Mark V. Williams

35.7k total citations · 19 hit papers
245 papers, 26.5k citations indexed

About

Mark V. Williams is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark V. Williams has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 26.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in General Health Professions, 62 papers in Emergency Medicine and 40 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Mark V. Williams's work include Emergency and Acute Care Studies (37 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (32 papers) and Patient Safety and Medication Errors (30 papers). Mark V. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Emergency and Acute Care Studies (37 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (32 papers) and Patient Safety and Medication Errors (30 papers). Mark V. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Mark V. Williams's co-authors include David W. Baker, Ruth M. Parker, Eric A. Coleman, Stephen F. Jencks, Joanne R. Nurss, Julie A. Gazmararian, David W. Baker, Sunil Kripalani, Jennifer L. Peel and Terry C. Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Mark V. Williams

239 papers receiving 25.1k citations

Hit Papers

Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medica... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2009 1995 2007 1999 1998 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program
    2009 4.1k citations Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  2. The test of functional health literacy in adults
    1995 1.6k citations Ruth M. Parker, Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  3. Deficits in Communication and Information Transfer Between Hospital-Based and Primary Care Physicians
    2007 1.5k citations Mark V. Williams, David W. Baker et al. profile →
  4. Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy
    1999 1.3k citations David W. Baker, Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  5. Relationship of Functional Health Literacy to Patients' Knowledge of Their Chronic Disease
    1998 932 citations Mark V. Williams, David W. Baker et al. profile →
  6. Interventions to Reduce 30-Day Rehospitalization: A Systematic Review
    2011 913 citations Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  7. Inadequate Functional Health Literacy Among Patients at Two Public Hospitals
    1995 864 citations Mark V. Williams profile →
  8. Attitudes and beliefs of african americans toward participation in medical research
    1999 849 citations Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  9. Functional Health Literacy and the Risk of Hospital Admission Among Medicare Managed Care Enrollees
    2002 784 citations David W. Baker, Mark V. Williams et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →
  10. Health literacy and knowledge of chronic disease
    2003 732 citations Mark V. Williams, David W. Baker et al. profile →
  11. Health literacy and the risk of hospital admission
    1998 641 citations David W. Baker, Ruth M. Parker et al. profile →
  12. Health Literacy and Preventive Health Care Use Among Medicare Enrollees in a Managed Care Organization
    2002 590 citations Mark V. Williams, David W. Baker et al. profile →
  13. Underlying Reasons Associated With Hospital Readmission Following Surgery in the United States
    2015 588 citations Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  14. The relationship of patient reading ability to self-reported health and use of health services.
    1997 580 citations David W. Baker, Ruth M. Parker et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →
  15. Inadequate Literacy Is a Barrier to Asthma Knowledge and Self-Care
    1998 538 citations Mark V. Williams, David W. Baker et al. profile →
  16. Health Literacy and Cancer Communication
    2002 536 citations Terry C. Davis, Mark V. Williams et al. profile →
  17. Shame and health literacy: the unspoken connection
    1996 529 citations Ruth M. Parker, Joanne R. Nurss et al. profile →
  18. The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI): Establishing Clinically Significant Values for Identifying Central Sensitivity Syndromes in an Outpatient Chronic Pain Sample
    2013 528 citations Randy Neblett, Howard Cohen et al. Journal of Pain profile →
  19. Preventability and Causes of Readmissions in a National Cohort of General Medicine Patients
    2016 281 citations Mark V. Williams, Jeffrey L. Schnipper et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark V. Williams United States 59 14.3k 4.8k 4.1k 3.2k 3.2k 245 26.5k
David W. Baker United States 70 14.8k 1.0× 2.7k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 250 24.5k
Albert W. Wu United States 87 8.5k 0.6× 2.6k 0.5× 4.4k 1.1× 4.6k 1.4× 7.3k 2.3× 434 32.4k
E. John Orav United States 95 8.0k 0.6× 7.7k 1.6× 3.3k 0.8× 3.1k 1.0× 3.4k 1.1× 446 33.5k
Sunil Kripalani United States 60 6.9k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 2.6k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 255 15.7k
Hude Quan Canada 69 5.7k 0.4× 6.6k 1.4× 3.4k 0.8× 8.3k 2.6× 4.2k 1.3× 439 35.0k
Sharon‐Lise T. Normand United States 91 10.3k 0.7× 13.8k 2.9× 3.2k 0.8× 4.8k 1.5× 3.3k 1.0× 445 41.8k
Steven M. Asch United States 73 8.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.3× 2.3k 0.5× 6.3k 1.9× 5.1k 1.6× 575 24.7k
Lehana Thabane Canada 84 6.4k 0.4× 3.9k 0.8× 1.8k 0.4× 5.2k 1.6× 5.4k 1.7× 1.1k 37.0k
Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 75 7.3k 0.5× 1.9k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 3.9k 1.2× 3.8k 1.2× 714 23.2k
Charles Vincent United Kingdom 86 4.7k 0.3× 3.8k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 1.1k 0.3× 3.2k 1.0× 449 23.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark V. Williams

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All Works

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Chu, Eugene S., Robert El‐Kareh, John Chang, et al.. (2022). Implementation of a Medication Reconciliation Risk Stratification Tool Integrated within an electronic health record: A Case Series of Three Academic Medical Centers. Healthcare. 10(4). 100654–100654. 4 indexed citations
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McMullen, Colleen A., et al.. (2021). “Passing Out is a Serious Thing”: Patient Expectations for Syncope Evaluation and Management. Patient Preference and Adherence. Volume 15. 1213–1223. 4 indexed citations
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Gupta, Vedant, Gaixin Du, Colleen A. McMullen, et al.. (2021). Developing and Demonstrating the Viability and Availability of the Multilevel Implementation Strategy for Syncope Optimal Care Through Engagement (MISSION) Syncope App: Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Support Tool. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(11). e25192–e25192. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Jing, Jane Brock, Terry C. Davis, et al.. (2021). Effects of Different Transitional Care Strategies on Outcomes after Hospital Discharge—Trust Matters, Too. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 48(1). 40–52. 14 indexed citations
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Ebeling, Peter R., Ding‐Cheng Chan, Tang Ching Lau, et al.. (2019). Secondary prevention of fragility fractures in Asia Pacific: an educational initiative. Osteoporosis International. 31(5). 805–826. 10 indexed citations
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Williams, Betsy, et al.. (2018). Importance of neuropsychological screening in physicians referred for performance concerns. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207874–e0207874. 11 indexed citations
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Neblett, Randy, Meredith M. Hartzell, Howard Cohen, et al.. (2014). Ability of the Central Sensitization Inventory to Identify Central Sensitivity Syndromes in an Outpatient Chronic Pain Sample. Clinical Journal of Pain. 31(4). 323–332. 124 indexed citations
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Neblett, Randy, Howard Cohen, Yunhee Choi, et al.. (2013). The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI): Establishing Clinically Significant Values for Identifying Central Sensitivity Syndromes in an Outpatient Chronic Pain Sample. Journal of Pain. 14(5). 438–445. 528 indexed citations breakdown →
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Badri, Marwan, et al.. (2013). Abstract 14780: How Representative of the General Population Are the Cohorts Included in the Clinical Trials That Drive Our Guidelines?. Circulation. 128.
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Choi, Yunhee, Tom G. Mayer, Mark V. Williams, & Robert J. Gatchel. (2012). The Clinical Utility of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) in Characterizing Chronic Disabling Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 23(2). 239–247. 8 indexed citations
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Beach, Christopher, Dickson Cheung, Julie Apker, et al.. (2012). Improving Interunit Transitions of Care Between Emergency Physicians and Hospital Medicine Physicians: A Conceptual Approach. Academic Emergency Medicine. 19(10). 1188–1195. 40 indexed citations
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Klein, Oana L., Ravi Kalhan, Mark V. Williams, et al.. (2011). Lung spirometry parameters and diffusion capacity are decreased in patients with Type 2 diabetes. Diabetic Medicine. 29(2). 212–219. 35 indexed citations
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O’Leary, Kevin J., et al.. (2010). Improving teamwork: Impact of structured interdisciplinary rounds on a hospitalist unit. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 6(2). 88–93. 85 indexed citations
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Williams, Mark V.. (2007). Comprehensive Hospital Medicine : an evidence-based approach. Elsevier eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Williams, Mark V.. (2002). Recognizing and overcoming inadequate health literacy, a barrier to care.. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 69(5). 415–418. 43 indexed citations
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Baker, David W., Ruth M. Parker, Mark V. Williams, W. Scott Clark, & Joanne R. Nurss. (1997). The relationship of patient reading ability to self-reported health and use of health services.. American Journal of Public Health. 87(6). 1027–1030. 580 indexed citations breakdown →
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Williams, Mark V. & Peter Howell. (1990). An Electrical Network Model of Inertially Induced Bone-Conducted Sound. Scandinavian Audiology. 19(3). 161–170. 4 indexed citations
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Parsons, V., et al.. (1969). Strontium-85 Scanning of Suspected Bone Disease. BMJ. 1(5635). 19–23. 18 indexed citations

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