Professor of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Neurology
Dr. Lee H. Schwamm, MD
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Doctor Lee H. Schwamm, MD practices Neurology. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine Dr. Lee H. Schwamm is a published MD as well. He has 97 publications published. The latest was: Distinct Short-Term Outcomes in Patients With Mild Versus Rapidly Improving Stroke Not Treated With Thrombolytics. Schwamm is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Assessment of Home-Time After Acute Ischemic Stroke in Medicare Beneficiaries.
- Endovascular Stroke Treatment Outcomes After Patient Selection Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Clinical Criteria.
- Risks and Benefits Associated With PreStroke Antiplatelet Therapy Among Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Treated With Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator.
- Variation and Trends in the Documentation of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in GWTG-Stroke Hospitals.
- Treatment and Outcome of Thrombolysis-Related Hemorrhage: A Multicenter Retrospective Study.
- Smoking Paradox in Patients Hospitalized With Coronary Artery Disease or Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines.
- Acute Stroke: Shifting From Informed Consent to Informed Refusal of Intravenous Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator.
- Future of Quality and Outcomes Research in Stroke.
- Patient Characteristics and Outcomes After Hemorrhagic Stroke in Pregnancy.
- Quality of Care and Ischemic Stroke Risk After Hospitalization for Transient Ischemic Attack: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke.
- Drip and ship thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic Stroke: use, temporal trends, and outcomes.
- Contemporary trends and predictors of postacute service use and routine discharge home after Stroke.
- Outcomes in Mild Acute Ischemic Stroke Treated With Intravenous Thrombolysis: A Retrospective Analysis of the Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Registry.
- Use of a Standardized Assessment to Predict Rehabilitation Care after Acute Stroke.
- Response to letter regarding article, "time and diffusion lesion size in major anterior circulation ischemic Strokes".
- Exposing Hidden Truncation-Related Errors in Acute Stroke Perfusion Imaging.
- Clinical Commentary on "Certain Uncertainty: Life After Stroke From the Patient's Perspective".
- Development and initial testing of the Stroke rapid-treatment readiness tool.
- Guideline-Directed Low-Density Lipoprotein Management in High-Risk Patients With Ischemic Stroke: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke 2003 to 2012.
- Time and diffusion lesion size in major anterior circulation ischemic Strokes.
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Bleeding Complications After Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke.
- Combining MRI with NIHSS Thresholds to Predict Outcome in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Value for Patient Selection.
- Intravenous fibrinolysis eligibility: a survey of Stroke clinicians' practice patterns and review of the literature.
- Adherence to third European cooperative acute Stroke study 3- to 4.5-hour exclusions and association with outcome: data from get with the guidelines-Stroke.
- Determinants of Early Outcomes in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Proximal Artery Occlusion.
- Racial/Ethnic Differences in Process of Care and Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized With IntraCerebral Hemorrhage.
- Hospitalized Hemorrhagic Stroke Patients with Renal Insufficiency: Clinical Characteristics, Care Patterns, and Outcomes.
- Hospital Case Volume is Associated With Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
- The TeleStroke mimic (TM)-score: a prediction rule for identifying Stroke mimics evaluated in a TeleStroke Network.
- Severity of leukoaraiosis, leptomeningeal collaterals, and clinical outcomes after intra-arterial therapy in patients with acute ischemic Stroke.
- Strategies Used by Hospitals to Improve Speed of Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator Treatment in Acute Ischemic Stroke.
- Insurance status and outcome after intraCerebral hemorrhage: findings from get with the guidelines-stroke.
- Quality of Care for Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes as a Function of Hospital Revascularization Capability: Insights From Get With The Guidelines-CAD.
- Improving Door-to-Needle Times: A Single Center Validation of the Target Stroke Hypothesis.
- Venous thromboembolism in the get with the guidelines-Stroke acute ischemic Stroke population: incidence and patterns of prophylaxis.
- Variable selection and prediction using a nested, matched case-control study: Application to hospital acquired pneumonia in Stroke patients.
- Acute ischemic Stroke and timing of treatment--reply.
- Quality of Care and Outcomes for In-Hospital Ischemic Stroke: Findings From the National Get With The Guidelines-Stroke.
- Comparison of performance achievement award recognition with primary Stroke center certification for acute ischemic Stroke care.
- Temporal trends in patient characteristics and treatment with intravenous thrombolysis among acute ischemic Stroke patients at get with the guidelines-Stroke hospitals.
- Characteristics and Outcomes Among Patients Transferred to a Regional Comprehensive Stroke Center for Tertiary Care.
- Neuraxial anesthesia in parturients with intracranial pathology: a comprehensive review and reassessment of risk.
- Relationship of Race/Ethnicity With Door-to-Balloon Time and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Elevation Myocardial In...
- Review of Stroke center effectiveness and other get with the guidelines data.
- Risk-standardizing survival for in-hospital cardiac arrest to facilitate hospital comparisons.
- Outcomes in Severe Middle Cerebral Artery Ischemic Stroke.
- Racial and ethnic differences in outcomes in older patients with acute ischemic Stroke.
- Lipid Profile, Lipid-lowering Medications, and IntraCerebral Hemorrhage After tPA in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke.
- Comparison of ischemic Stroke outcomes and patient and hospital characteristics by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
- Teleneurology applications: Report of the Telemedicine Work Group of the American Academy of Neurology.
- A Trial of Imaging Selection and Endovascular Treatment for Ischemic Stroke.
- Age Differences in the Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Among Older Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure.
- Assessing Stroke patients for rehabilitation during the acute hospitalization: findings from the get with the guidelines-Stroke program.
- Temporal trends and predictors in the use of aldosterone antagonists post-acute myocardial infarction.
- Predictors of adherence to performance measures in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
- Dysphagia Screening and Hospital-acquired Pneumonia in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke: Findings from Get with the Guidelines-Stroke.
- Assessing variability in neurointerventional practice patterns for acute ischemic Stroke.
- Death and Rehospitalization after Transient Ischemic Attack or Acute Ischemic Stroke: One-year Outcomes from the Adherence Evaluation of Acute Ischemic Stroke-Longitud...
- Rapid identification of a major diffusion/perfusion mismatch in distal internal Carotid artery or middle cerebral artery ischemic stroke.
- Implementing a State-based Stroke Quality Improvement Collaborative: The Massachusetts Experience.
- Sleep Telemedicine: A Survey Study of Patient Preferences.
- Trends in smoking cessation counseling: experience from american heart association-get with the guidelines.
- Reliability of Cerebral blood volume maps as a substitute for diffusion-weighted imaging in acute ischemic stroke.
- Elderly Patients Are at Higher Risk for Poor Outcomes After Intra-Arterial Therapy.
- Quality of Care and Outcomes Among Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction by Level of Kidney Function at Admission: Report From the Get With The Guidelines Coronary...
- Safety of full-dose intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator followed by multimodal endovascular therapy for acute ischemic Stroke.
- The Status of TeleStroke in the United States: A Survey of Currently Active Stroke Telemedicine Programs.
- Implementation of a patient selection protocol for intra-arterial therapy increases treatment rates in patients with acute ischemic Stroke.
- Regional Variation in Recommended Treatments for Ischemic Stroke and TIA: Get With the Guidelines-Stroke 2003-2010.
- Predictors of Increased Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator Use Among Hospitals Participating in the Massachusetts Primary Stroke Service Program.
- Predictors of Rapid Brain Imaging in Acute Stroke: Analysis of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program.
- Infarct Volume Is a Pivotal Biomarker After Intra-Arterial Stroke Therapy.
- Stroke in 2011: Major advances across the spectrum of Stroke care.
- Prestroke Dementia is Associated with Poor Outcomes after Reperfusion Therapy among Elderly Stroke Patients.
- Peripartum Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Nationwide Data and Institutional Experience.
- TeleStroke increases use of acute Stroke therapy.
- A Qualitative Assessment of Practices Associated With Shorter Door-to-Needle Time for Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Ischemic Stroke.
- Regional differences in clinical profile, quality of care, and outcomes among Hispanic patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction in the Get with Guideline...
- Use of Telemedicine and Other Strategies to Increase the Number of Patients That May Be Treated with Intravenous Thrombolysis.
- Representativeness of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry: Comparison of Patient and Hospital Characteristics Among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized With Is...
- Stroke Quality Metrics: Systematic Reviews of the Relationships to Patient-Centered Outcomes and Impact of Public Reporting.
- CT angiography predicts use of tertiary interventional services in acute ischemic Stroke patients.
- Improvement in use of anticoagulation therapy in patients with ischemic Stroke: Results from Get With The Guidelines-Stroke.
- Outcomes in Mild or Rapidly Improving Stroke Not Treated With Intravenous Recombinant Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke.
- Improving Door-to-Needle Times in Acute Ischemic Stroke: The Design and Rationale for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Target: Stroke Initi...
- Are Quality Improvements in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program Related to Better Care or Better Data Documentation?
- Predictors of hospital length of stay in heart failure: findings from get with the guidelines.
- Prediction of Early Stroke Risk in Transient Symptoms With Infarction: Relevance to the New Tissue-Based Definition.
- Imaging Stroke patients with unclear onset times.
- Risk of thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic Stroke in patients with current malignancy.
- Timeliness of tissue-type plasminogen activator therapy in acute ischemic Stroke: patient characteristics, hospital factors, and outcomes associated with door-to-needl...
- Hospital certification for optimizing cardiovascular Disease and stroke quality of care and outcomes.
- Risk score for in-hospital ischemic Stroke mortality derived and validated within the Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Program.
- Patterns and predictors of discharge statin prescription among hospitalized patients with intraCerebral hemorrhage.
- Management of thrombolysis-associated symptomatic intraCerebral hemorrhage.
- Distinct Short-Term Outcomes in Patients With Mild Versus Rapidly Improving Stroke Not Treated With Thrombolytics.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Hospital
Mass General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- EEG (Electroencephalogram)
- EMG (Electromyography)
Conditions Treated
- Ataxia
- Autonomic Disorders
- Bell's Palsy
- Brain Aneurysm
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Doctors Specialties
- Vascular Neurology
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1619968260 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SCHWAMM | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | LEE | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021142621 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Neurology | |
| Total Claim Count | 35.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1619968260 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SCHWAMM |
| First Name Of The Provider | LEE |
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