Welcome to my personal webpage on the Jefferson Digital Commons. My research interests address the quality of healthcare in the U.S., including disease management outcomes measurement, productivity measurement associated with specific disease states, and clinical care quality measurement for hospital departments.


RELATED URL: Nash on Health Policy Blog

College of Population Health Annual Reports

• David B. Nash (2006) Annual report, 2005-2006
• David B. Nash (2005) Annual report 2004-2005

College of Population Health Faculty Papers

• David B. Nash (2007) The "crossroads" and beyond
• Neil I. Goldfarb, Vittorio Maio, Chureen T. Carter, Laura Pizzi, and David B. Nash (2007) How does quality enter into health care purchasing decisions?
• David B. Nash, Robert A. Greene, Ronald R. Loeppke, Nancy McCall, and Tracey Moorhead (2006) Insights from the 2006 Disease Management Colloquium
• Christine W. Hartmann MSS, PhD; Vittorio Maio PharmD, MS; Neil I. Goldfarb; Nicole M. Cobb MAOM; and David B. Nash (2005) Asthma management programs in managed care organizations
• Joseph P. Fuhr Jr., Hope He, Neil Goldfarb, and David B. Nash (2005) Use of chromium picolinate and biotin in the management of type 2 diabetes: an economic analysis
• David B. Nash (2003) Overview
• Janice L. Clarke and David B. Nash (2002) The effectiveness of heart failure disease management: Initial findings from a comprehensive program
• Neil I. Goldfarb, Amy Phillips, Mitchell Conn, Blair S. Lewis, and David B. Nash (2002) Economic and health outcomes of capsule endoscopy: Opportunities for improved management of the diagnostic process for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding
• Marc A. Bard, Michael L. Buehler, Andrew L. Epstein, David B. Nash, and John P. O'Connor (2002) Strong partnerships make good partners: Insights about physician-hospital relationships from a study of physician executives
• Janice Clarke, Albert Crawford, and David B. Nash (2002) Evaluation of a comprehensive diabetes disease management program: Progress in the struggle for sustained behavior change
• Michael Toscani, John P. O'Connor, and David B. Nash (2001) A decentralized, patient-centered approach to diabetes disease management in the primary care setting
• David B. Nash, Jennifer B. Koenig, Karen D. Novielli, Renee Liberoni, and Miriam Reisman (2001) The importance of individualized pharmaceutical therapy in the treatment of diabetes mellitus
• C. Richard Chapman, Stephen D. Lande, Bill H. McCarberg, and David B. Nash (2001) Pain control in healthcare organizations: Developing effective disease management programs
• Gang Xu, Lisa E. Paddock, John P. O'Connor, David B. Nash, and Mark Zitter (2001) Chief medical officers' perceptions of disease management programs
• David B. Nash, David Shulkin, Florence Comite, Ron Loeppke, Bruce Van Cleave, Robert Kane, Jon Christianson, and Douglas Pousma (2001) Measurement of the impact of Winona Health Online

College of Population Health Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

• American Hospital Association and David B. Nash (2006) Leadership Summit 2006

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

• David B. Nash (2006) Medicare's Roadmap
• David B. Nash (2006) TAP Your Feet
• David B, Nash (2006) A Blink in Healthcare
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Hips and Knees
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Trilogy of Woe
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Value of Value-based Purchasing
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: You Gotta Have HEART!
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Managing the Medical Industrial Complex: Two Decades On
• Adam S. Evans, Kevin L. Bowman, and David B. Nash (2005) Improving Patient Safety: An Inaugural Program for Third-Year Medical Students
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: A Healthy Public: Whose Job Is It?
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Improving the Quality of Ambulatory Care
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Seeking Middle Ground
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Medicare Paradox
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: From Chaos to Care
• Elizabeth Moxey and David B. Nash (2005) Volume/Outcome in CABG and PTCA: A Summary of the Literature
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Tracking Medical Errors: Enter the Private Sector
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: ACGME Competencies: The Curricular Challenge
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The ACOPM of the JCAHO
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: An ATM for Healthcare?
• Daniel Z. Louis, Gang Xu, Jon J. Veloski, David B. Nash, and James R. Boex (2005) Health Policy: An Introduction to the Health Care System -- A Required First-Year Course
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: MQIC: MedicaLogic Quality Improvement Consortium
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The DMAC of NCQA
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Vision for a National Quality Report
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: A Health Care Tipping Point?
• Jon Veloski, Clara A. Callahan, Gang Xu, Mohammadreza Hojat, and David B. Nash (2005) Predicting Students' Performance on Licensing Examinations During Medical School and Afterwards
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The National Quality Forum (NQF)
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Leapfrogging Quality
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Hepatitis C: A Stakeholder Analysis
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Drug Benefits in Medicare: Where Are We Headed?
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Providing Comparative Clinical Data for Continuous Quality Improvement: The UHC
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Real Information Technology Challenge
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Bleeding Edge
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Higher Quality at Lower Cost: Is Evidence-Based Medicine the Answer?
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Consumerism in Health Care
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor Report on Report Cards
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Welcome!
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Just the FACCTS
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Pew Charitable Trusts Managed Care/Academic Health Center Partnership
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Taking the Right PATH (Physicians at Teaching Hospitals)
• Peter Chodoff, Ralph Bischoff, David B. Nash, and Christine Laine (2005) Applying AHCPR Guidelines on Congestive Heart Failure to Measurement of the Performance of Internal Medicine and Family Medicine Practices
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Slicing Up the Quality Pie
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The Secret to Reforming Medicare: High Quality Care Costs Less
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: General Medicine Attending in 1995 : Observations and Reflections
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: Can Case Management Help?
• David B. Nash (2005) Nash at Monash
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: The USQA Managed Care Fellowship at Jefferson
• David B. Nash (2005) From the Editor: What is T.A.P.E.S.?

Selected Works of David B. Nash, MD, MBA

• David B. Nash (2007) Not Again!, P&T, vol32, no8
• David B. Nash (2007) Consumer Engagement, P&T, vol32, no5
• David B. Nash (2007) HealthCast 2020, P&T, vol32, no4, p.192
• David B. Nash (2007) Medicare and P4P, P&T, vol32, no3, pp. 123, 181
• David B. Nash (2007) Knowledge is Infectious: Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council: A Model for Public Reporting of Hospital-Acquired Infections
• David B. Nash (2007) Knowledge is Infectious: Zero Tolerance - Can Improving Process of Care Eradicate Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections? Absolutely
• Valerie Pracilio (2007) Department of Health Policy Blog
• David Nash (2007) Podcast: David B. Nash Interview on "Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century"