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Randy Smith is a career hospitalist and currently serves as Unit Medical Director for Unit 16 West at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He has served as an implementation mentor in four Federally or privately funded multihospital quality improvement programs. His quality improvement experience includes direct involvement in development projects at thirteen hospitals throughout his career, with project focus ranging from prevention of unplanned readmissions, optimization of hospital throughput, design of handover systems and diagnosis notification systems for discharged patients, inpatient medication reconciliation, unit-level teamwork and service design, quality dashboard design, standardization of acute asthma care, and opiate use in inpatient pain management. He is a Consultant in Acute Medicine (United Kingdom) and previously served as Clinical Director of Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh/NHS Lothian in Scotland. His work as a health services researcher focuses on hospital resource utilization, and how hospital resources and service design shape medical decision making. He has consulted for counsel in medical litigation in seven US states, and has led over 50 root cause analyses of adverse events for institutions. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, a senior fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and is presently clinically active in the care of medical inpatients, both independently and via the supervision of residents and students.
Certifications and Licenses
Internal Medicine |
Training Experience
2004 | Residency, Emory University School of Medicine |
Education/Academic qualification
MS, Northwestern University
… → 2015
MD, Emory University
… → 2001
Research interests
- Health Services Research
- Patient Safety
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Redesigning Systems to Improve Quality for Hospitalized Patients
Johnson, J., Lee, J., O'Leary, K. J. & Smith Jr, G. R.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
9/30/17 → 7/31/22
Project: Research project
Research Output
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A Multisite Study of Interprofessional Teamwork and Collaboration on General Medical Services
O'Leary, K. J., Manojlovich, M., Johnson, J. K., Estrella, R., Hanrahan, K., Leykum, L. K., Smith, G. R., Goldstein, J. D. & Williams, M. V., Dec 2020, In: Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 46, 12, p. 667-672 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Effects of Changes to Hospitalist Admitter Staffing on Hospitalist Perception of Workload
Bhasin, A., Smith, G. R., Gupta, A., Zhou, S., Yeh, C., Lee, J. & O’Leary, K. J., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of general internal medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Design of MARQUIS2: Study protocol for a mentored implementation study of an evidence-based toolkit to improve patient safety through medication reconciliation
Mixon, A. S., Smith, G. R., Mallouk, M., Nieva, H. R., Kripalani, S., Rennke, S., Chu, E., Sridharan, A., Dalal, A., Mueller, S., Williams, M., Wetterneck, T., Stein, J. M., Stolldorf, D., Howell, E., Orav, J., Labonville, S., Levin, B., Yoon, C., Gresham, M. & 74 others, , Sep 11 2019, In: BMC health services research. 19, 1, 659.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
Association of hospital admission service structure with early transfer to critical care, hospital readmission, and length of stay
Smith, G. R., Ma, M., Hansen, L. O., Christensen, N. & O'Leary, K. J., Oct 1 2016, In: Journal of hospital medicine. 11, 10, p. 669-674 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
The effect of tablet computers with a mobile patient portal application on hospitalized patients' knowledge and activation
O'Leary, K. J., Lohman, M. E., Culver, E., Killarney, A., Smith, G. R. & Liebovitz, D. M., 2016, In: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 23, 1, p. 159-165 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
47 Scopus citations