Professor and Chair Department of Family and Community Medicine UC Davis School of Medicine

Family Medicine

Klea Bertakis is an expert in the field of Family Medicine. He graduated from University of Utah School of Medicine. He received awards:"CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Klea D. Bertakis, MD is a published physician as well. He has 71 publications published. The latest was: The impact of physician practice style on medical charges. Klea Bertakis accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Short-Term Stability and Spread of the U.S. News & World Report Primary Care Medical School Rankings.
• Gender of physician as the usual source of care and patient health care utilization and mortality.
• Extended office hours and health care expenditures: a national study.
• Does Applicant Personality Influence Multiple Mini-Interview Performance and Medical School Acceptance Offers?
• Patient-Centered Care: The Influence of Patient and Resident Physician Gender and Gender Concordance in Primary Care.
• Patient-provider sex and race/ethnicity concordance: a national study of healthcare and outcomes.
• Patient-Centered Care is Associated with Decreased Health Care Utilization.
• Patient gender differences in the prediction of medical expenditures.
• Determinants and outcomes of patient-centered care.
• Attributes affecting the medical school primary care experience.
• Patient-centered communication in primary care: physician and patient gender and gender concordance.
• Chronic pain management in the emergency department: a survey of attitudes and beliefs.
• A qualitative study of the barriers to chronic pain management in the ED.
• Patient gender and physician practice style.
• Association between obesity and patient satisfaction.
• The influence of obesity, alcohol abuse, and smoking on utilization of health care services.
• The impact of obesity on primary care visits.
• Obesity and the use of health care services.
• Patient pain in primary care: factors that influence physician diagnosis.
• Clinical faculty tracks and academic success at the University of California Medical Schools.
• Physician-elder interaction in community family practice.
• On being new to an insurance plan: health care use associated with the first years in a health insurance plan.
• Does time use in outpatient residency training reflect community practice?
• Patient pain: its influence on primary care physician-patient interaction.
• Physician gender, patient gender, and primary care.
• Effects of physician gender on patient satisfaction.
• Association of higher costs with symptoms and diagnosis of depression.
• The influence of patient age on primary care resident physician-patient interaction.
• Gender differences in the utilization of health care services.
• Predictors of patient referrals by primary care residents to specialty care clinics.
• Patient gender differences in the diagnosis of depression in primary care.
• Recognition and treatment of depression in primary care: effect of patients'' presentation and frequency of consultation.
• Cardiovascular disease in women--challenges deserving a comprehensive translational approach.
• The influence of gender on the doctor-patient interaction.
• Determinants of physician discussion regarding tobacco and alcohol abuse.
• Assessing resident''s knowledge and communication skills using four different evaluation tools.
• General and family practice-important advances in clinical medicine: cost-effectiveness of antenatal rh factor immunoprophylaxis.
• General and family practice: urinary tract infection in geriatric patients.
• Asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy.
• The communication of information from physician to patient: a method for increasing patient retention and satisfaction.
• A comparison of initial and established patient encounters using the Davis Observation Code.
• Impact of a patient education intervention on appropriate utilization of clinic services.
• The relationship of physician medical interview style to patient satisfaction.
• Development and validation of the Davis Observation Code.
• Capacity to remember prescription drug changes: deficits associated with diabetes. Collaborative Study Group of the Task Force on the Medical Interview.
• Physician-patient familiarity and patient recall of medication changes. The Collaborative Study Group of the SGIM Task Force on the Doctor and Patient.
• Continuity of care for family practice patients in a university hospital-based residency program.
• Utilization of hospital services. A comparison of internal medicine and family practice.
• Educational impact of a Family Practice Clinic Patient Medical Advisor Booklet.
• An application of the health belief model to patient education and compliance: acute otitis media.
• Office evaluation of urinary tract infections in elderly women.
• Gatekeeping in primary care: a comparison of internal medicine and family practice.
• Hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet count. The HELLP syndrome.
• Fetal asphyxia: prevention, detection and intervention.
• Costs of care provided by trainees in internal medicine and family practice.
• Family practice.
• Does race have an influence on patients' feelings toward physicians?
• General practice in Greece.
• The influence of gender on physician practice style.
• Cost-effectiveness of care by family physicians.
• The effect of patient health status on physician practice style.
• The influence of physician practice behaviors on patient satisfaction.
• A comparison of physician-patient interaction at fee-for-service and HMO sites.
• The influence of depression on physician-patient interaction in primary care.
• Depression in primary care: patient factors that influence recognition.
• Physician practice styles and patient outcomes: differences between family practice and general internal medicine.
• The impact of physician practice style on medical charges.
• Physician practice style patterns with established patients: determinants and differences between family practice and general internal medicine residents.
• Differences between family physicians' and general internists' medical charges.
• Comparison of primary care resident physicians' practice styles during initial and return patient visits.

Schools

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• University Of Utah School Of Medicine

• University of Utah

Doctors Specialties

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• Family Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• Blue Card PPO
• CaliforniaCare HMO
• Advantage Preferred DirectAccess Plus PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
• Pathway X Direct Access PPO
• Pathway X Guided Access HMO
• Pathway X Tiered Direct Access
• Select Plus HMO
• Select PPO
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Open Access Plus
• Delta Health System
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• Blue & Gold HMO
• Covered California - Bronze PPO
• Employer Group HMO
• Health Net PPO
• Individual and Family PPO
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• Heritage Signature
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• PacifiCare HMO
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification

Education

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• University of Utah
• University of Utah School of Medicine

Hospital

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• University of California, Davis Medical Center

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1508841602
NPPES Provider LastName		BERTAKIS
NPPES Provider FirstName		KLEA
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		958172307
NPPES Provider State		CA
Specialty Description		Family Practice
Total Claim Count		73.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1508841602
Last Name Of The Provider	BERTAKIS
First Name Of The Provider	KLEA
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