Professor, Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Preventive Medicine
Dr. Stephan D. Fihn, MD
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Stephan Fihn works in the field of Preventive Medicine. He researched medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Saint Louis University School of Medicine is ranked 67 in research and 57 in primary care medicine Stephan Fihn is a published MD. He has 89 papers published. The most current publication "A First Look at PCMH Implementation for Minority Veterans: Room for Improvement."
Publications
- A First Look at PCMH Implementation for Minority Veterans: Room for Improvement.
- Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Facility Level Variation in Hospitalization, Mortality, and Costs in the 30 Days After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insig...
- 1-year risk-adjusted mortality and costs of percutaneous coronary intervention in the Veterans Health Administration: insights from the VA CART Program.
- Using a Single Item to Measure Burnout in Primary Care Staff: A Psychometric Evaluation.
- The experience of Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members.
- Nonobstructive coronary artery disease and risk of myocardial infarction.
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation and Primary Care Provider Turnover.
- Insights from advanced analytics at the veterans health administration.
- Angina Symptom Burden Associated with Depression Status Among Veterans with Ischemic Heart Disease.
- Patient-centered medical home initiative produced modest economic results for veterans health administration, 2010-12.
- Elements of Team-Based Care in a Patient-Centered Medical Home Are Associated with Lower Burnout Among VA Primary Care Employees.
- Association Between Local Area Unemployment Rates and Use of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Health Services.
- Bending the Curve on Cardiovascular Risk.
- Data quality of an electronic health record tool to support VA cardiac catheterization laboratory quality improvement: The VA Clinical Assessment, Reporting, and Track...
- Feasibility of Proactive Medical Device Surveillance: The VA Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking (CART) Program.
- Wide Clinic-Level Variation in Adherence to Oral Diabetes Medications in the VA.
- Predicting Risk of Hospitalization or Death Among Patients Receiving Primary Care in the Veterans Health Administration.
- Predicting risk of hospitalization or death among patients with heart failure in the veterans health administration.
- Measures of Adherence to Oral Hypoglycemic Agents at the Primary Care Clinic Level: The Role of Risk Adjustment.
- Collaborative care intervention for stable ischemic heart disease.
- Clinical Significance of Postvoid Residual Volume in Older Ambulatory Women.
- Recent Hospitalization for Non-coronary Events and Use of Preventive Medications for Coronary Artery Disease: An Observational Cohort Study.
- Examining the Interrelatedness of Patient and Spousal Stress in Heart Failure: Conceptual Model and Pilot Data.
- Neighborhood Environment and Health Status and Mortality Among Veterans.
- Use of administrative claims models to assess 30-day mortality among Veterans Health Administration hospitals.
- Vaginal symptoms in postmenopausal women: self-reported severity, natural history, and risk factors.
- Strategies from a nationwide health information technology implementation: the VA CART story.
- Improving quality: lessons from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Exogenous estrogen and urinary incontinence.
- Women veterans and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction.
- Risk of adverse outcomes associated with concomitant use of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors following acute coronary syndrome.
- Performance of comorbidity, risk adjustment, and functional status measures in expenditure prediction for patients with diabetes.
- A review of interventions and system changes to improve time to reperfusion for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
- Sexual intercourse and risk of symptomatic urinary tract infection in post-menopausal women.
- Incidence of death and acute myocardial infarction associated with stopping clopidogrel after acute coronary syndrome.
- Urinary incontinence and urinary tract infection: temporal relationships in postmenopausal women.
- Coronary revascularization: new evidence, new challenges.
- Clopidogrel and long-term outcomes after stent implantation for acute coronary syndrome.
- Inpatient and follow-up cardiology care and mortality for acute coronary syndrome patients in the Veterans Health Administration.
- A refill adherence algorithm for multiple short intervals to estimate refill compliance (ReComp).
- Discontinuation of medications 1 month after an acute myocardial infarction increased risk for death at 12 months.
- Simvastatin was cost-effective across a broad range of risk and age groups.
- Complementary and alternative medicine use among Veterans Affairs outpatients.
- Treatment delay associated with alternative medicine use among veterans with head and neck cancer.
- Predictors of urinary incontinence in a prospective cohort of postmenopausal women.
- The prevalence and outcomes of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health System.
- Depression diagnosis and antidepressant treatment among depressed VA primary care patients.
- Toward a VA Women's Health Research Agenda: setting evidence-based priorities to improve the health and health care of women veterans.
- Differences in health care utilization at the end of life among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and patients with lung cancer.
- Moving implementation science forward.
- Predicting mortality and healthcare utilization with a single question.
- Urinary incontinence and diabetes in postmenopausal women.
- The performance of administrative and self-reported measures for risk adjustment of Veterans Affairs expenditures.
- Provider response to computer-based care suggestions for chronic heart failure.
- Functional status and patient satisfaction: a comparison of ischemic heart disease, obstructive lung disease, and diabetes mellitus.
- Adherence to heart-healthy behaviors in a sample of the U.S. population.
- Risk of urinary tract infection and asymptomatic bacteriuria among diabetic and nondiabetic postmenopausal women.
- Continuity of care and other determinants of patient satisfaction with primary care.
- Predictors of urinary tract infection after menopause: a prospective study.
- Beta-blockers as single-agent therapy for hypertension and the risk of mortality among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Association of body weight with condition-specific quality of life in male veterans.
- Alcohol screening results in elderly male veterans: association with health status and mortality.
- Suboptimal pharmacotherapeutic management of chronic stable angina in the primary care setting.
- Risk factors for urinary tract infections in postmenopausal women.
- Cardiovascular risk factor control among veterans with diabetes: the ambulatory care quality improvement project.
- Diabetes quality improvement in Department of Veterans Affairs Ambulatory Care Clinics: a group-randomized clinical trial.
- A controlled trial of including symptom data in computer-based care suggestions for managing patients with chronic heart failure.
- Using alcohol screening results and treatment history to assess the severity of at-risk drinking in Veterans Affairs primary care patients.
- Effects of sustained audit/feedback on self-reported health status of primary care patients.
- Inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and risk of death and hospitalization: time-dependent analysis.
- Anginal symptoms consistently predict total mortality among outpatients with coronary artery disease.
- Prevalence and determinants of vaginal flora alterations in postmenopausal women.
- Accounting for deaths in longitudinal studies using the SF-36: the performance of the Physical Component Scale of the Short Form 36-item health survey and the PCTD.
- Questions and answers. I am a 65-year-old woman who gets frequent urinary tract infections. What can I do to prevent recurrences?
- Clinical practice. Acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women.
- Underuse of cardioprotective medications in patients prior to acute myocardial infarction.
- Risk of mortality and heart failure exacerbations associated with inhaled beta-adrenoceptor agonists among patients with known left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
- Diagnostic challenges defining heart failure when using echocardiograms.
- Clinically important changes in health-related quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an expert consensus panel report.
- Effectiveness of collaborative care depression treatment in Veterans' Affairs primary care.
- Diabetes and the risk of acute urinary tract infection among postmenopausal women.
- Health status predicts long-term outcome in outpatients with coronary disease.
- Does this woman have an acute uncomplicated urinary tract infection?
- Alcohol-related discussions during general medicine appointments of male VA patients who screen positive for at-risk drinking.
- Association between inhaled beta-agonists and the risk of unstable angina and myocardial infarction.
- Benefits of an "angina clinic" for patients with coronary artery disease: a demonstration of health status measures as markers of health care quality.
- Elements of the patient-centered medical home associated with health outcomes among veterans: the role of primary care continuity, expanded access, and care coordination.
- The patient-centered medical home in the Veterans Health Administration.
Schools
Saint Louis University School Of Medicine
University of Washington
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Preventive Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of Washington -
University of Washington School Public Health -
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Hospital
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UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center -
University of Washington Medical Center
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