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  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Kevin Grumbach is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and medicine, with significant work in general health professions, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, health, and infectious diseases.

The main topics covered in their work include primary care and health outcomes, healthcare policy and management, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and healthcare professionals' stress and burnout.

Frequent publication venues for Kevin Grumbach's research consist of:

  • The Annals of Family Medicine
  • The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • Academic Medicine

Collaborations have been frequent with several co-authors including:

  • Beatrice Huang
  • Timothy J. Judson
  • Manisha Desai
  • Christina Lindan
  • Jenna Bollyky

Among notable recent papers by Kevin Grumbach are:

  • Association of Race/Ethnicity With Likeliness of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Health Workers and the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area, 2021, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Revitalizing the U.S. Primary Care Infrastructure, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine

Additional papers that contribute to the field include:

  • Public policy and health in the Trump era, 2021, The Lancet
  • Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout, 2020, The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • COVID-19 vaccination readiness among multiple racial and ethnic groups in the San Francisco Bay Area: A qualitative analysis, 2022, PLoS ONE

Kevin Grumbach has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1997.

Best Publications

  • Patient Self-management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Kate Lorig;Halsted Holman;Kevin Grumbach

  • Improving Primary Care for Patients With Chronic Illness

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Edward H. Wagner;Kevin Grumbach

  • Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness: the chronic care model, Part 2

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Edward H. Wagner;Kevin Grumbach

  • Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes.

    Dean Schillinger;Kevin Grumbach;John Piette;Frances Wang

  • Closing the Loop: Physician Communication With Diabetic Patients Who Have Low Health Literacy

    Dean Schillinger;John Piette;Kevin Grumbach;Frances Wang

  • Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care

    Andrew B. Bindman;Kevin Grumbach;Dennis Osmond;Miriam Komaromy

  • The Role of Black and Hispanic Physicians in Providing Health Care for Underserved Populations

    Miriam Komaromy;Kevin Grumbach;Michael Drake;Karen Vranizan

  • Can health care teams improve primary care practice

    Kevin Grumbach;Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension.

    Elisabeth Wilson;Alice H M Chen;Kevin Grumbach;Frances Wang

  • Screening and Intervention for Intimate Partner Abuse: Practices and Attitudes of Primary Care Physicians

    Michael A. Rodriguez;Heidi M. Bauer;Elizabeth McLoughlin;Kevin Grumbach

  • Primary care and public emergency department overcrowding.

    K Grumbach;D Keane;A Bindman

  • The 10 Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Amireh Ghorob;Rachel Willard-Grace;Kevin Grumbach

  • Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patients.

    Alicia Fernandez;Dean Schillinger;Kevin Grumbach;Anne Rosenthal

  • Primary Care Physicians' Experience of Financial Incentives in Managed-Care Systems

    Kevin Grumbach;Dennis Osmond;Karen Vranizan;Deborah Jaffe

  • Resolving the gatekeeper conundrum: what patients value in primary care and referrals to specialists.

    Kevin Grumbach;Joe V. Selby;Cheryl Damberg;Andrew B. Bindman

  • A Primary Care Home for Americans: Putting the House in Order

    Kevin Grumbach;Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Primary care and receipt of preventive services

    Andrew B. Bindman;Kevin Grumbach;Dennis Osmond;Karen Vranizan

  • Consequences of queuing for care at a public hospital emergency department.

    Andrew B. Bindman;Kevin Grumbach;Dennis Keane;Loren Rauch

  • Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care

    Andrew B. Bindman;Andrew B. Bindman;Andrew B. Bindman;Kevin Grumbach;Kevin Grumbach;Kevin Grumbach;Dennis Osmond;Dennis Osmond;Dennis Osmond;Miriam Komaromy;Miriam Komaromy;Miriam Komaromy

  • Physician Communication With Diabetic Patients Who Have Low Health Literacy

    Dean Schillinger;John Piette;Kevin Grumbach;Frances Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Bodenheimer
Thomas Bodenheimer University of California, San Francisco
Dean Schillinger
Dean Schillinger University of California, San Francisco
Harold S. Luft
Harold S. Luft Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Anita L. Stewart
Anita L. Stewart University of California, San Francisco
Joanne Spetz
Joanne Spetz University of California, San Francisco
Robert H. Brook
Robert H. Brook RAND Corporation
Eric Vittinghoff
Eric Vittinghoff University of California, San Francisco
David U. Himmelstein
David U. Himmelstein City University of New York
Leslie L. Roos
Leslie L. Roos University of Manitoba
Charles P. Quesenberry
Charles P. Quesenberry Kaiser Permanente

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