Chief Quality Officer at Intermountain Healthcare
General Surgery
Dr. Brent C. James, MD
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Brent C. James works in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from University of Utah School of Medicine. He has 2 awards "Elected Member" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Brent James is a published MD. He has 61 papers published. The most current publication "Lipoprotein(a) interactions with lipid and nonlipid risk factors in early familial coronary artery disease."
Publications
- The cystic fibrosis improvement story: we count our successes in lives.
- Costs and infant outcomes after implementation of a care process model for febrile infants.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations highly authoritative.
- How intermountain trimmed health care costs through robust quality improvement efforts.
- 'Global trigger tool' shows that adverse events in hospitals may be ten times greater than previously measured.
- Guidelines for establishing a quality improvement program in interventional radiology.
- Cottage industry to postindustrial care--the revolution in health care delivery.
- A conversation with Brent C James, MD. Health reform debate overlooks physician-patient dynamic.
- Delays in discharge in a tertiary care pediatric hospital.
- Improving colonoscopy referral rates through computer-supported, primary care practice redesign.
- Impact of fundoplication versus gastrojejunal feeding tubes on mortality and in preventing aspiration pneumonia in young children with neurologic impairment who have g...
- Quality of life of children with neurological impairment who receive a fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- Informing the front line about common respiratory viral epidemics.
- Community and hospital-based physicians' attitudes regarding pediatric hospitalist systems.
- Guidelines for appraisal and publication of PDSA quality improvement.
- Automated syndromic surveillance for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
- The use of computers for clinical care: a case series of advanced U.S. sites.
- Improving the quality of health care in America: what medical schools, leading medical journals, and federal funding agencies can do.
- Rapid deployment of an electronic disease surveillance system in the state of Utah for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
- Continuous quality improvement applied to medical care: experiences at LDS hospital.
- Genotypes of the cytochrome p450 isoform, CYP2C9, and the vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1 conjointly determine stable warfarin dose: a prospective study.
- Physicians' attitudes regarding patient access to electronic medical records.
- The Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Errors: misunderstanding can do harm. Quality of Health Care in America Committee.
- Implementing practice guidelines through clinical quality improvement.
- Improving colon cancer screening rates in primary care: a pilot study emphasising the role of the medical assistant.
- A comprehensive set of coded chief complaints for the emergency department.
- Decreased mortality after implementation of a treatment guideline for community-acquired pneumonia.
- Trust the clinicians. Processes that caused adverse events a more urgent problem than human error.
- E-health: steps on the road to interoperability.
- Quality improvement opportunities in health care.making it easy to do it right.
- Information system concepts for quality measurement.
- Clinical and economic outcomes for term infants associated with increasing administration of antibiotics to their mothers.
- Brent James on reducing harm to patients and improving quality. Interview by Susan V. White.
- Mental health integration: rethinking practitioner roles in the treatment of depression: the specialist, primary care physicians, and the practice nurse.
- Every defect a treasure: learning from adverse events in hospitals.
- The ethics of using quality improvement methods in health care.
- Connections between quality measurement and improvement.
- Lipoprotein(a) interactions with lipid and nonlipid risk factors in early familial coronary artery disease.
- Implementing continuous quality improvement.
- Improving quality can reduce costs.
- Quality improvement in the hospital: managing clinical processes.
- At the crossroads of quality.
- Making it easy to do it right.
- The challenge of variation in medical practice.
- Plasma homocyst(e)ine as a risk factor for early familial coronary artery disease.
- Higher plasma homocyst(e)ine and increased susceptibility to adverse effects of low folate in early familial coronary artery disease.
- Higher serum bilirubin is associated with decreased risk for early familial coronary artery disease.
- Breaks in the outcomes measurement chain.
- The fall in incidence of prostate carcinoma. On the down side of a prostate specific antigen induced peak in incidence--data from the Utah Cancer Registry.
- TQM and clinical medicine.
- Letting good care drive out the bad. Interview by Anita J. Slomski.
- Ratio of polyclonal-monoclonal prostate-specific antigen levels. Discrimination of nodal status in prostate tumors that produce low marker levels.
- Inpatient transfers to the intensive care unit: delays are associated with increased mortality and morbidity.
- Music to be born to, music to die to.
- No clinician is an island.
- Interdisciplinary communication in the intensive care unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies.
- Managing processes of care, not providers. Interview by Erica L. Drazen.
- The impact of a multidisciplinary approach on caring for ventilator-dependent patients.
- Probable endothelisation of bare metal stent struts extending from the left main coronary into the aorta.
- Improving response rates among doctors: randomised trial.
Schools
University Of Utah School Of Medicine
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Elected Member
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Utah -
University of Utah School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1790754471 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | JAMES | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | BRENT | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 722235810 | |
| NPPES Provider State | AR | |
| Specialty Description | Optometry | |
| Total Claim Count | 22.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1790754471 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | JAMES |
| First Name Of The Provider | BRENT |
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