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Donald M. Berwick

Donald M. Berwick

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Medicine

D-Index
90
Citations
49275
World Ranking
11968
National Ranking
6133

Overview

Donald M. Berwick is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the domain of Health Professions, with particular specialization in General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Health Information Management, Emergency Medicine, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in their work include Healthcare Policy and Management, Healthcare cost, quality, practices, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Global Health Care Issues, Patient Safety and Medication Errors, and Climate Change and Health Impacts.

Recent publications by Donald M. Berwick feature the following papers:

  • The Moral Determinants of Health, 2020, JAMA
  • Choices for the "New Normal", 2020, JAMA
  • Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care, 2023, JAMA

Frequent co-authors working with Berwick include:

  • Mike Hennessy
  • Mary K. Caffrey
  • Anne M. Hubbard
  • Laura Joszt
  • Rose Mcnulty

Donald M. Berwick publishes regularly in several prominent venues with the highest number of contributions in JAMA, followed by The American Journal of Managed Care, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Health Affairs.

Best Publications

  • The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost

    Donald M. Berwick;Thomas W. Nolan;John Whittington

  • Disseminating Innovations in Health Care

    Donald M. Berwick

  • Continuous improvement as an ideal in health care.

    Donald M. Berwick

  • Performance of a five-item mental health screening test

    Donald M. Berwick;Jane M. Murphy;Paula A. Goldman;John E. Ware

  • Eliminating Waste in US Health Care

    Donald M. Berwick;Andrew D. Hackbarth

  • Five years after To Err Is Human: what have we learned?

    Lucian L. Leape;Donald M. Berwick

  • The Science of Improvement

    Donald M. Berwick

  • What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist

    Donald M. Berwick

  • A User’s Manual For The IOM’s ‘Quality Chasm’ Report

    Donald M. Berwick

  • A primer on leading the improvement of systems.

    Donald M Berwick

  • The 100,000 lives campaign: setting a goal and a deadline for improving health care quality.

    Donald M. Berwick;David R. Calkins;C. Joseph McCannon;Andrew D. Hackbarth

  • Five system barriers to achieving ultrasafe health care.

    René Amalberti;Yves Auroy;Don Berwick;Paul Barach

  • What Practices Will Most Improve Safety? Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Patient Safety

    Lucian L. Leape;Donald M. Berwick;David W. Bates

  • Advanced access: reducing waiting and delays in primary care.

    Mark Murray;Donald M. Berwick

  • Connections between quality measurement and improvement.

    Donald M Berwick;Brent James;Molly Joel Coye

  • Developing and testing changes in delivery of care.

    Donald M. Berwick

  • Transforming healthcare: a safety imperative

    L Leape;D Berwick;C Clancy;J Conway

  • All-or-None Measurement Raises the Bar on Performance

    Thomas Nolan;Donald M. Berwick

  • Performance of screening and diagnostic tests. Application of receiver operating characteristic analysis.

    Jane M. Murphy;Donald M. Berwick;Milton C. Weinstein;Jonathan F. Borus

  • About the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

    Donald M. Berwick

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucian L. Leape
Lucian L. Leape Harvard University
Milton C. Weinstein
Milton C. Weinstein Harvard University
Carolyn M. Clancy
Carolyn M. Clancy United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Simon H. Budman
Simon H. Budman Harvard University
David W. Bates
David W. Bates Brigham and Women's Hospital
David M. Cutler
David M. Cutler Harvard University
Alain C. Enthoven
Alain C. Enthoven Stanford University
Gerald L. Klerman
Gerald L. Klerman Cornell University
Tejal K. Gandhi
Tejal K. Gandhi Press Ganey
Troyen A. Brennan
Troyen A. Brennan Harvard University

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