Professor of Medicine, Indiana University
Internal Medicine
Dr. Greg A. Sachs, MD
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Greg A. Sachs is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7/57 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 3 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Indianapolis Monthly" and "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors". Greg Sachs is also a published physician. He has 100 paper published. The most recent paper is: What is the quality of the reporting of research ethics in publications of nursing home research?
Publications
- The Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality, and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care Approach: Preliminary Data from the Implementation...
- Wishard volunteer advocates program: an intervention for at-risk, incapacitated, unbefriended adults.
- Hospice Use Among Nursing Home and Non-Nursing Home Patients.
- Improving Prescribing Practices Late in Life: A Task for all Clinicians, Not Just Nursing Home Physicians.
- Scope and outcomes of surrogate decision making among hospitalized older adults.
- Caregiver perspectives on cancer screening for persons with dementia: "why put them through it?".
- Hospice Use Among Nursing Home Patients.
- Communicating with clinicians: the experiences of surrogate decision-makers for hospitalized older adults.
- Advanced Dementia: State of the Art and Priorities for the Next Decade.
- The Symptom Experience of Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia: Self and Caregiver Report and Comparison With Standardized Symptom Assessment Measures.
- Cognitive impairment: an independent predictor of excess mortality: a cohort study.
- A conceptual model of the role of communication in surrogate decision making for hospitalized adults.
- Patient-Related Factors Associated With Hospital Discharge to a Care Facility After Critical Illness.
- Timing of do-not-resuscitate orders for hospitalized older adults who require a surrogate decision-maker.
- Caregiver and noncaregiver attitudes toward dementia screening.
- Palliative care for patients with dementia: a national survey.
- Daily medication use in nursing home residents with advanced dementia.
- Physician referral decisions for older chronic kidney disease patients: a pilot study of geriatricians, internists, and nephrologists.
- Dying from dementia.
- Relationship between quality of care and functional decline in hospitalized vulnerable elders.
- Self-neglect and resistance to intervention: ethical challenges for clinicians.
- Variable judgments of decisional capacity in cognitively impaired research subjects.
- Integrating palliative medicine into the care of persons with advanced dementia: identifying appropriate medication use.
- Patients dying with dementia: experience at the end of life and impact of hospice care.
- What correlates with the intention to be tested for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in healthy older adults?
- Older adults and chronic kidney disease decision making by primary care physicians: a scholarly review and research agenda.
- Dementia, diagnostic disclosure, and self-reported health status.
- Using assessing care of vulnerable elders quality indicators to measure quality of hospital care for vulnerable elders.
- Empirical assessment of a research advance directive for persons with dementia and their proxies.
- A prognostic model for 1-year mortality in older adults after hospital discharge.
- Management of noncancer pain in community-dwelling persons with dementia.
- To what extent do geriatricians document the most bothersome symptoms of patients with advanced dementia?
- High interest in screening and treatment for mild cognitive impairment in older adults: A pilot study.
- Implications of new geriatric diabetes care guidelines for the assessment of quality of care in older patients.
- Reconsidering medication appropriateness for patients late in life.
- Factors associated with self- and caregiver report of pain among community-dwelling persons with dementia.
- Geriatricians and functional outcomes.
- Rivastigmine for dementia associated with Parkinson''s disease.
- A brief history and lessons learned from twin efforts to transform medicine.
- Strain experienced by caregivers of dementia patients receiving palliative care: findings from the Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts (PEACE) Program.
- Pain in community-dwelling persons with dementia: frequency, intensity, and congruence between patient and caregiver report.
- Barriers to excellent end-of-life care for patients with dementia.
- Advanced dementia and feeding tubes: do physician factors contribute to state variation?
- So I thought I wanted to be a chief.
- Ethics reporting in publications about research with Alzheimer's disease patients.
- Are the rules for research with subjects with dementia changing?: views from the field.
- Barriers to limiting the practice of feeding tube placement in advanced dementia.
- Empirical research on informed consent with the cognitively impaired.
- Conducting empirical research on informed consent: challenges and questions.
- Palliative Excellence in Alzheimer Care Efforts (PEACE): a program description.
- Advance consent for dementia research.
- Improving care of the the dying.
- Limitations on psychiatrists' discretionary civil commitment authority by the Stone and dangerousness criteria.
- Molecular mechanisms in therapy of acid-related diseases.
- APOE4 testing for Alzheimer's disease.
- Biomedical research involving older human subjects.
- Ethical aspects of dementia.
- Improving advance directives: more dialogue, not more laws.
- Disease-related worries and concerns: a study on out-patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
- Relationship between the use of unconventional therapies and disease-related concerns: a study of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
- Offering advance directives.
- "The trajectory of dying": commentary and response.
- Research ethics: depression and mortality in nursing homes.
- Proton pump inhibitors and acid-related diseases.
- [Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in elderly inpatients of medical and surgical departments].
- Review article: the clinical pharmacology of proton pump inhibitors.
- Acid secretion and Helicobacter pylori.
- Cell digestion and genotoxicity assessment in gastric mucosa.
- Omeprazole and the gastric mucosa.
- A piece of my mind. On deeper reflection.
- A piece of my mind: sometimes dying still stings.
- Evaluation of cognition in cancer patients: special focus on the elderly.
- Nonverbal communication in doctor-elderly patient transactions (NDEPT): development of a tool.
- Prioritizing and stopping prescription medicines.
- Integrating care for older adults with cognitive impairment.
- Prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria isolated from older versus younger hospitalized adults: results of a two-centre study.
- Implementing innovative models of dementia care: The Healthy Aging Brain Center.
- Research at the interface of palliative care and geriatrics.
- What is the quality of the reporting of research ethics in publications of nursing home research?
- Relationship between quality of care of hospitalized vulnerable elders and postdischarge mortality.
- Speaking of research advance directives: planning for future research participation.
- Patients'' attitudes of dementia screening across the Atlantic.
- The Curriculum for the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient program: a collaborative faculty development program for hospitalists, general internists, and geriatricians.
- Differences among geriatricians, general internists, and cardiologists in the care of patients with heart failure: a cautionary tale of quality assessment.
- Ethical aspects of dementia research: informed consent and proxy consent.
- Can primary care meet the biopsychosocial needs of older adults with dementia?
- Improving medical care of persons with Alzheimer disease through clinical teaching: the IMPACT program.
- The application of health care surrogate laws to older populations: how good a match?
- Dementia care at the end of life: empirical research and international collaboration.
- Empowerment of the older patient? A randomized, controlled trial to increase discussion and use of advance directives.
- Alzheimer's Disease International and International Working Group for Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines for research involving human subjects with dementia.
- Physicians' attitudes about the care of patients in the persistent vegetative state: a national survey.
- Flu shots, mammograms, and Alzheimer's disease: ethics of preventive medicine and dementia.
- Not ready for hospice: characteristics of patients in a pre-hospice program.
- The role of prognosis in clinical decision making.
- Alzheimer disease ethics: a continuing area of public interest.
- Research on the cognitively impaired: lessons and warnings from the emergency research debate.
- Good care of dying patients: the alternative to physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
- Caring for older cancer patients: practical decision-making guidelines with a focus on advance directives.
Schools
Yale University
University Chicago Hosps
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Pathway X Bronze Direct CACA IN HIX
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Health and Life PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Mutual of Omaha
- Sagamore Plus
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- Universal American
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Indianapolis Monthly
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
Education
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University of Chicago -
Yale University School of Medicine
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