Scholars@Duke
Jonathan Gregory Bae

Jonathan Gregory Bae

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Hospital Medicine
jon.bae@duke.edu
Box 100800 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
Department of Hospitalist Medicine, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Multimodal quality improvement project on reducing hospital perioperative thromboembolic events (Patient Safety Indicator-12).

Journal Article BMJ Open Qual · April 3, 2025 BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes both pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, is a common yet significant postoperative complication. Patient Safety Indicator (PSI)-12 was introduced by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation and 30-Day Outcomes After Admission for Common Gastrointestinal Conditions: A Large Nationwide Study.

Journal Article Gastro Hep Adv · 2025 BACKGROUND AND AIMS: To study the associations of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage with 30-day mortality and readmission for common gastrointestinal conditions, adjusting for individual demographics, comorbidities, access to health-care resources, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and 30-Day Outcomes for Common Cardiovascular Conditions.

Journal Article J Am Heart Assoc · August 20, 2024 BACKGROUND: Understanding the relationship between neighborhood environment and cardiovascular outcomes is important to achieve health equity and implement effective quality strategies. We conducted a population-based cohort study to determine the associat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology.

Journal Article Am J Med Qual · March 2024 Several years ago, the US News and World Report changed their risk-adjustment methodology, now relying almost exclusively on chronic conditions for risk adjustment. The impacts of adding selected acute conditions like pneumonia, sepsis, and electrolyte dis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Healthcare Access, and Outcomes of Hospitalizations for Common Pulmonary Conditions: A National Study of Medicare Beneficiaries.

Journal Article Ann Am Thorac Soc · October 2023 Rationale: Understanding how systemic forces and environmental exposures impact patient outcomes is critical to advancing health equity and improving population health for patients with pulmonary disease. This relationship has not yet been assessed at the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation, healthcare access, and 30-day mortality and readmission after sepsis or critical illness: findings from a nationwide study.

Journal Article Crit Care · July 15, 2023 BACKGROUND: To determine if neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation independently predicts 30-day mortality and readmission for patients with sepsis or critical illness after adjusting for individual poverty, demographics, comorbidity burden, access to heal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and 30-Day Mortality and Readmission for Patients With Common Neurologic Conditions.

Journal Article Neurology · April 25, 2023 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patients of low individual socioeconomic status (SES) are at a greater risk of unfavorable health outcomes. However, the association between neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and health outcomes for patients with neurologic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Emotional Exhaustion Among US Health Care Workers Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2021.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · September 1, 2022 IMPORTANCE: Extraordinary strain from COVID-19 has negatively impacted health care worker (HCW) well-being. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether HCW emotional exhaustion has increased during the pandemic, for which roles, and at what point. DESIGN, SETTING, AND ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Safety Culture and Workforce Well-Being Associations with Positive Leadership WalkRounds.

Journal Article Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf · July 2021 BACKGROUND: Interventions to decrease burnout and increase well-being in health care workers (HCWs) and improve organizational safety culture are urgently needed. This study was conducted to determine the association between Positive Leadership WalkRounds ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Clinician Burnout Associated With Sex, Clinician Type, Work Culture, and Use of Electronic Health Records.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · April 1, 2021 IMPORTANCE: Electronic health records (EHRs) are considered a potentially significant contributor to clinician burnout. OBJECTIVE: To describe the association of EHR usage, sex, and work culture with burnout for 3 types of clinicians at an academic medical ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Prospective and External Evaluation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict In-Hospital Mortality of Adults at Time of Admission.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · February 5, 2020 IMPORTANCE: The ability to accurately predict in-hospital mortality for patients at the time of admission could improve clinical and operational decision-making and outcomes. Few of the machine learning models that have been developed to predict in-hospita ... Full text Link to item Cite

Work-life balance behaviours cluster in work settings and relate to burnout and safety culture: a cross-sectional survey analysis.

Journal Article BMJ Qual Saf · February 2019 BACKGROUND: Healthcare is approaching a tipping point as burnout and dissatisfaction with work-life integration (WLI) in healthcare workers continue to increase. A scale evaluating common behaviours as actionable examples of WLI was introduced to measure w ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Improving Resident and Fellow Engagement in Patient Safety Through a Graduate Medical Education Incentive Program.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · December 2018 BACKGROUND: Collaboration between graduate medical education (GME) and health systems is essential for the success of patient safety initiatives. One example is the development of an incentive program aligning trainee performance with health system quality ... Full text Link to item Cite

HEART Failure? Episodes of Missed Major Cardiac Events When Applying the HEART Pathway to an Observation Unit Population.

Journal Article Crit Pathw Cardiol · June 2018 OBJECTIVE: The HEART Pathway risk prediction tool (HEART score plus serial troponin measures at 0 and 3 hours post-presentation) is used to identify low-risk patients with chest pain who may qualify for safe, early discharge. We calculated the percentage o ... Full text Link to item Cite

The associations between work-life balance behaviours, teamwork climate and safety climate: cross-sectional survey introducing the work-life climate scale, psychometric properties, benchmarking data and future directions.

Journal Article BMJ Qual Saf · August 2017 BACKGROUND: Improving the resiliency of healthcare workers is a national imperative, driven in part by healthcare workers having minimal exposure to the skills and culture to achieve work-life balance (WLB). Regardless of current policies, healthcare worke ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Improving Timely Resident Follow-Up and Communication of Results in Ambulatory Clinics Utilizing a Web-Based Audit and Feedback Module.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · April 2017 BACKGROUND: Failure to follow up and communicate test results to patients in outpatient settings may lead to diagnostic and therapeutic delays. Residents are less likely than attending physicians to report results to patients, and may face additional barri ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The Burden of Burnout.

Journal Article Am J Med Qual · 2017 This study sought to determine burnout prevalence and factors associated with burnout in internal medicine residents after introduction of the 2011 ACGME duty hour rules. Burnout was evaluated using an anonymized, abbreviated version of the Maslach Burnout ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Incorporating Patient Acuity Rating Score Into Patient Handoffs and the Correlation With Rapid Responses and Unexpected ICU Transfers.

Journal Article Am J Med Qual · 2017 Handoffs and rapid response team (RRT) activations have been a focus for quality improvement in hospital medicine. This study aimed to incorporate a previously used scoring system (1-7) for severity of illness on initial encounter as a handoff adjunct and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Doctor Who? A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve Patients' Knowledge of Their Inpatient Physicians.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · May 2016 Background Patient-physician communication is an integral part of high-quality patient care and an expectation of the Clinical Learning Environment Review program. Objective This quality improvement initiative evaluated the impact of an educational audit a ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Physician awareness of patient cardiac telemetry monitoring

Journal Article Journal of Hospital Administration · April 5, 2016 Overuse of cardiac telemetry monitoring in the inpatient setting is widespread, contributes to alarm fatigue, and is costly for health systems. We sought to quantify the rates of provider unawareness of ongoing telemetry use and to quantify the rat ... Full text Cite

An evaluation of physician predictions of discharge on a general medicine service.

Journal Article J Hosp Med · December 2015 The goal of this study was to evaluate general medicine physicians' ability to predict hospital discharge. We prospectively asked study subjects to predict whether each patient under their care would be discharged on the next day, on the same day, or neith ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The highest utilizers of care: individualized care plans to coordinate care, improve healthcare service utilization, and reduce costs at an academic tertiary care center.

Journal Article J Hosp Med · July 2015 BACKGROUND: High utilizers are medically and psychosocially complex, have high rates of emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions, and contribute to rising healthcare costs. OBJECTIVE: Develop individualized care plans to reduce unnecessary ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient Acuity Scores to Prevent Rapid Responses

Conference The Ochsner journal · March 1, 2015 Background: In the last 10 years, patient safety committees nationwide have focused on creating taskforces such as rapid response teams (RRTs) that can intervene when patients start to decompensate prior to a code. At Duke Regional Hospital, approximately ... Open Access Link to item Cite

A Novel Approach to Practice-Based Learning and Improvement Using a Web-Based Audit and Feedback Module.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · September 2014 BACKGROUND: Systematically engaging residents in large programs in quality improvement (QI) is challenging. OBJECTIVE: To coordinate a shared QI project in a large residency program using an online tool. METHODS: A web-based QI tool guided residents throug ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Differences in pain management between hematologists and hospitalists caring for patients with sickle cell disease hospitalized for vasoocclusive crisis.

Journal Article Clin J Pain · March 2014 OBJECTIVES: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic disease characterized by multiple vaso-occlusive complications and is increasingly cared for by hospitalists. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in pain management between hematologists an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development of a real-time general medicine 30-day readmissions notification system

Journal Article Journal of Hospital Administration · November 15, 2012 Hospital readmissions present a costly problem for healthcare systems. Engaging care providers in reviewing readmissions may reveal opportunities for reducing readmissions and improving quality. We developed a real-time alerting method that e-mails ... Full text Cite

Differential effects of ethanol on motor coordination in adolescent and adult rats.

Journal Article Pharmacol Biochem Behav · October 2002 Recent evidence suggests that adolescence represents a unique period of sensitivity to the effects of ethanol. Adolescent animals are more sensitive than adults to many of the effects of ethanol, including ethanol-induced learning and memory impairments, w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Chronic-intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence prevents normal developmental changes in sensitivity to ethanol-induced motor impairments.

Journal Article Alcohol Clin Exp Res · July 2002 BACKGROUND: Recent evidence indicates that adolescent and adult rats are differentially sensitive to many of the acute effects of ethanol. Little is known about the neurobehavioral consequences of repeated ethanol exposure during adolescence relative to ad ... Full text Link to item Cite

Doctor Who? A Study of Patient Provider Awareness

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