Professor, Medical Education and Administration, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Pediatrics
Dr. Gerald Hickson, MD
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Gerald Hickson works in the field of Pediatrics. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine. He over the years received 1 awards: "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Dr. Gerald Hickson has written publications. He has 70 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Compensation for birth-related injury: no-fault programs compared with tort system.'
Publications
- 'Speaking up' about patient safety concerns and unprofessional behaviour among residents: validation of two scales.
- Stuck In a Moment: An Ex Ante Analysis of Patient Complaints in Plastic Surgery, Used to Predict Malpractice Risk Profiles, From a Large Cohort of Physicians in the Pa...
- Role-modeling and medical error disclosure: a national survey of trainees.
- Sustained improvement in hand hygiene adherence: utilizing shared accountability and financial incentives.
- An intervention model that promotes accountability: peer messengers and patient/family complaints.
- An Analysis of Risk Factors for Patient Complaints About Ambulatory Anesthesiology Care.
- The influence of obstetric no-fault compensation on obstetricians' practice patterns.
- Stressful life events and somatic complaints in adolescents.
- Information search and decision making in the selection of family health care.
- Compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
- Are you and your waiting room's televised "expert" saying the same thing?
- Improving resources for foster care.
- Apparent intentional poisoning of an infant with acetaminophen.
- Principles of patient safety in pediatrics.
- Concerns of mothers seeking care in private pediatric offices: opportunities for expanding services.
- Should promethazine in liquid form be available without prescription?
- Parental administration of chemical agents: a cause of apparent life-threatening events.
- An account of the usefulness of a pilot clinical ethics program at a community hospital.
- Physician reimbursement by salary or fee-for-service: effect on physician practice behavior in a randomized prospective study.
- First step in obtaining child health care: selecting a physician.
- What health professionals can do to identify and resolve patient dissatisfaction.
- Compensation for birth-related injury: no-fault programs compared with tort system.
- Relationship between patient complaints and surgical complications.
- Early childhood mortality from community-acquired infections.
- No-fault system of compensation for obstetric injury: winners and losers.
- Factors that prompted families to file medical malpractice claims following perinatal injuries.
- Effects of pediatrician characteristics on management decisions in simulated cases involving apparent life-threatening events.
- Persistently increased injury mortality rates in high-risk young children.
- Predictors of influenza virus vaccination status in hospitalized children.
- Predictors of mortality from fires in young children.
- Corticosteroid prescription filling for children covered by Medicaid following an emergency department visit or a hospitalization for asthma.
- Identifying medical center units with disproportionate shares of patient complaints.
- Universal screening for group B streptococcus: recommendations and obstetricians' practice decisions.
- Satisfaction with obstetric care: relation to neonatal intensive care.
- Understanding the etiology of serious medical events involving children: implications for pediatricians and their risk managers.
- Parents' responses to vaccine information pamphlets.
- Obstetricians' prior malpractice experience and patients' satisfaction with care.
- Perinatal outcomes following implementation of TennCare.
- Sociodemographic factors identify US infants at high risk of injury mortality.
- The relationship between malpractice claims history and subsequent obstetric care.
- Changes in continuity of enrollment among high-risk children following implementation of TennCare.
- Comparison of perinatal outcomes among TennCare managed care organizations.
- New use of anticonvulsant medications among children enrolled in the Tennessee Medicaid Program.
- A medical ethics issues survey of residents in five pediatric training programs.
- Professionals promoting professionalism.
- The use of a multidisciplinary morbidity and mortality conference to incorporate ACGME general competencies.
- Best practices for basic and advanced skills in health care service recovery: a case study of a re-admitted patient.
- Physicians influence and the malpractice problem.
- Medical malpractice claims risk in urology: an empirical analysis of patient complaint data.
- A plan for identification, treatment, and remediation of disruptive behaviors in physicians.
- Physician practice behavior and litigation risk: evidence and opportunity.
- Using risk management files to identify and address causative factors associated with adverse events in pediatrics.
- Confidentiality and privacy in health care from the patient's perspective: does HIPAA help?
- Identifying and addressing communication failures as a means of reducing unnecessary malpractice claims.
- A complementary approach to promoting professionalism: identifying, measuring, and addressing unprofessional behaviors.
- Patient complaints and malpractice risk in a regional healthcare center.
- Health care access of Hispanic young adults in the United States.
- Trends in prescribing of antipsychotic medications for US children.
- Characteristics of families that complain following pediatric emergency visits.
- Gaps in enrollment from a Medicaid managed care program: effects on emergency department visits and hospitalizations for children with asthma.
- Factors affecting pediatricians'' reporting of suspected child maltreatment.
- New users of antipsychotic medications among children enrolled in TennCare.
- Family reports of care denials for children enrolled in TennCare.
- Prescriptions for contraindicated category X drugs in pregnancy among women enrolled in TennCare.
- [Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as a common cause of respiratory illness in children younger than 5 years].
- Very early exposure to erythromycin and infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
- Patient complaints and malpractice risk.
- Pediatric practice and liability risk in a managed care environment.
- Using Coworker Observations to Promote Accountability for Disrespectful and Unsafe Behaviors by Physicians and Advanced Practice Professionals.
Schools
Tulane University of Louisiana
Vanderbilt University Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatrics
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
Awards
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Vanderbilt University -
Tulane University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics
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