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Overview

William B. Weeks is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and conducts research primarily in medicine and health professions. Their work spans an array of topics related to healthcare, health disparities, and the use of artificial intelligence in medicine.

Their recent publications include studies on health disparities and clinical care, with notable papers such as:

  • Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them (2023, PLOS Global Public Health)
  • Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (2020, JAMA Network Open)

William B. Weeks has collaborated frequently with prominent coauthors including Juan Lavista Ferres, James N. Weinstein, Rahul Dodhia, Yixi Xu, and Meghana Kshirsagar.

Publication venues where Weeks has contributed multiple articles include:

  • International Journal of Public Health
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • JAMA Network Open
  • PLoS ONE

Their research covers a broad spectrum of fields with a primary focus on medicine and health professions. Subfields of study in their work include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Health
  • Health Informatics

Key topics in William B. Weeks' research portfolio include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Bradley V. Watts;Paula P. Schnurr;Lorna Mayo;Yinong Young-Xu

  • Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys

    J B Colla;A C Bracken;L M Kinney;W B Weeks

  • Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults

    David J. Nyweide;Denise L. Anthony;Julie P. W. Bynum;Julie P. W. Bynum;Robert L. Strawderman

  • Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life in Rural and Urban Veterans

    William B. Weeks;Lewis E. Kazis;Yujing Shen;Zhongxiao Cong

  • Who Pays for Poor Surgical Quality? Building a Business Case for Quality Improvement

    Justin B. Dimick;Justin B. Dimick;Justin B. Dimick;William B. Weeks;William B. Weeks;Raj J. Karia;Smita Das

  • Changes in authorship patterns in prestigious US medical journals.

    William B Weeks;Amy E Wallace;Amy E Wallace;Amy E Wallace;B.C.Surott Kimberly

  • Where the United States spends its spine dollars: expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions.

    Matthew A. Davis;Tracy Onega;William B. Weeks;Jon D. Lurie

  • Racial, Socioeconomic, and Rural–Urban Disparities in Obesity-Related Bariatric Surgery

    Amy E. Wallace;Yinong Young-Xu;David Hartley;William B. Weeks

  • Characteristics of Successful Quality Improvement Teams: Lessons from Five Collaborative Projects in the VHA

    Peter D. Mills;William B. Weeks;William B. Weeks

  • Rural and urban disparities in health-related quality of life among veterans with psychiatric disorders.

    Amy E Wallace;William B Weeks;Stanley Wang;Austin F Lee

  • The effectiveness of root cause analysis: what does the literature tell us?

    Katherine B. Percarpio;B. Vince Watts;William B. Weeks;William B. Weeks

  • Improving efficiency and access to mental health care: combining integrated care and advanced access.

    Andrew Pomerantz;Brady H. Cole;Brady H. Cole;Bradley V. Watts;William B. Weeks

  • Developing a culture of safety in the Veterans Health Administration

    William B. Weeks;James P. Bagian

  • Rural‐Urban Disparities in Health‐Related Quality of Life Within Disease Categories of Veterans

    William B. Weeks;Amy E. Wallace;Stanley Wang;Stanley Wang;Austin Lee;Austin Lee

  • Organizational stages and processes of change for continuous quality improvement in health care

    Deborah A. Levesque;Janice M. Prochaska;James O. Prochaska;Stephen R. Dewart

  • Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Outpatient Health Care Utilization by Older Rural and Urban New England Veterans

    William B. Weeks;David M. Bott;Rebecca P. Lamkin;Steven M. Wright

  • Health care for patients with serious mental illness: family medicine's role.

    Nancy E Morden;Lisa A Mistler;William B Weeks;William B Weeks;Stephen J Bartels

  • A comparison of the educational costs and incomes of physicians and other professionals.

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  • Higher Health Care Quality And Bigger Savings Found At Large Multispecialty Medical Groups

    William B. Weeks;Daniel J. Gottlieb;David J. Nyweide;Jason M. Sutherland

  • The savings illusion--why clinical quality improvement fails to deliver bottom-line results.

    Stephen S Rauh;Eric B Wadsworth;William B Weeks;James N Weinstein

Frequent Co-Authors

James O. Prochaska
James O. Prochaska University of Rhode Island
Rhona Flin
Rhona Flin Robert Gordon University
Matthew J. Friedman
Matthew J. Friedman Dartmouth College
Jonathan S. Skinner
Jonathan S. Skinner Dartmouth College
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Arnold Milstein
Arnold Milstein Stanford University

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