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Ralph I. Horwitz

Ralph I. Horwitz

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Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
49208
World Ranking
9496
National Ranking
4898

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Ralph I. Horwitz is affiliated with Temple University in the United States and has contributed to the field of Medicine with a focus spanning multiple subfields such as General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their publication record includes work on healthcare systems, quality, and clinical reasoning, with particular attention to topics such as Healthcare cost, quality, and practices; Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life; Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare; Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills; Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research; and COVID-19 research and impacts.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ralph I. Horwitz include:

  • "Clinimetric Criteria for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures," 2021, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • "Biosocial Pathogenesis," 2022, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • "Biosocial medicine: Biology, biography, and the tailored care of the patient," 2021, SSM - Population Health
  • "Clinical Interviewing: An Essential but Neglected Method of Medicine," 2024, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • "Falling down the biological rabbit hole: Epstein-Barr virus, biography, and multiple sclerosis," 2022, Journal of Clinical Investigation

Ralph I. Horwitz has frequently published in:

  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • The American Journal of Medicine
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • SSM - Population Health
  • PLOS mental health.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mark R. Cullen
  • Burton H. Singer
  • Allison Hayes-Conroy
  • Ida Sim
  • McKayla Mawn

Their recognized affiliations with professional organizations include being a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 1997 and a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Clarifying Confusion: The Confusion Assessment Method: A New Method for Detection of Delirium

    S K Inouye;C H van Dyck;C A Alessi;S Balkin

  • Randomized, controlled trials, observational studies, and the hierarchy of research designs.

    John Concato;Nirav Shah;Ralph I. Horwitz

  • A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community.

    Mary E. Tinetti;Dorothy I. Baker;Gail McAvay;Elizabeth B. Claus

  • The Effect of Acute Renal Failure on Mortality: A Cohort Analysis

    Elliott M. Levy;Catherine M. Viscoli;Ralph I. Horwitz

  • Price of Adaptation—Allostatic Load and Its Health Consequences: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

    Teresa E. Seeman;Burton H. Singer;John W. Rowe;Ralph I. Horwitz

  • The Use of β-Agonists and the Risk of Death and near Death from Asthma

    W O Spitzer;S Suissa;P Ernst;R I Horwitz

  • Emotional support and survival after myocardial infarction. A prospective, population-based study of the elderly.

    Lisa F. Berkman;Linda Leo-Summers;Ralph I. Horwitz

  • A clinical trial of estrogen-replacement therapy after ischemic stroke

    Catherine M. Viscoli;Lawrence M. Brass;Walter N. Kernan;Philip M. Sarrel

  • A predictive model for delirium in hospitalized elderly medical patients based on admission characteristics.

    Sharon K. Inouye;Catherine M. Viscoli;Ralph I. Horwitz;Leslie D. Hurst

  • Importance of Functional Measures in Predicting Mortality Among Older Hospitalized Patients

    Sharon K. Inouye;Peter N. Peduzzi;Julie T. Robison;John S. Hughes

  • Problems in the “Evidence” of “Evidence-Based Medicine”

    Alvan R Feinstein;Ralph I Horwitz

  • Phenylpropanolamine and the Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke

    Walter N. Kernan;Catherine M. Viscoli;Lawrence M. Brass;Joseph P. Broderick

  • Stratified randomization for clinical trials.

    Walter N. Kernan;Catherine M. Viscoli;Robert W. Makuch;Lawrence M. Brass;Lawrence M. Brass

  • Treatment adherence and risk of death after a myocardial infarction.

    R.I. Horwitz;C.M. Viscoli;R.M. Donaldson;C.J. Murray

  • Predictors of readmission among elderly survivors of admission with heart failure.

    Harlan M. Krumholz;Ya-Ting Chen;Yun Wang;Viola Vaccarino

  • Risk Factors for Reported Elder Abuse and Neglect: A Nine-Year Observational Cohort Study

    Mark S. Lachs;Christianna Williams;Shelley O'Brien;Leslie Hurst

  • Correlates and impact on outcomes of worsening renal function in patients > or =65 years of age with heart failure.

    Harlan M Krumholz;Ya-Ting Chen;Viola Vaccarino;Yun Wang

  • Vascular comorbidity is associated with more rapid disability progression in multiple sclerosis

    Ruth Ann M Marrie;R. Rudick;R. Horwitz;G. Cutter

  • A cohort analysis of excess mortality in asthma and the use of inhaled beta-agonists.

    S Suissa;P Ernst;J F Boivin;R I Horwitz

  • Emotional Support and Survival after Myocardial Infarction

    Lisa F. Berkman;Linda Leo-Summers;Ralph I. Horwitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Alvan R. Feinstein
Alvan R. Feinstein Yale University
John Concato
John Concato Yale University
Sarah M. Horwitz
Sarah M. Horwitz New York University
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Samy Suissa
Samy Suissa McGill University
Joann G. Elmore
Joann G. Elmore University of California, Los Angeles
Harlan M. Krumholz
Harlan M. Krumholz Yale University
Sharon K. Inouye
Sharon K. Inouye Harvard Medical School
Burton H. Singer
Burton H. Singer University of Florida
Jeannette R. Ickovics
Jeannette R. Ickovics Yale University

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