Dr. David R Mehr MD
Family Practitioner
ONE HOSPITAL DRIVE COLUMBIA MO, 65212About
Dr. David Mehr is a family practitioner practicing in Columbia, MO. Dr. Mehr specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Mehr possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1976
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM- Geriatric Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Length of stay in VA nursing homes. Comparative characteristics of brief-,
- Patterns and determinants of health services use and mortality after VA nursing home care.
- Predicting discharge outcomes of VA nursing home residents.
- Nursing home care quality: a multidimensional theoretical model integrating the views of consumers and providers.
- Why geriatrics? Academic geriatricians' perceptions of the positive, attractive aspects of geriatrics.
- Setting thresholds for quality indicators derived from MDS data for nursing home quality improvement reports: an update.
- Initial field testing of an instrument to measure: observable indicators of nursing home care quality.
- Predictors of physician nursing home practice: does what we do in residency training make a difference?
- Prevalence, incidence, management, and predictors of venous ulcers in the long-term-care population using the MDS.
- Randomized clinical trial of a quality improvement intervention in nursing homes.
- Severe dementia and adverse outcomes of nursing home-acquired pneumonia: evidence for mediation by functional and pathophysiological decline.
- Predictors of short-term functional decline in survivors of nursing home-acquired lower respiratory tract infection.
- Helping older patients and their families decide about end-of-life care.
- Statewide strategy to improve quality of care in nursing facilities.
- Caring for people with pneumonia.
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