Dr. John H Wasson MD
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
215 N Main St White River Junction VT, 05009About
Dr. John Wasson practices Geriatric Medicine in White River Junction, VT. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Wasson works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
University of Virginia / Main Campus 1971
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Leading clinical quality improvement. Using patient-based information to rapidly redesign care.
- A replicable and customizable approach to improve ambulatory care and research.
- Health recommendations by interest group.
- Looking at care from the inside out: a conceptual approach to geriatric care.
- The population of people age 80 and older: a sentinel group for understanding the future of health care in the United States.
- Assessing access as a first step toward improving the quality of care for very old adults.
- An easy way to measure quality of physician-patient interactions.
- End-of-life care for persons age 80 years or older.
- Geriatric education: a system approach.
- Implementing a strategy for improving care: lessons from studying those age 80 and older in a health system.
- Streamlining nutritional care for the physician's office.
- MediCaring: development and test marketing of a supportive care benefit for older people.
- How well does a single question about health predict the financial health of Medicare managed care plans?
- Building an idealized measurement system to improve clinical office practice performance.
- Transurethral resection of the prostate among medicare beneficiaries: 1984 to 1997. For the Patient Outcomes Research Team for Prostatic Diseases.
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