Albert W Wu

Biographic Data

ID1736663
NAMEAlbert W Wu
GIVEN NAMESAlbert W
FAMILY NAMEWu
SIGNATUREWU A W
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
ORCID0000-0001-6189-7120
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS81
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT81
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Lessons from a Free Health Fair Organized by Students for the Underserved Population in the Post-Pandemic Era

    Open AccessPinyu Chen, Walter Duy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Immigrant and Minority…2025

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina is one of the poorest cities in the state, with a city-wide poverty rate of 20.6%. Poverty rates in the neighborhoods located to the east and south of Wake Forest University School of Medicine continue to rise over the years. Many residents are uninsured or underinsured and don't have a primary care provider. Share the Health Fair (STHF) is an annual, one-day student run event that provides free health screenings to …

  • Hospital-Level Variation in Covid-19 Treatment Among Hospitalized Adults in the United States

    G Caleb Alexander, Brian T Garibaldi et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2025References: 18

    STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE: To characterize variation in dexamethasone and remdesivir use over time among hospitals. BACKGROUND: Little is known about hospital-level variation in COVID-19 drug treatments in a large and diverse network in the United States. METHODS: We selected individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 across 163 hospitals between February 23, 2020 and October 31, 2021 from using the HCA CHARGE, an electronic…

  • Exploring the fear of clinical errors

    Open AccessLaurent Boyer, Albert W Wu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: The fear of clinical errors among healthcare workers (HCW) is an understudied aspect of patient safety. This study aims to describe this phenomenon among HCW and identify associated socio-demographic, professional, burnout and mental health factors. Methods: We conducted a nationwide, online, cross-sectional study targeting HCW in France from May to June 2021. Recruitment was through social networks, professional networks, and email i…

  • The implementation of a “safety officer” program

    Open AccessSolomon Abebe Woldeamanuel, Linda Thumba et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Effective infection prevention and control (IPC) was central to keeping healthcare workers (HCWs) safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as the pandemic continued, the maintenance of high-quality IPC practices waned, placing HCWs at increased risk of infection. A COVID-19 Safety Officer (SO) program was piloted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Reaching Impact, Saturation and Epidemic Contro…

  • Health and Healthcare Access Among Adults Living in Affordable Housing

    Sarah G Gensheimer, Matthew D Eisenberg et al.ARTICLEHousing Policy Debate2024

    By merging data from the National Health Interview Survey (2004–2016) with a census of buildings financed by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), this study provides national estimates for the health status and healthcare access among low-income adults living in LIHTC-financed housing. Compared to those not living in LIHTC-financed housing, unadjusted analyses found that younger adults (age 18–64) living in LIHTC-financed housing reported w…

  • Art as a Pathway to God

    Open AccessAlbert W WuARTICLEJournal of Jesuit Studies2024

    the pseudo-cylindrical projection makes it impossible to categorize the map as either "European" or "Chinese."Furthermore, although the map is known today as Ricci's world map, Ricci himself clearly credits his Chinese collaborators by name, thus emphasizing that it is a collective work in which the Jesuits were the transmitters of this transcultural knowledge and not its exclusive creators.Such an approach to cultural complementation is rooted i…

  • Persons living with HIV treated in acute HIV infection report good health-related quality of life in Thailand

    Orlanda Q Goh, Eugène Kroon et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2022

    The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among persons living with HIV (PLWHA) who initiate ART during acute HIV infection (AHI) is not well studied. Participants in the SEARCH010/RV254 cohort initiated ART during AHI. They completed the Thai version of the World Health Organisation Quality of Life instrument-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) prior to ART initiation and 24 weeks later. Of 452 participants, 406 (90%) …

  • Barriers experienced by organ procurement organizations in implementing the Hope act and HIV-positive organ donation

    Zachary Predmore, Brianna Doby et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2022

    In the seven years since the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act made HIV-positive organ donation to HIV-positive recipients legally permissible in the United States, there have been fewer HIV-positive organ donations than expected. Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) play a key role in the transplant system and barriers at OPOs may be partly responsible for the relatively low number of HIV-positive donors. To understand potential OPO barriers,…

  • An Evidence and Consensus-Based Definition of Second Victim

    Open AccessKris Vanhaecht, Deborah Seys et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    The concept of second victims (SV) was introduced 20 years ago to draw attention to healthcare professionals involved in patient safety incidents. The objective of this paper is to advance the theoretical conceptualization and to develop a common definition. A literature search was performed in Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL (October 2010 to November 2020). The description of SV was extracted regarding three concepts: (1) involved persons, (2) conten…

  • Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China

    Open AccessAlbert W Wu, Albert WuARTICLEPast & Present2022Cited by: 1

    The late nineteenth-century age of empire was also an age of anti-superstition. In China, Western missionaries, diplomats and travellers labelled practices that resisted Western technologies and ideas as 'superstitious'. This article examines how a group of Qing scholar-officials, all members of the diplomatic corps, interpreted and ultimately defended these customs. Conventionally viewed as tragic figures unable to transcend a 'Sinocentric' worl…

  • Competition or Conflict of Interest—Stark Choices

    Open AccessBrian J Miller, Jesse M Ehrenfeld et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

  • Patient-level barriers and facilitators to completion of patient-reported outcomes measures

    Open AccessChao Long, Laura K Beres et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2021

  • A PRO-cision Medicine Methods Toolkit to Address the Challenges of Personalizing Cancer Care Using Patient-Reported Outcomes

    Claire Snyder, Michael Brundage et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2019References: 46

    Patients are increasingly being asked to complete standardized, validated questionnaires with regard to their symptoms, functioning, and well-being [ie, patient-reported outcomes (PROs)] as part of routine care. These PROs can be used to inform patients’ care and management, which we refer to as “PRO-cision Medicine.” For PRO-cision Medicine to be most effective, clinicians and patients need to be able to understand what the PRO scores mean and h…

  • Interpreting and Acting on PRO Results in Clinical Practice

    Amanda L Blackford, Albert W Wu et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2019References: 20

    INTRODUCTION: We have used several methods to aid in the interpretation of patient-reported outcome (PRO) scores, and to suggest recommendations for acting on them, both within the PatientViewpoint system and in work done since. METHODS FOR INTERPRETING PRO SCORES: For identifying possibly concerning change scores, PatientViewpoint uses questionnaires' minimally important differences or score worsening >1⁄2 SD. For poor scores in absolute terms, …

  • From Kisiizi to Baltimore

    Open Accessfor the Baltimore CONNECT Project Team, Chidinma A Ibe et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2018

    BACKGROUND: Reverse Innovation has been endorsed as a vehicle for promoting bidirectional learning and information flow between low- and middle-income countries and high-income countries, with the aim of tackling common unmet needs. One such need, which traverses international boundaries, is the development of strategies to initiate and sustain community engagement in health care delivery systems. OBJECTIVE: In this commentary, we discuss the Bal…

  • Baltimore Connect

    Albert W Wu, Sandra Hwang et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2018

    The WHO ACE approach supported development and sustainment of a network of organizations linking health care and social services across East Baltimore

  • Association of Magnet Status and Nurse Staffing With Improvements in Patient Experience With Hospital Care, 2008–2015

    Junya Zhu, Sydney M Dy et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2018References: 38

    BACKGROUND: Little is known about the longitudinal association of hospital Magnet status (an indicator of nursing excellence) and nurse-staffing level with inpatient care experience. OBJECTIVES: To examine temporal trends in hospital performance on patient experience measured using the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey and the association of these trends with Magnet status and nurse-staffing level. R…

  • The role of South-North partnerships in promoting shared learning and knowledge transfer

    Open AccessLopa Basu, Peter Pronovost et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    While it is clear that hospitals in developing countries need to improve quality of health services and improve patient safety, hospitals in high resource countries need to do the same. Most often the focus on improvement through institutional health partnerships involves hospital teams from high resource settings attempting to aid and teach hospital staff in low resource settings, particularly in Africa. However these efforts to provide assistan…

  • How Co-Developed Are Community and Academic Partnerships

    Viva Dadwal, Lopa Basu et al.ARTICLEProgress in community health…2017Cited by: 4References: 1

    We present insights that can be used by academic researchers and community leaders looking to co-develop interventions to improve health in urban communities domestically and internationally.JHH in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the most highly regarded hospitals in the United States. However, its institutional resources stand in marked contrast with those available to the impoverished neighborhoods that surround it. Many have called for JHH to p…

  • It takes threat of Ebola to see lessons from low income countries

    Open AccessMatthew Harris, Viva Dadwal et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2015

    In his recent perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, the head of the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Thomas Frieden, and colleagues, were concerned that the arrival of the Ebola virus (EVD) in Lagos, Nigeria heralded a concerning escalation of the epidemic in West Africa [1]. By 24th September 2014, a total of 20 EVD cases (19 laboratory confirmed, one probable) had been reported in Nigeria. All 2…

  • Identifying changes in scores on the EORTC-QLQ-C30 representing a change in patients’ supportive care needs

    Open AccessClaire Snyder, Claire F Snyder et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2014

  • Isoqol recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research

    Open AccessBryce B Reeve, Kathleen W Wyrwich et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2013

  • Using the EORTC-QLQ-C30 in clinical practice for patient management

    Open AccessClaire Snyder, Claire F Snyder et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2013

  • Patient-reported Outcomes (PROs)

    Open AccessClaire Snyder, Claire F Snyder et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013References: 9

    Patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) aims to improve care quality and patient outcomes by providing information that patients, clinicians, and family members need regarding treatment alternatives, and emphasizing patient input to inform the research process. PCOR capitalizes on available data sources and generates new evidence to provide timely and relevant information and can be conducted using prospective data collection, disease registrie…

  • A computerized adaptive version of the SF-36 is feasible for clinic and Internet administration in adults with HIV

    Diane M Turner‐Bowker, Diane M Turner-Bowker et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2012

    DYNHA SF-36 is a computerized adaptive test version of the SF-36 Health Survey. The feasibility of administering a modified DYNHA SF-36 to adults with HIV was evaluated with Johns Hopkins University Moore (HIV) Clinic patients (N=100) and Internet consumer health panel members (N=101). Participants completed the DYNHA SF-36, modified to capture seven health domains [(physical function (PF), role function (RF, without physical or emotional attribu…