Ted Melnick, MD, MHS
Emergency Medicine
Patient type treated
Child, Adult
Accepting new patients
No
Referral required
Not Applicable
Board Certified in
Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics
Biography
Ted Melnick, MD, specializes in emergency medicine and clinical informatics, using technology and data to improve healthcare delivery.
As an associate professor of emergency medicine and biostatistics (health informatics) at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Melnick is working to improving the use of electronic health records (EHR) and has contributed to research on the relationship between EHR use and physician burnout. He also works on projects to help start treatment for opioid use disorder in emergency settings.
Dr. Melnick received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Titles
- Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
- Section Chief for Research, Emergency Medicine
- Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Education & Training
- MHSYale University School of Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2014)
- Health Research and Health Policy Training AssociateYale School of Medicine (2014)
- Chief ResidentMount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- ResidentMount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- InternMount Sinai School of Medicine (2005)
- MDGeorgetown University School of Medicine (2004)
- BAWilliams College (1999)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- Young Investigator Award: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2017)
- Plenary Session: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting (2015)
- AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08): Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (2013)
- Service to Section Award: American College of Emergency Physicians (2010)
- Informatics Section Grant: American College of Emergency Physicians (2008)
- Academic Achievement Award: Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- Elected chief resident representative: Executive Committee of the Medical Board, Mount Sinai Hospital (2007)
- Best Resident Presenter: Semi-Final National Emergency Medicine CPC Competition, Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (2006)
Board Certifications
- AB of Preventive Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2016)
- AB of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (2009)
Publications
- Lopez K, Li H, Paek H, Williams B, Nath B, Melnick E, Loza A. Correction: Predicting physician departure with machine learning on EHR use patterns: A longitudinal cohort from a large multi-specialty ambulatory practice. PLOS ONE 2024, 19: e0315090. PMID: 39625911, PMCID: PMC11614266, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315090.
- Marsolo K, Cheville A, Melnick E, Jarvik J, Simon G, Sluka K, Crofford L, Staman K, Richesson R, Schlaeger J, Curtis L. Impact of electronic health record updates and changes on the delivery and monitoring of interventions in embedded pragmatic clinical trials. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2024, 148: 107744. PMID: 39561918, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107744.
- Iscoe M, Venkatesh A, Holland M, Krumholz H, Sheares K, Melnick E. Benchmarking Emergency Physician EHR Time per Encounter Based on Patient and Clinical Factors. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2427389. PMID: 39136949, PMCID: PMC11322841, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.27389.
- Tu L, Tegtmeyer K, de Oliveira Santo I, Venkatesh A, Forman H, Mahajan A, Melnick E. Abbreviated MRI in the evaluation of dizziness: report turnaround times and impact on length of stay compared to CT, CTA, and conventional MRI. Emergency Radiology 2024, 31: 705-711. PMID: 39034381, DOI: 10.1007/s10140-024-02273-7.
- Savitz S, Stevens M, Nath B, D’Onofrio G, Melnick E, Jeffery M. Trends in the Prescribing of Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder, 2019-2023. Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality & Outcomes 2024, 8: 308-320. PMID: 38841599, PMCID: PMC11152959, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2024.04.004.
- Rotenstein L, Melnick E, Iannaccone C, Zhang J, Mugal A, Lipsitz S, Healey M, Holland C, Snyder R, Sinsky C, Ting D, Bates D. Virtual Scribes and Physician Time Spent on Electronic Health Records. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2413140. PMID: 38787556, PMCID: PMC11127114, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.13140.
- Tu L, Melnick E, Venkatesh A, Sheth K, Navaratnam D, Yaesoubi R, Forman H, Mahajan A. Reply to "Considering Health Systems Worldwide: Point of View From a Middle-Income Country". American Journal Of Roentgenology 2024, 222: e2430900. PMID: 38294162, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.24.30900.
- Wong A, Nath B, Shah D, Kumar A, Brinker M, Faustino I, Boyce M, Dziura J, Heckmann R, Yonkers K, Bernstein S, Adapa K, Taylor R, Ovchinnikova P, McCall T, Melnick E. Formative evaluation of an emergency department clinical decision support system for agitation symptoms: a study protocol. BMJ Open 2024, 14: e082834. PMID: 38373857, PMCID: PMC10882402, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082834.
- Patel T, Chaise A, Hanna J, Patel K, Kochendorfer K, Medford R, Mize D, Melnick E, Hron J, Youens K, Pandita D, Leu M, Ator G, Yu F, Genes N, Baker C, Bell D, Pevnick J, Conrad S, Chandawarkar A, Rogers K, Kaelber D, Singh I, Levy B, Finnell J, Kannry J, Pageler N, Mohan V, Lehmann C. Structure and Funding of Clinical Informatics Fellowships: A National Survey of Program Directors. Applied Clinical Informatics 2024, 15: 155-163. PMID: 38171383, PMCID: PMC10881258, DOI: 10.1055/a-2237-8309.
- Tu L, Melnick E, Venkatesh A, Sheth K, Navaratnam D, Yaesoubi R, Forman H, Mahajan A. Cost-Effectiveness of CT, CTA, MRI, and Specialized MRI for Evaluation of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Dizziness. American Journal Of Roentgenology 2023, 222: e2330060. PMID: 37937837, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.23.30060.
- Gao E, Melnick E, Paek H, Nath B, Taylor R, Loza A. Adoption of Emergency Department–Initiated Buprenorphine for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA Network Open 2023, 6: e2342786. PMID: 37948075, PMCID: PMC10638655, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.42786.
- O'Connell R, Hosain F, Colucci L, Nath B, Melnick E. Why Do Physicians Depart Their Practice? A Qualitative Study of Attrition in a Multispecialty Ambulatory Practice Network. The Journal Of The American Board Of Family Medicine 2023, 36: 1050-1057. PMID: 37857441, DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230052r2.
- Li H, Rotenstein L, Jeffery M, Paek H, Nath B, Williams B, McLean R, Goldstein R, Nuckols T, Hoq L, Melnick E. Quantifying EHR and Policy Factors Associated with the Gender Productivity Gap in Ambulatory, General Internal Medicine. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2023, 39: 557-565. PMID: 37843702, PMCID: PMC10973284, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08428-5.
- Levy D, Moy A, Apathy N, Adler-Milstein J, Rotenstein L, Nath B, Rosenbloom S, Kannampallil T, Mishuris R, Alexanian A, Sieja A, Hribar M, Patel J, Sinsky C, Melnick E. Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Implementing Core Electronic Health Record Use Metrics for Ambulatory Care: Virtual Consensus Conference Proceedings. Applied Clinical Informatics 2023, 14: 944-950. PMID: 37802122, PMCID: PMC10686750, DOI: 10.1055/a-2187-3243.
- Rotenstein L, Melnick E, Jeffery M, Zhang J, Sinsky C, Gitomer R, Bates D. Association of Primary Care Physicians’ Electronic Inbox Activity Patterns with Patients’ Likelihood to Recommend the Physician. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2023, 39: 150-152. PMID: 37731135, PMCID: PMC10817856, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08417-8.
- Sangal R, Sharifi M, Rhodes D, Melnick E. Clinical Decision Support: Moving Beyond Interruptive “Pop-up” Alerts. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2023, 98: 1275-1279. PMID: 37661138, PMCID: PMC10491420, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2023.05.025.
- Stevens M, Melnick E, Savitz S, Jeffery M, Nath B, Janke A. National trends in emergency conditions through the Omicron COVID‐19 wave in commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2023, 4: e13023. PMID: 37576118, PMCID: PMC10423035, DOI: 10.1002/emp2.13023.
- Tu L, Navaratnam D, Melnick E, Forman H, Venkatesh A, Malhotra A, Yaesoubi R, Sureshanand S, Sheth K, Mahajan A. CT With CTA Versus MRI in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Dizziness: Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching. American Journal Of Roentgenology 2023, 221: 836-845. PMID: 37404082, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.23.29617.
- Jeffery M, Stevens M, D'Onofrio G, Melnick E. Fentanyl-Associated Overdose Deaths Outside the Hospital. New England Journal Of Medicine 2023, 389: 87-88. PMID: 37342960, PMCID: PMC10388669, DOI: 10.1056/nejmc2304991.
- Farley H, Harry E, Sinsky C, Boehm E, Privitera M, Melnick E. Humans as an Essential Source of Safety: A Frameshift for System Resilience. Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality & Outcomes 2023, 7: 241-243. PMID: 37304062, PMCID: PMC10250566, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2023.05.001.
- Simpson M, Ritger C, Hoppe J, Holland W, Morris M, Nath B, Melnick E, Tietbohl C. Implementation strategies to address the determinants of adoption, implementation, and maintenance of a clinical decision support tool for emergency department buprenorphine initiation: a qualitative study. Implementation Science Communications 2023, 4: 41. PMID: 37081581, PMCID: PMC10117277, DOI: 10.1186/s43058-023-00421-7.
- Melnick E, Sinsky C, Shanafelt T. Funding Research on Health Workforce Well-being to Optimize the Work Environment. JAMA 2023, 329: 1145-1146. PMID: 36821127, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.2073.
- Holland W, Li F, Nath B, Jeffery M, Stevens M, Melnick E, Dziura J, Khidir H, Skains R, D'Onofrio G, Soares W. Racial and ethnic disparities in emergency department–initiated buprenorphine across five health care systems. Academic Emergency Medicine 2023, 30: 709-720. PMID: 36660800, PMCID: PMC10467357, DOI: 10.1111/acem.14668.
- Lopez K, Li H, Paek H, Williams B, Nath B, Melnick E, Loza A. Predicting physician departure with machine learning on EHR use patterns: A longitudinal cohort from a large multi-specialty ambulatory practice. PLOS ONE 2023, 18: e0280251. PMID: 36724149, PMCID: PMC9891518, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280251.
- Kadhim B, Khairat S, Li F, Gross I, Nath B, Hauser R, Melnick E. Implementation of Eye-Tracking Technology to Monitor Clinician Fatigue in Routine Clinical Care: A Feasibility Study. ACI Open 2023, 07: e1-e7. DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760267.
- Iscoe MS, McLean RM, Melnick ER. Restoring Meaningful Content to the Medical Record: Standardizing Measurement Could Improve EHR Utility While Decreasing Burden. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2022, 97: 1971-1974. PMID: 36210197, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2022.07.007.
- Janke A, Melnick E, Venkatesh A. 82 Beyond the Breaking Point: Hospital Occupancy and Emergency Department Boarding During COVID- 19. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2022, 80: s42. PMCID: PMC9519238, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.08.105.
- Rule A, Melnick ER, Apathy NC. Using event logs to observe interactions with electronic health records: an updated scoping review shows increasing use of vendor-derived measures. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2022, 30: 144-154. PMID: 36173361, PMCID: PMC9748581, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac177.
- Janke AT, Melnick ER, Venkatesh AK. Monthly Rates of Patients Who Left Before Accessing Care in US Emergency Departments, 2017-2021. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e2233708. PMID: 36178693, PMCID: PMC9526078, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33708.
- Janke AT, Melnick ER, Venkatesh AK. Hospital Occupancy and Emergency Department Boarding During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e2233964. PMID: 36178691, PMCID: PMC9526134, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33964.
- Iscoe MS, Holland ML, Paek H, Flood C, Melnick ER. Emergency physicians' EHR use across hospitals: A cross-sectional analysis. The American Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2022, 61: 205-207. PMID: 35842301, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2022.07.014.
- Melnick ER, Nath B, Dziura JD, Casey MF, Jeffery MM, Paek H, Soares WE, Hoppe JA, Rajeevan H, Li F, Skains RM, Walter LA, Patel MD, Chari SV, Platts-Mills TF, Hess EP, D'Onofrio G. User centered clinical decision support to implement initiation of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in the emergency department: EMBED pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. The BMJ 2022, 377: e069271. PMID: 35760423, PMCID: PMC9231533, DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069271.
- Rotenstein LS, Melnick ER, Sinsky CA. A Learning Health System Agenda for Organizational Approaches to Enhancing Occupational Well-being Among Clinicians. JAMA 2022, 327: 2079-2080. PMID: 35551325, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.7461.
- Stevens MA, Tsai J, Savitz ST, Nath B, Melnick ER, D’Onofrio G, Jeffery MM. Trends and Disparities in Access to Buprenorphine Treatment Following an Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visit Among an Insured Cohort, 2014-2020. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e2215287. PMID: 35657629, PMCID: PMC9166266, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.15287.
- Lu Y, Melnick ER, Krumholz HM. Clinical decision support in cardiovascular medicine. The BMJ 2022, 377: e059818. PMID: 35613721, DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2020-059818.
- Gettel CJ, Yiadom MYAB, Bernstein SL, Grudzen CR, Nath B, Li F, Hwang U, Hess EP, Melnick ER. Pragmatic clinical trial design in emergency medicine: Study considerations and design types. Academic Emergency Medicine 2022, 29: 1247-1257. PMID: 35475533, PMCID: PMC9790188, DOI: 10.1111/acem.14513.
- Fong A, Iscoe M, Sinsky CA, Haimovich A, Williams B, O'Connell RT, Goldstein R, Melnick E. Cluster Analysis of Primary Care Physician Phenotypes for Electronic Health Record Use: Retrospective Cohort Study. JMIR Medical Informatics 2022, 10: e34954. PMID: 35275070, PMCID: PMC9055474, DOI: 10.2196/34954.
- Rotenstein LS, Fong AS, Jeffery MM, Sinsky CA, Goldstein R, Williams B, Melnick ER. Gender Differences in Time Spent on Documentation and the Electronic Health Record in a Large Ambulatory Network. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e223935. PMID: 35323954, PMCID: PMC8948526, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.3935.
- D'Onofrio G, Melnick ER, Hawk KF. In reply:. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2022, 79: 219-220. PMID: 35065746, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.10.022.
- Marchalik D, Melnick E. Physicians in the digital age. The Lancet 2022, 399: 231. PMID: 35033216, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00021-6.
- Tu LH, Mahajan A, Minja FJ, Navaratnam D, Melnick ER. Pilot MRI-based strategies to improve the detection of stroke in patients with dizziness/vertigo. Clinical Imaging 2021, 82: 234-236. PMID: 34902799, DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.12.001.
- Ong S, Moore Jeffery M, Williams B, O’Connell R, Goldstein R, Melnick E. How a Virtual Scribe Program Improves Physicians’ EHR Experience, Documentation Time, and Note Quality. NEJM Catalyst 2021, 2 DOI: 10.1056/cat.21.0294.
- Melnick ER, Fong A, Nath B, Williams B, Ratwani RM, Goldstein R, O’Connell R, Sinsky CA, Marchalik D, Mete M. Analysis of Electronic Health Record Use and Clinical Productivity and Their Association With Physician Turnover. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2128790. PMID: 34636911, PMCID: PMC8511970, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28790.
- Nath B, Williams B, Jeffery MM, O’Connell R, Goldstein R, Sinsky CA, Melnick ER. Trends in Electronic Health Record Inbox Messaging During the COVID-19 Pandemic in an Ambulatory Practice Network in New England. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2131490. PMID: 34636917, PMCID: PMC8511977, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31490.
- Melnick E, Casey M, Dziura J, Jeffery M, Soares W, Hoppe R. 57 EMBED: A Pragmatic Trial of User-Centered Clinical Decision Support to Implement EMergency Department-Initiated BuprenorphinE for Opioid Use Disorder. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2021, 78: s23. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.09.066.
- Tuzzio L, Meyers CM, Dember LM, Grudzen CR, Melnick ER, Staman KL, Huang SS, Richards J, DeBar L, Vazquez MA, Green BB, Coronado GD, Jarvik JG, Braciszewski J, Ho PM, Wells BL, James K, Toto R, D’Onofrio G, Volandes A, Kuklinski MR, Catalano RF, Sterling SA, Morse EF, Curtis L, Larson EB. Accounting for quality improvement during the conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials within healthcare systems: NIH Collaboratory case studies. Healthcare 2021, 8: 100432. PMID: 34175091, PMCID: PMC8900087, DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2020.100432.
- Melnick ER, Sinsky CA, Krumholz HM. Implementing Measurement Science for Electronic Health Record Use. JAMA 2021, 325: 2149-2150. PMID: 33818587, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.5487.
- D'Onofrio G, Melnick ER, Hawk KF. Improve Access to Care for Opioid Use Disorder: A Call to Eliminate the X-Waiver Requirement Now. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2021, 78: 220-222. PMID: 33966933, PMCID: PMC8324519, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.03.023.
- Melnick ER, Ong SY, Fong A, Socrates V, Ratwani RM, Nath B, Simonov M, Salgia A, Williams B, Marchalik D, Goldstein R, Sinsky CA. Characterizing physician EHR use with vendor derived data: a feasibility study and cross-sectional analysis. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1383-1392. PMID: 33822970, PMCID: PMC8279798, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab011.
- Melnick ER, West CP, Nath B, Cipriano PF, Peterson C, Satele DV, Shanafelt T, Dyrbye LN. The association between perceived electronic health record usability and professional burnout among US nurses. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1632-1641. PMID: 33871018, PMCID: PMC8324227, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab059.
- Soares WE, Melnick ER, Nath B, D'Onofrio G, Paek H, Skains RM, Walter LA, Casey MF, Napoli A, Hoppe JA, Jeffery MM. Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Opioid Overdose During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Six US Health Care Systems. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2021, 79: 158-167. PMID: 34119326, PMCID: PMC8449788, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.03.013.
- Hettinger AZ, Melnick ER, Ratwani RM. Advancing electronic health record vendor usability maturity: Progress and next steps. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1029-1031. PMID: 33517394, PMCID: PMC8068416, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa329.
- Jeffery MM, D’Onofrio G, Paek H, Platts-Mills TF, Soares WE, Hoppe JA, Genes N, Nath B, Melnick ER. Trends in Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions in Health Care Systems in 5 States in the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020, 180: 1328-1333. PMID: 32744612, PMCID: PMC7400214, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3288.
- Melnick ER, Ioannidis JPA. Should governments continue lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19? The BMJ 2020, 369: m1924. PMID: 32493767, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1924.
- Platts-Mills TF, Nagurney JM, Melnick ER. Tolerance of Uncertainty and the Practice of Emergency Medicine. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2019, 75: 715-720. PMID: 31874767, PMCID: PMC7294596, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.10.015.
- Melnick ER, Dyrbye LN, Sinsky CA, Trockel M, West CP, Nedelec L, Tutty MA, Shanafelt T. The Association Between Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability and Professional Burnout Among US Physicians. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2019, 95: 476-487. PMID: 31735343, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2019.09.024.
- Chartash D, Paek H, Dziura JD, Ross BK, Nogee DP, Boccio E, Hines C, Schott AM, Jeffery MM, Patel MD, Platts-Mills TF, Ahmed O, Brandt C, Couturier K, Melnick E. Identifying Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department: Multi-System Electronic Health Record–Based Computable Phenotype Derivation and Validation Study. JMIR Medical Informatics 2019, 7: e15794. PMID: 31674913, PMCID: PMC6913746, DOI: 10.2196/15794.
- Ray JM, Ratwani RM, Sinsky CA, Frankel RM, Friedberg MW, Powsner SM, Rosenthal DI, Wachter RM, Melnick ER. Six habits of highly successful health information technology: powerful strategies for design and implementation. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2019, 26: 1109-1114. PMID: 31265064, PMCID: PMC7647223, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz098.
- Melnick ER, Jeffery MM, Dziura JD, Mao JA, Hess EP, Platts-Mills TF, Solad Y, Paek H, Martel S, Patel MD, Bankowski L, Lu C, Brandt C, D’Onofrio G. User-centred clinical decision support to implement emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: protocol for the pragmatic group randomised EMBED trial. BMJ Open 2019, 9: e028488. PMID: 31152039, PMCID: PMC6550013, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028488.
- Jairam V, Lee V, Park H, Thomas C, Melnick E, Gross C, Presley C, Adelson K, Yu J. P78 Treatment-Related Complications of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy: An Analysis of the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2019, 103: e51-e52. DOI: 10.1016/s0360-3016(19)30528-0.
- Zupon A, Rothenberg C, Couturier K, Tan T, Siddiqui G, James M, Savage D, Melnick ER, Venkatesh AK. An appraisal of emergency medicine clinical practice guidelines: Do we agree? International Journal Of Clinical Practice 2018, 73: e13289. PMID: 30372798, PMCID: PMC6351191, DOI: 10.1111/ijcp.13289.
- Gariepy M, Gravel J, Turcotte S, Légaré F, Melnick E, Hess E, Witteman H, Lelaidier-Hould L, Truchon C, Sauvé L, Plante P, Lesage N, Archambault P. ADHERENCE TO THE PECARN PEDIATRIC HEAD INJURY RULE IN TWO CANADIAN EMERGENCY SETTINGS. Paediatrics & Child Health 2018, 23: e9-e10. PMCID: PMC5961350, DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxy054.024.
- Melnick ER, Hess EP, Guo G, Breslin M, Lopez K, Pavlo AJ, Abujarad F, Powsner SM, Post LA. Patient-Centered Decision Support: Formative Usability Evaluation of Integrated Clinical Decision Support With a Patient Decision Aid for Minor Head Injury in the Emergency Department. Journal Of Medical Internet Research 2017, 19: e174. PMID: 28526667, PMCID: PMC5457532, DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7846.
- Gellert G, Webster L, Gillean J, Melnick E, Kanzaria H. Should US doctors embrace electronic health records? The BMJ 2017, 356: j242. PMID: 28119282, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j242.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Additional Resources. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/136.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Disseminating and Sharing CDS. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/135.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Evaluating CDS. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/134.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Designing and Building CDS Tools for Pragmatic Trials. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/133.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Uses of CDS in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Experience From the NIH Collaboratory Studies. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/132.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Definitions and Uses for CDS. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/131.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Introduction to Clinical Decision Support. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/130.
- Melnick ER, Probst MA, Schoenfeld E, Collins SP, Breslin M, Walsh C, Kuppermann N, Dunn P, Abella BS, Boatright D, Hess EP. Development and Testing of Shared Decision Making Interventions for Use in Emergency Care: A Research Agenda. Academic Emergency Medicine 2016, 23: 1346-1353. PMID: 27457137, PMCID: PMC5145730, DOI: 10.1111/acem.13045.
- Melnick ER, Powsner SM. Empathy in the Time of Burnout. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2016, 91: 1678-1679. PMID: 27836111, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.09.003.
- Melnick ER, Shafer K, Rodulfo N, Shi J, Hess EP, Wears RL, Qureshi RA, Post LA. Understanding Overuse of Computed Tomography for Minor Head Injury in the Emergency Department: A Triangulated Qualitative Study. Academic Emergency Medicine 2015, 22: 1474-1483. PMID: 26568523, DOI: 10.1111/acem.12824.
- Melnick ER. How to make less more: empathy can fill the gap left by reducing unnecessary care. The BMJ 2015, 351: h5831. PMID: 26537887, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h5831.
- Melnick ER, Keegan J, Taylor RA. Redefining Overuse to Include Costs: A Decision Analysis for Computed Tomography in Minor Head Injury. The Joint Commission Journal On Quality And Patient Safety 2015, 41: 313-ap2. PMID: 26108124, DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(15)41041-4.
- Melnick ER, Szlezak CM, Bentley SK, Dziura JD, Kotlyar S, Post LA. CT Overuse for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. The Joint Commission Journal On Quality And Patient Safety 2012, 38: 483-489. PMID: 23173394, DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(12)38064-1.
- Melnick E, Nielson J, Finnell J, Patel S, Richardson L. P61– Delphi consensus on the feasibility of translating the American College of Emergency Physicians clinical policies into computerized clinical decision support. Otolaryngology 2010, 143: 109-110. DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2010.04.085.
- Melnick ER, Nielson JA, Finnell JT, Bullard MJ, Cantrill SV, Cochrane DG, Halamka JD, Handler JA, Holroyd BR, Kamens D, Kho A, McClay J, Shapiro JS, Teich J, Wears RL, Patel SJ, Ward MF, Richardson LD. Delphi Consensus on the Feasibility of Translating the ACEP Clinical Policies Into Computerized Clinical Decision Support. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2010, 56: 317-320. PMID: 20363531, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.03.006.
- Levine A, Goel A, Keay C, Lay C, Melnick E, Nielson J, Becker J, Khaleghi M, Chicharoen N, Johar S, Lippert S, Tebb Z, Rosborough S, Arnold K. International Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature from 2006. Academic Emergency Medicine 2007, 14: 1190-1193. DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2007.tb02342.x.
- Suchard J, Melnick E. Clinicopathological conference: 29-year-old with visual loss, hypertension, and a seizure. Academic Emergency Medicine 2007, 14: 819-24. PMID: 17726128, DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.06.019.
Departments and Programs
Biography
Ted Melnick, MD, specializes in emergency medicine and clinical informatics, using technology and data to improve healthcare delivery.
As an associate professor of emergency medicine and biostatistics (health informatics) at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Melnick is working to improving the use of electronic health records (EHR) and has contributed to research on the relationship between EHR use and physician burnout. He also works on projects to help start treatment for opioid use disorder in emergency settings.
Dr. Melnick received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Titles
- Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
- Section Chief for Research, Emergency Medicine
- Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Education & Training
- MHSYale University School of Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2014)
- Health Research and Health Policy Training AssociateYale School of Medicine (2014)
- Chief ResidentMount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- ResidentMount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- InternMount Sinai School of Medicine (2005)
- MDGeorgetown University School of Medicine (2004)
- BAWilliams College (1999)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- Young Investigator Award: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2017)
- Plenary Session: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting (2015)
- AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08): Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (2013)
- Service to Section Award: American College of Emergency Physicians (2010)
- Informatics Section Grant: American College of Emergency Physicians (2008)
- Academic Achievement Award: Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- Elected chief resident representative: Executive Committee of the Medical Board, Mount Sinai Hospital (2007)
- Best Resident Presenter: Semi-Final National Emergency Medicine CPC Competition, Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (2006)
Board Certifications
- AB of Preventive Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2016)
- AB of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (2009)
Publications
- Lopez K, Li H, Paek H, Williams B, Nath B, Melnick E, Loza A. Correction: Predicting physician departure with machine learning on EHR use patterns: A longitudinal cohort from a large multi-specialty ambulatory practice. PLOS ONE 2024, 19: e0315090. PMID: 39625911, PMCID: PMC11614266, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315090.
- Marsolo K, Cheville A, Melnick E, Jarvik J, Simon G, Sluka K, Crofford L, Staman K, Richesson R, Schlaeger J, Curtis L. Impact of electronic health record updates and changes on the delivery and monitoring of interventions in embedded pragmatic clinical trials. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2024, 148: 107744. PMID: 39561918, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107744.
- Iscoe M, Venkatesh A, Holland M, Krumholz H, Sheares K, Melnick E. Benchmarking Emergency Physician EHR Time per Encounter Based on Patient and Clinical Factors. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2427389. PMID: 39136949, PMCID: PMC11322841, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.27389.
- Tu L, Tegtmeyer K, de Oliveira Santo I, Venkatesh A, Forman H, Mahajan A, Melnick E. Abbreviated MRI in the evaluation of dizziness: report turnaround times and impact on length of stay compared to CT, CTA, and conventional MRI. Emergency Radiology 2024, 31: 705-711. PMID: 39034381, DOI: 10.1007/s10140-024-02273-7.
- Savitz S, Stevens M, Nath B, D’Onofrio G, Melnick E, Jeffery M. Trends in the Prescribing of Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder, 2019-2023. Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality & Outcomes 2024, 8: 308-320. PMID: 38841599, PMCID: PMC11152959, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2024.04.004.
- Rotenstein L, Melnick E, Iannaccone C, Zhang J, Mugal A, Lipsitz S, Healey M, Holland C, Snyder R, Sinsky C, Ting D, Bates D. Virtual Scribes and Physician Time Spent on Electronic Health Records. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2413140. PMID: 38787556, PMCID: PMC11127114, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.13140.
- Tu L, Melnick E, Venkatesh A, Sheth K, Navaratnam D, Yaesoubi R, Forman H, Mahajan A. Reply to "Considering Health Systems Worldwide: Point of View From a Middle-Income Country". American Journal Of Roentgenology 2024, 222: e2430900. PMID: 38294162, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.24.30900.
- Wong A, Nath B, Shah D, Kumar A, Brinker M, Faustino I, Boyce M, Dziura J, Heckmann R, Yonkers K, Bernstein S, Adapa K, Taylor R, Ovchinnikova P, McCall T, Melnick E. Formative evaluation of an emergency department clinical decision support system for agitation symptoms: a study protocol. BMJ Open 2024, 14: e082834. PMID: 38373857, PMCID: PMC10882402, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082834.
- Patel T, Chaise A, Hanna J, Patel K, Kochendorfer K, Medford R, Mize D, Melnick E, Hron J, Youens K, Pandita D, Leu M, Ator G, Yu F, Genes N, Baker C, Bell D, Pevnick J, Conrad S, Chandawarkar A, Rogers K, Kaelber D, Singh I, Levy B, Finnell J, Kannry J, Pageler N, Mohan V, Lehmann C. Structure and Funding of Clinical Informatics Fellowships: A National Survey of Program Directors. Applied Clinical Informatics 2024, 15: 155-163. PMID: 38171383, PMCID: PMC10881258, DOI: 10.1055/a-2237-8309.
- Tu L, Melnick E, Venkatesh A, Sheth K, Navaratnam D, Yaesoubi R, Forman H, Mahajan A. Cost-Effectiveness of CT, CTA, MRI, and Specialized MRI for Evaluation of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Dizziness. American Journal Of Roentgenology 2023, 222: e2330060. PMID: 37937837, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.23.30060.
- Gao E, Melnick E, Paek H, Nath B, Taylor R, Loza A. Adoption of Emergency Department–Initiated Buprenorphine for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA Network Open 2023, 6: e2342786. PMID: 37948075, PMCID: PMC10638655, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.42786.
- O'Connell R, Hosain F, Colucci L, Nath B, Melnick E. Why Do Physicians Depart Their Practice? A Qualitative Study of Attrition in a Multispecialty Ambulatory Practice Network. The Journal Of The American Board Of Family Medicine 2023, 36: 1050-1057. PMID: 37857441, DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2023.230052r2.
- Li H, Rotenstein L, Jeffery M, Paek H, Nath B, Williams B, McLean R, Goldstein R, Nuckols T, Hoq L, Melnick E. Quantifying EHR and Policy Factors Associated with the Gender Productivity Gap in Ambulatory, General Internal Medicine. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2023, 39: 557-565. PMID: 37843702, PMCID: PMC10973284, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08428-5.
- Levy D, Moy A, Apathy N, Adler-Milstein J, Rotenstein L, Nath B, Rosenbloom S, Kannampallil T, Mishuris R, Alexanian A, Sieja A, Hribar M, Patel J, Sinsky C, Melnick E. Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Implementing Core Electronic Health Record Use Metrics for Ambulatory Care: Virtual Consensus Conference Proceedings. Applied Clinical Informatics 2023, 14: 944-950. PMID: 37802122, PMCID: PMC10686750, DOI: 10.1055/a-2187-3243.
- Rotenstein L, Melnick E, Jeffery M, Zhang J, Sinsky C, Gitomer R, Bates D. Association of Primary Care Physicians’ Electronic Inbox Activity Patterns with Patients’ Likelihood to Recommend the Physician. Journal Of General Internal Medicine 2023, 39: 150-152. PMID: 37731135, PMCID: PMC10817856, DOI: 10.1007/s11606-023-08417-8.
- Sangal R, Sharifi M, Rhodes D, Melnick E. Clinical Decision Support: Moving Beyond Interruptive “Pop-up” Alerts. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2023, 98: 1275-1279. PMID: 37661138, PMCID: PMC10491420, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2023.05.025.
- Stevens M, Melnick E, Savitz S, Jeffery M, Nath B, Janke A. National trends in emergency conditions through the Omicron COVID‐19 wave in commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees. Journal Of The American College Of Emergency Physicians Open 2023, 4: e13023. PMID: 37576118, PMCID: PMC10423035, DOI: 10.1002/emp2.13023.
- Tu L, Navaratnam D, Melnick E, Forman H, Venkatesh A, Malhotra A, Yaesoubi R, Sureshanand S, Sheth K, Mahajan A. CT With CTA Versus MRI in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Dizziness: Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching. American Journal Of Roentgenology 2023, 221: 836-845. PMID: 37404082, DOI: 10.2214/ajr.23.29617.
- Jeffery M, Stevens M, D'Onofrio G, Melnick E. Fentanyl-Associated Overdose Deaths Outside the Hospital. New England Journal Of Medicine 2023, 389: 87-88. PMID: 37342960, PMCID: PMC10388669, DOI: 10.1056/nejmc2304991.
- Farley H, Harry E, Sinsky C, Boehm E, Privitera M, Melnick E. Humans as an Essential Source of Safety: A Frameshift for System Resilience. Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality & Outcomes 2023, 7: 241-243. PMID: 37304062, PMCID: PMC10250566, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2023.05.001.
- Simpson M, Ritger C, Hoppe J, Holland W, Morris M, Nath B, Melnick E, Tietbohl C. Implementation strategies to address the determinants of adoption, implementation, and maintenance of a clinical decision support tool for emergency department buprenorphine initiation: a qualitative study. Implementation Science Communications 2023, 4: 41. PMID: 37081581, PMCID: PMC10117277, DOI: 10.1186/s43058-023-00421-7.
- Melnick E, Sinsky C, Shanafelt T. Funding Research on Health Workforce Well-being to Optimize the Work Environment. JAMA 2023, 329: 1145-1146. PMID: 36821127, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.2073.
- Holland W, Li F, Nath B, Jeffery M, Stevens M, Melnick E, Dziura J, Khidir H, Skains R, D'Onofrio G, Soares W. Racial and ethnic disparities in emergency department–initiated buprenorphine across five health care systems. Academic Emergency Medicine 2023, 30: 709-720. PMID: 36660800, PMCID: PMC10467357, DOI: 10.1111/acem.14668.
- Lopez K, Li H, Paek H, Williams B, Nath B, Melnick E, Loza A. Predicting physician departure with machine learning on EHR use patterns: A longitudinal cohort from a large multi-specialty ambulatory practice. PLOS ONE 2023, 18: e0280251. PMID: 36724149, PMCID: PMC9891518, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280251.
- Kadhim B, Khairat S, Li F, Gross I, Nath B, Hauser R, Melnick E. Implementation of Eye-Tracking Technology to Monitor Clinician Fatigue in Routine Clinical Care: A Feasibility Study. ACI Open 2023, 07: e1-e7. DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760267.
- Iscoe MS, McLean RM, Melnick ER. Restoring Meaningful Content to the Medical Record: Standardizing Measurement Could Improve EHR Utility While Decreasing Burden. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2022, 97: 1971-1974. PMID: 36210197, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2022.07.007.
- Janke A, Melnick E, Venkatesh A. 82 Beyond the Breaking Point: Hospital Occupancy and Emergency Department Boarding During COVID- 19. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2022, 80: s42. PMCID: PMC9519238, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.08.105.
- Rule A, Melnick ER, Apathy NC. Using event logs to observe interactions with electronic health records: an updated scoping review shows increasing use of vendor-derived measures. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2022, 30: 144-154. PMID: 36173361, PMCID: PMC9748581, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac177.
- Janke AT, Melnick ER, Venkatesh AK. Monthly Rates of Patients Who Left Before Accessing Care in US Emergency Departments, 2017-2021. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e2233708. PMID: 36178693, PMCID: PMC9526078, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33708.
- Janke AT, Melnick ER, Venkatesh AK. Hospital Occupancy and Emergency Department Boarding During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e2233964. PMID: 36178691, PMCID: PMC9526134, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.33964.
- Iscoe MS, Holland ML, Paek H, Flood C, Melnick ER. Emergency physicians' EHR use across hospitals: A cross-sectional analysis. The American Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2022, 61: 205-207. PMID: 35842301, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2022.07.014.
- Melnick ER, Nath B, Dziura JD, Casey MF, Jeffery MM, Paek H, Soares WE, Hoppe JA, Rajeevan H, Li F, Skains RM, Walter LA, Patel MD, Chari SV, Platts-Mills TF, Hess EP, D'Onofrio G. User centered clinical decision support to implement initiation of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in the emergency department: EMBED pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. The BMJ 2022, 377: e069271. PMID: 35760423, PMCID: PMC9231533, DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069271.
- Rotenstein LS, Melnick ER, Sinsky CA. A Learning Health System Agenda for Organizational Approaches to Enhancing Occupational Well-being Among Clinicians. JAMA 2022, 327: 2079-2080. PMID: 35551325, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2022.7461.
- Stevens MA, Tsai J, Savitz ST, Nath B, Melnick ER, D’Onofrio G, Jeffery MM. Trends and Disparities in Access to Buprenorphine Treatment Following an Opioid-Related Emergency Department Visit Among an Insured Cohort, 2014-2020. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e2215287. PMID: 35657629, PMCID: PMC9166266, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.15287.
- Lu Y, Melnick ER, Krumholz HM. Clinical decision support in cardiovascular medicine. The BMJ 2022, 377: e059818. PMID: 35613721, DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2020-059818.
- Gettel CJ, Yiadom MYAB, Bernstein SL, Grudzen CR, Nath B, Li F, Hwang U, Hess EP, Melnick ER. Pragmatic clinical trial design in emergency medicine: Study considerations and design types. Academic Emergency Medicine 2022, 29: 1247-1257. PMID: 35475533, PMCID: PMC9790188, DOI: 10.1111/acem.14513.
- Fong A, Iscoe M, Sinsky CA, Haimovich A, Williams B, O'Connell RT, Goldstein R, Melnick E. Cluster Analysis of Primary Care Physician Phenotypes for Electronic Health Record Use: Retrospective Cohort Study. JMIR Medical Informatics 2022, 10: e34954. PMID: 35275070, PMCID: PMC9055474, DOI: 10.2196/34954.
- Rotenstein LS, Fong AS, Jeffery MM, Sinsky CA, Goldstein R, Williams B, Melnick ER. Gender Differences in Time Spent on Documentation and the Electronic Health Record in a Large Ambulatory Network. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e223935. PMID: 35323954, PMCID: PMC8948526, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.3935.
- D'Onofrio G, Melnick ER, Hawk KF. In reply:. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2022, 79: 219-220. PMID: 35065746, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.10.022.
- Marchalik D, Melnick E. Physicians in the digital age. The Lancet 2022, 399: 231. PMID: 35033216, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00021-6.
- Tu LH, Mahajan A, Minja FJ, Navaratnam D, Melnick ER. Pilot MRI-based strategies to improve the detection of stroke in patients with dizziness/vertigo. Clinical Imaging 2021, 82: 234-236. PMID: 34902799, DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.12.001.
- Ong S, Moore Jeffery M, Williams B, O’Connell R, Goldstein R, Melnick E. How a Virtual Scribe Program Improves Physicians’ EHR Experience, Documentation Time, and Note Quality. NEJM Catalyst 2021, 2 DOI: 10.1056/cat.21.0294.
- Melnick ER, Fong A, Nath B, Williams B, Ratwani RM, Goldstein R, O’Connell R, Sinsky CA, Marchalik D, Mete M. Analysis of Electronic Health Record Use and Clinical Productivity and Their Association With Physician Turnover. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2128790. PMID: 34636911, PMCID: PMC8511970, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28790.
- Nath B, Williams B, Jeffery MM, O’Connell R, Goldstein R, Sinsky CA, Melnick ER. Trends in Electronic Health Record Inbox Messaging During the COVID-19 Pandemic in an Ambulatory Practice Network in New England. JAMA Network Open 2021, 4: e2131490. PMID: 34636917, PMCID: PMC8511977, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31490.
- Melnick E, Casey M, Dziura J, Jeffery M, Soares W, Hoppe R. 57 EMBED: A Pragmatic Trial of User-Centered Clinical Decision Support to Implement EMergency Department-Initiated BuprenorphinE for Opioid Use Disorder. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2021, 78: s23. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.09.066.
- Tuzzio L, Meyers CM, Dember LM, Grudzen CR, Melnick ER, Staman KL, Huang SS, Richards J, DeBar L, Vazquez MA, Green BB, Coronado GD, Jarvik JG, Braciszewski J, Ho PM, Wells BL, James K, Toto R, D’Onofrio G, Volandes A, Kuklinski MR, Catalano RF, Sterling SA, Morse EF, Curtis L, Larson EB. Accounting for quality improvement during the conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials within healthcare systems: NIH Collaboratory case studies. Healthcare 2021, 8: 100432. PMID: 34175091, PMCID: PMC8900087, DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2020.100432.
- Melnick ER, Sinsky CA, Krumholz HM. Implementing Measurement Science for Electronic Health Record Use. JAMA 2021, 325: 2149-2150. PMID: 33818587, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.5487.
- D'Onofrio G, Melnick ER, Hawk KF. Improve Access to Care for Opioid Use Disorder: A Call to Eliminate the X-Waiver Requirement Now. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2021, 78: 220-222. PMID: 33966933, PMCID: PMC8324519, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.03.023.
- Melnick ER, Ong SY, Fong A, Socrates V, Ratwani RM, Nath B, Simonov M, Salgia A, Williams B, Marchalik D, Goldstein R, Sinsky CA. Characterizing physician EHR use with vendor derived data: a feasibility study and cross-sectional analysis. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1383-1392. PMID: 33822970, PMCID: PMC8279798, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab011.
- Melnick ER, West CP, Nath B, Cipriano PF, Peterson C, Satele DV, Shanafelt T, Dyrbye LN. The association between perceived electronic health record usability and professional burnout among US nurses. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1632-1641. PMID: 33871018, PMCID: PMC8324227, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocab059.
- Soares WE, Melnick ER, Nath B, D'Onofrio G, Paek H, Skains RM, Walter LA, Casey MF, Napoli A, Hoppe JA, Jeffery MM. Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Opioid Overdose During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Six US Health Care Systems. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2021, 79: 158-167. PMID: 34119326, PMCID: PMC8449788, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.03.013.
- Hettinger AZ, Melnick ER, Ratwani RM. Advancing electronic health record vendor usability maturity: Progress and next steps. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2021, 28: 1029-1031. PMID: 33517394, PMCID: PMC8068416, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa329.
- Jeffery MM, D’Onofrio G, Paek H, Platts-Mills TF, Soares WE, Hoppe JA, Genes N, Nath B, Melnick ER. Trends in Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions in Health Care Systems in 5 States in the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020, 180: 1328-1333. PMID: 32744612, PMCID: PMC7400214, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.3288.
- Melnick ER, Ioannidis JPA. Should governments continue lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19? The BMJ 2020, 369: m1924. PMID: 32493767, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m1924.
- Platts-Mills TF, Nagurney JM, Melnick ER. Tolerance of Uncertainty and the Practice of Emergency Medicine. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2019, 75: 715-720. PMID: 31874767, PMCID: PMC7294596, DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2019.10.015.
- Melnick ER, Dyrbye LN, Sinsky CA, Trockel M, West CP, Nedelec L, Tutty MA, Shanafelt T. The Association Between Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability and Professional Burnout Among US Physicians. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2019, 95: 476-487. PMID: 31735343, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2019.09.024.
- Chartash D, Paek H, Dziura JD, Ross BK, Nogee DP, Boccio E, Hines C, Schott AM, Jeffery MM, Patel MD, Platts-Mills TF, Ahmed O, Brandt C, Couturier K, Melnick E. Identifying Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department: Multi-System Electronic Health Record–Based Computable Phenotype Derivation and Validation Study. JMIR Medical Informatics 2019, 7: e15794. PMID: 31674913, PMCID: PMC6913746, DOI: 10.2196/15794.
- Ray JM, Ratwani RM, Sinsky CA, Frankel RM, Friedberg MW, Powsner SM, Rosenthal DI, Wachter RM, Melnick ER. Six habits of highly successful health information technology: powerful strategies for design and implementation. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2019, 26: 1109-1114. PMID: 31265064, PMCID: PMC7647223, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocz098.
- Melnick ER, Jeffery MM, Dziura JD, Mao JA, Hess EP, Platts-Mills TF, Solad Y, Paek H, Martel S, Patel MD, Bankowski L, Lu C, Brandt C, D’Onofrio G. User-centred clinical decision support to implement emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid use disorder: protocol for the pragmatic group randomised EMBED trial. BMJ Open 2019, 9: e028488. PMID: 31152039, PMCID: PMC6550013, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028488.
- Jairam V, Lee V, Park H, Thomas C, Melnick E, Gross C, Presley C, Adelson K, Yu J. P78 Treatment-Related Complications of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy: An Analysis of the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. International Journal Of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics 2019, 103: e51-e52. DOI: 10.1016/s0360-3016(19)30528-0.
- Zupon A, Rothenberg C, Couturier K, Tan T, Siddiqui G, James M, Savage D, Melnick ER, Venkatesh AK. An appraisal of emergency medicine clinical practice guidelines: Do we agree? International Journal Of Clinical Practice 2018, 73: e13289. PMID: 30372798, PMCID: PMC6351191, DOI: 10.1111/ijcp.13289.
- Gariepy M, Gravel J, Turcotte S, Légaré F, Melnick E, Hess E, Witteman H, Lelaidier-Hould L, Truchon C, Sauvé L, Plante P, Lesage N, Archambault P. ADHERENCE TO THE PECARN PEDIATRIC HEAD INJURY RULE IN TWO CANADIAN EMERGENCY SETTINGS. Paediatrics & Child Health 2018, 23: e9-e10. PMCID: PMC5961350, DOI: 10.1093/pch/pxy054.024.
- Melnick ER, Hess EP, Guo G, Breslin M, Lopez K, Pavlo AJ, Abujarad F, Powsner SM, Post LA. Patient-Centered Decision Support: Formative Usability Evaluation of Integrated Clinical Decision Support With a Patient Decision Aid for Minor Head Injury in the Emergency Department. Journal Of Medical Internet Research 2017, 19: e174. PMID: 28526667, PMCID: PMC5457532, DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7846.
- Gellert G, Webster L, Gillean J, Melnick E, Kanzaria H. Should US doctors embrace electronic health records? The BMJ 2017, 356: j242. PMID: 28119282, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j242.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Additional Resources. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/136.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Disseminating and Sharing CDS. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/135.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Evaluating CDS. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/134.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Designing and Building CDS Tools for Pragmatic Trials. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/133.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Uses of CDS in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Experience From the NIH Collaboratory Studies. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/132.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Definitions and Uses for CDS. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/131.
- Douthit B, Richesson R, Marsolo K, Melnick E, Grudzen C, Curtis L. Introduction to Clinical Decision Support. 2017 DOI: 10.28929/130.
- Melnick ER, Probst MA, Schoenfeld E, Collins SP, Breslin M, Walsh C, Kuppermann N, Dunn P, Abella BS, Boatright D, Hess EP. Development and Testing of Shared Decision Making Interventions for Use in Emergency Care: A Research Agenda. Academic Emergency Medicine 2016, 23: 1346-1353. PMID: 27457137, PMCID: PMC5145730, DOI: 10.1111/acem.13045.
- Melnick ER, Powsner SM. Empathy in the Time of Burnout. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2016, 91: 1678-1679. PMID: 27836111, DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.09.003.
- Melnick ER, Shafer K, Rodulfo N, Shi J, Hess EP, Wears RL, Qureshi RA, Post LA. Understanding Overuse of Computed Tomography for Minor Head Injury in the Emergency Department: A Triangulated Qualitative Study. Academic Emergency Medicine 2015, 22: 1474-1483. PMID: 26568523, DOI: 10.1111/acem.12824.
- Melnick ER. How to make less more: empathy can fill the gap left by reducing unnecessary care. The BMJ 2015, 351: h5831. PMID: 26537887, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h5831.
- Melnick ER, Keegan J, Taylor RA. Redefining Overuse to Include Costs: A Decision Analysis for Computed Tomography in Minor Head Injury. The Joint Commission Journal On Quality And Patient Safety 2015, 41: 313-ap2. PMID: 26108124, DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(15)41041-4.
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