Arjun K Venkatesh

Biographic Data

ID5540128
NAMEArjun K Venkatesh
GIVEN NAMESArjun K
FAMILY NAMEVenkatesh
SIGNATUREVENKATESH A K
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Obesity and Long Covid

    Open AccessMichael Gottlieb, Huihui Yu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Background Obesity affects over 10% of the world population and has significant public health implications. With rising recognition of the long-term effects of Long COVID (LC) coupled with new agents to facilitate weight loss, it is critical to understand the influence of obesity on LC. This study assessed the association of obesity with rates of LC and degree of LC-related mental and physical health outcomes among participants up to three years …

  • Florida’s “Live Healthy” Legislation

    Theodore A Lee, Martin P Wegman et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2026References: 7

  • Emergency Care Access Based on a Proposed CMS National Quality Measure

    Open AccessRohit B Sangal, Craig Rothenberg et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    This cross-sectional study uses a national electronic health record–derived dataset to characterize the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid national quality measure for emergency care access

  • What Matters” in the Emergency Department

    Tonya Chera, Mary E Tinetti et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2024References: 28

    OBJECTIVE: To describe "What Matters" to older adults seeking emergency department (ED) care and to identify patient characteristics associated with meeting desired outcomes. BACKGROUND: As part of the 4Ms framework, identifying "What Matters" has been captured across healthcare settings, yet limited attention has been directed to older adults in the ED. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis of a multicenter prospective observational study. …

  • The 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System

    Cameron J Gettel, Christopher R Han et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2022References: 18

    BACKGROUND: The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) incorporates financial incentives and penalties intended to drive clinicians towards value-based purchasing, including alternative payment models (APMs). Newly available Medicare-approved qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs) offer specialty-specific quality measures for clinician reporting, yet their impact on clinician performance and payment adjustments remains unknown. OBJECTIVE…

  • Career Development Considerations for Academic Physician Mentees and Mentors in the Time of Covid-19

    Cameron J Gettel, Alladi Venkatesh et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted medical research, pushing mentors and mentees to decide if COVID-19 research would be germane to the early career investigator’s developing research portfolio. With COVID-19 halting hundreds of federal trials involving non–COVID-19 research, mentors and mentees must also consider the broader moral calling of contributing to COVID-19 research. At the time of writing, the National Institutes of Health had respond…

  • Hospital Characteristics Associated With Postdischarge Hospital Readmission, Observation, and Emergency Department Utilization

    Leora I Horwitz, Yongfei Wang et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2018References: 23

    BACKGROUND: Whether types of hospitals with high readmission rates also have high overall postdischarge acute care utilization (including emergency department and observation care) is unknown. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis. SUBJECTS: Nonfederal United States acute care hospitals. MEASURES: Using methodology established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, we calculated each hospital's "excess days in acute care" for fee-for-service…

  • Hospital Use of Observation Stays

    Alladi Venkatesh, Arjun K Venkatesh et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2016References: 16

    BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publicly reports hospital risk-standardized readmission rates (RSRRs) as a measure of quality and performance; mischaracterizations may occur because observation stays are not captured by current measures. OBJECTIVES: To describe variation in hospital use of observation stays, the relationship between hospitals observation stay use and RSRRs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cross-sectional analysi…

  • Variation in US Hospital Emergency Department Admission Rates by Clinical Condition

    Alladi Venkatesh, Arjun K Venkatesh et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2015References: 17

    BACKGROUND: Variation in hospitalization rates have been described for decades, yet little is known about variation in emergency department (ED) admission rates across clinical conditions. We sought to describe variation in ED risk-standardized admission rates (RSAR) and the consistency between condition-specific ED admission rates within hospitals. METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of the 2009 National Emergency Department Sample, an all-payer a…