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Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
Research Scientist, VA Ann Arbor HSR&D Center of Innovation
Research Scientist, VA Ann Arbor HSR&D Center of Innovation
Research Interests
Research Interests
- Quality measurement and monitoring in the complex patient
- Quality improvement in care for diabetes and other common chronic diseases
- Lack of precision in clinical measurement and its impact on clinical practice
- Methods for prioritizing interventions in chronic disease and preventive services
Methodology interests
Methodology interests
- Clinical risk adjustment
- Measurement theory
- Multilevel modeling applications in health service research
- Research design, cluster randomized trials, quasi-experimental methods
"For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of doctors, even when we call in the best of them the chances are that we may be staking our hopes on some medical theory that will be proved false in a few years. So that to believe in medicine would be utter madness, were it not still a greater madness not to believe in it, for from this accumulation of errors a few valid theories have emerged in the long run." (In search of Lost Time-Proust)
UM Institute for Health Policy and Innovation (member webpage )
Michigan Experts entry (database of research expertise across UM)
Michigan Experts entry (database of research expertise across UM)
Contact Information:
VA Center for Clinical Management ResearchUM Institute for Health Policy and InnovationNorth Campus Research Complex, Bldg 16, 3rd Fl.University of Michigan Medical SchoolAnn Arbor, MI 48109-2800 ( Directions )thofer-at-umich-dot-eduAdministrative Specialist: Debbie Sheareremail: dshear-at-umich-dot.edu Phone: 734.615.3636
Affiliations
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