Professor, Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Dr. Laura A. Petersen, MD
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Laura A. Petersen practices Internal Medicine. He attended Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Laura A. Petersen is a published physician. He published 82 publications, including: 'Case-based educational intervention to assess change in providers' knowledge and attitudes towards the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association C...'
Publications
- Case-based educational intervention to assess change in providers' knowledge and attitudes towards the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association C...
- Frequency and practice-level variation in inappropriate aspirin use for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: insights from the National Cardiovascular Dis...
- Gender disparities in evidence-based statin therapy in patients with cardiovascular disease.
- Publishing protocols for partnered research.
- Is High-Intensity Statin Therapy Associated With Lower Statin Adherence Compared With Low- to Moderate-Intensity Statin Therapy? Implications of the 2013 American Coll...
- Baby-MONITOR: A Composite Indicator of NICU Quality.
- Frequency and Practice Level Variation In Inappropriate and Non-recommended Prasugrel Prescribing: Insights from the NCDR(®)PINNACLE Registry.
- Decrease the incentives to order lipid panels-reply.
- Financial incentives to control hypertension in patients--reply.
- Effects of individual physician-level and practice-level financial incentives on hypertension care: a randomized trial.
- Creating peer groups for assessing and comparing nursing home performance.
- Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol reporting and goal attainment in primary care.
- Variations in Definitions of Mortality Have Little Influence on Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Performance Ratings.
- How variability in the institutional review board review process affects minimal-risk multisite health services research.
- Treating Chronically Ill People with Diabetes Mellitus with Limited Life Expectancy: Implications for Performance Measurement.
- Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of a cluster randomized controlled trial of pay for performance for hypertension treatment: Study Protocol.
- Passive monitoring versus active assessment of clinical performance: impact on measured quality of care.
- Frequency and correlates of treatment intensification for elevated cholesterol levels in patients with cardiovascular disease.
- Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widely.
- The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICU.
- Exploring situational awareness in diagnostic errors in primary care.
- Barriers to Non-HDL Cholesterol Goal Attainment by Providers.
- Institutional, provider, and patient correlates of low-density lipoprotein and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal attainment according to the Adult Treatmen...
- Impact of comorbidity type on measures of quality for diabetes care.
- Importance of patient, provider, and facility predictors of hepatitis C virus treatment in veterans: a national study.
- Follow-up actions on electronic referral communication in a multispecialty outpatient setting.
- Children with chronic illness return to their baseline functional status after organ dysfunction on the first day of admission in the pediatric intensive care unit.
- Relationship between clinical conditions and use of Veterans Affairs health care among Medicare-enrolled veterans.
- Notification of abnormal lab test results in an electronic medical record: do any safety concerns remain?
- Patient-to-nurse ratios and outcomes of moderately preterm infants.
- Improving the performance of performance measurement.
- The association of Medicare drug coverage with use of evidence-based medications in the Veterans Health Administration.
- Missed opportunities to initiate endoscopic evaluation for colorectal cancer diagnosis.
- Timely follow-up of abnormal diagnostic imaging test results in an outpatient setting: are electronic medical records achieving their potential?
- Will hypertension performance measures used for pay-for-performance programs penalize those who care for medically complex patients?
- Prescription errors and outcomes related to inconsistent information transmitted through computerized order entry: a prospective study.
- The neglected purpose of comparative-effectiveness research.
- Using a multifaceted approach to improve the follow-up of positive fecal occult blood test results.
- Method to develop health care peer groups for quality and financial comparisons across hospitals.
- VHA pharmacy use in veterans with Medicare drug coverage.
- Obesity: an independent predictor of in-hospital postoperative renal insufficiency among patients undergoing cardiac surgery?
- Quality of depression care and its impact on health service use and mortality among veterans.
- Does poorer familiarity with Medicare translate into worse access to health care?
- Knowledge and awareness of peripheral vascular disease are poor among women at risk for cardiovascular disease.
- Reducing diagnostic errors through effective communication: harnessing the power of information technology.
- Errors in cancer diagnosis: current understanding and future directions.
- Medical errors involving trainees: a study of closed malpractice claims from 5 insurers.
- The effect of referral and transfer patients on hospital funding in a capitated health care delivery system.
- Do financial incentives in a globally budgeted healthcare payment system produce changes in the way patients are categorized? A five-year study.
- Communication outcomes of critical imaging results in a computerized notification system.
- Pay for performance is growing up.
- Implementing pay-for-performance in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Comparing self-reported health status and diagnosis-based risk adjustment to predict 1- and 2 to 5-year mortality.
- Functional status outcomes among white and African-American cardiac patients in an equal access system.
- Identifying diagnostic errors in primary care using an electronic screening algorithm.
- Quality of life and peripheral arterial disease.
- A decision-theoretic approach to identifying future high-cost patients.
- Propensity score analysis in observational studies: outcomes after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
- Does pay-for-performance improve the quality of health care?
- Effect of using information from only one system for dually eligible health care users.
- Racial differences in prevalence of coronary obstructions among men with positive nuclear imaging studies.
- Outcomes after acute coronary syndrome admission to primary versus tertiary Veterans Affairs medical centers: the Veterans Affairs Access to Cardiology study.
- Are primary care services a substitute or complement for specialty and inpatient services?
- Does resident hours reduction have an impact on surgical outcomes?
- Comparison of the predictive validity of diagnosis-based risk adjusters for clinical outcomes.
- Racial differences in cardiac catheterization as a function of patients' beliefs.
- Is lipid-lowering therapy underused by African Americans at high risk of coronary heart disease within the VA health care system?
- Use of smoking cessation interventions and aspirin for secondary prevention: are there racial disparities?
- Getting funded. Career development awards for aspiring clinical investigators.
- Regionalization and the underuse of angiography in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System as compared with a fee-for-service system.
- Process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction for patients with mental illness in the VA health care system: are there disparities?
- Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services: bias, preferences, or poor communication?
- Measuring errors and adverse events in health care.
- Metcalfe's law predicts reduced power of Electronic Medical Record software.
- Racial differences in trust: reaping what we have sown?
- Impact of race on cardiac care and outcomes in veterans with acute myocardial infarction.
- Racial differences in health-related beliefs, attitudes, and experiences of VA cardiac patients: scale development and application.
- Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiry.
- Racial differences in how patients perceive physician communication regarding cardiac testing.
- Study protocol: identifying and delivering point-of-care information to improve care coordination.
- Pay for Performance: What We Measure MattersPay for Performance: What We Measure Matters.
Schools
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Brigham and Womens Hospital Harvard Med School
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- CHAMPVA
- Medicare MCR
- United Healthcare
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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