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  1. Assessment and prevention of hypoglycaemia in primary care among U.S. Veterans: a mixed methods study

    Article • The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  2. Age and beliefs about vaccines associated with COVID-19 vaccination among US Veterans

    Article • Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Howard Gordon

  3. Assessment and Prevention of Hypoglycemia in Primary Care Among U.S. Veterans

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  4. Hospital Readmissions Among Veterans Within 90 Days of Discharge Following Initial Hospitalization for COVID-19

    Article • Preventing Chronic Disease, December 2022, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  5. A brief pre-visit video improved patient engagement in telehealth visits

    Article • PEC Innovation, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  6. Early Impact of VA MISSION Act Implementation on Primary Care Appointment Wait Time

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  7. Psychiatric disorders newly diagnosed among veterans subsequent to hospitalization for COVID-19

    Article • Psychiatry Research, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  8. Comparison of Collaborative Goal Setting With Enhanced Education for Managing Diabetes-Associated Distress and Hemoglobin A1c Levels

    Article • JAMA Network Open, May 2022, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  9. An assessment of Veterans attitudes and willingness to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine: a mixed methods study

    Article • BMC Infectious Diseases, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  10. New domiciliary supplemental oxygen therapy after hospitalization for COVID-19 in metropolitan Chicago

    Article • ERJ Open Research, February 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Malvika Kaul, Dr Howard Gordon

  11. An Assessment of Veterans Attitudes and Willingness to Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Mixed Methods Study

    Article • February 2022, Research Square

    Dr Howard Gordon

  12. Preoperative Depression Status and 5 Year Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Outcomes in the PCORnet Bariatric Study Cohort

    Article • Annals of Surgery, January 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  13. Incorporating African American Veterans’ Success Stories for Hypertension Management: Developing a Behavioral Support Texting Protocol

    Article • JMIR Research Protocols, December 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Howard Gordon

  14. Health Insurance Coverage Among Veterans Receiving Care From VA Health Care Facilities

    Article • Medical Care Research and Review, October 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Howard Gordon

  15. Variability in comorbidites and health services use across homeless typologies: multicenter data linkage between healthcare and homeless systems

    Article • BMC Public Health, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  16. Veterans’ Use of Veterans Health Administration Primary Care in an Era of Expanding Choice

    Article • Medical Care, May 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  17. Provider, Staff, and Patient Perspectives on medical Visits Using Clinical Video Telehealth: A Foundation for Educational Initiatives to Improve Medical Care in Telehealth

    Article • The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  18. Incorporating African American Veterans’ Success Stories for Hypertension Management: Developing a Behavioral Support Texting Protocol (Preprint)

    Article • April 2021, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Howard Gordon

  19. Comparing the 5-Year Diabetes Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass

    Article • JAMA Surgery, May 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  20. Comparing VA and Community-Based Care: Trends in Sleep Studies Following the Veterans Choice Act

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  21. Patients' perception of doctor-patient communication

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  22. “I’m Not Feeling Like I’m Part of the Conversation” Patients’ Perspectives on Communicating in Clinical Video Telehealth Visits

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  23. The value of peer support for self‐management of diabetes among veterans in the Empowering Patients In Chronic care intervention

    Article • Diabetic Medicine, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  24. Moving patients from emergency department to medical intensive care unit: Tracing barriers and root contributors

    Article • International Journal of Medical Informatics, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  25. Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage to Identify Fragmented Electronic Medical Records in the All of Us Research Program

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  26. Veterans Affairs Providers' Beliefs About the Contributors to and Responsibility for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Care Disparities

    Article • Health Equity, August 2019, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Dr Howard Gordon

  27. “Do You Know What I Know?”: How Communication Norms and Recipient Design Shape the Content and Effectiveness of Patient Handoffs

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  28. Content counts, but context makes the difference in developing expertise: a qualitative study of how residents learn end of shift handoffs

    Article • BMC Medical Education, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  29. Does Effectiveness of Weight Management Programs Depend on the Food Environment?

    Article • Health Services Research, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  30. Communicating with providers about racial healthcare disparities: The role of providers’ prior beliefs on their receptivity to different narrative frames

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  31. Mental Health Screening Results Associated with Women Veterans' Ratings of Provider Communication, Trust, and Care Quality

    Article • Women s Health Issues, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  32. “Workin' on Our Night Moves”: How Residents Prepare for Shift Handoffs

    Article • The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  33. What Causes Racial Health Care Disparities? A Mixed-Methods Study Reveals Variability in How Health Care Providers Perceive Causal Attributions

    Article • INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Howard Gordon

  34. Healthcare Providers’ Responses to Narrative Communication About Racial Healthcare Disparities

    Article • Health Communication, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sarah E Gollust, Dr Howard Gordon

  35. African American Veterans Storytelling

    Article • Medical Care, September 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  36. A Mixed-Methods Study of Veterans Affairs Providers' Experiences Communicating With Patients About the Affordable Care Act

    Article • Military Medicine, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  37. An analysis of patient-provider secure messaging at two Veterans Health Administration medical centers: message content and resolution through secure messaging

    Article • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, March 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  38. Consider Embracing the Reviews from Physician Rating Websites

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  39. Weight and Veterans’ Environments Study (WAVES) I and II: Rationale, Methods, and Cohort Characteristics

    Article • American Journal of Health Promotion, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Howard Gordon

  40. Patient prioritization of comorbid chronic conditions in the Veteran population: Implications for patient-centered care

    Article • SAGE Open Medicine, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Howard Gordon

  41. A question prompt sheet for adult patients with chronic kidney disease

    Article • BMC Nephrology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  42. Can stories influence African-American patients’ intentions to change hypertension management behaviors? A randomized control trial

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  43. Comparing Ratings and Counts of Doctor-Patient Communication

    Article • Evaluation & the Health Professions, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Howard Gordon

  44. Barriers to effective communication between veterans with chronic kidney disease and their healthcare providers: Table 1.

    Article • Clinical Kidney Journal, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  45. Examining patients’ trust in physicians and the VA healthcare system in a prospective cohort followed for six-months after an exacerbation of heart failure

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  46. A Brief Self-Affirmation Study to Improve the Experience of Minority Patients

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  47. “There's no cure for this condition”: How physicians discuss advance care planning in heart failure

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  48. Efficiency of Colorectal Cancer Care Among Veterans: Analysis of Treatment Wait Times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers

    Article • Journal of Oncology Practice, February 2013, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  49. Time to sign: The relationship between health literacy and signature time

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  50. Advance Care Planning Safeguards

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  51. Missed Opportunities for Advance Care Planning Communication During Outpatient Clinic Visits

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  52. Effect of histologic subtype on treatment and outcomes for esophageal cancer in the United States

    Article • Cancer, October 2011, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  53. Post-Discharge Venous Thromboembolism After Cancer Surgery

    Article • Annals of Surgery, July 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  54. Orthopedic communication about osteoarthritis treatment: Does patient race matter?

    Article • Arthritis Care & Research, May 2011, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  55. What We’ve Got Here is a Failure to Communicate

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  56. The Effect of Patient Race on Total Joint Replacement Recommendations and Utilization in the Orthopedic Setting

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  57. Mortality After Hospitalization for Heart Failure in Blacks Compared to Whites

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  58. Missed Opportunities for Interval Empathy in Lung Cancer Communication

    Article • Archives of Internal Medicine, September 2008, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  59. Utility of detailed preoperative cardiac testing and incidence of post-thoracotomy myocardial infarction

    Article • Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, March 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  60. Companion participation in cancer consultations

    Article • Psycho-Oncology, January 2008, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  61. Factors Influencing Perceptions of Breast Cancer Genetic Counseling among Women in an Urban Health Care System

    Article • Journal of Genetic Counseling, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  62. Physicians’ communication and perceptions of patients: Is it how they look, how they talk, or is it just the doctor?

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, August 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  63. A quasi-experimental test of an intervention to increase the use of thiazide-based treatment regimens for people with hypertension

    Article • Implementation Science, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  64. The clinical context and patient participation in post-diagnostic consultations

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, December 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  65. Racial Differences in Trust and Lung Cancer Patients' Perceptions of Physician Communication

    Article • Journal of Clinical Oncology, January 2006, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  66. Racial differences in doctors' information-giving and patients' participation

    Article • Cancer, January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  67. Patient Participation in Medical Consultations

    Article • Medical Care, October 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  68. Physician–patient communication following invasive procedures: an analysis of post-angiogram consultations

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  69. Variation by race in factors contributing to heart failure hospitalizations

    Article • Journal of Cardiac Failure, February 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  70. Mortality After Noncardiac Surgery

    Article • Medical Care, February 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  71. Mortality After Cardiac Bypass Surgery

    Article • Medical Care, February 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  72. ‘A little bitty spot and I'm a big man’: patients' perspectives on refusing diagnosis or treatment for lung cancer

    Article • Psycho-Oncology, January 2005, Wiley

    Dr Howard Gordon

  73. Race and patient refusal of invasive cardiac procedures

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, September 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  74. Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment of Empyema Thoracis: An Outcomes Analysis

    Article • The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  75. Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  76. Process of Care in Hispanic, Black, and White VA Beneficiaries

    Article • Medical Care, September 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  77. Effect of Definition of Mortality on Hospital Profiles

    Article • Medical Care, January 2002, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  78. Preoperative risk factors for 30-day mortality after elective surgery for vascular disease in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals: Is race important?

    Article • Journal of Vascular Surgery, October 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Howard Gordon

  79. The Relationship of Gender and In-Hospital Death

    Article • Medical Care, March 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Howard Gordon

  80. Racial variation in the use of do-not-resuscitate orders

    Article • Journal of General Internal Medicine, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Howard Gordon

  81. Racial Variation in Predicted and Observed In-Hospital Death

    Article • JAMA, November 1996, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  82. Racial variation in predicted and observed in-hospital death. A regional analysis

    Article • JAMA, November 1996, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Howard Gordon

  83. Impact of Marital Status on Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients

    Article • Archives of Internal Medicine, December 1995, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Howard Gordon