Professor, Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Richard Saitz, MD
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Richard Saitz works in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University School of Medicine is ranked 30/52 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 2 awards: "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program" and "Fellow (FASAM)". Richard Saitz is a published doctor and has 100 publications published. The lastest was: 'Improving reporting and utility of evaluations of complex interventions.' Richard Saitz accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Improving reporting and utility of evaluations of complex interventions.
- Commentary on Gelberg et al. 2015: Alcohol and other drug screening and brief intervention - evidence in crisis.
- Costs of screening and brief intervention for illicit drug use in primary care settings.
- A brief patient self-administered substance use screening tool for primary care: two-site validation study of the Substance Use Brief Screen (SUBS).
- Adolescent substance use screening in primary care: validity of computer self-administered vs. clinician-administered screening.
- Peer review of human studies run amok: a break in the fiduciary relation between scientists and the public.
- Chronic care management for substance dependence in primary care among patients with co-occurring disorders.
- The Prescription of Addiction Medications After Implementation of Chronic Care Management for Substance Dependence in Primary Care.
- Medications for alcohol use disorders.
- Web-based screening and brief intervention for student marijuana use in a university health center: Pilot study to examine the implementation of eCHECKUP TO GO in diff...
- How Accurate Are Blood (or Breath) Tests for Identifying Self-Reported Heavy Drinking Among People with Alcohol Dependence?
- Lost in translation: The perils of implementing alcohol brief intervention when there are gaps in evidence and its interpretation.
- Use of a single alcohol screening question to identify other drug use.
- Marijuana use and achievement of abstinence from alcohol and other drugs among people with substance dependence: A prospective cohort study.
- Personalized Feedback as a Universal Prevention Approach for College Drinking: A Randomized Trial of an e-Mail Linked Universal Web-Based Alcohol Intervention.
- Does experiencing homelessness affect women's motivation to change alcohol or drug use?
- The ability of single screening questions for unhealthy alcohol and other drug use to identify substance dependence in primary care.
- Association of Recent Incarceration With Traumatic Injury, Substance Use-Related Health Consequences, and Health Care Utilization.
- Marijuana Use and Health in Primary Care.
- Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection is Associated with All-Cause and Liver-Related Mortality in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Patients with Alcohol Problems.
- Confounding and studies of 'moderate' alcohol consumption: the case of drinking frequency and implications for low-risk drinking guidelines.
- Immoderately confounding: the effects of low-dose alcohol.
- No Detectable Association Between Frequency of Marijuana Use and Health or Healthcare Utilization Among Primary Care Patients Who Screen Positive for Drug Use.
- Chronic care management for dependence on alcohol and other drugs: the AHEAD randomized trial.
- Impact of Lifetime Alcohol Use on Liver Fibrosis in a Population of HIV-Infected Patients With and Without Hepatitis C Coinfection.
- 'We do not see the lens through which we look': screening mammography evidence and non-financial conflicts of interest.
- Accentuating the positive.
- Drinking Patterns of Older Adults with Chronic Medical Conditions.
- Risky Alcohol Use and Serum Aminotransferase Levels in HIV-Infected Adults With and Without Hepatitis C.
- Comparing Alcohol Screening Measures Among HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Men.
- Disparities in safe sex counseling & behavior among individuals with substance dependence: a cross-sectional study.
- Aberrant Drug-Related Behaviors: Unsystematic Documentation Does Not Identify Prescription Drug Use Disorder.
- Attitudinal Barriers to Analgesic Use among Patients with Substance Use Disorders.
- The Short Inventory of Problems-Modified for Drug Use (SIP-DU): Validity in a Primary Care Sample.
- Brief intervention for medical inpatients with unhealthy alcohol use: a randomized, controlled trial.
- Review: universal screening in general practice can identify excessive drinkers suitable for brief interventions.
- Addressing alcohol problems in primary care: a cluster randomized, controlled trial of a systems intervention. The screening and intervention in primary care (SIP) study.
- Candidate performance measures for screening for, assessing, and treating unhealthy substance use in hospitals: advocacy or evidence-based practice?
- Alcohol screening and brief intervention in primary care: Absence of evidence for efficacy in people with dependence or very heavy drinking.
- Do attitudes about unhealthy alcohol and other drug (AOD) use impact primary care professionals'' readiness to implement AOD-related preventive care?
- Clinical Case Discussion: Screening and Brief Intervention for Drug Use in Primary Care.
- Initiation and engagement in chronic disease management care for substance dependence.
- Identifying prescription opioid use disorder in primary care: diagnostic characteristics of the Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM).
- Worldwide evidence-based medicine activities.
- Using personalized feedback to reduce alcohol use among hazardous drinking college students: the moderating effect of alcohol-related negative consequences.
- Oral health of substance-dependent individuals: impact of specific substances.
- Substance abuse treatment utilization among adults living with HIV/AIDS and alcohol or drug problems.
- Operating characteristics of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) for identifying unhealthy alcohol use in adults with HIV infection.
- Young adults at risk for excess alcohol consumption are often not asked or counseled about drinking alcohol.
- Chronic disease and recent addiction treatment utilization among alcohol and drug dependent adults.
- Is unhealthy substance use associated with failure to receive cancer screening and flu vaccination? A retrospective cross-sectional study.
- A single-question screening test for drug use in primary care.
- Adolescent alcohol use and violence: are brief interventions the answer?
- Factors associated with attendance in 12-step groups (Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous) among adults with alcohol problems living with HIV/AIDS.
- The mixed evidence for brief intervention in emergency departments, trauma care centers, and inpatient hospital settings: what should we do?
- Older adults' inpatient and emergency department utilization for ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions: relationship with alcohol consumption.
- Screening and Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Drug Use in Primary Care Settings: Randomized Clinical Trials Are Needed.
- Linking alcohol- and drug-dependent adults to primary medical care: a randomized controlled trial of a multi-disciplinary health intervention in a detoxification unit.
- Alcohol and medication interactions in primary care patients: common and unrecognized.
- Slowing the revolving door: stabilization programs reduce homeless persons' substance use after detoxification.
- Burden of medical illness in drug- and alcohol-dependent persons without primary care.
- Alcohol use disorders: screening and diagnosis.
- Establishment of a multidisciplinary Health Evaluation and Linkage to Primary care (HELP) clinic in a detoxification unit.
- Linkage with primary medical care in a prospective cohort of adults with addictions in inpatient detoxification: room for improvement.
- Web-based screening and brief intervention for the spectrum of alcohol problems.
- Suicidal behavior, drug use and depressive symptoms after detoxification: a 2-year prospective study.
- Primary medical care and reductions in addiction severity: a prospective cohort study.
- Clinical practice. Unhealthy alcohol use.
- Introduction to alcohol withdrawal.
- Addressing smoking cessation in methadone programs.
- Impact of U.S. citizenship status on cancer screening among immigrant women.
- Health utility ratings for a spectrum of alcohol-related health states.
- Homeless chronicity and health-related quality of life trajectories among adults with addictions.
- Relationship of depressive symptoms and mental health functioning to repeat detoxification.
- The use of the mini-mental state examination in recruitment for substance abuse research studies.
- Challenges applying alcohol brief intervention in diverse practice settings: populations, outcomes, and costs.
- Need and non-need factors associated with addiction treatment utilization in a cohort of homeless and housed urban poor.
- The severity of unhealthy alcohol use in hospitalized medical patients. The spectrum is narrow.
- Readiness to change in primary care patients who screened positive for alcohol misuse.
- Hepatitis C infection is associated with depressive symptoms in HIV-infected adults with alcohol problems.
- Emergency department and hospital utilization among alcohol and drug-dependent detoxification patients without primary medical care.
- Impact of health literacy on depressive symptoms and mental health-related: quality of life among adults with addiction.
- Barriers to treatment of hepatitis C in HIV/HCV-coinfected adults with alcohol problems.
- Substance abuse treatment and receipt of liver specialty care among persons coinfected with HIV/HCV who have alcohol problems.
- Screening and brief intervention online for college students: the ihealth study.
- Teaching internal medicine resident physicians about Alcoholics Anonymous: a pilot study of an educational intervention.
- The association between hepatitis C infection and prevalent cardiovascular disease among HIV-infected individuals.
- Risk of mortality during four years after substance detoxification in urban adults.
- Overdose after detoxification: a prospective study.
- Do brief measures of readiness to change predict alcohol consumption and consequences in primary care patients with unhealthy alcohol use?
- A cautionary note regarding count models of alcohol consumption in randomized controlled trials.
- Primary care quality and addiction severity: a prospective cohort study.
- Associations between alcohol, heroin, and cocaine use and high risk sexual behaviors among detoxification patients.
- Impact of hepatitis C on HIV progression in adults with alcohol problems.
- Mortality after release from prison.
- PTSD in urban primary care: high prevalence and low physician recognition.
- Awareness of hepatitis C diagnosis is associated with less alcohol use among persons co-infected with HIV.
- Persistent pain is associated with substance use after detoxification: a prospective cohort analysis.
- Baclofen for alcohol withdrawal: not comparable to the gold standard (benzodiazepines).
Schools
Boston University School Of Medicine
Boston City Hospital
Deaconess Hospital Harvard Med School
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Cigna HMO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- Neighborhood Health Plan
- Tufts Health Plans
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
- Fellow (FASAM)
Education
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Boston University Medical Center -
Boston University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1619984010 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SAITZ | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | RICHARD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021182526 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Internal Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 1519.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 19.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 1.25 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1619984010 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SAITZ |
| First Name Of The Provider | RICHARD |
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