Physician

Emergency Medicine

Jerris Hedges is an expert in the field of Emergency Medicine. He went to medical school at Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hospital. He received 2 awards: "Elected Member" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Jerris Hedges is a published doctor and has 44 publications published. The lastest was: 'Medical School Hotline: Turning the Tragedy of Tobacco Around: How Revenue from Cigarettes Improves Health in Hawai'i.'

Publications

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• Medical School Hotline: Turning the Tragedy of Tobacco Around: How Revenue from Cigarettes Improves Health in Hawai'i.
• Out-of-Hospital Decision Making and Factors Influencing the Regional Distribution of Injured Patients in a Trauma System.
• RMATRIX - Clinical Translational Research Award.
• The optimum follow-up period for assessing mortality outcomes in injured older adults.
• Physician consultation, multidisciplinary care, and 1-year mortality in Medicare recipients hospitalized with hip and lower extremity injuries.
• University of Hawaii at Mãnoa John A. Burns School of Medicine.
• The future of emergency medicine: an evolutionary perspective.
• Validation of length of hospital stay as a surrogate measure for injury severity and resource use among injury survivors.
• Rural Emergency Medicine: patient volume and training opportunities.
• Early neurosurgical procedures enhance survival in blunt head injury: propensity score analysis.
• A practical approach to the healthcare crisis: solutions for Hawai'i and the nation (Part 2 of 2).
• A practical approach to the healthcare crisis: the current challenges facing Hawai'i and the nation (part 1 of 2).
• A geospatial analysis of persons opting out of an exception from informed consent out-of-hospital clinical trial.
• A population-based survival assessment of categorizing level III and IV rural hospitals as trauma centers.
• Establishing the need for trauma center care: anatomic injury or resource use?
• Proportion of seriously injured patients admitted to hospitals in the US with a high annual injured patient volume: a metric of regionalized trauma care.
• Racial disparities in mortality among adults hospitalized after injury.
• Strategies for increasing the physician workforce: the Oregon model for expansion.
• The knowledge translation paradigm: historical, philosophical, and practice perspectives.
• The benefit of higher level of care transfer of injured patients from nontertiary hospital emergency departments.
• The predictive value and appropriate ranges of prehospital physiological parameters for high-risk injured children.
• Secondary triage: early identification of high-risk trauma patients presenting to non-tertiary hospitals.
• Statewide assessment of injury and death rates among riders of off-road vehicles treated at trauma centers.
• Ultrasonographic guidance for internal jugular vein cannulation: an educational imperative, a desirable practice alternative.
• Variability of trauma transfer practices among non-tertiary care hospital emergency departments.
• Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and trauma triage.
• The effect of ambulance diversions on the development of trauma systems.
• Regional differences in outcomes for hospitalized injured patients.
• Introduction--What critical care practitioners should know about terrorism agents.
• A survey of Oregon emergency physicians to assess mandatory reporting knowledge and reporting patterns regarding intoxicated drivers in the state of Oregon.
• Impact of a transfer center on interhospital referrals and transfers to a tertiary care center.
• Mortality benefit of transfer to level I versus level II trauma centers for head-injured patients.
• The incidence and burden of ladder, structure, and scaffolding falls.
• Hospital factors associated with splenectomy for splenic injury: a national perspective.
• Advanced statistics: the propensity score--a method for estimating treatment effect in observational research.
• Emergency nursing: historical, current, and future roles.
• Patient satisfaction in the emergency department--a survey of pediatric patients and their parents.
• The effect of computer-assisted prescription writing on emergency department prescription errors.
• Injury mortality following the loss of air medical support for rural interhospital transport.
• ATLS practices and survival at rural level III trauma hospitals, 1995-1999.
• Survival of seriously injured patients first treated in rural hospitals.
• The role of prehospital care providers in the advancement of public health.
• Satisfied Patients Exiting the Emergency Department (SPEED) Study.

Schools

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• University of Washington

• Med College Of Pa And Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Emergency Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Elected Member
• Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Education

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• Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hospital
• University of Washington School of Medicine

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