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Howard S Gordon, MD

Howard S. Gordon, MD has over 25 years of experience as a general internist and health services researcher. His current position is as Staff Physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago and Professor of Medicine at University of Illinois, Chicago.

Websites:

My Bibliography at NCBI

ORCID publication listing

VA Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Healthcare

UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy

Academic Internal Medicine

Telemedicine/Telehealth - How to prepare for Video Visits

For Physicians/Providers - Making the Most of Your Visit

For Patients - Getting ready for your Video Visit

For Physicians/Providers - Infographic - 5 Habits for Communication of Telemedicine

For Patients - Infographic - 3 Steps to a Successful Video Visit

Newsletter items

Innovation update- HSRD Forum Summer 2021

Research Currents (Newsletter) - I’m battling an encyclopedia.

Veterans Perspectives - In the December 2020 Issue In the December 2020 Issue.

Podcast

Nov 29 2021 podcast as part of the VA Diabetes Numeracy Campaign:

Videos - Patient Education Video Interventions

Speak Up! Video

Speak Up! Video for Clinical Video Telehealth

Speak Up! Video 2022

Selected Publications

Gordon HS, Pugach O, Solanki P, Gopal RK. A brief pre-visit eduational video improved patient engagement after telehealth visit; results from a randomized controlled trial. PEC Innovation. 2022. December. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2022.100080 OPEN ACCESS

Gordon HS, Sharp LK, Schoenthaler A. "They are talking from the Encyclopedia Britannica brain": diabetes patients' perceptions of barriers to communicating with physicians. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Mar 13;20(1):211. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-5063-4. PubMed PMID: 32169058; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7069201. OPEN ACCESS

Gordon HS, Solanki P, Bokhour BG, Gopal RK. "I'm Not Feeling Like I'm Part of the Conversation" Patients' Perspectives on Communicating in Clinical Video Telehealth Visits. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Feb 3;. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-05673-w. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32016705. AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT

Gordon HS. Consider embracing physician rating websites. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2017 Jun;32(6):599-600. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-017-4036-8. PubMed PMID: 28299603; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5442026. Sharedit:https://rdcu.be/24pr. Editorial. AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT

Gordon HS, Street RL. How physicians, patients and observers compare on the use of qualitative and quantitative measures of physician-patient communication. Evaluation and the Health Professions. 2016 Dec;39(4):496-511. PubMed PMID: 26755527; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4939284. doi:10.1177/0163278715625737. AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT

Gordon HS, Pugach O, Berbaum ML, Ford ME
Examining patients’ trust in physicians and the VA healthcare system in a prospective cohort followed for six-months after an exacerbation of heart failure
Patient Education and Counseling. 2014 97:173-79.
DOI>dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2014.07.022;
AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT

Gordon HS, Gerber BS. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. J Gen Intern Med. 2011 Feb;26(2):104-6. doi: 10.1007/s11606-010-1566-8.
PubMed PMID: 21080095; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3019326.
AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT

Gordon HS, Nowlin PR, Maynard D, Berbaum ML, Deswal A. Mortality after hospitalization for heart failure in blacks compared to whites. Am J Cardiol. 2010 Mar 1;105(5):694-700.
doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.10.051.
PubMed PMID: 20185019.
AUTHOR MANUSCRIPT

Morse DS, Edwardsen EA, Gordon HS. Missed opportunities for interval empathy in lung cancer communication. Arch Intern Med. 2008 Sep 22;168(17):1853-8.
doi: 10.1001/archinte.168.17.1853.
PubMed PMID: 18809811; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2678758.

Street RL, Gordon HS. Companion participation in cancer consultations. Psychooncology. 2008 Mar;17(3):244-51.
PubMed PMID: 17534881.

Gordon HS, Street RL Jr, Sharf BF, Souchek J. Racial differences in doctors’ information-giving and patients’ participation. Cancer. 2006 Sep 15;107(6):1313-20.
PubMed PMID: 16909424.

Street RL Jr, Gordon HS. The clinical context and patient participation in post-diagnostic consultations. Patient Educ Couns. 2006 Dec;64(1-3):217-24. Epub 2006 Jul 21.
PubMed PMID: 16859865.

Gordon HS, Street RL Jr, Sharf BF, Kelly PA, Souchek J. Racial differences in trust and lung cancer patients’ perceptions of physician communication. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Feb 20;24(6):904-9.
PubMed PMID: 16484700.

Street RL Jr, Gordon HS, Ward MM, Krupat E, Kravitz RL. Patient participation in medical consultations: why some patients are more involved than others. Med Care. 2005 Oct;43(10):960-9.
PubMed PMID: 16166865.

Gordon HS, Street RL Jr, Kelly PA, Souchek J, Wray NP. Physician-patient communication following invasive procedures: an analysis of post-angiogram consultations. Soc Sci Med. 2005 Sep;61(5):1015-25. Epub 2005 Feb 17.
PubMed PMID: 15955403.

Sharf BF, Stelljes LA, Gordon HS. ‘A little bitty spot and I’m a big man’: patients’ perspectives on refusing diagnosis or treatment for lung cancer. Psychooncology. 2005 Aug;14(8):636-46.
PubMed PMID: 15744761.

Gordon HS, Johnson ML, Wray NP, Petersen NJ, Henderson WG, Khuri SF, Geraci JM. Mortality after noncardiac surgery: prediction from administrative versus clinical data. Med Care. 2005 Feb;43(2):159-67.
PubMed PMID: 15655429.

Gordon HS, Paterniti DA, Wray NP. Race and patient refusal of invasive cardiac procedures. J Gen Intern Med. 2004 Sep;19(9):962-6. PubMed PMID: 15333061; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1492524.

Gordon HS, Aron DC, Fuehrer SM, Rosenthal GE. Using severity-adjusted mortality to compare performance in a Veterans Affairs hospital and in private-sector hospitals. Am J Med Qual. 2000 Sep-Oct;15(5):207-11.
PubMed PMID: 11022367.

Gordon HS, Rosenthal GE. The relationship of gender and in-hospital death: increased risk of death in men. Med Care. 1999 Mar;37(3):318-24.
PubMed PMID: 10098575.

Gordon HS, Harper DL, Rosenthal GE. Racial variation in predicted and observed in-hospital death. A regional analysis. JAMA. 1996 Nov 27;276(20):1639-44.
PubMed PMID: 8922449.

Gordon HS, Rosenthal GE. Impact of interhospital transfers on outcomes in an academic medical center. Implications for profiling hospital quality. Med Care. 1996 Apr;34(4):295-309.
PubMed PMID: 8606555.

Gordon HS, Rosenthal GE. Impact of marital status on outcomes in hospitalized patients. Evidence from an academic medical center. Arch Intern Med. 1995 Dec 11-25;155(22):2465-71.
PubMed PMID: 7503606.