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Overview

Patrick S. Romano is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their primary research contributions focus on medicine and health professions, with specific emphasis on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, epidemiology, economics and econometrics, and general health professions.

The core topics explored in their work include emergency and acute care studies, healthcare policy and management, family and patient care in intensive care units, chronic disease management strategies, heart failure treatment and management, medical coding and health information, and radiation dose and imaging.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Patrick S. Romano include:

  • The Impact of Telemedicine on Transfer Rates of Newborns at Rural Community Hospitals (2020), published in Academic Pediatrics
  • Association of Adherence to Weight Telemonitoring With Health Care Use and Death (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
  • An Image Quality-informed Framework for CT Characterization (2021), published in Radiology
  • Rates and timing of subsequent amputation after initial minor amputation (2020), published in Journal of Vascular Surgery
  • Factors associated with ABCDE bundle adherence in critically ill adults requiring mechanical ventilation: An observational design (2020), published in Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Frequent coauthors working alongside Patrick S. Romano include:

  • Daniel J. Tancredi (13 coauthored publications)
  • Sarah C. Haynes (8 coauthored publications)
  • James P. Marcin (8 coauthored publications)
  • Monika Ray (8 coauthored publications)
  • Jennifer L. Rosenthal (7 coauthored publications)

The scientist has published regularly in a range of venues, including:

  • Health Services Research (3 publications)
  • Research Square (3 publications)
  • Academic Pediatrics (2 publications)
  • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2 publications)
  • Heart & Lung (2 publications)

Patrick S. Romano's work spans multiple aspects of clinical practice and health systems, with research addressing the intersection of telemedicine, critical care, imaging quality, and healthcare delivery outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Presentation adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: Differing perspectives

    Patrick S. Romano;Leslie L. Roos;James G. Jollis

  • Incidence of symptomatic venous thromboembolism after different elective or urgent surgical procedures

    Richard H White;Hong Zhou;Patrick S Romano

  • Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition–Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial

    Michael K. Ong;Michael K. Ong;Patrick S. Romano;Sarah Edgington;Harriet U. Aronow

  • Incidence and Time Course of Thromboembolic Outcomes Following Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty

    Richard H. White;Patrick S. Romano;Hong Zhou;Juan Rodrigo

  • Nurse-patient ratios: a systematic review on the effects of nurse staffing on patient, nurse employee, and hospital outcomes.

    Thomas A Lang;Margaret Hodge;Valerie Olson;Patrick S Romano

  • Overdiagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection in the Molecular Test Era

    Christopher R Polage;Clare E. Gyorke;Michael A. Kennedy;Jhansi L. Leslie

  • BIAS IN THE CODING OF HOSPITAL DISCHARGE DATA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT

    Patrick S. Romano;David H. Mark

  • Incidence of Idiopathic Deep Venous Thrombosis and Secondary Thromboembolism among Ethnic Groups in California

    Richard H. White;Hong Zhou;Patrick S. Romano

  • A national profile of patient safety in U.S. hospitals.

    Patrick S. Romano;Jeffrey J. Geppert;Sheryl Davies;Marlene R. Miller

  • Mortality among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reform.

    Kevin G. Volpp;Amy K. Rosen;Amy K. Rosen;Paul R. Rosenbaum;Patrick S. Romano

  • Predictors of Rehospitalization for Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism after Total Hip Arthroplasty

    Richard H. White;Sharmeen Gettner;Jeffrey M. Newman;Kenneth B. Trauner

  • Patient and Hospital Characteristics Related to In-Hospital Mortality after Lung Cancer Resection*

    Patrick S. Romano;David H. Mark

  • Endoscopy-based triage significantly reduces hospitalization rates and costs of treating upper GI bleeding: a randomized controlled trial.

    John G. Lee;Samuel Turnipseed;Patrick S. Romano;Heather Vigil

  • Comparison of outcomes after hospitalization for deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.

    Susan Murin;Patrick S Romano;Richard H White

  • Can administrative data be used to compare postoperative complication rates across hospitals

    Patrick S. Romano;Benjamin K. Chan;Michael E. Schembri;Julie A. Rainwater

  • Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care.

    Jeffrey H. Silber;Patrick S. Romano;Amy K. Rosen;Yanli Wang

  • Estimates of the economic costs of birth defects.

    N. J. Waitzman;Patrick S Romano;R. M. Scheffler

  • Accuracy of obstetric diagnoses and procedures in hospital discharge data

    Shagufta Yasmeen;Patrick S. Romano;Michael E. Schembri;Janet M. Keyzer

  • Mortality among patients in VA hospitals in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reform.

    Kevin G. Volpp;Amy K. Rosen;Amy K. Rosen;Paul R. Rosenbaum;Patrick S. Romano

  • A population-based study of the effectiveness of inferior vena cava filter use among patients with venous thromboembolism.

    Richard H. White;Hong Zhou;Jinwoo Kim;Patrick S. Romano

Frequent Co-Authors

Amy K. Rosen
Amy K. Rosen VA Boston Healthcare System
Daniel J. Tancredi
Daniel J. Tancredi University of California, Davis
Richard H. White
Richard H. White University of California, Davis
Harold S. Luft
Harold S. Luft Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Kevin G. Volpp
Kevin G. Volpp University of Pennsylvania
William A. Ghali
William A. Ghali University of Calgary
Harold Alan Pincus
Harold Alan Pincus Columbia University
Kamal M.F. Itani
Kamal M.F. Itani Boston University
Hude Quan
Hude Quan University of Calgary
Richard L. Kravitz
Richard L. Kravitz University of California, Davis

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