Professor, Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine

Internal Medicine

David Hickam is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He researched medicine at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. University of California San Francisco School of Medicine has a rank of 3 in research and a 3 in primary care David Hickam is a published physician. He published 79 publications, including: 'How well do physicians use electronic information retrieval systems? A framework for investigation and systematic review.'

Publications

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• "We've Not Gotten Even Close to What We Want to Do": a Qualitative Study of Early Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation.
• Congestive heart failure self-management among US veterans: The role of personal and professional advocates.
• Getting Performance Metrics Right: A Qualitative Study of Staff Experiences Implementing and Measuring Practice Transformation.
• Pressure ulcer treatment strategies: a systematic comparative effectiveness review.
• Decision aids: evolving from novelties to effective communication tools.
• Abdominal bloating in employed adults: prevalence, risk factors, and association with other bowel disorders.
• Depression decision support in primary care: a cluster randomized trial.
• Survival, mortality, and location of death for patients seen by a hospital-based palliative care team.
• Telemedicine for the medicare population: update.
• Is constipation associated with decreased physical activity in normally active subjects?
• Explaining low ratings of patient satisfaction among Asian-Americans.
• Factors associated with success in searching MEDLINE and applying evidence to answer clinical questions.
• Use of a multi-application computer workstation in a clinical setting.
• Information retrieval in medicine: the SAPHIRE experience.
• Results of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Failure to predict survival in two community hospitals.
• Using statistical text mining to supplement the development of an ontology.
• A performance and failure analysis of SAPHIRE with a MEDLINE test collection.
• A study of the implicit criteria used in diagnosing chest pain.
• Tutored videotape-instruction in clinical decision-making.
• Physician attitudes and practices at the time of patient death.
• Testing for toxocariasis.
• A comparison of men and women physicians' management of patient death.
• Systematic bias in recording the history in patients with chest pain.
• The internship--a prospective investigation of emotions and attitudes.
• The treatment advice of a computer-based cancer chemotherapy protocol advisor.
• A study of a probabilistic technique for teaching diagnostic skills to medical students.
• Communication between physicians and surviving spouses following patient deaths.
• Evaluation of physical examination skills. Reliability of faculty observers and patient instructors.
• Clinical decision making: a study to define educational objectives for resident physicians.
• Risk preference and laboratory utilization.
• Comparison of mood changes and satisfaction among first-year medical residents in three programs.
• Responsibilities of primary physicians in organ donation.
• Teaching medical students to estimate probability of coronary artery disease.
• Noncardiac causes of angina-like chest pain.
• The Veterans Administration Northwest Regional Health Services Research and Development Field Program: organization, activities, and early outcomes.
• The doctor-patient relationship during medical internship: the evolution of dissatisfaction.
• Nurses' and physicians' attitudes toward tube-feeding decisions in long-term care.
• A program to teach residents humanistic skills for notifying survivors of a patient's death.
• The identification and management of drug-seeking behavior in a medical center.
• Treatment preferences of patients and physicians: influences of summary data when framing effects are controlled.
• Use of the T-ACE questions to detect risk-drinking.
• Using the patient's history to estimate the probability of coronary artery disease: a comparison of primary care and referral practices.
• Interpretation of graphic data by patients in a general medicine clinic.
• Do severity of disease classification tools change patient care?
• Patients' interpretations of probability terms.
• Predictors of clinical performance among internal medicine residents.
• Medical students' evaluations of their preceptors' teaching in an introductory course.
• The validity of proxy-generated scores as measures of patient health status.
• A prospective study of internal medicine residents' emotions and attitudes throughout their training.
• Assessing predictive accuracy: how to compare Brier scores.
• Clinicians' predictions of nursing home placement for hospitalized patients.
• Evaluation of SAPHIRE: an automated approach to indexing and retrieving medical literature.
• A comparison of retrieval effectiveness for three methods of indexing medical literature.
• Words, concepts, or both: optimal indexing units for automated information retrieval.
• Patient interpretations of terms connoting low probabilities when communicating about surgical risk.
• Factors associated with successful answering of clinical questions using an information retrieval system.
• How patients' preferences for risk information influence treatment choice in a case of high risk and high therapeutic uncertainty: asymptomatic localized prostate cancer.
• Changing physician practice of physical activity counseling.
• Previous visits to emergency departments by patients with chest discomfort.
• How well do physicians use electronic information retrieval systems? A framework for investigation and systematic review.
• Patients' preferences for risk disclosure and role in decision making for invasive medical procedures.
• The influence of physician explanations on patient preferences about future health-care states.
• Patient preferences for management of localized prostate cancer.
• Effects of a physician communication intervention on patient care outcomes.
• Five-year survival curves: how much data are enough for patient-physician decision making in general surgery?
• Outpatients' attitudes and understanding regarding living wills.
• Patients' and physicians' interpretations of graphic data displays.
• A comparison of two methods for indexing and retrieval from a full-text medical database.
• Patients' desires and satisfaction in general medicine clinics.
• Attending rounds on in-patient units: differences between medical and non-medical services.
• The effect of house officer rotation on inpatient satisfaction and ward atmosphere: preliminary findings.
• Towards new measures of information retrieval evaluation.
• The effect of physician's explanations on patients' treatment preferences: five-year survival data.
• The effect of health care working conditions on patient safety.
• How do faculty evaluate students' case presentations?
• The role of doctor''s opinion in shared decision making: what does shared decision making really mean when considering invasive medical procedures?
• Diagnosis, access and outcomes: Update of a systematic review of telemedicine services.
• The evidence base of telemedicine: Overview of the supplement.

Schools

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• University of California At San Francisco

• Stanford Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Stanford University
• University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

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