Teryl K. Nuckols
Overview
Biography
Teryl K. Nuckols, MD, MSHS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research (with promotion to Associate Profession anticipated in July 2011) and a Health Services Researcher at the RAND Corporation. After completing her training in Internal Medicine at UCLA, she completed the National Research Service Award fellowship at UCLA and received a Masters of Science in Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health in 2003. She is currently a recipient of a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Nuckols objective is to be uniquely positioned at the intersection of the quality-of-care/patient safety field and the health economics one. Through her Career Development Award, she is working to become expert in economic evaluations of quality/safety interventions, understand the interplay between quality/safety and economic issues, and create a substantive research program examining the costs of implementing quality/safety interventions.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- The Value of High Quality Medical Care for Work-Associated Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- The Value of Hospital-Related Patient-Safety Interventions to Key Stakeholders (K08 Project)
- Closing the Underuse Gap: Estimating the Cost Implications of Quality of Care Improvements for Diabetes and Hypertension
- Quality of Medical Care in Workers' Compensation: A California Demonstration Project
Selected Publications
TK Nuckols, MD, MSHS; JE Aledort, PhD; J Adams, PhD; J Lai, MPH; M-H Go, MA; J Keesey; E McGlynn, PhD, "Cost Implications of Improving Blood Pressure Management in the U.S. Health Services Research," Health Services Research, 2011 (forthcoming)
Nuckols TK, McGlynn EA, Adams J, Lai J, Go MH, Keesey J, Aledort JE, "Cost Implications to Health Care Payers of Improving Glucose Management among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes," Health Services Research, 2011 (forthcoming)
Teryl K. Nuckols, MD, MSHS, Jose J. Escarce, MD, PhD, "Cost Implications of ACGME's New Changes to Resident Duty Hours and the Training Environment," Journal of General Internal Medicine (forthcoming)
Nuckols T, Harber P, Sandin K, Benner D, Weng H, Shaw R, Griffin A, Asch S, Carpal Tunnel Quality Group., "Quality measures for the diagnosis and non-operative management of carpal tunnel syndrome in occupational settings," Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 21(1):100-19, 2011
Maggard MA, Harness NG, Chang WT, Parikh JA, Asch SM, Nuckols TK, Carpal Tunnel Quality Group., "Indications for performing carpal tunnel surgery: clinical quality measures," Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, 126(1):169-79, 2010
Teryl K. Nuckols, MD, MSHS, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, Dianne Wolman, MGA, Cheryl Ulmer, MS, Jose´ J. Escarce, MD, PhD, "Costs Implications of Reductions to Resident Physician Work Hours and Workload Recommended by the Institute of Medicine," New England Journal of Medicine, 360(21):2202-15, 2009
Teryl K. Nuckols, MD, MSHS; Anthony G. Bower, PhD; Susan M. Paddock, PhD; Peggy Wallace, RN, MSN; Jeffrey M. Rothschild, MD, MPH; Anne Griffin, RN, MPH; Rollin J. Fairbanks, MD, MS; Beverly Carlson, MS, RN, CNS; Robert J. Panzer, MD; Lee H. Hilborne, MD,, "Costs of Intravenous Adverse Drug Events in Academic and Nonacademic Intensive Care Units," Medical Care, 46(1):17-24, 2008
Teryl K. Nuckols, MD, MSHS; Yee-Wei Lim, MD, PhD; Barbara O. Wynn, MA; Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc; Catherine H. MacLean, MD, PhD; Philip Harber, MD, MPH; Peggy Wallace, RN, MA, MS; Rena H. Garland; Steven Asch, MD, MPH, "Rigorous Development Methods Do Not Ensure That Guidelines Are Acceptable to A Panel of Knowledgeable Providers," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 23(1):37-44, 2008
Honors & Awards
- K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Career Development Award, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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