List of works by Robert S. Dittus

2450 Delirium and catatonia: Age matters

3217 Catatonia, Delirium and Coma: Implications for Mortality

A Community-Academic Partnership to Reduce Health Care Disparities in Diagnostic Imaging

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

A cost analysis of colonoscopy using microcosting and time-and-motion techniques

scientific article published on 31 July 2007

A multifaceted quality improvement strategy reduces the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infection

scientific article published on 17 June 2017

A three-part intervention to change the use of hormone replacement therapy in response to new evidence

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

A transition care coordinator model reduces hospital readmissions and costs

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Activation and perceived expectancies: correlations with health outcomes among veterans with inflammatory bowel disease

scientific article published on 15 May 2009

Acute Brain Dysfunction: Development and Validation of a Daily Prediction Model.

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

An evaluation of single question delirium screening tools in older emergency department patients

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Association of Adherence to Quality Metrics with Recurrence or Mortality among Veterans with Colorectal Cancer

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Associations of markers of inflammation and coagulation with delirium during critical illness

scientific article published on 18 August 2012

Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing

scientific article published on August 2011

Bedside diagnosis of influenzavirus infections in hospitalized children

scientific article published on July 2002

Behind-the-scenes of patient-centered care: content analysis of electronic messaging among primary care clinic providers and staff

scientific article published in December 2007

Cervical spine evaluation in urban trauma centers: lowering institutional costs and complications through helical CT scan

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Change in Care Transition Practice for Patients with Non-Specific Chest Pain after ED Evaluation 2006-2012.

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Clinical and translational research studios: a multidisciplinary internal support program

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Clinical inertia: a common barrier to changing provider prescribing behavior

scientific article published on May 2007

Clinical phenotypes of delirium during critical illness and severity of subsequent long-term cognitive impairment: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published in March 2018

Clinical problem-solving. High time for action

scientific article published on January 2001

Colonoscopy screening in African Americans and Whites with affected first-degree relatives

scientific article published on March 2008

Colorectal cancer screening among men and women in the United States

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Communication About the Probability of Cancer in Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules

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Community Engagement Studios: A Structured Approach to Obtaining Meaningful Input From Stakeholders to Inform Research

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Cost-effectiveness of routine radiographs after emergent open cavity operations.

scientific article published on 5 June 2008

Costs associated with delirium in mechanically ventilated patients

scientific article published on April 2004

Critical Illness Brain Injury.

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Current opinions regarding the importance, diagnosis, and management of delirium in the intensive care unit: a survey of 912 healthcare professionals

scientific article published on January 2004

Deficits in Self-Reported Initiation Are Associated With Subsequent Disability in ICU Survivors

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

Delirium and Catatonia in Critically Ill Patients: The Delirium and Catatonia Prospective Cohort Investigation

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Delirium and its motoric subtypes: a study of 614 critically ill patients

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Delirium and sedation in the intensive care unit: survey of behaviors and attitudes of 1384 healthcare professionals.

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Delirium as a predictor of long-term cognitive impairment in survivors of critical illness.

scientific article published on July 2010

Delirium as a predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit

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Delirium in mechanically ventilated patients: validity and reliability of the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU).

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Delirium in older emergency department patients is an independent predictor of hospital length of stay

scientific article published on 26 April 2011

Delirium in older emergency department patients: recognition, risk factors, and psychomotor subtypes

scientific article published on 20 January 2009

Delirium in the Emergency Department and Its Extension into Hospitalization (DELINEATE) Study: Effect on 6-month Function and Cognition

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Delirium in the ICU and subsequent long-term disability among survivors of mechanical ventilation

scientific article published on February 2014

Delirium in the emergency department: an independent predictor of death within 6 months

scientific article published on 03 April 2010

Delirium in the nursing home patients seen in the emergency department

scientific article published on May 2009

Delirium's Arousal Subtypes and Their Relationship with 6-Month Functional Status and Cognition

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and functional disability in survivors of critical illness in the BRAIN-ICU study: a longitudinal cohort study.

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Detection of blood culture bacterial contamination using natural language processing

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Development of inpatient risk stratification models of acute kidney injury for use in electronic health records.

scientific article published on 30 March 2010

Diabetes patient education: a meta-analysis and meta-regression

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Diagnosing delirium in older emergency department patients: validity and reliability of the delirium triage screen and the brief confusion assessment method

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

Differences in antibiotic prescribing among physicians, residents, and nonphysician clinicians

scientific article published in June 2005

ED crowding and the use of nontraditional beds.

scientific article published on 03 March 2012

Effect of crew resource management on diabetes care and patient outcomes in an inner-city primary care clinic

scientific article published on August 2007

Effect of sedation with dexmedetomidine vs lorazepam on acute brain dysfunction in mechanically ventilated patients: the MENDS randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on December 2007

Effect of short call admission on length of stay and quality of care for acute decompensated heart failure

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

Effects of performance-based compensation and faculty track on the clinical activity, research portfolio, and teaching mission of a large academic department of medicine

scientific article published in July 2003

Efficacy and safety of a paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care (Awakening and Breathing Controlled trial): a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU).

scientific article published in July 2001

Evidence-based algorithms for diagnosing and treating ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published on September 2008

Evidence-based smoking cessation treatment: a comparison by healthcare system

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Exploring Delirium's Heterogeneity: Association Between Arousal Subtypes at Initial Presentation and 6-Month Mortality in Older Emergency Department Patients

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Exploring socioeconomic variations in diabetes control strategies: impact of outcome expectations

scientific article published in January 2009

Feasibility and safety of early combined cognitive and physical therapy for critically ill medical and surgical patients: the Activity and Cognitive Therapy in ICU (ACT-ICU) trial.

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Feasibility, efficacy, and safety of antipsychotics for intensive care unit delirium: the MIND randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on February 2010

Focusing on Inattention: The Diagnostic Accuracy of Brief Measures of Inattention for Detecting Delirium.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Frailty and Subsequent Disability and Mortality among Patients with Critical Illness

scientific article published on 06 December 2016

Group Versus Individual Educational Sessions With a Promotora and Hispanic/Latina Women's Satisfaction With Care in the Screening Mammography Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Haloperidol and Ziprasidone for Treatment of Delirium in Critical Illness

scientific article published on 22 October 2018

Identification of postoperative care amenable to telehealth

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

Impaired arousal at initial presentation predicts 6-month mortality: an analysis of 1084 acutely ill older patients

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Implementation of a Telephone Postoperative Clinic in an Integrated Health System

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

Improving blood pressure control through provider education, provider alerts, and patient education: a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Improving documentation of patient acuity level using a progress note template

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Incidence and Risk Factors for Intensive Care Unit-related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans and Civilians.

scientific article published on 06 January 2016

Incidence of emergency department visits for ST-elevation myocardial infarction in a recent six-year period in the United States

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Influenza- and respiratory syncytial virus-associated morbidity and mortality in the nursing home population

scientific article published in June 2003

Large-scale implementation of sedation and delirium monitoring in the intensive care unit: a report from two medical centers

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Long-term cognitive and psychological outcomes in the awakening and breathing controlled trial

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Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness

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Lorazepam is an independent risk factor for transitioning to delirium in intensive care unit patients

scientific article published in January 2006

Low Health Literacy Is Associated with Increased Transitional Care Needs in Hospitalized Patients

scientific article published in November 2017

Low Provider Knowledge Is Associated With Less Evidence-Based Lung Cancer Screening

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Low numeracy is associated with increased odds of 30-day emergency department or hospital recidivism for patients with acute heart failure.

scientific article published on 10 December 2012

Mapping Histoplasma capsulatum Exposure, United States

scholarly article by Amelia W Maiga et al published October 2018 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Maternal morbidity and perinatal outcomes among pregnant women with respiratory hospitalizations during influenza season

scientific article published in December 2003

Measuring and comparing safety climate in intensive care units

scientific article published in March 2010

Measuring outcome differences associated with STEMI screening and diagnostic performance: a multicentred retrospective cohort study protocol.

scientific article published on 3 May 2018

Medication Discrepancies in Older Veterans Receiving Home Healthcare

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Monitoring sedation status over time in ICU patients: reliability and validity of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS).

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Motoric subtypes of delirium in mechanically ventilated surgical and trauma intensive care unit patients

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Organisational culture: variation across hospitals and connection to patient safety climate

scientific article published in December 2010

Patient Stratification Using Electronic Health Records from a Chronic Disease Management Program

scientific article published on 04 January 2016

Patient centered primary care is associated with patient hypertension medication adherence

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Performance of Emergency Department Screening Criteria for an Early ECG to Identify ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Point: should benzodiazepines be avoided in mechanically ventilated patients? Yes.

scientific article published in August 2012

Postoperative Telehealth Visits: Assessment of Quality and Preferences of Veterans

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Predictors of influenza virus vaccination status in hospitalized children

scientific article published on December 2001

Prevalence and risk factors for development of delirium in surgical and trauma intensive care unit patients

scientific article published on July 2008

Prominent medical journals often provide insufficient information to assess the validity of studies with negative results

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Protocol-driven care in the intensive care unit: a tool for quality

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Quality improvement initiatives improve hypertension care among veterans

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Quality improvement projects targeting health care-associated infections: comparing Virtual Collaborative and Toolkit approaches

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Quality of colorectal cancer care among veterans: a 10-year retrospective cohort

scientific article published on 21 April 2014

Reducing iatrogenic risks: ICU-acquired delirium and weakness--crossing the quality chasm

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Refractory primary medication nonadherence: Prevalence and predictors after pharmacist counseling at hospital discharge

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Risk factors for post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms following critical illness requiring mechanical ventilation: a prospective cohort study

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Risk factors for recurrent asthma hospital visits and death among a population of indigent older adults with asthma

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Role of Health Insurance Status in Interfacility Transfers of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 14 May 2016

Subsyndromal Delirium and Institutionalization Among Patients With Critical Illness

scientific article published in November 2017

Surgery and Anesthesia Exposure Is Not a Risk Factor for Cognitive Impairment After Major Noncardiac Surgery and Critical Illness

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Survey of infection control programs in a large national healthcare system

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

The Diagnostic Performance of the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale for Detecting Delirium in Older Emergency Department Patients

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

The Rural VA Multi-Center Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (R-VA-MARQUIS)

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

The effect of cognitive impairment on the accuracy of the presenting complaint and discharge instruction comprehension in older emergency department patients

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

The impact of delirium in the intensive care unit on hospital length of stay

scientific article published on 8 November 2001

The nature and necessity of operational flexibility in the emergency department

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

The relationship between executive dysfunction, depression, and mental health-related quality of life in survivors of critical illness: Results from the BRAIN-ICU investigation

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The role of evidence-based medicine

scientific article published in November 2008

Thoracic operations for pulmonary nodules are frequently not futile in patients with benign disease

scientific article published on October 2011

Timeliness of Care and Lung Cancer Tumor-Stage Progression: How Long Can We Wait?

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Timeliness of interfacility transfer for ED patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction

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Tolerability to beta-blocker therapy among heart failure patients in clinical practice

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Trends in antibiotic prescribing for adults in the United States--1995 to 2002

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Use of the brief Confusion Assessment Method in a veteran palliative care population: A pilot validation study

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Using quality improvement methods to improve door-to-balloon time at an academic medical center

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Using real time process measurements to reduce catheter related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on August 2005

Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit in older emergency department patients

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Virtual Colorectal Cancer Surveillance: Bringing Scope Rate to Target

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Volatility: a new vital sign identified using a novel bedside monitoring strategy

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