Physician

Internal Medicine

Dale W. Bratzler, DO practices Internal Medicine. Dr. Dale W. Bratzler, DO is a published doctor and has 91 publications published. The lastest was: 'Comparison of influenza immunization rates for Oklahoma Medicare patients: 1995, 1996 and 1997.'

Publications

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• Quality and equity of care in U.S. hospitals.
• Medicare Claims Can Be Used to Identify US Hospitals With Higher Rates of Surgical Site Infection Following Vascular Surgery.
• Quality of Care for Elderly Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia in the United States, 2006 to 2010.
• Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update.
• Activity of Commonly Used Antimicrobial Prophylaxis Regimens against Pathogens Causing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Arthroplasty Surgical Site Infections in the Un...
• Harnessing Claims to Improve Detection of Surgical Site Infections following Hysterectomy and Colorectal Surgery.
• Accountability for Surgical Site Infections: Will the Playing Field be Level?
• Racial Disparities in Operative Procedure Time: The Influence of Obesity.
• Implications of Medicare procedure volumes on resident education.
• Hospital Performance Measures and 30-day Readmission Rates.
• Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery.
• Use of Medicare Claims to Identify US Hospitals with a High Rate of Surgical Site Infection after Hip Arthroplasty.
• Use of Medicare Diagnosis and Procedure Codes to Improve Detection of Surgical Site Infections following Hip Arthroplasty, Knee Arthroplasty, and Vascular Surgery.
• National performance on door-in to door-out time among patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
• Improvements in Door-to-Balloon Time in the United States, 2005 to 2010.
• Estimating Anesthesia Time Using the Medicare Claim: A Validation Study.
• Continuing medical education program in the journal of hospital medicine.
• Development, validation, and results of a measure of 30-day readmission following hospitalization for pneumonia.
• An administrative claims model for profiling hospital 30-day mortality rates for pneumonia patients.
• The Oklahoma Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center.
• Trends in race-based differences in door-to-balloon times.
• Interview with a quality leader: Dale W. Bratzler, DO, MPH on performance measures. Interview by Jason Trevor Fogg.
• Antibiotic timing and diagnostic uncertainty in Medicare patients with pneumonia: is it reasonable to expect all patients to receive antibiotics within 4 hours? 2006.
• Racial and ethnic disparities in pneumonia treatment and mortality.
• Initial antibiotic selection and patient outcomes: observations from the National Pneumonia Project.
• Factors associated with antimicrobial use in nursing homes: a multilevel model.
• Antibiotic timing for pneumonia.
• Indwelling urinary catheter use in the postoperative period: analysis of the national surgical infection prevention project data.
• Performance measures for pneumonia: are they valuable, and are process measures adequate?
• Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement.
• Antibiotics for bacteremic pneumonia: Improved outcomes with macrolides but not fluoroquinolones.
• The Surgical Infection Prevention and Surgical Care Improvement Projects: promises and pitfalls.
• Assessment of the Medicare quality improvement organization program.
• The surgical infection prevention and surgical care improvement projects: national initiatives to improve outcomes for patients having surgery.
• Antibiotic timing and diagnostic uncertainty in Medicare patients with pneumonia: is it reasonable to expect all patients to receive antibiotics within 4 hours?
• Blood cultures in pneumonia patients.
• In-hospital observation after antibiotic switch in pneumonia: a national evaluation.
• Volume, quality of care, and outcome in pneumonia.
• Quality improvement organizations and hospital care.
• Hospitals collaborate to decrease surgical site infections.
• Administration of first hospital antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia: does timeliness affect outcomes?
• Use of antimicrobial prophylaxis for major surgery: baseline results from the National Surgical Infection Prevention Project.
• Blood culture and susceptibility results and allergy history do not influence fluoroquinolone use in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia.
• Antibiotic administration in community-acquired pneumonia.
• Management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the elderly: physician practices in the community hospital setting.
• Timing of antibiotic administration and outcomes for Medicare patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.
• Multistate improvement in process and outcomes of carotid endarterectomy.
• Predicting bacteremia in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
• Is signed consent for influenza or pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination required?
• Effects of previous influenza vaccination on subsequent readmission and mortality in elderly patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
• Improving the quality of care for patients with pneumonia in very small hospitals.
• Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery in Oklahoma: processes and outcomes of care.
• Failure to vaccinate Medicare inpatients: a missed opportunity.
• Screening mammography for Oklahoma Medicare beneficiaries: a national priority for quality improvement.
• Pneumonia treatment process and quality.
• Smoking in the elderly--it's never too late to quit.
• Immunization for seniors.
• Mortality associated with the quality of care of patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure.
• Process of care and outcomes for elderly patients hospitalized with peptic ulcer disease: results from a quality improvement project.
• Improving influenza and pneumococcal immunizations in Oklahoma: preliminary results of a survey of Medicare beneficiaries.
• Care of acute myocardial infarction in Oklahoma: an update from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project.
• Osteopathic manipulative treatment and outcomes for pneumonia.
• Comparison of an enhanced versus a written feedback model on the management of Medicare inpatients with venous thrombosis.
• Multistate utilization, processes, and outcomes of carotid endarterectomy.
• Hospital-based influenza and pneumococcal vaccination: Sutton's Law applied to prevention.
• Variations among hospitals in the quality of care for heart failure.
• The quality of care for Medicare patients with peptic ulcer disease.
• Comparison of influenza immunization rates for Oklahoma Medicare patients: 1995, 1996 and 1997.
• Underuse of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for general surgery patients: physician practices in the community hospital setting.
• Characteristics and hospital utilization of the Oklahoma Medicare population: 1994-1996.
• Examining quality improvement vs cost containment.
• Assessing HCFA's Health Care Quality Improvement Program.
• The Cooperative Cardiovascular Project in Oklahoma.
• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in older Medicare patients.
• Warfarin use in Medicare patients with atrial fibrillation.
• Carotid endarterectomy in Oklahoma Medicare beneficiaries: patient characteristics and outcomes.
• Community-acquired pneumonia in Oklahoma: characteristics and management of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.
• Updated quality indicators for the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project.
• Antimicrobial prophylaxis for surgery: an advisory statement from the National Surgical Infection Prevention Project.
• The effect of external feedback on the management of medicare inpatients with congestive heart failure.
• Characteristics of long-term care facilities associated with standing order programs to deliver influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations to residents in 13 states.
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons practice guideline series: Antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiac surgery, part II: Antibiotic choice.
• Characteristics of long-term-care facility residents associated with receipt of influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations.
• Factors predictive of increased influenza and pneumococcal vaccination coverage in long-term care facilities: the CMS-CDC standing orders program Project.
• Surgical site infection prevention: the importance of operative duration and blood transfusion--results of the first American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Qua...
• Use of Medicare Claims to Rank Hospitals by Surgical Site Infection Risk following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery.
• Overcoming immunization barriers.
• Development of national performance measures on the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism.
• Preventing unintended consequences of quality measurement for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis.
• Surveillance for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism: recommendations from a national workshop.

Schools

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• Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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• Choice Plus POS II
• Life and Health Oklahoma
• First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO

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