Kevin Pradip Shah

Journal Article BMC Fam Pract · November 18, 2021 BACKGROUND: As treatments for cancer have improved, more people are surviving cancer. However, compared to people without a history of cancer, cancer survivors are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Increased risk for CVD-related mortality ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation of a Radiology Utilization Dashboard Yields Significant Cost Savings in a Large Primary Care Network.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · July 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation and Impact of a Risk-Stratified Prostate Cancer Screening Algorithm as a Clinical Decision Support Tool in a Primary Care Network.

Conference J Gen Intern Med · January 2021 BACKGROUND: Implementation methods of risk-stratified cancer screening guidance throughout a health care system remains understudied. OBJECTIVE: Conduct a preliminary analysis of the implementation of a risk-stratified prostate cancer screening algorithm i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reducing Imaging Utilization in Primary Care Through Implementation of a Peer Comparison Dashboard.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · January 2021 BACKGROUND: High clinical variation has been linked to decreased quality of care, increased costs, and decreased patient satisfaction. We present the implementation and analysis of a peer comparison intervention to reduce clinical variation within a large ... Full text Link to item Cite

Capsule Commentary on Pfoh et al.,the Impact of Systematic Depression Screening in Primary Care on Depression Identification and Treatment in a Large Health Care System: a Cohort Study.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · November 2020 Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Well-Being Among Trainees: A Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Primary Care Services.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · April 2020 BACKGROUND: Improved well-being is a focus for graduate medical education (GME) programs. Residents and fellows often express difficulty with visiting primary care physicians, and this issue has not been thoroughly investigated. OBJECTIVE: We reported impl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lean Thinking for Primary Care.

Journal Article Prim Care · December 2019 Lean thinking is a leadership, management, and operational approach for continuous improvement. Originally pioneered in Toyota's automobile manufacturing, Lean has now been implemented by health care to focus on improving care to deliver the greatest value ... Full text 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

Primary care perspective and implementation of a multidisciplinary, institutional prostate cancer screening algorithm embedded in the electronic health record.

Journal Article Urol Oncol · November 2018 PURPOSE: In response to controversy regarding prostate cancer (CaP) screening recommendations, a consolidated Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) multidisciplinary algorithm for CaP screening was developed and implemented. We conducted an online survey within the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Closing the Referral Loop: an Analysis of Primary Care Referrals to Specialists in a Large Health System.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · May 2018 PURPOSE: Ideally, a referral from a primary care physician (PCP) to a specialist results in a completed specialty appointment with results available to the PCP. This is defined as "closing the referral loop." As health systems grow more complex, regulatory ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Engaging the primary care community to encourage appropriate prostate cancer screening.

Journal Article Ther Adv Urol · January 2018 Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer remains a controversial topic, particularly in the primary care community. Our multidisciplinary prostate screening panel at Duke University Health System, USA created a nuanced PSA screening al ... Full text Link to item Cite