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

  • 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 -Associate Professor
    Academic Divisions Public Health
    Board Certification
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Pulmonary Disease)
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Critical Care Medicine)

    Education history

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

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. 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 publication)
    2. Dean NC, Jones BE, Jones JP, Ferraro JP, Post HB, Aronsky D, Vines CG, Allen TL, Haug P (2015). Impact of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support Tool for Emergency Department Patients With Pneumonia. Annals of emergency medicine, 66(5), 511-20. (Read full publication)
    3. Jones BE, Sauer B, Jones MM, Campo J, Damal K, He T, Ying J, Greene T, Goetz MB, Neuhauser MM, Hicks LA, Samore M (2015). Variation in Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infections in the Veteran Population: A Cross-sectional Study. Annals of internal medicine, 163(2), 73-80. (Read full publication)
    4. Jones BE, Jones MM, Huttner B, Stoddard G, Brown KA, Stevens VW, Greene T, Sauer B, Madaras-Kelly K, Rubin M, Goetz MB, Samore (2015). Trends in Antibiotic Use and Nosocomial Pathogens in Hospitalized Veterans With Pneumonia at 128 Medical Centers, 2006-2010. Clinical infectious diseases, 61(9), 1403-10. (Read full publication)
    5. Christensen MA, Nevers M, Ying J, Haroldsen C, Stevens V, Jones MM, Yarbrough PM, Goetz MB, Restrepo MI, Madaras-Kelly K, Samore MH, Jones B (2021). Simulated Adoption of 2019 Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines Across 114 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers: Estimated Impact on Culturing and Antibiotic Selection in Hospitalized Patients. Clinical infectious diseases, 72(Suppl 1), S59-S67. (Read full publication)
    6. Dean NC, Griffith PP, Sorensen JS, McCauley L, Jones BE, Lee Y (2016). Pleural Effusions at First ED Encounter Predict Worse Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Pneumonia. Chest, 149(6), 1509-15. (Read full publication)
    7. Stevens VW, Shoemaker HE, Jones MM, Jones BE, Nelson RE, Khader K, Samore MH, Rubin M (2020). Validation of the SHEA/IDSA severity criteria to predict poor outcomes among inpatients and outpatients with Clostridioides difficile infection. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 41(5), 510-516. (Read full publication)
    8. Jones (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. Journal of general internal medicine, 33(4), 493. (Read full publication)
    9. Carr JR, Jones BE, Collingridge DS, Webb BJ, Vines C, Zobell B, Allen TL, Srivastava R, Rubin J, Dean N (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. The Journal of rural health, 38(1), 262-269. (Read full publication)
    10. Brown SM, Jones JP, Aronsky D, Jones BE, Lanspa MJ, Dean N (2012). Relationships among initial hospital triage, disease progression and mortality in community-acquired pneumonia. Respirology (Carlton, Vic.), 17(8), 1207-13. (Read full publication)
    11. Jones BE, Stokes S, McKenzie S, Nilles E, Stoddard G (2013). Management of high altitude pulmonary edema in the Himalaya: a review of 56 cases presenting at Pheriche medical aid post (4240 m). Wilderness & environmental medicine, 24(1), 32-6. (Read full publication)
    12. Jones BE, Jones JP, Vines CG, Dean N (2014). Validating hospital admission criteria for decision support in pneumonia. BMC pulmonary medicine, 14, 149. (Read full publication)
    13. 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 P (2020). Implementation of Real-Time Electronic Clinical Decision Support for Emergency Department Patients with Pneumonia Across a Healthcare System. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2019, 353-362. (Read full publication)
    14. 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 A (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 publication)
    15. Lanspa MJ, Jones BE, Brown SM, Dean N (2013). Mortality, morbidity, and disease severity of patients with aspiration pneumonia. Journal of hospital medicine, 8(2), 83-90. (Read full publication)
    16. Jones BE, Collingridge DS, Vines CG, Post H, Holmen J, Allen TL, Haug P, Weir CR, Dean N (2019). CDS in a Learning Health Care System: Identifying Physicians' Reasons for Rejection of Best-Practice Recommendations in Pneumonia through Computerized Clinical Decision Support. Applied clinical informatics, 10(1), 1-9. (Read full publication)
    17. 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 M (2020). Empirical Anti-MRSA vs Standard Antibiotic Therapy and Risk of 30-Day Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Pneumonia. JAMA internal medicine, 180(4), 552-560. (Read full publication)
    18. Jones BE, Herman DD, Dela Cruz CS, Waterer GW, Metlay JP, Ruminjo JK, Thomson C (2020). Summary for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-acquired Pneumonia. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 17(2), 133-138. (Read full publication)
    19. Bostwick AD, Jones BE, Paine R, Goetz MB, Samore M, Jones (2019). Potential Impact of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia Guidelines on Empiric Antibiotics. An Evaluation of 113 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 16(11), 1392-1398. (Read full publication)
    20. 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 T (2021). Computerized Mortality Prediction for Community-acquired Pneumonia at 117 VA Medical Centers. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 18(7), 1175-1184. (Read full publication)
    21. Sauer BC, Jones BE, Globe G, Leng J, Lu CC, He T, Teng CC, Sullivan P, Zeng (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 (Washington, DC), 4(1), 1217. (Read full publication)
    22. 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 (2022). Trends in Illness Severity, Hospitalization, and Mortality for Community-Onset Pneumonia at 118 US Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Journal of general internal medicine, 37(15), 3839-3847. (Read full publication)
    23. Stern SE, Christensen MA, Nevers MR, Ying J, McKenna C, Munro S, Rhee C, Samore MH, Klompas M, Jones B (2023). Electronic surveillance criteria for non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia: Assessment of reliability and validity. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 1-7. (Read full publication)
    24. Jones BE, Ying J, Nevers M, Rutter E, Chapman A, Brenner R, Samore MH, Greene (2023). Hospital Admission Decisions for Older Veterans with Community-onset Pneumonia: An Analysis of 118 U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Academic emergency medicine, 30(4), 398-409. (Read full publication)
    25. Lynch KE, Viernes B, Gatsby E, DuVall SL, Jones BE, Box TL, Kreisler C, Jones (2021). Positive Predictive Value of COVID-19 ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes Across Calendar Time and Clinical Setting. Clinical epidemiology, 13, 1011-1018. (Read full publication)
    26. 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 (2021). Nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: A call to action. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 42(8), 991-996. (Read full publication)
    27. Chapman AB, Peterson KS, Rutter E, Nevers M, Zhang M, Ying J, Jones M, Classen D, Jones (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 publication)
    28. 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, Akgün KM, Veterans Aging Cohort Study Clinical COVID-19 Working Grou (2022). Dexamethasone in hospitalised COVID-19 patients not on intensive respiratory support. The European respiratory journal, 60(1), (Read full publication)
    29. 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 (2021). ReHouSED: A novel measurement of Veteran housing stability using natural language processing. Journal of biomedical informatics, 122, 103903. (Read full publication)
    30. Gibson EG, Pender M, Angerbauer M, Cook C, Jones B, Spivak AM, Spivak ES, Swaminathan (2021). Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 Illness in a Patient Receiving Ocrelizumab for Multiple Sclerosis. Open forum infectious diseases, 8(7), ofab176. (Read full publication)
    31. Weir CR, Taber P, Taft T, Reese TJ, Jones B, Del Fiol (2021). Feeling and thinking: can theories of human motivation explain how EHR design impacts clinician burnout?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28(5), 1042-1046. (Read full publication)
    32. 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 (2023). Incidence and Outcomes of Non-Ventilator-Associated Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in 284 US Hospitals Using Electronic Surveillance Criteria. JAMA network open, 6(5), e2314185. (Read full publication)
    33. Klompas M, Jones B (2023). Is COVID-19 Care Better in Veterans Health Administration Hospitals, Ceteris Paribus?. JAMA network open, 6(5), e2315829. (Read full publication)
    34. Carr JR, Knox DB, Butler AM, Lum MM, Jacobs JR, Jephson AR, Jones BE, Brown SM, Dean N (2023). ICU Utilization After Implementation of Minor Severe Pneumonia Criteria in Real-Time Electronic Clinical Decision Support. Critical care medicine, 52(3), e132-e141. (Read full publication)
    35. 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 Investigator (2023). Early Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Multisite Prospective Cohort of Inpatient Veterans. Open forum infectious diseases, 10(7), ofad330. (Read full publication)
    36. Chapman AB, Peterson KS, Rutter E, Nevers M, Ying J, Classen D, Jones M, Samore M, Jones (2024). A Linguistic Analysis Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Pneumonia Diagnosis and Disease Models. Studies in health technology and informatics, 310, 1444-1445. (Read full publication)
    37. 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 J (2024). Diagnostic Discordance, Uncertainty, and Treatment Ambiguity in Community-Acquired Pneumonia : A National Cohort Study of 115 U.S. Veterans Affairs Hospitals. Annals of internal medicine, 177(9), 1179-1189. (Read full publication)
    38. 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 B (2024). 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. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 31(7), 1503-1513. (Read full publication)
    39. Hart JH, Sakata T, Eve JR, Butler AM, Wallin A, Carman C, Atwood B, Srivastava R, Jones BE, Stenehjem EA, Dean N (2024). Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumonia in Urgent Care Clinics: Opportunities for Improving Care. Open forum infectious diseases, 11(3), ofae096. (Read full publication)
    40. Centor RM, Jones B (2024). Web Exclusive. Annals On Call - The Challenge of Diagnosing Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Annals of internal medicine, 177(10), e2402748OC. (Read full publication)
    41. Peterson KS, Chapman AB, Widanagamaachchi W, Sutton J, Ochoa B, Jones BE, Stevens V, Classen DC, Jones M (2024). Automating detection of diagnostic error of infectious diseases using machine learning. PLOS digital health, 3(6), e0000528. (Read full publication)
    42. Taber P, Weir C, Zickmund SL, Rutter E, Butler J, Jones B (2024). The social experience of uncertainty: a qualitative analysis of emergency department care for suspected pneumonia for the design of decision support. BMC medical informatics and decision making, 24(1), 386. (Read full publication)

    Review

    1. Jones B, Waterer (2020). Advances in community-acquired pneumonia. Therapeutic advances in infectious disease, 7, 2049936120969607. (Read full publication)
    2. 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 (2024). Incorporating social determinants of health into transmission modeling of COVID-19 vaccine in the US: a scoping review. Lancet regional health. Americas, 35, 100806. (Read full publication)

    Commentary

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

    Editorial

    1. Jones BE, Jones M (2020). Pneumonia and Electronic Health Records-A Window Into Disease, A Mirror of Our Behavior, or Just Another Streetlight?. Clinical infectious diseases, 71(7), 1613-1615. (Read full publication)
    2. Webb BJ, Jones B, Dean NC (2016). Empiric antibiotic selection and risk prediction of drug-resistant pathogens in community-onset pneumonia. Current opinion in infectious diseases, 28(2), 167-77.
    3. Jones B (2025). COUNTERPOINT: Should Multiplex Molecular Panels Be Performed on All Patients With Community Acquired Pneumonia? No. Chest, 167(1), 27-31. (Read full publication)
    4. Jones B (2025). Rebuttal From Dr Jones. Chest, 167(1), 32-33. (Read full publication)

    Letter

    1. Dean NC, Jones BE, Ferraro JP, Vines CG, Haug P (2013). Performance and utilization of an emergency department electronic screening tool for pneumonia. JAMA internal medicine, 173(8), 699-701. (Read full publication)

    Abstract

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

    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 (2023). Disparities in COVID-19 related outcomes in the United States by race and ethnicity pre-vaccination era: an umbrella review of meta-analyses. Frontiers in public health, 11, 1206988. (Read full publication)

    Video/Film/CD/Web/Podcast

    1. Jones, Barbara (interviewee (2015). Are you an Antibiotic Overprescriber?.

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