Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Preventive Medicine
Dr. Charles J. Homer, MD
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Charles Homer works in the field of Preventive Medicine. He went to medical school at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Charles Homer is a published physician. He published 81 publications, including: 'Improving the care of children with asthma in pediatric practice: the HIPPO project. Helping Improve Pediatric Practice Outcomes.'
Publications
- An Appeal for Safe and Appropriate Imaging of Children.
- Policies to support obesity prevention for children: a focus on of early childhood policies.
- Improving improvement for childhood asthma.
- Challenge to Child Health Services Research: Report From the Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures.
- Review of quality measures of the most integrated health care settings for children and the need for improved measures: recommendations for initial core measurement se...
- Measuring patient and family experiences of health care for children.
- From my head and my heart: improving quality of care for children and youth with special health care needs.
- Evidence for family-centered care for children with special health care needs: a systematic review.
- How to scale up primary care transformation: what we know and what we need to know?
- Comparing medical homes for children with ADHD and asthma.
- Medical home 2009: what it is, where we were, and where we are today.
- Foreword: A great start and a long way to go.
- Health disparities and the primary care medical home: could it be that simple?
- Responding to the childhood obesity epidemic: from the provider visit to health care policy--steps the health care sector can take.
- A review of the evidence for the medical home for children with special health care needs.
- The quality of children's health care matters--time to pay attention.
- A family-centered, community-based system of services for children and youth with special health care needs.
- Impact of a hospitalist system on length of stay and cost for children with common conditions.
- For love, for money, or for both? Which way will we choose to transform children's health care?
- Diagnostic practices for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a national survey of primary care physicians.
- Impact of a quality improvement program on care and outcomes for children with asthma.
- Improving care for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: assessing the impact of self-assessment and targeted training on practice performance.
- Length of stay for common pediatric conditions: teaching versus nonteaching hospitals.
- Leadership by example: the Institute of Medicine's view of how Federal Health Care Programs can improve quality of care.
- Are hospital characteristics associated with parental views of pediatric inpatient care quality?
- Impact of a health maintenance organization hospitalist system in academic pediatrics.
- Women's health after pregnancy and child outcomes at age 3 years: a prospective cohort study.
- Health care use and costs for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: national estimates from the medical expenditure panel survey.
- Incorporating cultural diversity in randomised controlled trials in midwifery.
- The clinical investigator as an endangered species.
- Asthma disease management.
- Prepaid versus traditional Medicaid plans: effects on preventive health care.
- Birth centre or labour ward? A comparison of the clinical outcomes of low-risk women in a NSW hospital.
- Work-related physical exertion and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery.
- Prepaid versus traditional Medicaid plans: lack of effect on pregnancy outcomes and prenatal care.
- The challenges of automating a real-time clinical practice guideline.
- Technical report: minor head injury in children.
- Work-related psychosocial stress and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery.
- The Consumer Assessment of Health Plan Study (CAHPS) survey of children's health care.
- Managed care and the quality of children's health services.
- Physical growth, infant nutrition, breastfeeding, and general nutrition.
- Pediatric guidelines: help or hindrance?
- Asthma clinical pathways: toward what end?
- Exploring the business case for improving the quality of health care for children.
- Parents as direct contributors to the medical record: validation of their electronic input.
- Quality in pediatrics: a progress report for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Evaluation and management of children younger than two years old with apparently minor head trauma: proposed guidelines.
- An evaluation of an innovative multimedia educational software program for asthma management: report of a randomized, controlled trial.
- Universal newborn hearing screening: summary of evidence.
- Infant health care use and maternal depression.
- Variations in pediatric pneumonia and bronchitis/asthma admission rates. Is appropriateness a factor?
- The impact of having parents report about both their own and their children's experiences with health insurance plans.
- The status of pediatric practice guidelines.
- Improving the quality of care for children in health systems.
- Reducing medical error through systems improvement: the management of febrile infants.
- Relationship between asthma medication and antibiotic use.
- Hospital-based continuous quality improvement: a realistic appraisal.
- Social disparities in the use of diagnostic tests for children with gastroenteritis.
- Work-family issues and perceptions of stress among pediatric faculty and house staff.
- Adoption of body mass index guidelines for screening and counseling in pediatric practice.
- Improving children's health care: an interview with Charles Homer. Interview by Steven Berman.
- Childhood obesity: what's health care policy got to do with it?
- Variations in rates of hospitalization of children in three urban communities.
- Sickle cell disease: a question of equity and quality.
- Minor head injury in children: current management practices of pediatricians, emergency physicians, and family physicians.
- Primary care involvement among hospitalized children.
- Market forces and organizational evolution at freestanding children's hospitals in the United States.
- Pediatric hospitalists in Canada and the United States: a survey of pediatric academic department chairs.
- Health literacy and quality: focus on chronic illness care and patient safety.
- Projected cost-effectiveness of statewide universal newborn hearing screening.
- Maternal and infant health: effects of moderate reductions in postpartum length of stay.
- Effect of a reduced postpartum length of stay program on primary care services use by mothers and infants.
- Quality of care for preschool children with asthma: the role of social factors and practice setting.
- The scope of unmet maternal health needs in pediatric settings.
- Does quality of care affect rates of hospitalization for childhood asthma?
- Improving the care of children with asthma in pediatric practice: the HIPPO project. Helping Improve Pediatric Practice Outcomes.
- Quality of care at a children's hospital: the parent's perspective.
- Pediatric hospitalists: what do we know, and where do we go from here?
- Screening for chlamydia infection: recommendations and rationale. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
- Newborn hearing screening: recommendations and rationale.
Schools
Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts General Hospital
University Nc
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatrics
- Preventive Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of North Carolina School of Public Health -
Massachusetts General Hospital -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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