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• 4873 citations
  Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines?: A Framework for Improvement
  Michael D. Cabana, Cynthia S. Rand, Neil R. Powe, Albert W. Wu, Modena E. H. Wilson
  JAMA. 1999-10-20
• 140 citations
  Family satisfaction with end-of-life care in seriously ill hospitalized adults.
  Rose Baker, Hyg, Albert W. Wu, Joan M. Teno, Barbara Kreling
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2000-05-01
• 557 citations
  ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research
  Bryce B. Reeve, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Albert W. Wu, Galina Velikova, Caroline B. Terwee
  Quality of Life Research. 2013-01-04

Journal Articles

• Development and Content Validation of a Patient-Reported Sexual Risk Measure for Use in Primary Care  
  Kenneth H Mayer, William C Mathews, Michael J Mugavero, Heidi M Crane, William B Lober, Donald L Patrick, Albert W Wu, Paul K Crane, Mari M Kitahata, Journal of General Internal Medicine
• Rationale for the use of hypnotic agents in a general hospital.  
  Perry SW and Wu AW, Annals of Internal Medicine 1984; 100:441-446
• Oleander poisoning: Treatment with digoxin-specific Fab antibody fragments.  
  Shumaik GM, Wu AW, Ping AC, Annals of Emergency Medicine 1988; 17:732-735
• The quality of well-being scale: Applications in AIDS, cystic fibrosis and arthritis.  
  Kaplan RM, Anderson J, Wu AW, et al, Medical Care 1989; 27(3):S27-43
• Rhabdomyolysis and Staphylococcus aureus septicemia in a man with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.  
  Wu AW, Benirschke K, McCutchan JA, Western Journal of Medicine 1990; 152:716-719
• Quality of life in a placebo-controlled trial of zidovudine in patients with AIDS and AIDS-Related Complex in AIDS clinical trials.  
  Wu AW, Mathews WC, Brysk LT, et al, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 1990; 3:683-690
• Are elderly people less responsive to intensive care?  
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Rosen MJ, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1990; 38:621-627
• Early adjunctive corticosteriods prevent respiratory failure and death in patients with AIDS and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.  
  Bozzette SA, Sattler FR, Chiu J, Wu AW, et al, New England Journal of Medicine 1990; 323:1451-1457
• Do houseofficers learn from their mistakes?  
  Wu AW, Folkman S, McPhee SJ, Lo B, Journal of the American Medical Association 1991; 265:2089-2094
• A health status questionnaire using 30 items from the Medical Outcomes Study: Preliminary validation in persons with early HIV infection.  
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Mathews WC, Ware JE, Brysk LT, Hardy WD, Bozzette SA, Spector SA, Richman DD, Medical Care 1991; 29(8):786-798
• Pleuritic chest pain in a postpartum woman.  
  MacGregor JS, Wu AW, Rubin HR, Archives of Emergency Medicine 1991; 8:271-273
• Measuring health status and quality of life in HIV and AIDS.  
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Psychology and Health 1992; 6:251-264
• The risk of adjustment.  
  Rubin HR, Wu AW, Medical Care 1992; 30:973-975
• Functional status and well-being in a placebo-controlled trial of zidovudine in early AIDS-related complex.  
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Mathews WC, et al, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 1993; 6:452-458
• The reliability of peer-review of scientific abstracts.  
  Rubin HR, Redelmeier D, Wu AW, Steinberg EP, Journal of General Internal Medicine 1993; 8:255-258
• How houseofficers cope with their mistakes.  
  Wu AW, Folkman S, McPhee SJ, Lo B, Western Journal of Medicine 1993; 159:565-569
• Glasgow Coma Scale score in the evaluation of outcome in the intensive care unit: Findings from the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III Study.  
  Bastos PG, Sun X, Wagner DP, Wu AW, Knaus WA, Critical Care Medicine 1993; 21:1459-1465
• Approaches to health status assessment in HIV disease - overview of the conference.  
  Wu AW, Psychology and Health 1994; (special issue) 9:1-18
• Assessment of quality of life.  
  Wu AW, Lamping D, AIDS 1994; 8(Suppl 1):S349-S359
• Functional status of persons with HIV infection in an outpatient setting.  
  Stanton D, Wu AW, Moore R, et al, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 1994; 7:1050-1056
• Outcomes management: How will it work?  
  Steinwachs DM, Wu AW, Skinner EA, Health Affairs 1994; 13:153-162
• Prognosis-based futility guidelines: Does anyone win?  
  Teno JM, Murphy D, Lynn J, Phillips RS, Desbiens NA, Wu AW et al, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1994; 42:1202-1207
• Clarithromycin therapy for bacteremic Mycobacterium avium complex disease: A randomized, double-blind, dose-ranging study in patients with AIDS.  
  Chaisson RE, Benson CA, Dube MP, the AIDS Clinical Trails Group Protocol 157 Study Team, Annals of Internal Medicine 1994; 121(12):905-911
• Health values of the seriously ill.  
  Tsevat J, Cook EF, Green ML, Matchar DB, Dawson NV, Broste SK, Wu AW et al, Annals of Internal Medicine 1994; 122(7):514-520
• The measure and mismeasure of hospital quality: Appropriate risk-adjustment methods in comparing hospitals.  
  Wu AW, Annals of Internal Medicine 1995; 122:149-150
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Books/Book Chapters

• Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care: A Practical Guide. 
  Chapter: Mistakes in clinical practice 
  Page 332 - 340Wu AW, McPhee SJ, Christensen JEditors: Feldman M, Christensen J.Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, NYEdition 2,
• Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care: A Practical Guide. 
  Chapter: Mistakes in clinical practice 
  Wu AW, McPhee SJ, Christensen JEditors: Feldman M, Christensen J.Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, NYEdition 4,
• Notable Chinese Scientists in the 20th Century. 
  Huang PC, Wu AW. Ray WuBeijing
• Returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Preliminary assessment of readjustment needs of veterans, service members, and their families. 
  Wu AWNational Acadamies Press, Washington, D.C
• Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches, Vol. 1: Assessment. 
  Chapter: Improving the Value of Patient Safety Reporting Systems 
  Pronovost PJ, Morlock LL, Sexton JB, Miller MR, Holzmueller CG, Thompson DA, Lubomski LH, Wu AWEditors: Henriksen K, Battles JB, Keyes MA, Grady ML.Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD
• Patient Safety in Emergency Medicine. 
  Chapter: Health care providers: The second victims of medical error 
  Wu AW, Sexton J, Pham JCEditors: Croskerry P, Cosby KS, Schenkel SM, Wears R.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia
• A blink: awareness, assessment, and adapting to patient communication needs. 
  Chapter: Forward 
  Wu AWEditors: Woods MS.Joint Commission Resources, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
• Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care: A Practical Guide. 
  Chapter: Mistakes in clinical practice 
  Wu AW, McPhee SJ, Christensen JEditors: Feldman M, Christensen J.Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, NYEdition 3,
• Preventing Medication Errors. Quality Chasm Series. 
  Wu AWNational Academies Press, Washington, D.C
• Accountability: Patient Safety and Policy Reform. 
  Chapter: Disclosing near misses 
  Wu AWEditors: Sharpe, Virginia A.Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C
• Cecil Textbook of Medicine. 
  Chapter: Principles of outcome assessment 
  Page 33 - 38Wu AWEditors: Goldman L and Bennett JC.W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia PA
• The Business of Medicine: A Physician's Guide. 
  Chapter: Patient satisfaction: Its importance and how to measure it 
  Page 397 - 409Rubin HR, Wu AWEditors: Gitnick G.Elsevier Science Publishing, New York
• Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 39: Surviving Intensive Care. 
  Chapter: Defining “Success” in ICU Care 
  Page 323 - 340Pronovost PP, Wu AW, Holzmueller CGEditors: Angus DC and Carlet J.Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg
• Evidence-Based Surgery. 
  Chapter: Patient-reported outcomes measures 
  Page 221 - 237Wu AWEditors: Gordon TA, Cameron JL.B.C. Decker Inc, Hamilton, ON
• Health-related quality of life and HIV infection. 
  Chapter: The impact of HIV infection on health-related quality of life 
  Wu AW, Witt WPEditors: Badia X and Podzamczer D.Madrid
• Cecil Textbook of Medicine. 
  Chapter: Principles of outcome assessment 
  Page 87 - 92Wu AWEditors: Goldman L and Bennett JC.W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia
• Behavioral Medicine in Primary Care: A Practical Guide. 
  Chapter: Mistakes in clinical practice 
  Page 299 - 306Wu AW, McPhee SJ, Christensen JEditors: Feldman M, Christensen J.Appleton and Lange, Stanford, CT
• Quality of Life Assessments in Clinical Trials. 
  Chapter: Outcomes research and quality of care 
  Page 747 - 752Steinwachs DM, Wu AW, Cagney KEditors: Spilker B.Raven Press, New York
• Quality of Life Assessments in Clinical Trials. 
  Chapter: The role of quality of life assessments in medical practice 
  Page 517 - 522Wu AW, Cagney KEditors: Spilker B.Raven Press, New York
• Cecil Textbook of Medicine. 
  Chapter: Principles of outcome assessment 
  Page 122 - 126Wu AWEditors: Plum F and Bennett JC.W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia
• Primary Care: HIV/AIDS. 
  Chapter: Addressing HIV infection in office practice: Assessing risk, counseling, and testing 
  Page 19 - 33Kassler WJ, Wu AWEditors: Makadon H.W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia
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Abstracts/Posters

• The outcome of medical intensive care in the elderly; validation of APACHE II in a retrospective analysis.
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Rosen, MJ, Sachs HS, ritical Care Medicine 1987; 15(4):381, Society of Critical Care Medicine Sixteenth Annual Educational and Scientific Symposium. Anaheim, Ca
• Quality of life measures in AIDS clinical trials.
  Wu AW, Mathews WC, Brysk LT, Kennedy CJ, Spector SA, McCutchan JA, Atkinson JH, Grant I, Richman DD, IV International Conference on AIDS, Stockholm, Sweden
• Family expectations in AIDS terminal care.
  Rubin HR, Wu AW, IV International Conference on AIDS, Stockholm, Sweden
• A brief health status instrument for use in AIDS clinical trials.
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Mathews WC, Brysk LT, Ware JE et al, Clinical Research 1989; 37:824A, General Internal Medicine 12th Annual Meeting. Arlington, Virginia
• Frequent inability to confirm the diagnosis of presumptive pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).
  Bozzette SA, Sattler F, Chiu J, Gluckstein D, Wu AW, et al, V International Conference on AIDS, Montreal, Canada
• A brief health status instrument for use in AIDS clinical trials.
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Mathews WC, Brysk LT, Ware JE et al, V International Conference on AIDS, Montreal, Canada
• A randomized controlled trial of corticosteroids in pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
  Bozzette S, Wu AW, Sattler F, et al, Abstracts of the 29th ICCAC
• Functional status and well-being in a placebo-controlled trial of zidovudine in early ARC.
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Mathews WC, Brysk LM, Hardy WD, Bozzette SA, Atkinson JH, Grant I, Richman DR, VI International Conference on AIDS, San Francisco, California
• Do houseofficers learn from their mistakes? Plenary Presentation.
  Wu AW, Folkman S, McPhee SJ, Lo B, General Internal Medicine 13th Annual Meeting, Arlington, Virginia
• How houseofficers cope with their mistakes: Doing better but feeling worse?
  Wu AW, Folkman S, McPhee SJ, Lo B, General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington
• A longitudinal study of quality of life in asymptomatic HIV infection.
  Wu AW, Rubin HR, Bozzette SA, Mathews WC, et al, VII International Conference on AIDS, Florence, Italy
• Predicting functional status in seriously ill hospitalized adults.
  Wu AW, Bergner MB, Teno J, Lynn J, Mayer-Oakes SA, Landefeld CS, Tsevat J, Desbiens NA, Alzola CF, Knaus WA, Harrell FE, General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
• Do not resuscitate orders in seriously ill patients: Expressed preferences or last rites?
  Lynn J, Teno J, Wenger N, Phillips R, Wu AW, Connors A, Youngner S, Layde P, Society of General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
• How reliable is peer-review of scientific abstracts? Looking back at the 1991 annual meeting of Society of General Internal Medicine.
  Rubin HR, Redelmeier D, Wu AW, Steinberg EP, General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
• The six month pain experience of critically and seriously ill hospitalized adult patients.
  Desbiens NA, Wu AW, Bergner M, Wenger N, Broste S, General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
• The impact of age, disease severity, preferences on "do not resuscitate" orders.
  Teno J, Lynn J, Phillips RS, Wu AW, Wenger N, Connors A, Youngner S, Layde P, Vidaillet H, General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
• Quality of life in patients receiving clarithromycin for mycobacterium avium complex infection and AIDS.
  Wu AW, Lichter SL, Richardson W, Urbanski PA, Benson C, Sattler F, Chaisson R, VIII International Conference on AIDS/III STD World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Spanish translation of a functional status questionnaire for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
  Rubin HR, Wu AW, Gutierrez M, Liriano O, Safrin S, VIII International Conference on AIDS/III STD World Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Clarithromycin therapy for disseminated mycobacterium avium-complex (MAC) in AIDS.
  Chaisson RE, Benson C, Dube M, Korvick J, Wu AW et al, Abstracts of the 32nd ICAAC
• Health outcomes among asthma patients enrolled in managed care.
  Wu AW, Skinner EA, Steinwachs DM and the Managed Health Care Association OMS Project, Clinical Research 1993; 41(2):553A
• A questionnaire to measure visual function and quality of life in CMV retinitis.
  Wu AW, Coleson L, Holbrook JT, Jabs DA, and The SOCA Research Group, IX International Conference on AIDS, Berlin, Germany
• Quality of life in rifabutin prophylaxis for mycobacterium avium complex in people with AIDS.
  Revicki K, Simpson K, Wu AW, International Society for Health-Related Quality of Life, Brussels, Belgium
• The effect of mode of administration and number of response categories on Medical Outcomes Study health ratings and EuroQoL scores in person with AIDS.
  Wu AW, Jacobson D, Revicki D, Feinberg JE, Berzon R, International Society for Health-Related Quality of Life, Brussels, Belgium
• Health outcomes among asthma patients enrolled in managed care. International Society for Health-Related Quality of Life.
  Wu AW, Skinner EA, Steinwachs DM and the Managed Health Care Association OMS Project, Quality of Life Research 1994; 3:99-100, Brussels, Belgium
• Change in clinical status and health status and health utility outcomes in HIV-infected patients.
  Revicki D, Wu AW, Brown R, Measuring the effects of medical treatments, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Lectures

• A 37 year-old man with oleander toxicity. 
  University of California San Diego. San Diego, California
• Overcoming challenges of health service research on AIDS. 
  Society of General Internal Medicine 13th Annual Meeting. Arlington, Virginia
• Quality of life in ACTG Protocol 016. 
  Ninth AIDS Clinical Trials Group Investigators Meeting
• Measuring functional status in acute Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. 
  Tenth AIDS Clinical Trials Group Investigators Meeting
• Generic and disease-specific quality of life measures in AIDS clinical trials. 
  The Society of Behavioral Medicine 11th Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois
• Spanish translation of quality of life measures. 
  Eleventh AIDS Clinical Trials Group Investigators Meeting
• Use of health status instruments in vulnerable populations: indigent, elderly and HIV-infected persons. 
  General Internal Medicine 14th Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington
• Potential bias due to differential enrollment of patients in AIDS clinical trials. 
  12th AIDS Clinical Trials Group Investigators Meeting
• Quality of Life: a paradigm for a biopsychosocial model of AIDS. 
  First International Conference on the Biopsychosocial Aspects of HIV Infection. Amsterdam, Netherlan
• Mistakes in Medicine. 
  Walter Reed Army Hospital. Fort Meade, Maryland
• Preliminary validation of a functional status measure for acute Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. 
  Fourteenth AIDS Clinical Trials Group Investigators Meeting
• Using Measurements of Functional Status and Quality of Life as Endpoints in AIDS Research. 
  Society of General Internal Medicine 15th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C
• Quality of life: Assessment, research and methodology. 
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• HIV Infection: Quality of Life and its Biopsychosocial Aspects. 
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• The Responsiveness of Health Status Measures in AIDS Clinical Trials. 
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• The Reliability and Validity of Indicators Measuring Quality of Life. 
  VIII International Conference on AIDS. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Validating Quality of Life Instruments in AIDS Clinical Trials. 
  Division of Antivirals, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Medical Mistakes. 
  Baltimore, Maryland, 1992; Kyoto, Japan, 2000
• Quality of life in AIDS and HIV infection. 
  The Clinical Consulting Group, Antech, Inc
• Measuring and managing the outcomes of health care: can we do it? 
  Managed Health Care Association 7th National Conference. Atlanta, Georgia
• Patient-reported visual functioning in CMV retinitis. 
  Fifteenth AIDS Clinical Trials Group Investigators Meeting
• Analysis of longitudinal quality of life data in comparative drug studies in HIV and related diseases. 
  Bristol Meyer Squibb
• Tools and data necessary for appropriately determining quality of care and accountability. 
  Arlington, Virginia
• Measurement Challenges in Intervention Research. 
  University of Maryland School of Nursing. Baltimore, Maryland
• Clarithromycin for the treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex infection in AIDS. 
  National Eye Institute
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Other

• Banking on health-related quality of life. 
  Wu AW, Quality of Life Newsletter
• Study to examine toll of medical errors. 
  Wu AW, Walton D. Globe and Mail
  http://theglobeandmail.com
• Medical Mistake. 
  Wu AW, David Horth of CBC News of Canada
• To resuscitate or not? - potentially life-threatening medications error in a patient receiving end-of-life care. 
  Wu AW et al
  http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov
• Patient Safety and Medical Errors 
  Wu AW, School of Medicine
• Doctors’ new tool to fig ht lawsuits: saying I’m sorry: Malpractice insurers find owning up to errors soothes patient anger. 
  Wu AW, The Wall Street Journal
• Banking on quality of life. 
  Wu AW, Quality of life Newsletter Item Banking Special Issue
• Ethics in Medicine. 
  Beach MC, Wu AW, Oakstone Publishing
• Talk of the Nation. 
  Wu AW, National Public Radio
• Removing insult from injury: disclosing adverse events. 
  Wu AW, Stokes SL, CD-ROM. MCIC Vermont
• Report from Buenos Aires: Lessons on adherence. 
  Wu AW, The Hopkins HIV Report. September 2001; 13(5):9-11, 16
  http://www.hopkins-aids.edu
• A Patient’s Story – The Power of Apology. 
  Wu AW, WPHT Philadelphia
• Topics in Risk Management. 
  Kidwell R, Wu AW, Oakstone Publishing
• Adverse events and their aftermath: SOS from Clinicians. 
  Wu AW, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/AudioAndWebPrograms/WIHI.htm
• Clinician Support Tool Kit for Healthcare. 
  Wu AW, MITSS
• Organizational Readiness for Clinician Support. 
  Wu AW, MITSS Assessment Tool
• Feasibility of Outcomes Management System Implementation by Employers and Their Managed Care Organizations. 
  Steinwachs DM, Wu AW, Skinner EA, Phase 2A Report to the Managed Health Care Association
• Asthma Baseline Study. 
  Steinwachs DM, Wu AW, Skinner EA, Campbell D, Report to the Managed Health Care Association, Outcomes Management System Project
• How to survive your doctor’s care. 
  Wu AW, Ivanhoe Broadcast News
• Elderly Would Rather Live Longer Than Healthier. 
  Wu AW, Johns Hopkins/InteliHealth News Commentary
• A controlled trial to improve outcome for seriously ill hospitalized patients: The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments. 
  The Support Investigators, JAMA 1996; 274:1591-1598
• Defining the “Terminally Ill”: Insights from Support. 
  Lynn J, Harrell FE, Cohn F, Hamel MB, Dawson N, Wu AW, Duquesne Law Review 1996; 35:311-336
• Will ‘managing outcomes' improve care under managed competition? 
  Wu AW, Steinwachs DM, Society of General Internal Medicine News. May 1994, 17(5):1-7
• Patient-based health assessment in HIV and AIDS. 
  Wu AW, Medical Outcomes Trust Bulletin. July 1994, 2(4):4
• The Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV). 
  Wu AW, Medical Outcomes Trust Bulletin. January 1997, 5(1):2
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