Professor, Family and Community Medicine, Northeastern Ohio Medical Univ
Family Medicine
Dr. William D. Smucker, MD
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William Smucker works in the field of Family Medicine. He researched medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He over the years received 3 awards: "Regional Top Doctor", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program". William D. Smucker is a published MD as well. He has 43 publications published. The latest was: Parental disclosure of child psychosocial concerns: relationship to physician identification and management. He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Actual and perceived gender differences in the accuracy of surrogate decisions about life-sustaining medical treatment among older spouses.
- Answering questions at the point of care: do residents practice EBM or manage information sources?
- Context changes choices: a prospective study of the effects of hospitalization on life-sustaining treatment preferences.
- Micromanaging death: process preferences, values, and goals in end-of-life medical decision making.
- Longitudinal relationship between elapsed time in the action stages of change and weight loss.
- Stability of older adults' preferences for life-sustaining medical treatment.
- Predicting elderly outpatients' life-sustaining treatment preferences over time: the majority rules.
- Obesity management in primary care: assessment of readiness to change among 284 family practice patients.
- Spontaneous pregnancy loss: evaluation, management, and follow-up counseling.
- Brief report: parent report about health care use: relationship to child's and parent's psychosocial problems.
- Relationships among parental reports of child, parent, and family functioning.
- Physicians' attention to parents' concerns about the psychosocial functioning of their children.
- Parental disclosure of child psychosocial concerns: relationship to physician identification and management.
- Presentation and management of childhood psychosocial problems.
- Fates worse than death: the role of valued life activities in health-state evaluations.
- Maximizing function in Alzheimer's disease: what role for tacrine?
- Physicians' predictions of elderly outpatients' preferences for life-sustaining treatment.
- Elderly outpatients respond favorably to a physician-initiated advance directive discussion.
- Case finding for cognitive impairment in elderly emergency department patients.
- Elderly outpatients' understanding of a physician-initiated advance directive discussion.
- Relationship between the family APGAR and behavioral problems in children.
- Systematic approach to diagnosis and initial management of stroke.
- Identification of obesity: waistlines or weight? Nutrition, Exercise, and Obesity Research Group.
- Adverse drug reactions causing hospital admission in an elderly population: experience with a decision algorithm.
- Evaluation and treatment of ADHD.
- Projection in surrogate decisions about life-sustaining medical treatments.
- Obesity management in primary care: changing the status quo.
- Actual and perceived stability of preferences for life-sustaining treatment.
- Accuracy of primary care and hospital-based physicians' predictions of elderly outpatients' treatment preferences with and without advance directives.
- Advance directives as acts of communication: a randomized controlled trial.
- Modal preferences predict elderly patients' life-sustaining treatment choices as well as patients' chosen surrogates do.
- Elderly adults' preferences for life-sustaining treatments: the role of impairment, prognosis, and pain.
- Use of child reports of daily functioning to facilitate identification of psychosocial problems in children.
- Shoot, ready, aim: pneumonia care quality and costs in a community hospital.
- Biopsychosocial characteristics of overweight and obese primary care patients: do psychosocial and behavior factors mediate sociodemographic effects?
- Assessing dietary and exercise stage of change to optimize weight loss interventions.
- Older adults' attitudes toward death: links to perceptions of health and concerns about end-of-life issues.
- Transtheoretical model-chronic disease care for obesity in primary care: a randomized trial.
- An opt-out influenza vaccination policy improves immunization rates in primary care.
- The stability of older adults' judgments of fates better and worse than death.
- Gender differences in older adults' preferences for life-sustaining medical treatments and end-of-life values.
- Perceived benefits and burdens of life-sustaining treatments: differences among elderly adults, physicians, and young adults.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Akron City Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
Education
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Summa Akron City Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1104882018 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SMUCKER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | WILLIAM | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 443041429 | |
| NPPES Provider State | OH | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 10374.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 5.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 922.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 8.89 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1104882018 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SMUCKER |
| First Name Of The Provider | WILLIAM |
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