Scientific Advisor, Mannheim Institute for Public Health
Internal Medicine
Dr. David G. Litaker, MD
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David Litaker is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended Duke University School of Medicine. Duke University School of Medicine is a top medical university. Duke University School of Medicine has a rank of 8 in research and a 29 in primary care He over the years received 5 awards: "James M. Smith Public Health Leadership Award", "Top Reviewer", "Scholarship in Teaching Award", "Career Development Award" and "Hospital Teacher of the Year Award". David Litaker is a published doctor and has 70 publications published. The lastest was: 'Developing better critical paths in healthcare: combining 'best practice' and the quantitative approach.'
Publications
- Community-based efforts to promote physical activity: A systematic review of interventions considering mode of delivery, study quality and population subgroups.
- Neighborhood racial residential segregation and changes in health or death among older adults.
- Influenza vaccination coverage among high-risk groups in 11 European countries.
- County-level poverty is equally associated with unmet health care needs in rural and urban settings.
- Data quality bias: an underrecognized source of misclassification in pay-for-performance reporting?
- The prevalence of current sunbed use and user characteristics: the SUN-Study 2008.
- Rural-urban comparison of contextual associations with self-reported mental health status.
- Health state information derived from secondary databases is affected by multiple sources of bias.
- Differences in breast cancer screening rates: an issue of ethnicity or socioeconomics?
- Impact of sumatriptan on clinic utilization and costs of care in migraineurs.
- Preoperative evaluation of a woman with rheumatoid arthritis.
- Using pretreatment quality of life perceptions to predict response to sumatriptan in migraineurs.
- Injury prevention education in United States medical school curricula.
- Developing better critical paths in healthcare: combining 'best practice' and the quantitative approach.
- The impact of drug therapy on quality of life in headache and migraine.
- Controlling varicella in the healthcare setting: barriers to varicella vaccination among healthcare workers.
- Framing procedural risks to patients: is 99% safe the same as a risk of 1 in 100?
- Surviving the prospective payment system: potential problems and solutions to ensure quality of care.
- Ending a nurse practitioner-patient relationship: uncovering patients' perceptions.
- Implementing ACC/AHA guidelines for the preoperative management of patients with coronary artery disease scheduled for noncardiac surgery: effect on perioperative outc...
- New technology in quality of life research: are all computer-assisted approaches created equal?
- Physician - nurse practitioner teams in chronic disease management: the impact on costs, clinical effectiveness, and patients'' perception of care.
- Managed care penetration, insurance status, and access to health care.
- Disease prevention and health promotion in medical education: reflections from an academic health center.
- Racial differences in lipid-lowering agent use in medicaid patients with cardiovascular disease.
- Physicians' attitudes and preventive care delivery: insights from the DOPC study.
- Use of preventive services by Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries: does spillover from managed care matter?
- Context and healthcare access: looking beyond the individual.
- Health care resource allocation and individuals'' health care needs: examining the degree of fit.
- Continuity of care and cardiovascular risk factor management: does care by a single clinician add to informational continuity provided by electronic medical records?
- Disparities among the disadvantaged: variation in lipid management in the Ohio Medicaid program.
- Association of socioeconomic status with functional capacity, heart rate recovery, and all-cause mortality.
- Using complexity theory to build interventions that improve health care delivery in primary care.
- Socioeconomic status and mortality.
- Association of contextual factors and breast cancer screening: finding new targets to promote early detection.
- Physician practice patterns and variation in the delivery of preventive services.
- Are provider self-efficacy and attitudes related to cardiovascular prevention associated with better treatment outcomes?
- Performance measures and outcomes for patients hospitalized with heart failure.
- An appreciative inquiry approach to practice improvement and transformative change in health care settings.
- Sleep apnea in hemodialysis patients: risk factors and effect on survival.
- Quality of care by a hypertension expert: a cautionary tale for pay-for-performance approaches.
- Association of neighborhood socioeconomic status with physical fitness in healthy young adults: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.
- Pay for performance and medical education: strategies for preparing physicians of the future.
- Association of intervention outcomes with practice capacity for change: subgroup analysis from a group randomized trial.
- Correlates of baseline performance do not predict results of an intervention to improve preventive care.
- Making sense of primary care practices' capacity for change.
- A systematic approach to practice assessment and quality improvement intervention tailoring.
- Measuring practice capacity for change: a tool for guiding quality improvement in primary care settings.
- Toward more sustainable health care quality improvement in developing countries: the "little steps" approach.
- Physician support for a population-based pharmaceutical approach to cardiovascular prevention: not there yet.
- Appreciative Inquiry for quality improvement in primary care practices.
- Combining accelerometry and HR for assessing preschoolers' physical activity.
- Access to and utilization of healthcare: the provider''s role.
- Outcomes associated with matching patients'' treatment preferences to physicians'' recommendations: study methodology.
- A spatial regression analysis of German community characteristics associated with voluntary non-remunerated blood donor rates.
- Returning to the bedside: using the history and physical examination to identify rotator cuff tears.
- The cost of delirium in the surgical patient.
- Preoperative risk factors for postoperative delirium.
- Gender bias in clinical trials: do double standards still apply?
- Factors influencing the selection of general internal medicine fellowship programs: a national survey.
- Targeting lead screening: The Ohio Lead Risk Score.
- Acute pseudogout mimicking septic arthritis following urologic manipulation.
- Guns and homicide in the home.
- Childhood victims of violence. Hospital utilization by children with intentional injuries.
- Four-year experience with a unit for long-term ventilation (respiratory special care unit) at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
- Practice variation in the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis: a case for more effective physician education in primary care.
- Preoperative screening.
- The dilemma of nosocomial pneumonia: what primary care physicians should know.
- New directions in perioperative medicine?
Schools
Duke University
Nat39l Naval Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- James M. Smith Public Health Leadership Award
- Top Reviewer
- Scholarship in Teaching Award
- Career Development Award
- Hospital Teacher of the Year Award
Education
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Case Western Reserve University -
National Capital Consortium -
Duke University School of Medicine
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