Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine

Internal Medicine

Robert S. Wigton is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He graduated from University of Nebraska Medical Center. University of Nebraska Medical Center is a top medical university. University of Nebraska Medical Center is ranked 60/4 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 1 awards: "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Robert S. Wigton, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 91 publications published. The latest was: Personal awareness and effective patient care.

Publications

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• Procedures performed by hospitalist and non-hospitalist general internists.
• How do community practitioners decide whether to prescribe antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections?
• "Get smart Colorado": impact of a mass media campaign to improve community antibiotic use.
• Gender differences in patient-provider symptom agreement in reporting respiratory complaints on a questionnaire.
• Variability in emergency physician decision making about prescribing opioid analgesics.
• The effect of race/ethnicity and desirable social characteristics on physicians' decisions to prescribe opioid analgesics.
• Can internal medicine residents master microscopic urinalysis? Results of an evaluation and teaching intervention.
• Prediction of community-acquired pneumonia using artificial neural networks.
• The relationship between treatment objectives and practice patterns in the management of urinary tract infections.
• The effects of proficiency and bias on residents' interpretation of the microscopic urinalysis.
• Expectoration of bronchogenic carcinoma.
• Teaching and learning methods for new generalist physicians.
• You can lead a horse to water--improving physicians' knowledge of probabilities may not affect their decisions.
• Procedural skills of practicing pulmonologists. A national survey of 1,000 members of the American College of Physicians.
• Advance directives: a policy-capturing approach.
• Medical student perceptions of practice in rural Nebraska.
• Effect of lectures and increased experience in gastroenterology on examination scores of internal medicine residents.
• The effects of student personal characteristics on the evaluation of clinical performance.
• Factors important in the evaluation of clinical performance of internal medicine residents.
• Procedural skills in internal medicine.
• A method for selecting which procedural skills should be learned by internal medicine residents.
• Plans for rural practice of medical students and residents at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.
• Chart reminders in the diagnosis of anemia.
• Procedural skills training in the internal medicine residency.
• Medical schools affect student practice plans.
• Nebraska physician manpower: 1970-1980.
• Development of an objective rating system for residency applications.
• Enhanced learning of clinical diagnosis through computer graphics feedback of diagnostic weighting.
• Vasodilatation induced by streptomycin in the perfused canine kidney.
• Tiered tutoring in physiology.
• How physicians use clinical information in diagnosing pulmonary embolism: an application of conjoint analysis.
• Computerized clinical decision aids.
• Programs for on-line searching.
• Diagnosing pulmonary embolism using clinical findings.
• Validation of a model to identify young patients for lymph node biopsy.
• The new knowledge bases: CD-ROM and medicine.
• The effect of feedback in learning clinical diagnosis.
• Computerized reference management: searching the literature.
• Transportability of a decision rule for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis.
• The use of computer simulation in teaching clinical diagnosis.
• Computerized reference management--filing the literature.
• Changes in the inpatient and outpatient cancer patient population at a teaching institution over a three-year period.
• Modeling decisions to use tube feeding in seriously ill patients.
• Use of linear models to analyze physicians' decisions.
• Self-service computerized bibliographic retrieval: a comparison of Colleague and PaperChase, programs that search the MEDLINE data base.
• Use of clinical findings in the diagnosis of urinary tract infection in women.
• Procedural skills training in internal medicine residencies. A survey of program directors.
• Physicians for rural Nebraska--a comment on the Report of the Commission on Medical Education.
• Medical students' and residents' estimates of cardiac risk.
• Procedural skills of the general internist. A survey of 2500 physicians.
• Computerized medical records and clinic function.
• Intracavitary bleomycin and tetracycline in the management of malignant pleural effusions: a randomized study.
• Procedural skills of practicing gastroenterologists. A national survey of 700 members of the American College of Physicians.
• Procedural skills of practicing nephrologists. A national survey of 700 members of the American College of Physicians.
• Counterflow centrifugation apheresis for the collection of autologous peripheral blood stem cells from patients with malignancies: a comparison with a standard centrif...
• Clinical prediction rule for pulmonary infiltrates.
• Teaching old dogs new tricks: using cognitive feedback to improve physicians' diagnostic judgments on simulated cases.
• Use of clinical judgment analysis to explain regional variations in physicians' accuracies in diagnosing pneumonia.
• Findings from an evaluation of PlanAlyzer's double cross-over trials of computer-based, self-paced, case-based programs in anemia and chest pain diagnosis.
• Significant efficiency findings while controlling for the frequent confounders of CAI research in the PlanAlyzer project's computer-based, self-paced, case-based progr...
• Addition of peripheral blood stem cells collected without mobilization techniques to transplanted autologous bone marrow did not hasten marrow recovery following myelo...
• Training internists in procedural skills.
• Controlled trial using computerized feedback to improve physicians' diagnostic judgments.
• Relation of physicians' predicted probabilities of pneumonia to their utilities for ordering chest x-rays to detect pneumonia.
• Comparing methods of learning clinical prediction from case simulations.
• Reproducibility of predictor variables from a validated clinical rule.
• PlanAlyzer, an interactive computer-assisted program to teach clinical problem solving in diagnosing anemia and coronary artery disease.
• The influence of treatment descriptions on advance medical directive decisions.
• How physicians diagnose urinary tract infections: the potential influence of laboratory regulations on test availability and use.
• The effect of obesity on medical students' approach to patients with abdominal pain.
• Procedural experience and comfort level in internal medicine trainees.
• A controlled trial of an interactive, web-based virtual reality program for teaching physical diagnosis skills to medical students.
• Variation by specialty in the treatment of urinary tract infection in women.
• Personal awareness and effective patient care.
• Factors explaining variability among caregivers in the intent to restrict life-support interventions in a pediatric intensive care unit.
• Measuring procedural skills.
• Attitudes and expectations of 1995 gastroenterology graduates about gastroenterology.
• An innovative faculty appointment system at the University of Nebraska.
• Discrimination and reproducibility of an information maximizing multivariable model.
• Choice of primary care specialties by graduates of the University of Nebraska Medical Center 1978-1992.
• Practice variation in the management of pharyngitis: the importance of variability in patients' clinical characteristics and in physicians' responses to them.
• Entering the black box of neural networks.
• Selection of predictor variables for pneumonia using neural networks and genetic algorithms.
• The pseudothrombophlebitis syndrome: the use of ultrasound in diagnosis.
• Graduate medical education at the University of Nebraska: a ten year survey.
• Predictors of antibiotic prescription in respiratory tract infections by ambulatory care practitioners.
• Use of genetic algorithms for neural networks to predict community-acquired pneumonia.
• Predictors of urinary tract infection based on artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms.
• The declining number and variety of procedures done by general internists: a resurvey of members of the American College of Physicians.
• What do the theories of Egon Brunswik have to say to medical education?

Schools

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• University of Nebraska College of Medicine

• University Nebr Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Education

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• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• University of Nebraska College of Medicine

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