The Ong Lab
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Hospital and Health Systems

 

Much of my current work focuses on improving efficiency and effectiveness of health care systems, particularly with regards to health care outcomes, academic medical centers, and heart failure patients. My work on housestaff workload was one of the key examples in the Institute of Medicine’s 2008 report on Resident Duty Hours regarding outcomes from resident physician caseload. My work on hospital variation demonstrated serious flaws in analyses of costs and outcomes for hospitals during the discussions around health care reform. I recently led a $9.9 million comparative effectiveness randomized controlled trial of remote patient monitoring to determine its effect on reducing rehospitalizations among heart failure patients.

  • Michael Ong, Patrick Romano, Sarah Edgington, Harriet Aronow, Andrew Auerbach, Jeanne Black, Teresa De Marco, Jose Escarce, Lorraine Evangelista, Theodore Ganiats, Barry Greenberg, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie Kaplan, Asher Kimchi, Honghu Liu, Dawn Lombardo, Carol Mangione, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Kathleen Tong, Gregg Fonarow, and the BEAT-HF Research Group. Remote patient monitoring after discharge of hospitalized heart failure patients: the Better Effectiveness After Transition - Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) randomized controlled trial. JAMA: Internal Medicine, 2016 Mar 1;176(3):310-8. PMCID: PMC4827701  
  • Jeanne Black, Patrick Romano, Banafsheh Sadeghi, Andrew Auerbach, Theodore Ganiats, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie Kaplan, Michael Ong; BEAT-HF Research Group. A Remote Monitoring and Telephone Nurse Coaching Intervention to Reduce Readmissions among Patients with Heart Failure: Study Protocol for the Better Effectiveness after Transition for Heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Trial. Trials 2014 Apr 13;15(1):124. PMCID: PMC3990010
  • Michael Ong, Carol Mangione, Patrick Romano, Qiong Zhou, Andrew Auerbach, Alein Chun, Bruce Davidson, Theodore Ganiats, Sheldon Greenfield, Michael Gropper, Shaista Malik, J. Thomas Rosenthal,  Jose Escarce.  Looking forward, looking back: assessing variations in hospital resource use and outcomes for elderly patients with heart failure.  Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009 Nov;2(6):548-57. PMCID: PMC2951887
  • Michael Ong, Alan Bostrom, Arpana Vidyarthi, Charles McCulloch, Andrew Auerbach.  House staff team workload and organization effects on patient outcomes in an academic general internal medicine inpatient service. Archives of Internal Medicine 2007 Jan;167(1):47-52. PMID: 17210877.