Physician

Internal Medicine

John H. Wasson, MD works in the field of Internal Medicine. He graduated from University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. John H. Wasson has written publications. He has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'New dialysis-specific COOP charts may improve ESRD patient assessment.'

Publications

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• A World Wide Web-based survey of nonmedical tattooing in the United States.
• Patients use the internet to enter the medical home.
• Practice redesign and the patient-centered medical home: history, promises, and challenges.
• Primary care and community participatory strategies.
• Primary care physician visit continuity.
• Making high-quality, patient-centered care a reality.
• Balanced measures for patient-centered care.
• CARE Vital Signs supports patient-centered, collaborative care.
• Clinical microsystems, part 2. Learning from micro practices about providing patients the care they want and need.
• Clinical microsystems, part 1. The building blocks of health systems.
• The impact of primary care patients' pain and emotional problems on their confidence with self-management.
• Implementing a new payment system for primary care physicians: a response to Schoenbaum et al and other feedback.
• Show me the way--health care innovation in the heartland.
• Reforming the primary care physician payment system: eliminating E & M codes and creating the financial incentives for an "advanced medical home".
• Who is in charge? Even affluent patients suffer consequences of fragmented care.
• The ideal medical practice model: improving efficiency, quality and the doctor-patient relationship.
• An introduction to technology for patient-centered, collaborative care.
• Patients report positive impacts of collaborative care.
• Resource planning for patient-centered, collaborative care.
• The emergence of Ideal Micro Practices for patient-centered, collaborative care.
• Postscript: health disparity and collaborative care.
• Technical notes: when all things are not equal.
• A controlled trial of methods for managing pain in primary care patients with or without co-occurring psychosocial problems.
• Psychometric update of the Functional Interference Estimate: a brief measure of pain functional interference.
• Technology for community health alliances.
• Why isn't it better?
• Microsystems in health care: Part 4. Planning patient-centered care.
• Microsystems in health care: Part 3. Planning patient-centered services.
• Ongoing distress from emotional trauma is related to pain, mood, and physical function in a primary care population.
• Microsystems in health care: Part 2. Creating a rich information environment.
• Microsystems in health care: Part 1. Learning from high-performing front-line clinical units.
• Prostate biopsies in men with limited life expectancy.
• Regular exercise is strongly associated with anticipated success for reducing health risks.
• A patient-reported spectrum of adverse health care experiences: harms, unnecessary care, medication illness, and low health confidence.
• The right tool for the right job: the value of alternative patient experience measures.
• Improvement of patients' health confidence: a comparison of 15 primary care practices and a national sample.
• Assessing health and quality of life outcomes in dialysis: a report on an Institute of Medicine workshop.
• Health status assessment for elderly patients. Report of the Society of General Internal Medicine Task Force on Health Assessment.
• Behind the headlines: significance for medical record practitioners.
• Have complication rates decreased after treatment for localized prostate cancer?
• The diagnosis of abdominal pain in ambulatory male patients.
• New dialysis-specific COOP charts may improve ESRD patient assessment.
• Urinary tract infection in women visiting rural primary care practices.
• Improving correspondence to general practitioners regarding patients attending the ENT emergency clinic: a regional general practitioner survey and audit.
• Pancreatic islet cells express a family of inwardly rectifying K+ channel subunits which interact to form G-protein-activated channels.
• Characterization of the LIM/homeodomain gene islet-1 and single nucleotide screening in NIDDM.
• Mapping novel pancreatic islet genes to human chromosomes.
• Mapping of the human insulin receptor substrate-2 gene, identification of a linked polymorphic marker and linkage analysis in families with Type II diabetes: no eviden...
• Isolation and characterization of the human PAX4 gene.
• Hepatocyte nuclear factor 1alpha coding mutations are an uncommon contributor to early-onset type 2 diabetes in Ashkenazi Jews.
• Assessment of the feasibility and impact of shared decision making in prostate cancer.
• MediCaring: development and test marketing of a supportive care benefit for older people.
• Directory assistance for telephone care: a toll-free way to improve the quality of communication between patients, providers, and investigators.
• Prostate-specific antigen best practice policy--part I: early detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer.
• Geriatric education: a system approach.
• Patient-reported complications and follow-up treatment after radical prostatectomy. The National Medicare Experience: 1988-1990 (updated June 1993).
• A structured literature review of treatment for localized prostate cancer. Prostate Disease Patient Outcome Research Team.
• Continuity of outpatient medical care in elderly men. A randomized trial.
• Telephone care as a substitute for routine clinic follow-up.
• Setting the revisit interval in primary care.
• Physician variation in anticoagulating patients with atrial fibrillation. Dartmouth Primary Care COOP Project.
• An easy way to measure quality of physician-patient interactions.
• Assessment of function in routine clinical practice: description of the COOP Chart method and preliminary findings.
• Capitation for medical care. The importance of health status in older patients.
• Health recommendations by interest group.
• The functional status of patients. How can it be measured in physicians' offices?
• An assessment of radical prostatectomy. Time trends, geographic variation, and outcomes. The Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team.
• Effect of radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer on patient quality of life: results from a Medicare survey.
• Outcomes of external-beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer: a study of Medicare beneficiaries in three surveillance, epidemiology, and end results areas.
• Should Medicare provide reimbursement for prostate-specific antigen testing for early detection of prostate cancer? Part II: Early detection strategies.
• Should Medicare provide reimbursement for prostate-specific antigen testing for early detection of prostate cancer? Part IV: Estimating the risks and benefits of an ea...
• Community physicians describe management issues for patients expected to live less than twelve months.
• Do patients' health status reports predict future hospital stays for patients with an acute myocardial infarction?
• Should Medicare provide reimbursement for prostate-specific antigen testing for early detection of prostate cancer? Part III: Management strategies and outcomes.
• Should Medicare provide reimbursement for prostate-specific antigen testing for early detection of prostate cancer? Part I: Framing the debate.
• Androgen deprivation therapy for asymptomatic advanced prostate cancer in the prostate specific antigen era: a national survey of urologist beliefs and practices.
• Estimating treatment benefits for the elderly: the effect of competing risks.
• The prescription of assistive devices for the elderly: practical considerations.
• Follow-up prostate cancer treatments after radical prostatectomy: a population-based study.
• Transurethral resection of the prostate among medicare beneficiaries: 1984 to 1997. For the Patient Outcomes Research Team for Prostatic Diseases.
• Assessing access as a first step toward improving the quality of care for very old adults.
• Implementing a strategy for improving care: lessons from studying those age 80 and older in a health system.
• Functional health status levels of primary care patients.
• The Cooperative Information Project: Part 1: A sentinel practice network for service and research in primary care.
• A decision analysis of alternative treatment strategies for clinically localized prostate cancer. Prostate Patient Outcomes Research Team.
• The cooperative information project: Part 2: some initial clinical, quality assurance, and practice management studies.
• Prostate cancer screening and beliefs about treatment efficacy: a national survey of primary care physicians and urologists.
• End-of-life care for persons age 80 years or older.
• Chief complaint fatigue: a longitudinal study from the patient's perspective.
• Effectiveness of physician antismoking advice.
• Adolescent health and social problems. A method for detection and early management. The Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Information Project (COOP).
• The short-term effect of patient health status assessment in a health maintenance organization.
• Treatments for prostate cancer in older men: 1984-1997.
• The treatment of localized prostate cancer: what are we doing, what do we know, and what should we be doing? The Prostate Patient Outcome Research Team.
• Overview: working inside, outside, and side by side to improve the quality of health care.
• Benefits and obstacles of health status assessment in ambulatory settings. The clinician's point of view. The Dartmouth Primary Care COOP Project.
• Looking at care from the inside out: a conceptual approach to geriatric care.
• Building an idealized measurement system to improve clinical office practice performance.
• Routine, single-item screening to identify abusive relationships in women.
• Can we afford comprehensive, supportive care for the very old?

Schools

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• University of Virginia Main Campus

Doctors Specialties

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• Geriatric Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• GHI PPO
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO

Education

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• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• University of Virginia School of Medicine

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