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Dean Schillinger, MD
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San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94110
Box 1364, Bldg 10
Ph (415) 206-8940
Fax (415) 206-5586
dean@itsa.ucsf.edu

Research interests: Dean Schillinger, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Schillinger has focused his research on healthcare for vulnerable populations, including the impact of managed care, improving systems of care for publicly-insured and uninsured patients, and health communication. He has carried out a number of studies exploring the impact of limited health literacy on the care of patients with diabetes and heart disease, and was honored with the 2003 Institute for Healthcare Advancement Research Award for this work. He was awarded grants from the California Endowment, the Commonwealth Fund, and the California Health Care Foundation to develop and evaluate disease management programs tailored to the literacy and language needs of diabetes patients at SFGH and is a co-investigator for the National Association of Public Health and Hospital Institute’s Diabetes Quality Improvement Consortium. Currently an Open Society Institute Advocacy Fellow working with California Literacy, Inc., helping people gain literacy skills, to advance the California Health Literacy Initiative.

 

Top Publications Relevant to MERC

  • Schillinger D, Wilson C, Bindman A. In Reply (correspondence). „Who Actually Has the Low Health Literacy? Arch Int Med. July 28, 2003.Vol 163, 1746

  • Schillinger D, E Machtinger, Wang F, Win K, Chen L, Bindman A. Medication Mis- communication and Anticoagulant Care: Are Pictures Worth more Than Words? In press. AHRQ Peer-reviewed Publication:  Research and Innovations in Patient Safety, 2004

  • J Piette, K Bibbins-Domingo, D Schillinger. Self-Reported Health Care Discrimination, Patient-Provider Communication, and Health Outcomes Among Patients with Diabetes. Submitted. AJPH May 2004

  • V Bhandari, M Kushel, L Price, D Schillinger. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Outcomes of Stroke Rehabilitation. Submitted. Stroke. June 2004
  • D Schillinger, A Chen. Literacy and Language: Disentangling Measures of Access, Utilization and Quality. J Gen Int Med 2004;19:288-290
  • D Schillinger. Frontline Bureaucracies and the Moral Mechanics of US Health Care. Medical Care. March 2004;42:303-305

  • D Schillinger. Health Literacy and Error Reduction: A Fatal Aspiration of a Syringe Cap. In AHRQ Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web, April 2004: http://webmm.ahrq.gov/

  • Castro C, Wilson C, Schillinger D. Babel Babble: Physicians' Use of Jargon With Diabetes Patients. Submitted, Diabetes Care

  • Schillinger D. Improving Chronic Illness Care for Populations with Limited Health Literacy, in Health Literacy: a Prescription to End Confusion. National Academy of Sciences Press. April, 2004, pages 269-286 (commissioned paper for the Institute of Medicine)

  • Schillinger D, E Machtinger, Wang F, Rodriguez M, Bindman A. Preventing Medication Errors in Ambulatory Care: the Importance of Establishing Regimen Concordance. In press. AHRQ Peer-reviewed Publication:  Research and Innovations in Patient Safety, 200