthcare Providers on the Quality of Care for Geriatric Conditions.
• Challenges in assessing the process-outcome link in practice.
• Unmet needs of caregivers of individuals referred to a dementia care program.
• Do physicians communicate the adverse effects of medications that older patients want to hear?
• Effect of a falls quality improvement program on serious fall-related injuries.
• Differences Between Attendings' and Fellows' Perceptions of Futile Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit at One Academic Health Center: Implications for Training.
• Contrasting effects of geriatric versus general medical multimorbidity on quality of ambulatory care.
• Abbreviated Care-Process Quality Indicator Sets Linked with Survival and Functional Status Benefit in Older Adults Under Ambulatory Care.
• Provider and Patient Expectations for Dietary Supplement Discussions.
• The Opportunity Cost of Futile Treatment in the ICU.
• The university of california at los angeles Alzheimer's and dementia care program for comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered care: preliminary data.
• Development of quality indicators for women with urinary incontinence.
• Palliative Care and End Stage Liver Disease.
• Factors Associated with Palliative Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation and Time to Death after Withdrawal.
• The Frequency and Cost of Treatment Perceived to Be Futile in Critical Care.
• Implementing physician orders for life-sustaining treatment in california hospitals: factors associated with adoption.
• Cervical cancer screening overuse and underuse: patient and physician factors.
• Quality-of-care indicators for pelvic organ prolapse: development of an infrastructure for quality assessment.
• When Comorbidity, Aging, and Complexity of Primary Care Meet: Development and Validation of the Geriatric CompleXity of Care Index.
• Physician-patient communication about dietary supplements.
• Implementation of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in nursing homes in California: evaluation of a novel statewide dissemination mechanism.
• Intervention to enhance communication about newly prescribed medications.
• Can structured data fields accurately measure quality of care? The example of falls.
• Impact of Consideration of Transplantation on End-of-Life Care for Patients During a Terminal Hospitalization.
• Nurse care manager contribution to quality of care in a dual-eligible special needs plan.
• The quality of supportive care among inpatients dying with advanced cancer.
• Determinants of Death in the Hospital Among Older Adults.
• Quality of care provided in a special needs plan using a nurse care manager model.
• Does Better Quality of Care for Falls and Urinary Incontinence Result in Better Participant-Reported Outcomes?
• Association of Claims-based Quality of Care Measures With Outcomes Among Community-dwelling Vulnerable Elders.
• Missed Opportunities: Use of an End-of-Life Symptom Management Order Protocol among Inpatients Dying Expected Deaths.
• Determinants of medical expenditures in the last 6 months of life.
• Is patient-perceived severity of a geriatric condition related to better quality of care?
• Practice redesign to improve care for falls and urinary incontinence: primary care intervention for older patients.
• Determinants of treatment intensity for patients with serious illness: a new conceptual framework.
• Documentation of advance care planning for community-dwelling elders.
• An intervention to improve respiratory therapists' comfort with end-of-life care.
• The quality of care provided to hospitalized patients at the end of life.
• Opiniones: end-of-life care preferences and planning of older Latinos.
• Assessing care of vulnerable elders--Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study of a practice redesign intervention to improve the quality of dementia care.
• Ethical issues in patient-physician communication about therapy for cancer: professional responsibilities of the oncologist.
• Nurse practitioner comanagement for patients in an academic geriatric practice.
• How do physicians conduct medication reviews?
• The vulnerable elders-13 survey predicts 5-year functional decline and mortality outcomes in older ambulatory care patients.
• Measuring the quality of care provided to dually enrolled Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries living in nursing homes.
• A practice-based intervention to improve primary care for falls, urinary incontinence, and dementia.
• Which providers should communicate which critical information about a new medication? Patient, pharmacist, and physician perspectives.
• An interview with Neil Wenger. Interview by Todd Semla.
• A short functional survey is responsive to changes in functional status in vulnerable older people.
• Role of religiosity and spirituality in complementary and alternative medicine use among cancer survivors in California.
• Evidence-based recommendations for information and care planning in cancer care.
• Assessment of implementation of an order protocol for end-of-life symptom management.
• Internal medicine work hours: trends, associations, and implications for the future.
• Comorbidity and quality of care: clarification from author: response to Min et al, June 2007 Medical Care.
• Quality indicators for the care of depression in vulnerable elders.
• Quality indicators for continuity and coordination of care in vulnerable elders.
• Measuring the quality of care provided to community dwelling vulnerable elders dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
• Relationship between number of medical conditions and quality of care.
• Multimorbidity is associated with better quality of care among vulnerable elders.
• The many faces of error disclosure: a common set of elements and a definition.
• The effect of a quality improvement initiative on the quality of other aspects of health care: the law of unintended consequences?
• Complementary and alternative medicine use among Asian-American subgroups: prevalence, predictors, and lack of relationship to acculturation and access to conventional...
• A practical method to calibrate self-reported adherence to antiretroviral therapy.
• Physician communication about the cost and acquisition of newly prescribed medications.
• A comprehensive evaluation of survey questions for adherence to antiretroviral medications and exploratory analyses for identifying optimal sets of survey questions.
• Physician communication when prescribing new medications.
• Unrestricted opiate administration for pain and suffering at the end of life: knowledge and attitudes as barriers to care.
• Patients' global ratings of their health care are not associated with the technical quality of their care.
• Quality of osteoarthritis care for community-dwelling older adults.
• Variation in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use across racial/ethnic groups and the development of ethnic-specific measures of CAM use.
• Higher vulnerable elders survey scores predict death and functional decline in vulnerable older people.
• Repeated measures longitudinal analyses of HIV virologic response as a function of percent adherence, dose timing, genotypic sensitivity, and other factors.
• Comparison of administrative data and medical records to measure the quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older patients.
• Predictors of overall quality of care provided to vulnerable older people.
• A Self-Report Measure of Clinicians' Orientation toward Integrative Medicine.
• Quality of care is associated with survival in vulnerable older patients.
• Regional and institutional variation in the initiation of early do-not-resuscitate orders.
• Trust in one's physician: the role of ethnic match, autonomy, acculturation, and religiosity among Japanese and Japanese Americans.
• Physicians' religiosity and end-of-life care attitudes and behaviors.
• Detection and management of falls and instability in vulnerable elders by community physicians.
• Interdisciplinary education: evaluation of a palliative care training intervention for pre-professionals.
• The quality of pharmacologic care for vulnerable older patients.
• The quality of care provided to vulnerable older community-based patients with urinary incontinence.
• The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older patients with chronic pain.
• No evidence of an association between transient HIV viremia ("Blips") and lower adherence to the antiretroviral medication regimen.
• Preventing and managing visual disability in primary care: clinical applications.
• Restructuring primary care practices to manage geriatric syndromes: the ACOVE-2 intervention.
• The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable community-dwelling older patients.
• Quality of care for older persons at the dawn of the third millennium.
• Appropriateness of quality indicators for older patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis.
• Differences in symptom expression in older HIV-positive patients: The Veterans Aging Cohort 3 Site Study and HIV Cost and Service Utilization Study experience.
• Physician specialization and antiretroviral therapy for HIV.
• Knowledge of antiretroviral regimen dosing and adherence: a longitudinal study.
• Didactic teaching conferences for IM residents: who attends, and is attendance related to medical certifying examination scores?
• A prospective study of predictors of adherence to combination antiretroviral medication.
• Impact of antiretroviral regimen switches on adherence.
• Measuring patient adherence.
• Specialty training and specialization among physicians who treat HIV/AIDS in the United States.

Schools

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• University of California At Los Angeles

• UCLA Hospital

• Rw Johnson Clin Scholars Pr

Doctors Specialties

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• Geriatric Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
• Top Doctors:LA Area
• Top Doctors:Southern California
• Town & Country Magazine: Top Doctors

Education

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• UCLA Medical Center
• David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Hospital

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• Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
• Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1720009301
NPPES Provider LastName		WENGER
NPPES Provider FirstName		NEIL
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		900953075
NPPES Provider State		CA
Specialty Description		Geriatric Medicine
Total Claim Count		2708.0
Distinct Opioid Count		2.0
Opioid Claim Count		123.0
Percent Opioid Claims		4.54

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1720009301
Last Name Of The Provider	WENGER
First Name Of The Provider	NEIL
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