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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Robert H. Brook is affiliated with the RAND Corporation in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant concentration on epidemiology, hepatology, public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, and critical care and intensive care medicine.

The main topics covered in Robert H. Brook's work include:

  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

Robert H. Brook's recent publications reflect these research interests and include the following papers:

  • Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan, 2020, JAMA
  • Association of a Care Bundle for Early Sepsis Management With Mortality Among Patients With Hospital-Onset or Community-Onset Sepsis, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Deficits in Advance Care Planning for Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis at Liver Transplant Centers, 2021, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Adherence to the SEP-1 Sepsis Bundle in Hospital-Onset v. Community-Onset Sepsis: a Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study, 2020, Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Linking Statistics With Testing Policy to Manage COVID-19 in the Community, 2020, American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert H. Brook include:

  • Neil S. Wenger
  • Arpan Patel
  • Diana M. Tisnado
  • Emmeline Chuang
  • Anne M. Walling

The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Gastroenterology
  • JAMA
  • American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Robert H. Brook has received recognition from professional bodies, including membership in the National Academy of Medicine since 1982 and the Association of American Physicians. These honors reflect recognition in the field but specific citations for these awards were not detailed.

Best Publications

  • Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use.

    Arlene Fink;Jacqueline Kosecoff;Mark R. Chassin;Robert H. Brook

  • Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan: Big Data Analytics, New Technology, and Proactive Testing.

    C. Jason Wang;C. Jason Wang;Chun Y. Ng;Robert H. Brook;Robert H. Brook

  • Quality-of-life Outcomes in Men Treated for Localized Prostate Cancer

    Mark S. Litwin;Ron D. Hays;Arlene Fink;Patricia A. Ganz

  • The public release of performance data: what do we expect to gain? A review of the evidence.

    Martin N. Marshall;Paul G. Shekelle;Paul G. Shekelle;Sheila Leatherman;Robert H. Brook;Robert H. Brook

  • How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States

    Mark A. Schuster;Elizabeth A. McGlynn;Robert H. Brook

  • Quality of health care. Part 2: Measuring quality of care

    R H Brook;E A Mcglynn;P D Cleary

  • Does inappropriate use explain geographic variations in the use of health care services? A study of three procedures.

    Mark R. Chassin;Jacqueline Kosecoff;Rolla Edward Park;Constance M. Winslow

  • Does free care improve adults' health? Results from a randomized controlled trial.

    Robert H. Brook;John E. Ware;William H. Rogers;Emmett B. Keeler

  • A method for the detailed assessment of the appropriateness of medical technologies.

    Robert H. Brook;Mark R. Chassin;Arlene Fink;David Solomon

  • The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index: development, reliability, and validity of a health-related quality of life measure.

    Mark S. Litwin;Ron D. Hays;Arlene Fink;Patricia A. Ganz

  • Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study

    Anita Stewart;John E. Ware;Robert H. Brook;Allyson Ross Davies

  • Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population

    Mark R. Chassin;Robert H. Brook;Rolla Edward Park;Joan Keesey

  • Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction and Their Implications for Patient Care, Health Systems, and Health Policy

    Mark W. Friedberg;Peggy G. Chen;Kristin R. Van Busum;Frances Aunon

  • The Functional Status Questionnaire: reliability and validity when used in primary care.

    Alan M. Jette;Allyson R. Davies;Paul D. Cleary;David R. Calkins

  • The relationship between perceived parental expectations and pediatrician antimicrobial prescribing behavior.

    Rita Mangione-Smith;Elizabeth A. McGlynn;Marc N. Elliott;Paul Krogstad

  • Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain

    Paul G. Shekelle;Alan H. Adams;Mark R. Chassin;Eric L. Hurwitz

  • The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy

    Constance M. Winslow;David H. Solomon;Mark R. Chassin;Jacqueline Kosecoff

  • Use of medical care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Diagnosis- and service-specific analyses in a randomized controlled trial.

    Kathleen N. Lohr;Robert H. Brook;Caren Kamberg;George A. Goldberg

  • Hospital characteristics and quality of care.

    Emmett B. Keeler;Lisa V. Rubenstein;Katherine L. Kahn;David Draper

  • The Definition of Quality and Approaches to Its Assessment

    Robert H. Brook;Kathleen N. Lohr

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmett B. Keeler
Emmett B. Keeler RAND Corporation
Katherine L. Kahn
Katherine L. Kahn University of California, Los Angeles
William H. Rogers
William H. Rogers Tufts Medical Center
Kathleen N. Lohr
Kathleen N. Lohr RTI International
Joseph P. Newhouse
Joseph P. Newhouse Harvard University
John E. Ware
John E. Ware University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Paul G. Shekelle
Paul G. Shekelle RAND Corporation
David H. Solomon
David H. Solomon University of California, Los Angeles
Lucian L. Leape
Lucian L. Leape Harvard University
Albert L. Siu
Albert L. Siu Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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