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Overview

Albert W. Wu is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily focused on Health Professions and Medicine. Their work intersects multiple subfields, including General Health Professions, Emergency Medical Services, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Clinical Psychology.

Their research covers several prominent topics with a significant number of publications addressing Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, Healthcare Professionals' Stress and Burnout, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, Disaster Response and Management, and Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Practices.

Albert W. Wu has published in numerous respected venues, frequently contributing to the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management with 28 publications. They have also published in Nature Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Quality of Life Research.

Frequent collaborators include Isolde Martina Busch, Cheryl Connors, Francesca Moretti, Michela Rimondini, and Claire Snyder, each contributing to multiple co-authored works.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Albert W. Wu include:

  • COVID-19: Peer Support and Crisis Communication Strategies to Promote Institutional Resilience, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Prospective, multi-site study of patient outcomes after implementation of the TREWS machine learning-based early warning system for sepsis, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • A Randomized Trial of a Multifactorial Strategy to Prevent Serious Fall Injuries, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Human-machine teaming is key to AI adoption: clinicians' experiences with a deployed machine learning system, 2022, npj Digital Medicine
  • Patient reported outcome assessment must be inclusive and equitable, 2022, Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines?: A Framework for Improvement

    Michael D. Cabana;Cynthia S. Rand;Neil R. Powe;Albert W. Wu

  • Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance.

    Cynthia M. Boyd;Jonathan Darer;Chad Boult;Linda P. Fried

  • The Effectiveness of Right Heart Catheterization in the Initial Care of Critically Ill Patients

    Alfred F. Connors;Theodore Speroff;Neal V. Dawson;Charles Thomas

  • The effectiveness of right heart catheterization in the initial care of critically ill patients. SUPPORT Investigators.

    Connors Af;Speroff T;Dawson Nv;Thomas C

  • Medical error: the second victim: The doctor who makes the mistake needs help too

    Albert W Wu

  • Self-reported adherence to antiretroviral medications among participants in HIV clinical trials: The AACTG Adherence Instruments

    Margaret A. Chesney;J. R. Ickovics;D. B. Chambers;A. L. Gifford

  • Methods to explain the clinical significance of health status measures.

    Gordon H. Guyatt;David Osoba;Albert W. Wu;Kathleen W. Wyrwich

  • Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure

    Joel B Braunstein;Gerard F Anderson;Gary Gerstenblith;Wendy Weller

  • Do house officers learn from their mistakes

    A W Wu;S Folkman;S J McPhee;B Lo

  • Perceptions by Family Members of the Dying Experience of Older and Seriously Ill Patients

    Joanne Lynn;Joan M. Teno;Russell S. Phillips;Albert W. Wu

  • ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research

    Bryce B. Reeve;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Albert W. Wu;Galina Velikova

  • A health status questionnaire using 30 items from the Medical Outcomes Study. Preliminary validation in persons with early HIV infection

    Albert W. Wu;Haya R. Rubin;William C. Mathews;John E. Ware Jr.

  • The Impact of Serious Illness on Patients' Families

    Kenneth E. Covinsky;Kenneth E. Covinsky;Lee Goldman;E. Francis Cook;Robert Oye

  • Medical error: the second victim

    Albert W Wu

  • Self-reported symptoms and medication side effects influence adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in persons with HIV infection.

    Adriana Ammassari;Rita Murri;Patrizio Pezzotti;Maria Paola Trotta

  • Correlates and predictors of adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy: overview of published literature.

    Adriana Ammassari;Maria Paola Trotta;Rita Murri;Francesco Castelli

  • Evidence for reliability, validity and usefulness of the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV)

    A. W. Wu;D. A. Revicki;D. Jacobson;F. E. Malitz

  • Incidents relating to the intra-hospital transfer of critically ill patients. An analysis of the reports submitted to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study in Intensive Care.

    Ursula Beckmann;Donna M. Gillies;Sean M. Berenholtz;Albert W. Wu

  • A Controlled Trial of Early Adjunctive Treatment with Corticosteroids for Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

    S A Bozzette;F R Sattler;J Chiu;A W Wu

  • The Quality of Well-being Scale. Applications in AIDS, cystic fibrosis, and arthritis.

    Robert M. Kaplan;John P. Anderson;Albert W. Wu;W. M. Christopher Mathews

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Pronovost
Peter J. Pronovost Case Western Reserve University
Joanne Lynn
Joanne Lynn Altarum Institute
Russell S. Phillips
Russell S. Phillips Harvard University
Jodi B. Segal
Jodi B. Segal Johns Hopkins University
Alfred F. Connors
Alfred F. Connors Case Western Reserve University
Joan M. Teno
Joan M. Teno Brown University
Eric B. Bass
Eric B. Bass Johns Hopkins University
Neil R. Powe
Neil R. Powe University of California, San Francisco
Frank E. Harrell
Frank E. Harrell Vanderbilt University
Samuel A. Bozzette
Samuel A. Bozzette University of California, San Diego

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