Professor of Medicine, Chief of Geriatrics, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Internal Medicine
Dr. Richard Besdine, MD
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Doctor Richard Besdine, MD is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received 2 awards: "Top MD" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Richard Besdine is a published MD as well. He has 51 publications published. The latest was: Restructuring Medicare for the next century: what will beneficiaries really need?
Publications
- Advance directive repository.
- Mandating advance directives.
- Partnering to improve hospital-physician office communication through implementing care transitions best practices.
- Caring for older Americans: the future of geriatric medicine.
- Immunological characteristics of heat-killed Streptococcus type 1--sonic fractions obtained by zonal fractionation.
- Tuboovarian abscess with recovery of T-mycoplasma.
- Medical assessment of the elderly patient.
- The emergence of geriatric assessment units. The "new technology of geriatrics".
- Outcomes-based quality improvement: reducing the data collection burden.
- Consultative geriatric assessment for ambulatory patients. A randomized trial in a health maintenance organization.
- Alzheimer's disease in RI: perspectives in 2002.
- Preparing for the silver tsunami: the integration of geriatrics into the new medical curriculum at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
- From Occam''s razor to multimorbidity: geriatrics comes of age.
- Aging of the human nervous system: what do we know?
- The future of delirium research: promising but still room for improvement.
- Using the comprehensive clinical approach to older patients.
- A systematic review of curricular interventions teaching transitional care to physicians-in-training and physicians.
- Policy options to improve discharge planning and reduce rehospitalization.
- Improving health for elderly people: an international health promotion and disease prevention agenda.
- Integrating and evaluating geriatrics in medical school: a novel approach for the challenge.
- Education in gerontology and geriatrics comes of age.
- Teaching communication and compassionate care skills: an innovative curriculum for pre-clerkship medical students.
- Preparation and description of high-molecular-weight soluble surface antigens from a group A Streptococcus.
- A multicenter survey on profile of care for hip fracture: predictors of mortality and disability.
- Restructuring Medicare for the next century: what will beneficiaries really need?
- Improving health care quality by reimbursement policy.
- Pressure sores in the elderly: can this outcome be improved?
- Geriatric medicine.
- Accidental hypothermia: the body''s energy crisis.
- A perspective on academic medicine from the nation's largest managed care purchaser.
- Clinical problem-solving: sounds in the attic.
- Aluminum in Alzheimer's disease.
- Stroke prevention in the elderly.
- Nursing home residents need physicians' services.
- Geriatrics content in residency curricula.
- Dementia: the single most important problem facing health care professionals in the next 30 to 50 years.
- The educational utility of comprehensive functional assessment in the elderly.
- Decisions to withhold treatment from nursing home residents.
- Mitotic response induced in sensitive guinea-pigs by tuberculin.
- The effect of the scorbutic state on tuberculin hypersensitivity in the guinea pig. II. In vitro mitotic response of lymphocytes.
- In vitro lymphocyte responses.
- Pneumonia and influenza: vaccination of elderly is justified.
- A prescription for successful aging.
- Illness behavior in the aged. Implications for clinicians.
- Geriatric education for visiting faculty trainees: the Harvard Geriatric Education Center.
- Functional assessment as a model for clinical evaluation of geriatric patients.
- Acute confusional states (delirium) in the hospitalized elderly.
- The maturing of geriatrics.
- Effects of age, education, and physician advice on utilization of screening mammography.
- Prevalence of mammography use in a nursing home population.
Schools
University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine
Beth Israel Hospital
Beth Israel Hospital Harvard
University Glasgow
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top MD
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
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Rhode Island Hospital
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