University of Iowa Health Care
Family Medicine
Dr. George R. Bergus, MD
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Doctor George R. Bergus, MD is an expert in the field of Family Medicine. He has 3 awards "Regional Top Doctor", "Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". George R. Bergus, MD is also a published physician. He has 94 paper published. The most recent paper is: Usage analysis of a primary care medical resource on the Internet. He is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Test Characteristics of Faecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) Compared with Optical Colonoscopy.
- Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Community Practice Before and After Implementing a "Best Practice" Approach: An Iowa Research Network (IRENE) Interven...
- Primary care clinicians' perspectives on management of skin and soft tissue infections: an iowa research network study.
- Does structured audit and feedback improve the accuracy of residents' CPT E&M coding of clinic visits?
- Psychological effect of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
- Physician and pharmacist collaboration to improve blood pressure control.
- Fertility awareness-based methods: another option for family planning.
- Influence of patient characteristics on success of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
- How well does a shortened time interval characterize results of a full ambulatory blood pressure monitoring session?
- A cluster randomized trial to evaluate physician/pharmacist collaboration to improve blood pressure control.
- The influence of irrelevant anchors on the judgments and choices of doctors and patients.
- Explicit and implicit evaluation of physician adherence to hypertension guidelines.
- Case specificity: empirical phenomenon or measurement artifact?
- Comparative antihypertensive effects of hydrochlorothiazide and chlorthalidone on ambulatory and office blood pressure.
- Association of amoxicillin use during early childhood with developmental tooth enamel defects.
- Family medicine residents do not ask better-formulated clinical questions as they advance in their training.
- The limited effect of screening for depressive symptoms with the PHQ-9 in rural family practices.
- Primary tooth fluorosis and amoxicillin use during infancy.
- Malpractice liability for informal consultations.
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: technology with a purpose.
- Presenting risks and benefits to patients.
- Noninvasive 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: overview of technology and clinical applications.
- Estimating the effect of treatment rate changes when treatment benefits are heterogeneous: antibiotics and otitis media.
- Calling all scholars to the council of academic family medicine educational research alliance (CERA).
- Determining suicide risk (hint: a screen is not enough).
- The validity of performance-based measures of clinical reasoning and alternative approaches.
- Scoring an improvement in medical students'' clinical notes.
- Using infant mannequins in objective standardized clinical examinations: are there unintended consequences?
- Relationship between physician knowledge of hypertension and blood pressure control.
- The effects of accountability on bias in physician decision making: going from bad to worse.
- Appraising and applying evidence about a diagnostic test during a performance-based assessment.
- Medically administered antibiotics, dietary habits, fluoride intake and dental caries experience in the primary dentition.
- Email teleconsultations: well formulated clinical referrals reduce the need for clinic consultation.
- Favorable patient acceptance of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a primary care setting in the United States: a cross-sectional survey.
- Women''s quality of life is decreased by acute cystitis and antibiotic adverse effects associated with treatment.
- Basic sciences education in the medical curriculum.
- The reliability of summative judgements based on objective structured clinical examination cases distributed across the clinical year.
- Trained lay observers can reliably assess medical students'' communication skills.
- Do antibiotics affect the quality of life of patients with upper respiratory tract illnesses? It might depend on one''s luck.
- Is paracervical block safe and effective? A prospective study of its association with neonatal umbilical artery pH values.
- Urinalysis to diagnose UTI.
- Use of the periodic health evaluation by family physicians.
- Screening for gestational diabetes mellitus: comparison of a glucose polymer and a glucose monomer test beverage.
- Staving off acute otitis media. When is prophylaxis with antibiotics desirable?
- Added value of radiologist consultation to family practitioners in the outpatient setting.
- Radiologic interpretation by family physicians in an office practice setting.
- Clinical practice. How physicians make medical decisions and why medical decision making can help.
- Using data from epidemiologic studies to revise probabilities.
- A glossary of medical decision-making terms.
- Clinical reasoning about new symptoms despite preexisting disease: sources of error and order effects.
- When is a test positive? The use of decision analysis to optimize test interpretation.
- Superficial tinea infections.
- Topical treatments for head lice.
- Diagnostic imaging in the evaluation of dysphagia.
- An approach to diagnostic imaging of suspected pulmonary embolism.
- Risk assessment after acute upper GI hemorrhage.
- The inability of physicians to predict the outcome of in-hospital resuscitation.
- Diagnostic imaging to identify the cause of jaundice.
- Abortion training in family practice residency programs.
- Diagnosing left lower lobe pneumonia: usefulness of the 'spine sign' on lateral chest radiographs.
- Diagnostic imaging of lower limb deep venous thrombosis.
- Skills that Iowa family physicians desire in a new physician partner.
- Teleradiology for rural hospitals: analysis of a field study.
- Factors associated with primary care residents' satisfaction with their training.
- The effect of physician characteristics on compliance with adult preventive care guidelines.
- Tubes, antibiotic prophylaxis, or watchful waiting: a decision analysis for managing recurrent acute otitis media.
- Use of an E-mail curbside consultation service by family physicians.
- Usage analysis of a primary care medical resource on the Internet.
- The lack of association between hypertension and hypothyroidism in a primary care setting.
- Clinical diagnosis and the order of information.
- Using the World Wide Web to answer clinical questions: how efficient are different methods of information retrieval?
- Analysis of questions asked by family doctors regarding patient care.
- Pain relief for renal colic.
- Antibiotic use during the first 200 days of life.
- Evaluation for cancer in patients with symptomatic DVT.
- Lack of association between hypertension and hypothyroidism in postmenopausal women seen in a primary care setting.
- Does the structure of clinical questions affect the outcome of curbside consultations with specialty colleagues?
- Patients' acceptance of traditional and nontraditional immunization providers.
- A prospective study of antibiotic use and associated infections in young children.
- Physician perceptions about administration of immunizations outside of physician offices.
- Pacifier use and the occurrence of otitis media in the first year of life.
- Job satisfaction and workplace characteristics of primary and specialty care physicians at a bimodal medical school.
- Indication-specific 6-h systolic blood pressure thresholds can approximate 24-h determination of blood pressure control.
- Analysis of questions asked by family physicians regarding patient care.
- Serious bacterial infection in children.
- Effect of a patient's psychiatric history on physicians' estimation of probability of disease.
- The role of diagnostic imaging in women with breast implants.
- The use of unofficial "problem patient" files and interinstitutional information transfer in emergency medicine in Iowa.
- Clinical assessment of deep-vein thrombosis.
- Hepatitis B vaccination: a cost analysis.
- Using prediction models to reveal what we need to know.
- Teleradiology for consultation between practitioners and radiologists.
- Systemic antifungal therapy for tinea capitis in children.
Schools
Medical College of Pennsylvania
Highland Hospital University Rochester
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Medicine
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1811983414 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BERGUS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | GEORGE | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 522421009 | |
| NPPES Provider State | IA | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 1056.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 12.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 1.14 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1811983414 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BERGUS |
| First Name Of The Provider | GEORGE |
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