Dr. Dudley is a Professor of Medicine and is nationally recognized as an expert in health services research. His research focuses on improving the quality and value of care while reducing harm and waste this includes: 1) developing and validating novel measures of quality and safety, 2) studying the clinical and policy determinants of clinical performance, and 3) implementing programs to measure quality and report providers’ performance to the providers themselves, the public, and other policymakers. Dr. Dudley’s research team address these topics with a variety of techniques, including using large databases to measure performance, develop new measures, or assess how policies are associated with level of performance. Dr. Dudley's current work involves randomized controlled trials and observational studies of incentive programs and projects to understand the sources of performance variation among providers, especially as relates to disparities in care.

The research components of Dr. Dudley’s work, including those of his mentees, have been published in many major journals. For example, ten different mentees have had first author articles in JAMA or NEJM. This has led both to awards for Dr. Dudley (one of the few health services researchers elected to ASCI; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Investigator Award in Health Policy in 2005) and to numerous awards to his mentees from many different groups (e.g., Young Investigator Award or equivalent from AcademyHealth (the society for health services researchers), the American Heart Association, the Lupus Foundation. In addition, last year, one of my mentees (Naomi Bardach) received the top award in pediatrics health services research, the Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, from AcademyHealth.

Current Trainees: Nick Ingraham (4^th year research fellow).

Selected Recent Publications:

• Duseja, R, Bardach, NS, Lin, GA, Yazdany, J, Dean, ML, Clay, T, Dudley, RA. Revisit Rates and Associated Costs after an Emergency Department Encounter: A Multi-State Analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2015 Jun 2;162(11):750-6. PMID:26030633.

• Bardach, NS, Hibbard, JH, Greaves, F, Dudley, RA. Sources of Traffic and Visitors’ Preferences Regarding Online Public Reports of Quality. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2015 May 1;17(5):e102. PMID:25934100. PMCID: PMC4468595.

• Marafino, BJ, Boscardin, WJ, Dudley, RA. Efficient and Sparse Feature Selection for Biomedical Text Classification via the Elastic Net: Application to ICU Risk Stratification from Nursing Notes. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2015, 54:114-20. PMID:25700665.

• Chen, LC, Lin, GA, Bardach, NS, Boscardin, WJ, Gelb, AW, Maze, M, Gropper, MA, Dudley, RA. Preoperative Medical Testing Prior to Cataract Surgery in Medicare Patients. New England Journal of Medicine, 2015 Apr 16;372(16):1530-8. PMID:25875258.

• Petersen, LA, Simpson, K, Pietz, K, Urech, TH, Hysong, SJ, Profit, J, Conrad, DA, Dudley, RA, Woodard, LD. Effects of Individual Physician-Level and Practice-Level Financial Incentives on Hypertension Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial. JAMA, 2013 Sep 11;310(10):1042-50. PMID: 24026599. PMCID: PMC4165573

• Bardach, NS, Wang, JJ, De Leon, SF, Shih, SC, Boscarin, WJ, Goldman, LE, Dudley, RA. Effect of Pay-for-Performance Incentives on Quality of Care in Small Practices with Electronic Health Records: A Randomized Trial. JAMA, 2013 Sep 11;310(10):1051-9. PMID: 24026600. PMCID: PMC4013308

• DeJong, C, Santa, J, Dudley, RA. Websites That Offer Care Over the Internet: Is There an Access Quality Tradeoff? JAMA, 2014 Apr 2;311(13):1287-8. PMID: 24691602. No PMCID.