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Russell S. Phillips

Russell S. Phillips

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Medicine

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122
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48457
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3501
National Ranking
1928

Overview

Russell S. Phillips is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of health professions and medicine, with notable contributions in the subfields of general health professions, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, family practice, and oncology.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Recent significant publications by Phillips include:

  • Primary Care Practice Finances In The United States Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, Health Affairs)
  • System-Level Factors and Time Spent on Electronic Health Records by Primary Care Physicians (2023, JAMA Network Open)
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Incidence of High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Primary Care Patients with Acute Low Back Pain: A Cohort Study (2022, Pain Medicine)
  • Analysis of Radiology Report Recommendation Characteristics and Rate of Recommended Action Performance (2022, JAMA Network Open)
  • Estimated Effect on Life Expectancy of Alleviating Primary Care Shortages in the United States (2021, Annals of Internal Medicine)

Phillips collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • James C. Benneyan
  • Gordon D. Schiff
  • Scot B. Sternberg
  • Maëlys J. Amat
  • Mark D. Aronson

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with a concentration in:

  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • JAMA Network Open
  • The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
  • The Annals of Family Medicine

Best Publications

  • Relationship Between Cancer Patients' Predictions of Prognosis and Their Treatment Preferences

    Jane Weeks;E. Francis Cook;Steven J. O'Day;Lynn M. Peterson

  • Systematic Review of Herbs and Dietary Supplements for Glycemic Control in Diabetes

    Gloria Y. Yeh;David M. Eisenberg;Ted J. Kaptchuk;Russell S. Phillips

  • Trends in use of complementary and alternative medicine by us adults: 1997-2002

    Hilary A. Tindle;Roger B. Davis;Russell S. Phillips;David M. Eisenberg

  • Perceptions by Family Members of the Dying Experience of Older and Seriously Ill Patients

    Joanne Lynn;Joan M. Teno;Russell S. Phillips;Albert W. Wu

  • Heavy Metal Content of Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine Products

    Robert B. Saper;Stefanos N. Kales;Janet Paquin;Michael J. Burns

  • Obesity among US immigrant subgroups by duration of residence

    Mita Sanghavi Goel;Ellen P. McCarthy;Russell S. Phillips;Christina C. Wee

  • The Impact of Serious Illness on Patients' Families

    Kenneth E. Covinsky;Kenneth E. Covinsky;Lee Goldman;E. Francis Cook;Robert Oye

  • The SUPPORT Prognostic Model: Objective Estimates of Survival for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults

    William A. Knaus;Frank E. Harrell;Joanne Lynn;Lee Goldman

  • Development of the 'Activities of Daily Vision Scale'. A measure of visual functional status

    C. M. Mangione;R. S. Phillips;J. M. Seddon;Mary G. Lawrence

  • The Limits of Reductionism in Medicine: Could Systems Biology Offer an Alternative?

    Andrew C. Ahn;Muneesh Tewari;Chi Sang Poon;Chi Sang Poon;Russell S. Phillips

  • Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic in US- and Indian-Manufactured Ayurvedic Medicines Sold via the Internet

    Robert B. Saper;Russell S. Phillips;Anusha Sehgal;Nadia Khouri

  • Advance Directives for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: Effectiveness with the Patient Self‐Determination Act and the SUPPORT Intervention

    Joan Teno;Joanne Lynn;Neil Wenger;Russell S. Phillips

  • Physicians' Decisions to Override Computerized Drug Alerts in Primary Care

    Saul N. Weingart;Maria Toth;Daniel Z. Sands;Mark D. Aronson

  • Linguistic and cultural barriers to care.

    Quyen Ngo-Metzger;Michael P. Massagli;Brian R. Clarridge;Michael Manocchia

  • Patient Preferences for Communication with Physicians about End-of-Life Decisions

    Joe Hofmann;Neil S. Wenger;Roger B. Davis;Joan M. Teno

  • Double-blind placebo-controlled trial of static magnets for the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: results of a pilot study.

    Peter M. Wolsko;David M. Eisenberg;Lee S. Simon;Roger B. Davis

  • Dying with Lung Cancer or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from SUPPORT

    Michael T. Claessens;Joanne Lynn;Zhenshao Zhong;Norman A. Desbiens

  • Physician counseling about exercise.

    Christina C. Wee;Ellen P. McCarthy;Roger B. Davis;Russell S. Phillips

  • Providing High-Quality Care for Limited English Proficient Patients: The Importance of Language Concordance and Interpreter Use

    Quyen Ngo-Metzger;Dara H. Sorkin;Russell Scott Phillips;Sheldon Greenfield

  • Pain and satisfaction with pain control in seriously ill hospitalized adults: Findings from the SUPPORT research investigations

    Norman A. Desbiens;Albert W. Wu;Steven K. Broste;Neil S. Wenger

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger B. Davis
Roger B. Davis Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Joanne Lynn
Joanne Lynn Altarum Institute
Alfred F. Connors
Alfred F. Connors Case Western Reserve University
Joan M. Teno
Joan M. Teno Brown University
Neil S. Wenger
Neil S. Wenger University of California, Los Angeles
David Eisenberg
David Eisenberg Harvard University
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
Robert M. Califf
Robert M. Califf Duke University
Albert W. Wu
Albert W. Wu Johns Hopkins University
Bruce E. Landon
Bruce E. Landon Harvard University

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