Scholars@Duke
Blake Cameron

Blake Cameron

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Nephrology

Selected Publications

Adaptation to Telehealth of Personalized Group Visits for Late Stage Diabetic Kidney Disease.

Journal Article Kidney360 · December 1, 2023 KEY POINTS: Improving late stage diabetic kidney disease care requires adapting evidence-based, self-management programs for telehealth delivery. We adapted and pilot-tested a telehealth approach and found it to be feasible. Preliminary data suggested it i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Understanding Telemedicine's "New Normal": Variations in Telemedicine Use by Specialty Line and Patient Demographics.

Journal Article Telemed J E Health · January 2022 Background:Our objective was to examine the variation in telemedicine adoption by specialty line and patient demographic characteristics after the initial peak period of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic when in-person visits had resumed and visit volu ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Treatment with Foscarnet after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (Allo-HCT) Is Associated with Long-Term Loss of Renal Function.

Journal Article Biol Blood Marrow Transplant · September 2020 Despite a well-established risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (allo-HCT), the benefits of using nephrotoxic anti-infective agents to treat serious peritransplant infections often outweigh this risk. While th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Risk for Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis After Exposure to Newer Gadolinium Agents: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · July 21, 2020 BACKGROUND: The risk for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) after exposure to newer versus older gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) remains unclear. PURPOSE: To synthesize evidence about NSF risk with newer versus older GBCAs across the spectrum of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Telehealth transformation: COVID-19 and the rise of virtual care.

Journal Article J Am Med Inform Assoc · June 1, 2020 The novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has altered our economy, society, and healthcare system. While this crisis has presented the U.S. healthcare delivery system with unprecedented challenges, the pandemic has catalyzed rapid adoption of te ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Keeping care connected: e-Consultation program improves access to nephrology care.

Journal Article J Telemed Telecare · April 2019 INTRODUCTION: Health systems are seeking innovative solutions to improve specialty care access. Electronic consultations (eConsults) allow specialists to provide formal clinical recommendations to primary care providers (PCPs) based on patient chart review ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment with Foscarnet after Allogeneic Hematopoietic-Cell Transplant (AlloHCT) Is Associated with Long-Term Loss of Renal Function

Conference Blood · November 29, 2018 AbstractIntroduction: Despite a well-established risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in 20-30% of patients undergoing AlloHCT, the benefits of treating serious infections, such as cytomegalovirus (CMV), wit ... Full text Cite

Putting patients at the center of kidney care transitions: PREPARE NOW, a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Contemp Clin Trials · October 2018 UNLABELLED: Care for patients transitioning from chronic kidney disease to kidney failure often falls short of meeting patients' needs. The PREPARE NOW study is a cluster randomized controlled trial studying the effectiveness of a pragmatic health system i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Data and knowledge standards for learning health: A population management example using chronic kidney disease.

Journal Article Learn Health Syst · October 2018 The widespread creation of learning health care systems (LHSs) will depend upon the use of standards for data and knowledge representation. Standards can facilitate the reuse of approaches for the identification of patient cohorts and the implementation of ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Clinical Outcomes of Metformin Use in Populations With Chronic Kidney Disease, Congestive Heart Failure, or Chronic Liver Disease: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · February 7, 2017 BACKGROUND: Recent changes to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration boxed warning for metformin will increase its use in persons with historical contraindications or precautions. Prescribers must understand the clinical outcomes of metformin use in these p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Academic Blogging Enhance Promotion and Tenure? A Survey of US and Canadian Medicine and Pediatric Department Chairs.

Journal Article JMIR Med Educ · June 23, 2016 BACKGROUND: Electronic educational (e-learning) technology usage continues to grow. Many medical journals operate companion blogs (an application of e-learning technology) that enable rapid dissemination of scientific knowledge and discourse. Faculty membe ... Full text Link to item Cite

DEVELOPING A DATA-DRIVEN WORKFLOW FOR POPULATION HEALTH ROUNDING

Conference JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE · May 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

A Framework to Support the Sharing and Reuse of Computable Phenotype Definitions Across Health Care Delivery and Clinical Research Applications.

Journal Article EGEMS (Wash DC) · 2016 INTRODUCTION: The ability to reproducibly identify clinically equivalent patient populations is critical to the vision of learning health care systems that implement and evaluate evidence-based treatments. The use of common or semantically equivalent pheno ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Development and Refinement of a Learning Health Systems Training Program.

Journal Article EGEMS (Wash DC) · 2016 CONTEXT: In the emerging Learning Health System (LHS), the application and generation of medical knowledge are a natural outgrowth of patient care. Achieving this ideal requires a physician workforce adept in information systems, quality improvement method ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite