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Overview

David W. Bates is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and health professions, with a particular focus on electronic health records systems, patient safety and medication errors, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, mobile health and mHealth applications, pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, medical malpractice and liability issues, and machine learning in healthcare.

The main fields of study for David W. Bates include Medicine and Health Professions. Their work extends into subfields such as General Health Professions, Health Information Management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medical Services, and Surgery.

David W. Bates has a significant publication record across numerous renowned venues. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • JAMA Network Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • npj Digital Medicine

Recent papers authored by David W. Bates and their colleagues reflect the diversity and scope of their research:

  • "Do smartphone applications and activity trackers increase physical activity in adults? Systematic review, meta-analysis and metaregression," 2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "Assessing the potential of GPT-4 to perpetuate racial and gender biases in health care: a model evaluation study," 2023, The Lancet Digital Health
  • "Beyond validation: getting health apps into clinical practice," 2020, npj Digital Medicine
  • "The Safety of Inpatient Health Care," 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Digital Health Equity as a Necessity in the 21st Century Cures Act Era," 2020, JAMA

Among frequent coauthors collaborating with David W. Bates are:

  • Stuart R. Lipsitz
  • Patricia C. Dykes
  • Li Zhou
  • Álvaro Pascual-Leone
  • Diane L. Seger

David W. Bates was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Incidence of Adverse Drug Events and Potential Adverse Drug Events: Implications for Prevention

    Bates Dw;Cullen Dj;Laird N;Petersen La

  • Acute Kidney Injury, Mortality, Length of Stay, and Costs in Hospitalized Patients

    Glenn M. Chertow;Elisabeth Burdick;Melissa Honour;Joseph V. Bonventre

  • Systems Analysis of Adverse Drug Events

    L L Leape;D W Bates;D J Cullen;J Cooper

  • Effect of computerized physician order entry and a team intervention on prevention of serious medication errors.

    David W. Bates;Lucian L. Leape;David J. Cullen;Nan Laird

  • The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients

    David W. Bates;Nathan Spell;David J. Cullen;Elisabeth Burdick

  • Medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients.

    Rainu Kaushal;David W. Bates;Christopher Landrigan;Kathryn J. McKenna

  • Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Among Older Persons in the Ambulatory Setting

    Jerry H. Gurwitz;Terry S. Field;Leslie R. Harrold;Jeffrey M. Rothschild

  • The Incidence and Severity of Adverse Events Affecting Patients after Discharge from the Hospital

    Alan J. Forster;Harvey J. Murff;Josh F. Peterson;Tejal K. Gandhi

  • Effect of reducing interns' work hours on serious medical errors in intensive care units.

    Christopher P. Landrigan;Jeffrey M. Rothschild;John W. Cronin;Rainu Kaushal

  • Pharmacist participation on physician rounds and adverse drug events in the intensive care unit.

    Lucian L. Leape;David J. Cullen;Margaret Dempsey Clapp;Elisabeth Burdick

  • Improving safety with information technology.

    David W. Bates;Atul A. Gawande

  • Personal Health Records: Definitions, Benefits, and Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Adoption

    Paul C. Tang;Joan S. Ash;David W. Bates;J. Marc Overhage

  • Health Care–Associated Infections: A Meta-analysis of Costs and Financial Impact on the US Health Care System

    Eyal Zimlichman;Daniel Henderson;Orly Tamir;Calvin Franz

  • Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care

    Tejal K. Gandhi;Saul N. Weingart;Joshua Borus;Andrew C. Seger

  • Effects of Computerized Physician Order Entry and Clinical Decision Support Systems on Medication Safety: A Systematic Review

    Rainu Kaushal;Kaveh G. Shojania;David W. Bates

  • The Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Error Prevention

    David W. Bates;Jonathan M. Teich;Joshua Lee;Diane L. Seger

  • Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Decision Support: Making the Practice of Evidence-based Medicine a Reality

    David W. Bates;Gilad J. Kuperman;Gilad J. Kuperman;Samuel J. Wang;Tejal K. Gandhi

  • CAN COMORBIDITY BE MEASURED BY QUESTIONNAIRE RATHER THAN MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW

    Jeffrey N. Katz;Lily C. Chang;Oliver Sangha;Anne H. Fossel

  • Relationship between medication errors and adverse drug events

    David W. Bates;Deborah L Boyle;Martha B. Vander Vliet;James Schneider

  • Reducing the Frequency of Errors in Medicine Using Information Technology

    D W Bates;M Cohen;L L Leape;J M Overhage

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Wright
Adam Wright Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tejal K. Gandhi
Tejal K. Gandhi Press Ganey
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
E. John Orav
E. John Orav Harvard University
Rainu Kaushal
Rainu Kaushal Cornell University
Blackford Middleton
Blackford Middleton Harvard University
Stuart R. Lipsitz
Stuart R. Lipsitz Brigham and Women's Hospital
Lucian L. Leape
Lucian L. Leape Harvard University
Ashish K. Jha
Ashish K. Jha Brown University
Kathrin Cresswell
Kathrin Cresswell University of Edinburgh

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