Associate Professor, Medicine, Tufts Medical Center

Internal Medicine

Peter Lindenauer is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Peter Lindenauer is also a published doctor. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: Practice patterns and complication rates of thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism. He accepts all Medicare patients.

Publications

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• Hospitalist attitudes toward the assessment and management of dyspnea in patients with acute cardiopulmonary diseases.
• Direct admission to the hospital: An alternative approach to hospitalization.
• Direct Admission to Hospitals Among Children in the United States.
• Death Among Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia: Implications for Hospital Outcome Measures.
• Trends in sepsis and infection sources in the United States. A population-based study.
• Association of guideline-based antimicrobial therapy and outcomes in healthcare-associated pneumonia.
• Ensuring Access to Health Care for Patients With Disabilities.
• Use of paracentesis in hospitalized patients with decompensated cirrhosis and ascites: Opportunities for quality improvement.
• Outcomes associated with invasive and noninvasive ventilation among patients hospitalized with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Outcomes associated with a mandatory gastroenterology consultation to improve the quality of care of patients hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis.
• From hospital to community: Use of antipsychotics in hospitalized elders.
• Reply: long-acting bronchodilators in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: still more to know.
• Attitudes of Hospital Leaders Toward Publicly Reported Measures of Health Care Quality.
• Outcomes of patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia: worse disease or sicker patients?
• Place of residence and outcomes of patients with heart failure: analysis from the telemonitoring to improve heart failure outcomes trial.
• The Cost of Defensive Medicine on 3 Hospital Medicine Services.
• Multi-center Study Comparing Case Definitions Used to Identify Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Use and outcomes associated with long-acting bronchodilators among patients hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Variation and Outcomes Associated With Direct Hospital Admission Among Children With Pneumonia in the United States.
• The axes of access--improving care for patients with disabilities.
• National Patterns of Risk-Standardized Mortality and Readmission After Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia: Update on Publicl...
• The impact of hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection on outcomes of hospitalized patients with sepsis.
• Use of Mechanical Ventilation by Patients With and Without Dementia, 2001 Through 2011.
• Management and Outcomes of Pneumonia among Children with Complex Chronic Conditions.
• Association Between the Choice of IV Crystalloid and In-Hospital Mortality Among Critically Ill Adults With Sepsis.
• The Hospital Medicine Reengineering Network (HOMERuN): A Learning Organization Focused on Improving Hospital Care.
• Comparative Effectiveness of Ceftriaxone in Combination with a Macrolide Compared with Ceftriaxone Alone for Pediatric Patients Hospitalized with Community Acquired Pn...
• Hospital workers' perceptions of waste: a qualitative study involving photo-elicitation.
• Development, validation, and results of a risk-standardized measure of hospital 30-day mortality for patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Spending more, doing more, or both? An alternative method for quantifying utilization during hospitalizations.
• Perioperative use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and risks for adverse outcomes of surgery.
• Utilization patterns and outcomes associated with central venous catheter in septic shock: a population-based study.
• Development and Validation of a Mortality Risk-Adjustment Model for Patients Hospitalized for Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Association Between Sedating Medications and Delirium in Older Inpatients.
• Access to subspecialty care for patients with mobility impairment: a survey.
• Hospital Performance Measures and 30-day Readmission Rates.
• Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: retrospective cohort study.
• Epidemiology and outcomes of acute respiratory failure in the United States, 2001 to 2009: A national survey.
• Patterns of Obstetric Infection Rates in a Large Sample of U.S. Hospitals.
• Stakeholder priorities for comparative effectiveness research in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a workshop report.
• Association between antibiotic treatment and outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute exacerbation of COPD treated with systemic steroids.
• A mixed-methods analysis of patient reviews of hospital care in England: implications for public reporting of health care quality data in the United States.
• Association between β-blocker therapy and outcomes in patients hospitalised with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive lung disease with underlying ischaemic hea...
• Validity of Using ICD-9-CM Codes to Identify Selected Categories of Obstetric Complications, Procedures and Co-morbidities.
• Comparative effectiveness of low-molecular-weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for thromboembolism prophylaxis for medical patients.
• The Impact of COPD on Management and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction - A Ten-Year Retrospective Observational Study.
• Development and validation of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality in patients with sepsis.
• Hospitalizations, costs, and outcomes of severe sepsis in the United States 2003 to 2007.
• The Relationship Between Time Spent Communicating and Communication Outcomes on a Hospital Medicine Service.
• Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults Undergoing Surgery: A National Study.
• Association Between Statins Given in Hospital and Mortality in Pneumonia Patients.
• Risk factor model to predict venous thromboembolism in hospitalized medical patients.
• Development, validation, and results of a measure of 30-day readmission following hospitalization for pneumonia.
• Continuing medical education program in the journal of hospital medicine.
• The relationship between hospital spending and mortality in patients with sepsis.
• The influence of procedure volumes and standardization of care on quality and efficiency in total joint replacement surgery.
• The relationship between case volume, care quality, and outcomes of complex cancer surgery.
• Putting the public back in public reporting of health care quality.
• Does aspirin have a role in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in total knee arthroplasty patients?
• Patients' evaluations of health care providers in the era of social networking: an analysis of physician-rating websites.
• Case volume, quality of care, and care efficiency in coronary artery bypass surgery.
• Aggregating and disaggregating patients in clinical trials and their subgroup analyses.
• The performance of US hospitals as reflected in risk-standardized 30-day mortality and readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries with pneumonia.
• Association of corticosteroid dose and route of administration with risk of treatment failure in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis among medical patients at US hospitals.
• Antibiotic therapy and treatment failure in patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Comparative effectiveness of macrolides and quinolones for patients hospitalized with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD).
• Missed opportunities for osteoporosis treatment in patients hospitalized for hip fracture.
• Activated protein C and hospital mortality in septic shock: a propensity-matched analysis.
• Public reporting of hospital quality: recommendations to benefit patients and hospitals.
• Shop for quality or volume? Volume, quality, and outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery.
• Choosing the best hospital: the limitations of public quality reporting.
• The era of big performance measurement: here at last?
• Length of stay and mortality in pulmonary embolism: high time for evidence-based discharge criteria.
• Potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized elders.
• Outcomes of care by hospitalists, general internists, and family physicians.
• Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement.
• Physician characteristics, attitudes, and use of computerized order entry.
• Quality of care for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Volume, quality of care, and outcome in pneumonia.
• Improving nurse-to-patient staffing ratios as a cost-effective safety intervention.
• Perioperative beta-blocker therapy and mortality after major noncardiac surgery.
• Association of admission date with cancer patient survival at a regional hospice: utility of a statistical process control analysis.
• Lipid-lowering therapy and in-hospital mortality following major noncardiac surgery.
• The potential preventability of postoperative myocardial infarction: underuse of perioperative beta-adrenergic blockade.
• Improving the care of patients with regard to chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis: the effect of feedback to clinicians on adherence to antiemetic prescribing guide...
• The role of the institutional review board in quality improvement: a survey of quality officers, institutional review board chairs, and journal editors.
• Quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: assessing the impact of hospitalists.
• Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalists.
• Forecasting the impact of a clinical practice guideline for perioperative beta-blockers to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
• IDEAS for a healthy baby--reducing disparities in use of publicly reported quality data: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
• Primary care physicians' use of publicly reported quality data in hospital referral decisions.
• Acute decompensated heart failure is routinely treated as a cardiopulmonary syndrome.
• Using highly detailed administrative data to predict pneumonia mortality.
• Little evidence of correlation between growth in health care spending and reduced mortality.
• Use and outcomes of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis after spinal fusion surgery.
• Hospitalizations for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: how you count matters.
• Preventability and Causes of Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients.
• Practice patterns and complication rates of thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism.
• Hospitals Patterns of Use of Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients with Asthma Exacerbation (Hospitals Use of Ventilation in Asthma).

Schools

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• University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine

• University California San Francisco

• UCSF

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• UCSF
• Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1396846275
Last Name Of The Provider	LINDENAUER
First Name Of The Provider	PETER
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