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Schwartz AL, Werner RM. The Imperfect Science of Evaluating Performance: How Bad and Who Cares?. Annals of internal medicine. 2022 Mar 1; 175(3):448-449.
Moo LR, Schwartz AW. The Urgent Need for Rigorous Studies of Telehealth for Older Adults Who Are Homebound. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Sep 1; 4(9):e2113451.
Schwartz A, Peskin S, Spiro A, Weiner SJ. Direct observation of depression screening: identifying diagnostic error and improving accuracy through unannounced standardized patients. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany). 2020 Aug 27; 7(3):251-256.
Schwartz A, Peskin S, Spiro A, Weiner SJ. Impact of Unannounced Standardized Patient Audit and Feedback on Care, Documentation, and Costs: an Experiment and Claims Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine. 2021 Jan 1; 36(1):27-34.
Weiner SJ, Wang S, Kelly B, Sharma G, Schwartz A. How accurate is the medical record? A comparison of the physician's note with a concealed audio recording in unannounced standardized patient encounters. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2020 May 1; 27(5):770-775.
Rakocevic DB, DeJong SM, Saxon AJ, Renner JA, Schwartz AC. A Guide for Applying to Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. Academic Psychiatry : The Journal of The American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and The Association For Academic Psychiatry. 2020 Apr 1; 44(2):135-140.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz AJ. Learning to Avoid “Contextual Errors” When Planning Patient Care. Paper presented at: American College of Physicians Annual Meeting; 2016 May 6; Washington, DC.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz A. Contextual Errors in Medical Decision Making: Overlooked and Understudied. Academic Medicine. 2016 May 1; 91(5):657-62.
Schwartz A, Weiner SJ, Binns-Calvey A, Weaver FM. Providers contextualise care more often when they discover patient context by asking: meta-analysis of three primary data sets. BMJ quality & safety. 2016 Mar 1; 25(3):159-63.
Thomas DC, Kessler C, Sachdev N, Fromme HB, Schwartz A, Harris I. Residents' Perspectives on Rewards and Challenges of Caring for Ambulatory Care Patients Living With Chronic Illness: Findings From Three Academic Health Centers. Academic Medicine. 2015 Dec 1; 90(12):1684-90.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz AJ. Learning to Avoid “Contextual Errors” when Planning Patient Care. Paper presented at: American College of Physicians Annual Meeting; 2015 May 1; Boston, MA.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz A. Directly observed care: can unannounced standardized patients address a gap in performance measurement? Journal of general internal medicine. 2014 Aug 1; 29(8):1183-7.
Schwartz A, Weiner SJ, Binns-Calvey A. Comparing announced with unannounced standardized patients in performance assessment. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2013 Feb 1; 39(2):83-8.
Schwartz A, Weiner SJ, Binns-Calvey A. Comparing Announced with Unannounced Standardized Patients for Assessing Diagnostic Error. Poster session presented at: Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting; 2011 Oct 24; Chicago, IL.
Binns-Calvey A, Yudkowsky R, Weiner SJ, Dolley F, Brown J, Schwartz AJ. Assessing Unannounced Standardized Patients' Accuracy in Real Practice Compared with SP Accuracy in a Clinical Performance Center. Poster session presented at: Association of Standardized Patient Educators Annual Conference; 2011 Jun 5; Nashville, TN.
Curtis JR, Delzell E, Chen L, Black D, Ensrud K, Judd S, Safford MM, Schwartz AV, Bauer DC. The relationship between bisphosphonate adherence and fracture: is it the behavior or the medication? Results from the placebo arm of the fracture intervention trial. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 2011 Apr 1; 26(4):683-8.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz AJ, Harris I, Binns-Calvey A. Case-based and Interactive Instruction in a Curriculum for Individualizing Patient Care. Poster session presented at: Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting; 2010 Nov 7; Washington, DC.
Schwartz A, Weiner SJ, Harris IB, Binns-Calvey A. An educational intervention for contextualizing patient care and medical students' abilities to probe for contextual issues in simulated patients. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2010 Sep 15; 304(11):1191-7.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz A. Author's Reply Re: The need for biomedically and contextually sound care plans in complex patients: thoughts on creating a better practice environment. Annals of internal medicine. 2010 Sep 15.
Curtis J, Judd S, Bauer D, Black D, Delzell E, Ensrud KE, Safford M, Schwartz A. The Relationship Between Bisphosphonate Adherence and Fracture: Is It the Behavior or the Medication? Results From the Placebo Arm of the Fracture Intervention Trial. Presented at: American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting; 2009 Oct 18; Philadelphia, PA.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz A, Harris I. A randomized trial of an educational intervention to reduce contextual errors in medical decision making. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Annual Meeting; 2009 Sep 17; Chicago, IL.
Weiner SJ, Schwartz A, Harris IB. Learning to Individualize Care: An Educational Intervention to Reduce Contextual Errors in Medical Decision Making. Poster session presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2009 May 14; Miami Beach, FL.
Schwartz A, Sellmeyer D, Nevitt M, Ensrud K. Older women with diabetes have a higher rate of bone loss at the hip. Paper presented at: American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting; 2000 Sep 15; Toronto, Canada.
Schwartz A, Nevitt M, Sellmeyer D, Ensrud K. Older women with diabetes have a higher risk of falls: a prospective study. Paper presented at: American Diabetes Association Annual Scientific Session; 2000 May 1; Atlanta, GA.
Schwartz A, Ensrud K, Cauley J. Older women with diabetes have a high risk of several types of fractures: a prospective study. Paper presented at: American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting; 1999 Oct 15; St. Louis, MO.