General Medicine, VA Pittsburgh
Internal Medicine
Dr. Chester B. Good, MD
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Chester Good practices Internal Medicine. He graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine. George Washington University School of Medicine is ranked 67/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. Dr. Chester B. Good is a published MD. He has 65 papers published. The most current publication "Variation in Formulary Management Practices Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System."
Publications
- Finding the Balance of Less Is More.
- Off-Label Drug Use and Adverse Drug Events: Turning up the Heat on Off-Label Prescribing.
- Tight glycemic control and use of hypoglycemic medications in older veterans with type 2 diabetes and comorbid dementia.
- Dual Use of Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare Benefits and Use of Test Strips in Veterans With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
- Association of azithromycin with mortality and cardiovascular events among older patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
- An ethical framework for pharmacy management: balancing autonomy and other principles.
- Academic medical center leadership on pharmaceutical company boards of directors.
- Decrease the incentives to order lipid panels.
- Medication-use evaluation with a Web application.
- Topical anesthetic-induced methemoglobinemia and veterans affairs hospitals.
- Incremental Cost Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Managed Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent Clinics for Non-Dialysis-Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease Patients.
- The Quality of Quality Measures: HEDIS(®) Quality Measures for Medication Management in the Elderly and Outcomes Associated with New Exposure.
- Adherence to hormonal contraception among women veterans: differences by race/ethnicity and contraceptive supply.
- Population-Based Study of Statins, ARBs, and ACE inhibitors on Pneumonia-Related Outcomes.
- Facility-level variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing for older veterans.
- Glycemic control was unchanged in veterans health administration patients converted from glyburide to glipizide.
- Trends in Use of High-Risk Medications for Older Veterans: 2004 to 2006.
- Bending the cost curve in cancer care.
- Potential Safety Gaps in Order Entry and Automated Drug Alerts: A Nationwide Survey of VA Physician Self-Reported Practices With Computerized Order Entry.
- Intervention to decrease glyburide use in elderly patients with renal insufficiency.
- Incremental cost-effectiveness of various monthly doses of vardenafil.
- Variation in prescription use and spending for lipid-lowering and diabetes medications in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
- Provision of potentially teratogenic medications to female veterans of childbearing age.
- VA pharmacy users: how they differ from other veterans.
- Severe dysglycemia with the fluoroquinolones: a class effect?
- Clinical significance of borderline elevated troponin I levels across different assays in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome.
- Antibiotic prescribing for presumed nonbacterial acute respiratory tract infections.
- Appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing in veterans with community-acquired pneumonia, sinusitis, or acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: a cross-sectional study.
- Prescription drug samples: making decisions with imperfect data.
- Evaluation of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with a drug formulary change in preferred fluoroquinolones.
- Determinants of hormone therapy discontinuation among female veterans nationally.
- Access to affordable medications: the Department of Veterans Affairs pharmacy plan as a national model.
- Understanding of the benefits of coronary revascularization procedures among patients who are offered such procedures.
- Symptom expression in coronary heart disease and revascularization recommendations for black and white patients.
- Effect of hyponatremia (<135 mEq/L) on outcome in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome.
- Comparison of frequency of new-onset atrial fibrillation or flutter in patients on statins versus not on statins presenting with suspected acute coronary syndrome.
- Varicella-zoster vaccine.
- Impact of blood transfusions in patients presenting with anemia and suspected acute coronary syndrome.
- Determinants of complementary and alternative medicine use by patients with bipolar disorder.
- Noncardiac surgery and the risk of death and other cardiovascular events in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Prevention of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with tiotropium.
- Racial differences in the treatment of veterans with bipolar disorder.
- Bleeding Risk Index in an anticoagulation clinic. Assessment by indication and implications for care.
- Target blood pressure and kidney disease.
- Spiraling drug costs: a call for cost-effective prescribing.
- Perioperative risk of noncardiac surgery associated with aortic stenosis.
- The evolving use of cost-effectiveness analysis in formulary management within the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Effect of both elevated troponin-I and peripheral white blood cell count on prognosis in patients with suspected myocardial injury.
- How does depression influence diabetes medication adherence in older patients?
- Pharmacy benefits management in the Veterans Health Administration: 1995 to 2003.
- Algorithm for assessing patients' adherence to oral hypoglycemic medication.
- Incidence and severity of potential drug-dietary supplement interactions in primary care patients: an exploratory study of 2 outpatient practices.
- Physician satisfaction with formulary policies: is it access to formulary or nonformulary drugs that matters most?
- Retrospective drug utilization review: incidence of clinically relevant potential drug-drug interactions in a large ambulatory population.
- Equal effectiveness of older traditional antibiotics and newer broad-spectrum antibiotics in treating patients with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis.
- Lansoprazole overutilization: methods for step-down therapy.
- Racial differences in adherence to cardiac medications.
- Improving adverse-drug-reaction reporting in ambulatory care clinics at a Veterans Affairs hospital.
- Delay in presentation for cardiac care by race, age, and site of care.
- The association of cardioprotective medications with pneumonia-related outcomes.
- Assessing the chiral switch: approval and use of single-enantiomer drugs, 2001 to 2011.
- Association of skeletal muscle relaxers and antihistamines on mortality, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits in elderly patients: a nationwide retrospect...
- Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer: relative dose intensity and survival among veterans.
- Variation in Formulary Management Practices Within the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Schools
George Washington University School of Medicine And Health Sciences
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
George Washington University School of Medicine
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