Blecker, Saul B.

Blecker S, Kwon JY, Herrin J, Grady JN, Horwitz LI. Seasonal variation in readmission risk for patients hospitalized with cardiopulmonary conditions. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 May;33(5):599-601. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4299-0. PMID: 29464475.

Blecker S, Herrin J, Kwon JY, Grady JN, Jones S, Horwitz LI. Effect of hospital readmission reduction on patients at low, medium, and high risk of readmission in the Medicare population. J Hosp Med. 2018 Aug 1;13(8):537-543.
doi: 10.12788/jhm.2936. Epub 2018 Feb 12. PMID: 29455229.

Ladapo JA, Blecker S, O'Donnell M, Jumkhawala SA, Douglas PS. Appropriate use of cardiac stress testing with imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One. 2016 Aug 18;11(8):e0161153. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161153. eCollection 2016. Review. PMID: 27536775.

Blecker S. Health Information Technology in Heart Failure Care - Final Report. (Prepared by the New York University School of Medicine under Grant No. K08 HS023683). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2018.

Blecker S, Sontag D, Horwitz LI, et al. Early identification of patients with acute decompensated heart failure. J Card Fail 2017 Sep 5. pii: S1071-9164(17)31161-2. PMID: 28887109.

Blecker S, Meisel T, Dickson VV, et al. "We're almost guests in their clinical care": inpatient provider attitudes toward chronic disease management. J Hosp Med 2017 Mar;12(3):162-7. PMID: 28272592.

Blecker S, Katz SD, Horwitz LI, et al. Comparison of approaches for heart failure case identification from electronic health record data. JAMA Cardiol 2016 Dec 1;1(9):1014-20. PMID: 27706470.

Blecker S, Park H, Katz SD. Association of HbA1c with hospitalization and mortality among patients with heart failure and diabetes. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2016 May;16(1):99. PMID: 27206478.