Joel Weissman
Joel Weissman, PhD
Deputy Director/Chief Scientific Officer, Center for Surgery and Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Institute of Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Departm
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Joel S. Weissman, PhD, is the deputy director and chief scientific officer of the Center for Surgery and Public Health and professor of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Weissman received his PhD in health policy from the Pew Fellows Program at the Heller School, Brandeis. His research interests focus on vulnerable populations, quality of care, comparative effectiveness policy, academic-industry relationships in biomedical research, and health care reform. He has led numerous funded research projects in which he has studied the relation of patient safety to hospital crowding, the reporting and disclosure of medical errors to patients, access to clinical trials by uninsured participants, e-prescribing in Massachusetts, alternative scoring methods for pay-for-performance, and the evaluation of the Consumer’s Union Best Buy Drugs program. He published early work on access to care by the uninsured in his book, Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Care, with a forward by Hillary Rodham Clinton. 

From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Weissman served as senior health policy advisor to the secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, where he led the planning effort for a multi-million dollar statewide all-payer medical home pilot, among other strategic initiatives. Dr. Weissman is co-director of a course on health services research methods at the Harvard School of Public Health (portions of which have been taught in Singapore, Puerto Rico, and Mexico), is faculty for the public health section of resident physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, and serves as a tutor in the health policy course for HMS students. 

Pay-for-performance programs to reduce racial/ethnic disparities: What might different designs achieve?
Authors: Weissman JS, Hasnain-Wynia R, Weinick RM, et al.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
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Using Cognitive Probes in a Telephone Survey Asking Patients about Hospital Based Adverse Events
Authors: Clarridge B, Bolcic-Jankovic D, Fowler FJ, et al.
Survey Practice
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Disclosure of Hospital Adverse Events and Its Association with Patients’ Ratings of the Quality of Care.
Authors: Lopez L, Weissman JS, Schneider EC, et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine
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Clinicians’ Assessments of Electronic Medication Safety Alerts in Ambulatory Care.
Authors: Weingart SN, Simchowitz B, Shiman L, et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine
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An Empirical Model to Estimate the Potential Impact of Medication Safety Alerts on Patient Harm, Utilization, and Cost in Ambulatory Care.
Authors: Weingart SN, Simchowitz B, Padolsky H, et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine
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Assessing the Value of Electronic Prescribing in Ambulatory Care: A Focus Group Study.
Authors: Weingart SN, Massagli M, Cyrulik A, et al.
International Journal of Medical Informatics
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Measuring residents’ perceived preparedness and skillfulness to deliver cross cultural care.
Authors: Park ER, Chun MBJ, Betancourt JR, et al.
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Hospitalists and the quality of care in hospitals.
Authors: Lopez L, Hicks LS, Cohen AP, et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine
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Quality of care provided to individual patients in US hospitals: Results from an analysis of national Hospital Quality Alliance data.
Authors: Vogeli C, Kang R, Landrum MB, et al.
Medical Care
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Whom do Older Americans Trust Most to Provide Information about Prescription Drugs
Authors: J.M. Donohue, H.A. Huskamp, I.B. Wilson, et al.
American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
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A pilot study examining undesirable events among emergency department-boarded patients awaiting inpatient beds.
Authors: Liu SW, Thomas SH, Gordon JA, et al.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
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Subjects' views of obligations to ensure post-trial access to drugs, care, and information: Qualitative results from the Experiences of Participants in Clinical Trials (EPIC) Study.
Authors: Sofaer N, Thiessen C, Goold SD, et al.
Journal of Medical Ethics
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Overrides of Medication Alerts in Ambulatory Care.
Authors: Isaac T, Weissman JS, Davis RB, et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine
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Advance Directives in Nursing Home Residents Aged ≥65 Years: United States 2004.
Authors: Resnick HE, Schuur JD, Heineman J, et al.
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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Access to Medications and Medical Care After Participation in HIV Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review of Trial Protocols and Informed Consent Documents.
Authors: Ciaranello AL, Walensky RP, Sax PE, et al.
HIV Clinical Trials
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Potential Savings from an Evidence-Based, Consumer-Oriented Public Education Campaign on Prescription Drugs
Authors: J.M. Donohue, M. Fischer, H.A. Huskamp, et al.
Health Services Research
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Access to care and use of preventive services by Hispanics: state-based variations from 1991 to 2004.
Authors: Kang-Kim M, Betancourt JR, Ayanian JZ, et al.
Medical Care
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State Medicaid coverage and access to care for low-income adults.
Authors: Weissman JS, Zaslavsky AM, Wolf RE, et al.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
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Disparities in Health Care Driven by Where Minority Patient Seek Care: Examination of the Hospital Quality Alliance Measures.
Authors: Hasnain-Wynia R, Baker DW, Nerenz D, et al.
Archives of Internal Medicine
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Age-related differences in preventive care among adults with diabetes
Authors: Persell SD, Zaslavsky AM, Weissman JS, et al.
American Journal of Medicine
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Undiagnosed hypertension and hypercholesterolemia among uninsured and insured adults in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Authors: Ayanian JZ, Zaslavsky AM, Weissman JS, et al.
American Journal of Public Health
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Teaching hospitals and quality of care: a review of the literature

Milbank Quarterly
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Racial disparities in access to renal transplantation--clinically appropriate or due to underuse or overuse?
Authors: Epstein AM, Ayanian JZ, Keogh JH, et al.
New England Journal of Medicine
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Unmet health needs of uninsured adults in the United States.
Authors: Ayanian JZ, Weissman JS, Schneider EC, et al.
Journal of the American Medical Association
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Quality of care by race and gender for congestive heart failure and pneumonia
Authors: Ayanian JZ, Weissman JS, Chasan-Taber S, et al.
Medical Care
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The effect of patients' preferences on racial differences in access to renal transplantation
Authors: Ayanian JZ, Cleary PD, Weissman JS, et al.
New England Journal of Medicine
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Hospital readmissions and quality of care
Authors: Weissman JS, Ayanian JZ, Chasan-Taber S, et al.
Medical Care
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Quality of care for two common illnesses in teaching and nonteaching hospitals
Authors: Ayanian JZ, Weissman JS, Chasan-Taber S, et al.
Health Affairs
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