Regional Dean, Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, UAB
Internal Medicine
Dr. Robert M. Centor, MD
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Robert M. Centor, MD practices Internal Medicine. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He has 2 awards "Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program" and "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program". Robert Centor is also a published MD. He has 101 publication published. The most recent publication is: Use of statistics and scientific inference: odds ratios, likelihood ratio, and receiving operating characteristic curves. He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- The diagnosis of strep throat in adults in the emergency room.
- Retainer medicine: an ethically legitimate form of practice that can improve primary care.
- Formerly Obese, Now Thin and Confused: The Utility of Mnemonics in the Approach to Altered Mental Status.
- Antibiotics for sore throat patients-varied opinions.
- NSTEMI or Not: A 59-Year-Old Man with Chest Pain and Troponin Elevation.
- Using Cognitive Mapping to Define Key Domains for Successful Attending Rounds.
- A 60-Year-Old Woman with Chorea and Weight Loss.
- Tried and true: A survey of successfully promoted academic hospitalists.
- Adolescent Pharyngitis: A Review of Bacterial Causes.
- A middle-age woman with sudden onset dyspnea.
- Evidence-based medicine training in a resource-poor country, the importance of leveraging personal and institutional relationships.
- Avoiding sore throat morbidity and mortality: when is it not "just a sore throat?".
- Clinical problem-solving. In search of....
- Re: role of non-group a streptococci in acute pharyngitis.
- Clinical prediction rule for stratifying risk of pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
- Expand the pharyngitis paradigm for adolescents and young adults.
- Do hospitalists improve quality?
- Scholarship opportunities for trainees and clinician educators: learning outcomes from a case report writing workshop.
- Reassessment of clinical practice guidelines: go gently into that good night.
- Scurvy is still present in developed countries.
- A pilot study using nominal group technique to assess residents' perceptions of successful attending rounds.
- A hospitalist inpatient system does not improve patient care outcomes.
- Burden of comorbid medical conditions and quality of diabetes care.
- It's 5 pm Friday; the caller thinks he has strep--do you write that script?
- Does residency training improve performance of physical examination skills?
- Severe acute pharyngitis caused by group C streptococcus.
- Pharyngitis management: defining the controversy.
- To be a great physician, you must understand the whole story.
- Pharyngitis management: focusing on where we agree.
- Academic general internal medicine: past, present, future.
- Delay in time to receipt of thrombolytic medication among Medicare patients with kidney disease.
- Evaluating vaginitis. The importance of patient factors.
- A propensity score analysis of the impact of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors on long-term survival of older adults with heart failure and perceived contraindi...
- Nurse staffing and mortality for Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction.
- Atypical presentations among Medicare beneficiaries with unstable angina pectoris.
- Erstwhile triple threat.
- Characterization of long-term outcomes after Toupet fundoplication: symptoms, medication use, and health status.
- Rapid antigen group a streptococcus test to diagnose pharyngitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Relationship of hospital teaching status with quality of care and mortality for Medicare patients with acute MI.
- What is heartburn worth? A cost-utility analysis of management strategies.
- An intervention to increase physicians' use of adherence-enhancing strategies in managing hypercholesterolemic patients.
- The art and science of searching MEDLINE to answer clinical questions. Finding the right number of articles.
- Use of statistics and scientific inference: odds ratios, likelihood ratio, and receiving operating characteristic curves.
- The adult respiratory distress syndrome. Cell populations and soluble mediators in the air spaces of patients at high risk.
- Throat cultures and rapid tests for diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
- Rapid diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis in adult emergency room patients.
- Transportability of a decision rule for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis.
- Strategies for treating sore throat in adults.
- What a difference a day makes: a decision analysis of adult streptococcal pharyngitis.
- Rational decision making based on history: adult sore throats.
- Effects of low dose oral iodide supplementation on thyroid function in normal men.
- Effect of medium and cultivation conditions on comparisons between latex agglutination and culture detection of group A streptococci.
- Evaluating physicians' probabilistic judgments.
- Assessing the responsiveness of functional scales to clinical change: an analogy to diagnostic test performance.
- Underdocumentation of benzodiazepine prescriptions in a general medicine clinic.
- Risk factors for attempted suicide during adolescence.
- Clinical and microbiological evidence for endemic pharyngitis among adults due to group C streptococci.
- The use of nurses to evaluate houseofficers' humanistic behavior.
- Screening for alcohol abuse using CAGE scores and likelihood ratios.
- Signal detectability: the use of ROC curves and their analyses.
- Screening for drinking disorders in the elderly using the CAGE questionnaire.
- Controlled trial using computerized feedback to improve physicians' diagnostic judgments.
- Estimating confidence intervals of likelihood ratios.
- Evaluation of two ELISA's for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis from endocervical swabs.
- Primary and secondary right atrial tumors detected by echocardiography.
- Development of the adult respiratory distress syndrome: progressive alteration of neutrophil chemotactic and secretory processes.
- The case for 'tight control" of diabetes mellitus.
- An evaluation of methods for estimating the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
- A Visicalc program for estimating the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.
- Short-term results of an immunization compliance program.
- Treating sore throats in the emergency room. The importance of follow-up in decision making.
- Inability to predict relapse in acute asthma.
- An international comparison of physicians' judgments of outcome rates of cardiac procedures and attitudes toward risk, uncertainty, justifiability, and regret.
- Interpreting cost analyses of clinical interventions.
- Physicians' judgments of the risks of cardiac procedures. Differences between cardiologists and other internists.
- Physicians' survival predictions for patients with acute congestive heart failure.
- Choice of long-term strategy for the management of patients with severe esophagitis: a cost-utility analysis.
- Racial differences in the medical treatment of elderly Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction.
- Why models predicting bacteremia in general medical patients do not work.
- Practice variation in the management of pharyngitis: the importance of variability in patients' clinical characteristics and in physicians' responses to them.
- Impact of patient history on residents'' evaluation on child sexual abuse.
- Why physicians don't pursue abnormal laboratory tests: an investigation of hypercalcemia and the follow-up of abnormal test results.
- Measures of the value of a diagnostic test derived from stochastic thresholds.
- Stochastic thresholds.
- The association of physician attitudes about uncertainty and risk taking with resource use in a Medicare HMO.
- Using a combined CME course to improve physicians' skills in eliciting patient adherence.
- Diffusion of troponin testing in unstable angina patients: adoption prior to guideline release.
- American internal medicine in the 21st century: can an Oslerian generalism survive?
- Physician Internet medical information seeking and on-line continuing education use patterns.
- Re-examination of the cost-effectiveness of surgical versus medical therapy in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease: the value of long-term data collection.
- Diagnosis and management of adults with pharyngitis.
- Principles to consider in defining new directions in internal medicine training and certification.
- Optimal management of adults with pharyngitis--a multi-criteria decision analysis.
- Seek first to understand.
- Does interhospital transfer improve outcome of acute myocardial infarction? A propensity score analysis from the Cardiovascular Cooperative Project.
- Where should hospitalist programs be housed?
- Peritonsilar abscess requiring intensive care unit admission caused by group C and G Streptococcus: a case report.
- Hypercalcemia and acute renal failure in milk-alkali syndrome: a case report.
- Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremic tonsillitis: 2 Cases and a review of the literature.
- Health-related quality of life and virologic outcomes in an HIV clinic.
Schools
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College Of Virginia School Of Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Physician Practice Connections Recognition Program
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
Education
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Virginia Commonwealth University Health System -
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1427090661 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | CENTOR | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ROBERT | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 35233 | |
| NPPES Provider State | AL | |
| Specialty Description | Internal Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 81.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1427090661 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | CENTOR |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROBERT |
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