Richard B Balaban
About
Richard B. Balaban is an internal medicine physician practicing in Somerville, Massachusetts. He holds an appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and serves as Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine, with a practice based at a safety-net health system.
His published research focuses on care transitions, hospital discharge quality, and interventions to reduce readmissions among high-risk patients. Work appearing in journals including the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Health Services Research, and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care examines patient navigator programs, community health worker interventions, and the redesign of discharge processes to improve outcomes in safety-net settings. Additional published work addresses postdischarge primary care coordination and end-of-life communication.
Dr. Balaban is licensed in Massachusetts.
Credentials
Publications
- HLA export by melanoma cells decoys cytotoxic T cells to promote immune evasion.
- Improving Quality and Safety for Patients After Hospital Discharge: Primary Care as the Lead Integrator in Postdischarge Care Transitions.
- Long-Term Impact of a Postdischarge Community Health Worker Intervention on Health Care Costs in a Safety-Net System.
- Impact of a Patient Navigator Program on Hospital-Based and Outpatient Utilization Over 180 Days in a Safety-Net Health System.
- A Patient Navigator Intervention to Reduce Hospital Readmissions among High-Risk Safety-Net Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Feasibility and evaluation of a pilot community health worker intervention to reduce hospital readmissions.
- Redefining and redesigning hospital discharge to enhance patient care: a randomized controlled study.
- A physician's guide to talking about end-of-life care.
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