Dr. William C Dunagan MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
660 S Euclid Ave Saint Louis MO, 63110About
Dr. William Dunagan is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Dunagan specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 1983
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Understanding patient willingness to recommend and return: a strategy for prioritizing improvement opportunities.
- Using root cause analysis to address patient satisfaction and other improvement opportunities.
- Neisseria elongata subsp. elongata, as a cause of human endocarditis.
- Early mobilization of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.
- Candidemia in a tertiary care hospital: epidemiology, risk factors, and predictors of mortality.
- An intervention to improve secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.
- Antibiotic misuse in two clinical situations: positive blood culture and administration of aminoglycosides.
- Patient satisfaction: focusing on "excellent".
- How patient reactions to hospital care attributes affect the evaluation of overall quality of care, willingness to recommend, and willingness to return.
- Patient satisfaction: how patient health conditions influence their satisfaction.
- Patient satisfaction and organizational impact: a hierarchical linear modeling approach.
- Mycobacterial infection and HIV disease.
- Adding socioeconomic data to hospital readmissions calculations may produce more useful results.
- The risks of not adjusting performance measures for sociodemographic factors.
- Increasing patient satisfaction: a new model development.
Fellowships
- Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis Missouri
- Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 1988
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