David Thompson, MD
David Thompson, MD is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He serves as part-time faculty attending in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Emergency Department.
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Schmitt-Thompson Adult Clinical Content
- Part-time faculty attending in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Emergency Department.
- Strong interests in the areas of telephone triage, quality improvement, and patient satisfaction, including:
- Benchmarking work with medical call centers, aggregating data from more than 5 million telephone triage calls.
- Publication of an annual benchmarking report.
- Chair and/or member of hospital based and national quality assurance committees.
- Development of databases and educational tools to promote quality improvement for medical call centers and emergency departments.
- Author of two integrated sets of clinical content for use in telephone triage software:
- Adult Telephone Triage Protocols for after-hours triage/advice nurses (2000-present).
- Adult Telephone Triage Protocols for office-hours triage/advice nurses (2002-present).
- Author of Adult Telephone Protocols: Office Version. 4th Edition 2018. Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Author of numerous medical articles, with several in two fields of special research interest to him: patient satisfaction and chief complaint coding.
- Lectures in the areas of telephone triage, professional coding, quality improvement, and patient satisfaction.
- Education:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Illinois
- Medical Degree, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago IL
- Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
- Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
LinkedIN Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidthompsonmd/
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