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Joel S. Weissman is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily covers the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a focus on several notable subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Surgery, and Emergency Medicine.

Their work spans key topics including Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Frailty in Older Adults, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, Healthcare Policy and Management, Hip and Femur Fractures, and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Weissman include Andrew J. Schoenfeld, Amanda J. Reich, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Rachel Adler, and Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos.

They have published extensively in various journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • JAMA Network Open
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Annals of Surgery
  • Military Medicine

Selected recent papers by Joel S. Weissman include:

  • "Don't Talk to Them About Goals of Care": Understanding Disparities in Advance Care Planning (2021), published in The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Analysis of Surgical Volume in Military Medical Treatment Facilities and Clinical Combat Readiness of US Military Surgeons (2021), published in JAMA Surgery
  • The Impact of Frailty on Long-Term Patient-Oriented Outcomes after Emergency General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study (2020), published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Association of open communication and the emotional and behavioural impact of medical error on patients and families: state-wide cross-sectional survey (2020), published in BMJ Quality & Safety
  • Association of Trauma Center Designation With Postdischarge Survival Among Older Adults With Injuries (2022), published in JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States

    R. S. Lanciotti;J. T. Roehrig;V. Deubel;J. Smith

  • Rates of avoidable hospitalization by insurance status in Massachusetts and Maryland.

    Joel S. Weissman;Constantine Gatsonis;Arnold M. Epstein

  • Unmet Health Needs of Uninsured Adults in the United States

    John Z. Ayanian;Joel S. Weissman;Eric C. Schneider;Jack A. Ginsburg

  • The Effect of Patients' Preferences on Racial Differences in Access to Renal Transplantation

    John Z. Ayanian;Paul D. Cleary;Joel S. Weissman;Arnold M. Epstein

  • Primary Medication Non-Adherence: Analysis of 195,930 Electronic Prescriptions

    Michael A. Fischer;Margaret R. Stedman;Joyce Lii;Christine Vogeli

  • Delayed access to health care: risk factors, reasons, and consequences.

    Joel S. Weissman;Robert Stern;Stephen L. Fielding;Arnold M. Epstein

  • Racial disparities in access to renal transplantation--clinically appropriate or due to underuse or overuse?

    Arnold M. Epstein;John Z. Ayanian;Joseph H. Keogh;Susan J. Noonan

  • Teaching Hospitals and Quality of Care: A Review of the Literature

    John Z. Ayanian;Joel S. Weissman

  • Resident physicians' preparedness to provide cross-cultural care.

    Joel S. Weissman;Joseph Betancourt;Eric G. Campbell;Elyse R. Park

  • Comparing patient-reported hospital adverse events with medical record review: do patients know something that hospitals do not?

    Joel S Weissman;Eric C Schneider;Saul N Weingart;Arnold M Epstein

  • Overrides of Medication Alerts in Ambulatory Care

    Thomas Isaac;Joel S. Weissman;Roger B. Davis;Michael Massagli

  • Methodological issues in measuring health disparities

    Kenneth Keppel;Elsie Pamuk;John Lynch;Olivia Carter-Pokras

  • Disparities in health care are driven by where minority patients seek care: examination of the hospital quality alliance measures.

    Romana Hasnain-Wynia;David W. Baker;David Nerenz;Joe Feinglass

  • Hospitalized patients' participation and its impact on quality of care and patient safety

    Saul N. Weingart;Junya Zhu;Junya Zhu;Laurel Chiappetta;Sherri O. Stuver

  • Hospital Workload and Adverse Events

    Joel S. Weissman;Jeffrey M. Rothschild;Eran Bendavid;Peter Sprivulis

  • Do the Poor Cost More? A Multihospital Study of Patients' Socioeconomic Status and Use of Hospital Resources

    Arnold M. Epstein;Robert S. Stern;Joel S. Weissman

  • Residents report on adverse events and their causes.

    Reshma Jagsi;Barrett T. Kitch;Debra F. Weinstein;Eric G. Campbell

  • Assessing Patient Safety Culture: A Review and Synthesis of the Measurement Tools

    Aneesh K. Singla;Barrett T. Kitch;Joel S. Weissman;Eric G. Campbell

  • The association of payer with utilization of cardiac procedures in Massachusetts

    Mark B. Wenneker;Joel S. Weissman;Arnold M. Epstein

  • Resident Physicians' Preparedness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care: Implications for Clinical Care and Medical Education Policy

    Joseph Betancourt;Joel S. Weissman;Elyse R. Park;Minah K. Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold M. Epstein
Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University
Stuart R. Lipsitz
Stuart R. Lipsitz Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eric G. Campbell
Eric G. Campbell University of Colorado Denver
David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal Harvard University
Quoc-Dien Trinh
Quoc-Dien Trinh Brigham and Women's Hospital
Adil H. Haider
Adil H. Haider Brigham and Women's Hospital
Constantine Gatsonis
Constantine Gatsonis Brown University
Adam S. Kibel
Adam S. Kibel Brigham and Women's Hospital
Paul D. Cleary
Paul D. Cleary Yale University
Toni K. Choueiri
Toni K. Choueiri Harvard University

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