University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
Internal Medicine
Dr. Steven M. Handler, MD
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Steven Handler practices Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is ranked 76/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. Dr. Steven M. Handler is a published doctor. He published 60 publications, including: 'Morning hypercoagulability and hypofibrinolysis. Diurnal variations in circulating activated factor VII, prothrombin fragment F1+2, and plasmin-plasmin inhibitor complex.'
Publications
- Can decision support systems work for acute kidney injury?
- Automated Communication Tools and Computer-Based Medication Reconciliation to Decrease Hospital Discharge Medication Errors.
- Potentially Suboptimal Prescribing for Older Veteran Nursing Home Patients With Dementia.
- Assessing the impact of cognitive impairment on the usability of an electronic medication delivery unit in an assisted living population.
- Optimal and early detection of acute kidney injury requires effective clinical decision support systems.
- Hand hygiene deficiency citations in nursing homes.
- Hand Hygiene Practices Reported by Nurse Aides in Nursing Homes.
- Home care: more than just a visiting nurse.
- Counseling About Medication-Induced Birth Defects with Clinical Decision Support in Primary Care.
- Medication nonadherence: a diagnosable and treatable medical condition.
- Utility of an adverse drug event trigger tool in veterans affairs nursing facilities.
- Home-care nurses' perceptions of unmet information needs and communication difficulties of older patients in the immediate post-hospital discharge period.
- Use of HIT for Adverse Event Reporting in Nursing Homes: Barriers and Facilitators.
- Prevalence of Unplanned Hospitalizations Caused by Adverse Drug Reactions in Older Veterans.
- A Review of the Effectiveness of Antidepressant Medications for Depressed Nursing Home Residents.
- The effectiveness of integrated health information technologies across the phases of medication management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
- Potential Underuse, Overuse, and Inappropriate Use of Antidepressants in Older Veteran Nursing Home Residents.
- Beyond the Prescription: Medication Monitoring and Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults.
- Alcohol Misuse and Abuse in Assisted Living.
- Computerized detection of adverse drug reactions in the medical intensive care unit.
- Nursing home deficiency citations for infection control.
- Safety culture of nursing homes: opinions of top managers.
- Year in review: medication mishaps in the elderly.
- Assessing the Usability of a Telemedicine-based Medication Delivery Unit for Older Adults through Inspection Methods.
- Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Primarily Renally Cleared Medications for Older Veterans Affairs Nursing Home Patients.
- Increasing Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunization Rates in a Nursing Home Network.
- Program to Improve Prescribing of Primarily Renally Cleared Oral Medications in Older Veteran Community Living Center Patients.
- The quality of warfarin prescribing and monitoring in Veterans Affairs nursing homes.
- Adverse drug reactions in hospital and ambulatory care settings identified using a large administrative database.
- Antidepressant prescribing in US nursing homes between 1996 and 2006 and its relationship to staffing patterns and use of other psychotropic medications.
- Assessing resident safety culture in nursing homes: using the nursing home survey on resident safety.
- Interventions to improve suboptimal prescribing in nursing homes: A narrative review.
- Detecting Adverse Drug Events Using a Nursing Home Specific Trigger Tool.
- Medication misadventures in the elderly: a year in review.
- Assessing patient safety culture of internal medicine house staff in an academic teaching hospital.
- Assessing the quality of prescribing and monitoring erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in the nursing home setting.
- Racial differences in medication use among older, long-stay Veterans Affairs nursing home care unit patients.
- Results of a longitudinal analysis of national data to examine relationships between organizational and market characteristics and changes in antipsychotic prescribing...
- Provider management of and satisfaction with laboratory testing in the nursing home setting: results of a national internet-based survey.
- Consensus guidelines for oral dosing of primarily renally cleared medications in older adults.
- Certified nursing assistants' perceptions of nursing home patient safety culture: is there a relationship to clinical outcomes?
- Discontinuing medications: a novel approach for revising the prescribing stage of the medication-use process.
- Consensus list of signals to detect potential adverse drug reactions in nursing homes.
- Frequency of laboratory monitoring of chronic medications administered to nursing facility residents: results of a national Internet-based study.
- Patient Safety Culture: A Review of the Nursing Home Literature and Recommendations for Practice.
- Assessing the performance characteristics of signals used by a clinical event monitor to detect adverse drug reactions in the nursing home.
- Identifying modifiable barriers to medication error reporting in the nursing home setting.
- A systematic review of the performance characteristics of clinical event monitor signals used to detect adverse drug events in the hospital setting.
- Achieving and sustaining high rates of influenza immunization among long-term care staff.
- Epidemiology of medication-related adverse events in nursing homes.
- Pharmacist detection of peripheral arterial disease through the use of a handheld Doppler.
- Medication error reporting in long term care.
- Development and evaluation of a charge capture program for long-term care providers.
- A survey of nursing home physicians to determine laboratory monitoring adverse drug event alert preferences.
- Nursing home deficiency citations for safety.
- Evaluating the positive predictive values of antidote signals to detect potential adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the medical intensive care unit (ICU).
- Nursing home administrators' opinions of the resident safety culture in nursing homes.
- Patient safety culture assessment in the nursing home.
- Morning hypercoagulability and hypofibrinolysis. Diurnal variations in circulating activated factor VII, prothrombin fragment F1+2, and plasmin-plasmin inhibitor complex.
Schools
University of Medicine And Dentistry of New Jersey Newark
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health America PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
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