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Here are a few of my books:
Understanding Patient Safety (McGraw-Hill’s Lange Series, 2008): A lively, up-to-date primer on patient safety, full of case vignettes, tools, and other key resources.
Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (“Updated Version”, Rugged Land, 2005): A bestselling book that uses dramatic cases of medical errors to illustrate the key principles of patient safety. Written with Kaveh Shojania.
Hospital Medicine (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005): A medical textbook for those who care for hospitalized patients. Co-edited by Lee Goldman and Harry Hollander.
Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ Publication No. 01-EO58: The first review of the evidence behind safety practices, it catalyzed future evidence-based safety initiatives such as the National Quality Forum’s list of "Safe Practices.” Co-editors are Kaveh Shojania, Kathy McDonald, and Brad Duncan.
The Fragile Coalition: Science, Politics and AIDS (St. Martin’s Press, 1991): I was the program director of the 1990 International Conference on AIDS, and the book chronicles the conference – part-scientific confab, part-political convention, and part-circus – and what it taught me about the intersection of science and activism.
And my top 10 articles:
Wachter RM, Luce JM, Hearst N, Lo B. Decisions about resuscitation: Inequities among patients with different diseases but similar prognoses. Annals of Internal Medicine 1989; 111:525-32.
Wachter RM. AIDS, activism, and the politics of health. New England Journal of Medicine 1992; 326:128-33.
Wachter RM, Goldman L. The emerging role of “hospitalists” in the American health care system. New England Journal of Medicine 1996; 335:514-7.
Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Bindman AB, Goldman L. Reorganizing an academic medical service: Impact on cost, quality, patient satisfaction, and education. Journal of the American Medical Association 1998; 279:1560-5.
Wachter RM and Goldman L. The hospitalist movement 5 years later. Journal of the American Medical Association 2002; 282:487-94.
Wachter RM. Hospitalists in the United States: Mission accomplished or work-in-progress. New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 350:1935-6.
Wachter RM. The end of the beginning: Patient safety five years after ‘To Err is Human.’ Health Affairs, November 30, 2004 (web exclusive).
Wachter RM. The “dis-location” of US medicine: the implications of medical outsourcing. New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 354:662-3.
Wachter RM. Expected and unanticipated consequences of the quality and information technology revolutions. Journal of the American Medical Association 2006; 295:2780-3.
Pronovost PJ, Miller M, Wachter RM. Tracking progress in patient safety: an elusive target. Journal of the American Medical Association 2006; 296:696-9.
And my websites:
I’m privileged to serve as editor for the federal government’s two leading patient safety websites (together, they receive two million unique visits a year):
AHRQ WebM&M, a case-based journal featuring lively cases and commentaries on medical mistakes as well as perspective articles and interviews with newsmakers in the field.
AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet), a weekly chronicle of research, news, and tools in patient safety, along with the world’s most robust and searchable patient safety library.
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