Physician

Internal Medicine

Sheldon M. Retchin works in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is a one of the best medicals schools. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is ranked 22 in research and 2 in primary care medicine Sheldon Retchin is a published doctor. He published 69 publications, including: 'A comparison of patterns of care of nonsmall cell lung carcinoma patients in a younger and Medigap commercially insured cohort.'

Publications

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• Heritability of DUI Convictions: A Twin Study of Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol.
• The Effects of Expanding Primary Care Access for the Uninsured: Implications for the Health Care Workforce Under Health Reform.
• Applying Organizational Science to Health Care: A Framework for Collaborative Practice.
• Effects of bone-conducted music on swimming performance.
• Phased implementation of electronic health records through an office of clinical transformation.
• Medicaid and preterm births in Virginia: an analysis of recent outcomes.
• Concentrating hospital-wide deaths in a palliative care unit: the effect on place of death and system-wide mortality.
• Medicaid and preterm birth and low birth weight: the last two decades.
• The transfer of uninsured patients from academic to community primary care settings.
• A conceptual framework for interprofessional and co-managed care.
• Overcoming information asymmetry in consumer-directed health plans.
• Medicare and Medicaid managed care: a tale of two trajectories.
• Contemporary challenges and opportunities at academic health centers.
• The added value of claims for cancer surveillance: results of varying case definitions.
• Reported home health agency referrals by internists and family physicians.
• Health behavior changes in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
• How the elderly fare in HMOs: outcomes from the Medicare competition demonstrations.
• A geriatric and gerontologic perspective on the effects of medical conditions on older drivers: discussion of Waller.
• Factors associated with the frequency of house calls by primary care physicians.
• Effects of cost containment on the care of elderly diabetics.
• Elderly patients with congestive heart failure under prepaid care.
• The management of geriatric hypertension in health maintenance organizations.
• The quality of ambulatory care in Medicare health maintenance organizations.
• Management of colorectal cancer in Medicare health maintenance organizations.
• The influence of physician specialty on housecalls.
• The impact of echocardiographic results on treatment decisions for patients suspected of mitral valve prolapse.
• The role of aging and chronic disease in sexual dysfunction.
• Performance-based measurements among elderly drivers and nondrivers.
• Mitral valve prolapse. Disease or illness?
• Continuity of care after July: what happens to the resident's patients?
• The application of official policy. Prophylaxis recommendations for patients with mitral valve prolapse.
• A nurse-initiated reminder system for the periodic health examination. Implementation and evaluation.
• Clinical geriatric research: still in adolescence.
• Why a teaching hospital needs a department of medical informatics.
• Symposium: Videotapes as teaching tools: three applications in medical education.
• Endocarditis and mitral valve prolapse: what is the "risk"?
• The revision of government-sponsored health care.
• The costs and benefits of a screening program to detect dementia in older drivers.
• Access and outcomes of elderly patients enrolled in managed care.
• Faculty practice plans: caring for the underserved?
• Should the elderly receive chemotherapy for node-negative breast cancer? A cost-effectiveness analysis examining total and active life-expectancy outcomes.
• An overview of the older driver.
• The effect of age and comorbidity in the treatment of elderly women with nonmetastatic breast cancer.
• Factors that determine the treatment for local and regional prostate cancer.
• Differences in initial treatment patterns and outcomes of lung cancer in the elderly.
• Variation in staging and treatment of local and regional breast cancer in the elderly.
• Ability of Medicare claims data and cancer registries to identify cancer cases and treatment.
• Measuring standards of care for early breast cancer in an insured population.
• Outcomes of stroke patients in Medicare fee for service and managed care.
• Perioperative management of colon cancer under Medicare risk programs.
• Heterogeneity of health maintenance organizations and quality of care.
• Commentary: establishing standards for the utility of administrative claims data.
• Costs of care associated with non-small-cell lung cancer in a commercially insured cohort.
• A comparison of patterns of care of nonsmall cell lung carcinoma patients in a younger and Medigap commercially insured cohort.
• Variations in Medicare health maintenance organizations.
• Do health maintenance organizations work for Medicare?
• Marketplace challenges and opportunities for faculty practice plans.
• Establishing physician networks within evolving antitrust guidelines.
• The modification of physician practice patterns.
• Adverse selection at academic health centers.
• A sociodemographic and economic comparison of breast reconstruction, mastectomy, and conservative surgery.
• Electronic medical record systems at academic health centers: advantages and implementation issues.
• Three strategies used by academic health centers to expand primary care capacity.
• Factors associated with changes in satisfaction with care.
• Predictors of Medicare costs in elderly beneficiaries with breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer.
• Marketplace reforms and primary care career decisions.
• Clinical service standards at academic health centers.
• Using hospital discharge files to enhance cancer surveillance.

Schools

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• University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill School Of Medicine

• Virginia Commonwealth University School Of Med

• Virginia Commonwealth University

• University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

Doctors Specialties

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• Geriatric Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Aetna HMO
• Blue Card PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• Southern Health PPO
• Coventry Health Care of Virginia HMO
• Choice Care PPO
• Medicare MCR
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO
• United Healthcare

Education

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• University of North Carolina Hospitals
• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

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