Barbara E. Jones
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Barbara E. Jones, MD, MSCI

Languages spoken: English

  • Dr. Jones is a pulmonary and critical care physician with a research focus on understanding and improving decision-making in pneumonia. Her work combines three informatics methods – population analytics, qualitative inquiry of cognitive behavior, and clinical decision support – to examine mechanisms of variation in diagnosis and treatment and develop paths to improvement across the VA and University of Utah health systems. As a clinician, she has sought to practice in diverse settings to experience the challenges of adapting our understanding of disease and evidence-based practice to different environments and patients. As a researcher, the inclusion of diverse settings and patients is central to her work. In developing approaches that allow us to learn from clinical experience, Dr. Jones aim to contribute evidence and solutions that can best support excellent patient care in all settings.

    Specialties

    Board Certification

    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Critical Care Medicine)
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Pulmonary Disease)

  • Dr. Jones is a pulmonary and critical care physician with a research focus on understanding and improving decision-making in pneumonia. Her work combines three informatics methods – population analytics, qualitative inquiry of cognitive behavior, and clinical decision support – to examine mechanisms of variation in diagnosis and treatment and develop paths to improvement across the VA and University of Utah health systems. As a clinician, she has sought to practice in diverse settings to experience the challenges of adapting our understanding of disease and evidence-based practice to different environments and patients. As a researcher, the inclusion of diverse settings and patients is central to her work. In developing approaches that allow us to learn from clinical experience, Dr. Jones aim to contribute evidence and solutions that can best support excellent patient care in all settings.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Primary
    Academic Divisions Public Health
    Board Certification
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Critical Care Medicine)
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Pulmonary Disease)

    Education history

    Postdoctoral Fellowship Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine - University of Utah Postdoctoral Fellow
    Master of Science in Clinical Investigation - University of Utah M.S.C.I
    Fellowship Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine - University of Utah Fellow
    Moi University Visiting Resident
    Residency Internal Medicine - University of Utah Resident
    Medicine - University of Washington School of Medicine M.D.
    Undergraduate Philosophy - Dartmouth College B.A.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Centor RM, Jones BE (2024). Web Exclusive. Annals On Call - The Challenge of Diagnosing Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Ann Intern Med, 177(10), e2402748OC. (Read full article)
    2. Jones BE, Chapman AB, Ying J, Rutter ED, Nevers MR, Baker A, Dean NC, Fix ML, Singh H, Cosby KS, Taber PA, Weir CD, Jones MM, Samore MH, Butler JM (2024). Diagnostic Discordance, Uncertainty, and Treatment Ambiguity in Community-Acquired Pneumonia : A National Cohort Study of 115 U.S. Veterans Affairs Hospitals. Ann Intern Med, 177(9), 1179-1189. (Read full article)
    3. Butler JM, Taft T, Taber P, Rutter E, Fix M, Baker A, Weir C, Nevers M, Classen D, Cosby K, Jones M, Chapman A, Jones BE (2023). Pneumonia diagnosis performance in the emergency department: a mixed-methods study about clinicians' experiences and exploration of individual differences and response to diagnostic performance feedback. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 31(7), 1503-1513. (Read full article)
    4. Hart JH, Sakata T, Eve JR, Butler AM, Wallin A, Carman C, Atwood B, Srivastava R, Jones BE, Stenehjem EA, Dean NC (2024). Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumonia in Urgent Care Clinics: Opportunities for Improving Care. Open Forum Infect Dis, 11(3), ofae096. (Read full article)
    5. Chapman AB, Peterson KS, Rutter E, Nevers M, Ying J, Classen D, Jones M, Samore M, Jones B (2024). A Linguistic Analysis Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Pneumonia Diagnosis and Disease Models. Stud Health Technol Inform, 310, 1444-1445. (Read full article)
    6. Carr JR, Knox DB, Butler AM, Lum MM, Jacobs JR, Jephson AR, Jones BE, Brown SM, Dean NC (2023). ICU Utilization After Implementation of Minor Severe Pneumonia Criteria in Real-Time Electronic Clinical Decision Support. Crit Care Med. (Read full article)
    7. Ross JM, Sugimoto JD, Timmons A, Adams J, Deardoff K, Korpak A, Liu C, Moore K, Wilson D, Bedimo R, Chang KM, Cho K, Crothers K, Garshick E, Gaziano JM, Holodniy M, Hunt CM, Isaacs SN, Le E, Jones BE, Shah JA, Smith NL, Lee JS, EPIC Investigators (2023). Early Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Multisite Prospective Cohort of Inpatient Veterans. Open Forum Infect Dis, 10(7), ofad330. (Read full article)
    8. Jones BE, Sarvet AL, Ying J, Jin R, Nevers MR, Stern SE, Ocho A, McKenna C, McLean LE, Christensen MA, Poland RE, Guy JS, Sands KE, Rhee C, Young JG, Klompas M (2023). Incidence and Outcomes of Non-Ventilator-Associated Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in 284 US Hospitals Using Electronic Surveillance Criteria. JAMA Netw Open, 6(5), e2314185. (Read full article)
    9. Klompas M, Jones BE (2023). Is COVID-19 Care Better in Veterans Health Administration Hospitals, Ceteris Paribus? JAMA Netw Open, 6(5), e2315829. (Read full article)
    10. Stern SE, Christensen MA, Nevers MR, Ying J, McKenna C, Munro S, Rhee C, Samore MH, Klompas M, Jones BE (2023). Electronic surveillance criteria for non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia: Assessment of reliability and validity. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 1-7. (Read full article)
    11. Jones BE, Ying J, Nevers M, Rutter E, Chapman A, Brenner R, Samore MH, Greene T (2023). Hospital Admission Decisions for Older Veterans with Community-onset Pneumonia: An Analysis of 118 U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Acad Emerg Med, 30(4), 398-409. (Read full article)
    12. Chapman AB, Peterson KS, Rutter E, Nevers M, Zhang M, Ying J, Jones M, Classen D, Jones B (2022). Development and evaluation of an interoperable natural language processing system for identifying pneumonia across clinical settings of care and institutions. JAMIA Open, 5(4), ooac114. (Read full article)
    13. Crothers K, DeFaccio R, Tate J, Alba PR, Goetz MB, Jones B, King JT Jr, Marconi V, Ohl ME, Rentsch CT, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Shahrir S, Justice AC, Akgn KM, Veterans Aging Cohort Study Clinical COVID-19 Working Group (2022). Dexamethasone in hospitalised COVID-19 patients not on intensive respiratory support. Eur Respir J, 60(1). (Read full article)
    14. Jones BE, Ying J, Nevers MR, Alba PR, Patterson OV, Peterson KS, Rutter E, Christensen MA, Stern S, Jones MM, Gundlapalli A, Dean NC, Samore MC, Greene T (2022). Trends in Illness Severity, Hospitalization, and Mortality for Community-Onset Pneumonia at 118 US Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. J Gen Intern Med, 37(15), 3839-3847. (Read full article)
    15. Lynch KE, Viernes B, Gatsby E, DuVall SL, Jones BE, Box TL, Kreisler C, Jones M (2021). Positive Predictive Value of COVID-19 ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes Across Calendar Time and Clinical Setting. Clin Epidemiol, 13, 1011-1018. (Read full article)
    16. Chapman AB, Jones A, Kelley AT, Jones B, Gawron L, Montgomery AE, Byrne T, Suo Y, Cook J, Pettey W, Peterson K, Jones M, Nelson R (2021). ReHouSED: A novel measurement of Veteran housing stability using natural language processing. J Biomed Inform, 122, 103903. (Read full article)
    17. Munro SC, Baker D, Giuliano KK, Sullivan SC, Haber J, Jones BE, Crist MB, Nelson RE, Carey E, Lounsbury O, Lucatorto M, Miller R, Pauley B, Klompas M (2021). Nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: A call to action. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 42(8), 991-996. (Read full article)
    18. Weir CR, Taber P, Taft T, Reese TJ, Jones B, Del Fiol G (2020). Feeling and thinking: can theories of human motivation explain how EHR design impacts clinician burnout? J Am Med Inform Assoc, 28(5), 1042-1046. (Read full article)
    19. Derington CG, Cohen JB, Mohanty AF, Greene TH, Cook J, Ying J, Wei G, Herrick JS, Stevens VW, Jones BE, Wang L, Zheutlin AR, South AM, Hanff TC, Smith SM, Cooper-DeHoff RM, King JB, Alexander GC, Berlowitz DR, Ahmad FS, Penrod MJ, Hess R, Conroy MB, Fang JC, Rubin MA, Beddhu S, Cheung AK, Xian W, Weintraub WS, Bress AP (2021). Angiotensin II receptor blocker or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor use and COVID-19-related outcomes among US Veterans. PLoS One, 16(4), e0248080. (Read full article)
    20. Gibson EG, Pender M, Angerbauer M, Cook C, Jones B, Spivak AM, Spivak ES, Swaminathan S (2021). Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Illness in a Patient Receiving Ocrelizumab for Multiple Sclerosis. Open Forum Infect Dis, 8(7), ofab176. (Read full article)
    21. Jones BE, Ying J, Nevers M, Alba PR, He T, Patterson OV, Jones MM, Stevens V, Shen J, Humpherys J, Peterson KS, Rutter ED, Gundlapalli AV, Weir CR, Dean NC, Fine MJ, Samore MC, Greene TH (2021). Computerized Mortality Prediction for Community-acquired Pneumonia at 117 VA Medical Centers. Ann Am Thorac Soc, 18(7), 1175-1184. (Read full article)
    22. Christensen MA, Nevers M, Ying J, Haroldsen C, Stevens V, Jones MM, Yarbrough PM, Goetz MB, Restrepo MI, Madaras-Kelly K, Samore MH, Jones BE (2020). Simulated Adoption of 2019 Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines Across 114 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers: Estimated Impact on Culturing and Antibiotic Selection in Hospitalized Patients. Clin Infect Dis, 72(Suppl 1), S59-S67. (Read full article)
    23. Carr JR, Jones BE, Collingridge DS, Webb BJ, Vines C, Zobell B, Allen TL, Srivastava R, Rubin J, Dean NC (2020). Deploying an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool for Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumonia Into Rural and Critical Access Hospitals: Utilization, Effect on Processes of Care, and Clinician Satisfaction. J Rural Health, 38(1), 262-269. (Read full article)
    24. Stevens VW, Shoemaker HE, Jones MM, Jones BE, Nelson RE, Khader K, Samore MH, Rubin MA (2020). Validation of the SHEA/IDSA severity criteria to predict poor outcomes among inpatients and outpatients with Clostridioides difficile infection. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 41(5), 510-516. (Read full article)
    25. Jones BE, Ying J, Stevens V, Haroldsen C, He T, Nevers M, Christensen MA, Nelson RE, Stoddard GJ, Sauer BC, Yarbrough PM, Jones MM, Goetz MB, Greene T, Samore MH (2020). Empirical Anti-MRSA vs Standard Antibiotic Therapy and Risk of 30-Day Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia. JAMA Intern Med, 180(4), 552-560. (Read full article)
    26. Dean NC, Vines CG, Rubin J, Collingridge DS, Mankivsky M, Srivastava R, Jones BE, Kuttler KG, Walker M, Jenson N, Webb BJ, Allen TL, Haug PJ (2020). Implementation of Real-Time Electronic Clinical Decision Support for Emergency Department Patients with Pneumonia Across a Healthcare System. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2019, 353-362. (Read full article)
    27. Jones BE, Herman DD, Dela Cruz CS, Waterer GW, Metlay JP, Ruminjo JK, Thomson CC (2019). Summary for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-acquired Pneumonia. Ann Am Thorac Soc, 17(2), 133-138. (Read full article)
    28. Bostwick AD, Jones BE, Paine R, Goetz MB, Samore M, Jones M (2019). Potential Impact of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia Guidelines on Empiric Antibiotics. An Evaluation of 113 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Ann Am Thorac Soc, 16(11), 1392-1398. (Read full article)
    29. Jones BE, Collingridge DS, Vines CG, Post H, Holmen J, Allen TL, Haug P, Weir CR, Dean NC (2019). CDS in a Learning Health Care System: Identifying Physicians' Reasons for Rejection of Best-Practice Recommendations in Pneumonia through Computerized Clinical Decision Support. Appl Clin Inform, 10(1), 1-9. (Read full article)
    30. Jones B (2018). Capsule Commentary on Sanz et al., A Composite of Functional Status and Pneumonia Severity Index Improves the Prediction of Pneumonia Mortality in Older Patients. J Gen Intern Med, 33(4), 493. (Read full article)
    31. Dean NC, Griffith PP, Sorensen JS, McCauley L, Jones BE, Lee YC (2016). Pleural Effusions at First ED Encounter Predict Worse Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Pneumonia. Chest, 149(6), 1509-15. (Read full article)
    32. Sauer BC, Jones BE, Globe G, Leng J, Lu CC, He T, Teng CC, Sullivan P, Zeng Q (2016). Performance of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tool to Extract Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) Reports from Structured and Semistructured Veteran Affairs (VA) Data. EGEMS (Wash DC), 4(1), 1217. (Read full article)
    33. Jones BE, Jones MM, Huttner B, Stoddard G, Brown KA, Stevens VW, Greene T, Sauer B, Madaras-Kelly K, Rubin M, Goetz MB, Samore M (2015). Trends in Antibiotic Use and Nosocomial Pathogens in Hospitalized Veterans With Pneumonia at 128 Medical Centers, 2006-2010. Clin Infect Dis, 61(9), 1403-10. (Read full article)
    34. Dean NC, Jones BE, Jones JP, Ferraro JP, Post HB, Aronsky D, Vines CG, Allen TL, Haug PJ (2015). Impact of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool for Emergency Department Patients With Pneumonia. Ann Emerg Med, 66(5), 511-20. (Read full article)
    35. Jones BE, Sauer B, Jones MM, Campo J, Damal K, He T, Ying J, Greene T, Goetz MB, Neuhauser MM, Hicks LA, Samore MH (2015). Variation in Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections in the Veteran Population: A Cross-sectional Study. Ann Intern Med, 163(2), 73-80. (Read full article)
    36. Jones BE, Jones JP, Vines CG, Dean NC (2014). Validating hospital admission criteria for decision support in pneumonia. BMC Pulm Med, 14, 149. (Read full article)
    37. Jones B, Gundlapalli AV, Jones JP, Brown SM, Dean NC (2013). Admission decisions and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in the homeless population: a review of 172 patients in an urban setting. Am J Public Health, 103 Suppl 2, S289-93. (Read full article)
    38. Jones BE, Stokes S, McKenzie S, Nilles E, Stoddard GJ (2013). Management of high altitude pulmonary edema in the Himalaya: a review of 56 cases presenting at Pheriche medical aid post (4240 m). Wilderness Environ Med, 24(1), 32-6. (Read full article)
    39. Lanspa MJ, Jones BE, Brown SM, Dean NC (2013). Mortality, morbidity, and disease severity of patients with aspiration pneumonia. J Hosp Med, 8(2), 83-90. (Read full article)
    40. Brown SM, Jones JP, Aronsky D, Jones BE, Lanspa MJ, Dean NC (2012). Relationships among initial hospital triage, disease progression and mortality in community-acquired pneumonia. Respirology, 17(8), 1207-13. (Read full article)

    Review

    1. Duong KNC, Nguyen DT, Kategeaw W, Liang X, Khaing W, Visnovsky LD, Veettil SK, McFarland MM, Nelson RE, Jones BE, Pavia AT, Coates E, Khader K, Love J, Vega Yon GG, Zhang Y, Willson T, Dorsan E, Toth DJA, Jones MM, Samore MH, Chaiyakunapruk N (2024). Incorporating social determinants of health into transmission modeling of COVID-19 vaccine in the US: a scoping review. [Review]. Lancet Reg Health Am, 35, 100806. (Read full article)
    2. Jones B, Waterer G (2020). Advances in community-acquired pneumonia. [Review]. Ther Adv Infect Dis, 7, 2049936120969607. (Read full article)

    Commentary

    1. Jones B (2015 Dec). GETTING THE STORY Lancet Respir Med. 2015 Dec;. Lancet Respir Med, 3(12), 932.

    Editorial

    1. Jones BE, Jones MM (2019). Pneumonia and Electronic Health Records-A Window Into Disease, A Mirror of Our Behavior, or Just Another Streetlight? Clin Infect Dis, 71(7), 1613-1615. (Read full article)
    2. Webb BJ, Jones B, Dean NC (2016 Apr). Empiric antibiotic selection and risk prediction of drug-resistant pathogens in community-onset pneumonia. Curr Opin Infect Dis, 28(2), 167-77.

    Letter

    1. Dean NC, Jones BE, Ferraro JP, Vines CG, Haug PJ (2013). Performance and utilization of an emergency department electronic screening tool for pneumonia. [Letter to the editor]. JAMA Intern Med, 173(8), 699-701. (Read full article)

    Abstract

    1. Jones BE, Jones MM, Huttner B, Rubin M, Stoddard G, Greene T Samore M (2014). Going Big: Five Year Trends In Antibiotic Use For Hospitalized Pneumonia Patients in National VA Data, 2006-2010 [Abstract]. American Thoracic Society.
    2. Jones BE, Jones JP, Stoddard GS, Vines C, Jephson A, Ferraro J, Post H, Briggs B, Griffith P, Kumar N, Allen T, Haug P, Dean N (2013). Impact of an Electronic Decision Support Tool on Outcomes for Emergency Department Patients with Pneumonia [Abstract]. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Barcelona, Spain.
    3. Jones BE, Jones JP, Jephson A, Kumar N, Briggs B, Vines C, Allen T, Dean NC (2012). Developing hospital admission criteria for electronic pneumonia decision support [Abstract]. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Vienna, Austria.
    4. Jones BE, Jones JP, Jephson A, Kumar N, Briggs B, Vines C, Allen T, Dean NC (2012). eCURB outperforms CURB-65 and A- DROP for predicting 30- day mortality in pneumonia [Abstract]. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress, Vienna, Austria.
    5. Jones BE, Ferraro JP, Haug P, Mynam K, Post H, Li Y, Jephson A, Stoddard G, Vines C, Allen T, Dean NC (2012). Performance of a real-time electronic screening tool for pneumonia [Abstract]. American Thoracic Society International Conference, San Franscisco, CA.
    6. Dean NC, Jones J, Sanz Herrero F, Jephson A, Brown S, Jones BE, Vines C (2012). Calculating PaO2/FiO2 From SpO2 In Emergency Department Patients With Pneumonia; Comparison Of the Severinghaus And Rice Equations In A Utah Population [Abstract]. American Thoracic Society International Conference, San Franscisco, CA.

    Other

    1. Duong KNC, Le LM, Veettil SK, Saidoung P, Wannaadisai W, Nelson RE, Friedrichs M, Jones BE, Pavia AT, Jones MM, Samore MH, Chaiyakunapruk N (2023). Disparities in COVID-19 related outcomes in the United States by race and ethnicity pre-vaccination era: an umbrella review of meta-analyses. Front Public Health (11, p. 1206988). Switzerland. (Read full article)

    Video/Film/CD/Web/Podcast

    1. Jones, Barbara interviewee (Sept 1, 2015). Are you an Antibiotic Overprescriber? [Web]. Boston, MA: New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch: Audio General Medicine. Available: www.JWatch.org.

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