Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS
Academic Appointments
- Instructor, Surgery - Emergency Medicine
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Emergency Department 300 Pasteur Dr H1249 MC 5239 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 725-4492 Fax (650) 736-7605
- Academic Offices
Personal Information EmailNot for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Emergency Medicine
Honors and Awards
- Best Presentation by a Young Investigator, Semi-Finalist, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (5/2012)
- Abuse Awareness Award, Stanford Family Violence Prevention Council (2011)
- Lee B. Lusted Award for Outstanding Research, Finalist, Society for Medical Decision Making (10/2011)
- Best Student Poster, Runner-up, Academy Health (6/2011)
- Best Fellow Presentation, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, Western Region (3/2011)
- Best Fellow Science, National Association of EMS Physicians (1/2011)
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Kit Delgado joined the Centers for Health Policy/Primary Care in Outcomes Research in 2009 as a trainee in the AHRQ Fellowship in Health Care Research and Policy. He is an emergency physician who is interested in improving the quality, value, and accessibility of health care in the U.S. through research on emergency care.
His research uses observational dataset analysis and cost-effectiveness models to aid policymakers with information to better organize and deliver prehospital and emergency care. He is especially interested in improving triage decisions in the prehospital setting as well as in the emergency department to ensure that patients have access to the appropriate level of care in the right amount of time. To this end he has studied the cost and outcome implications of prehospital trauma triage decisions, including the decision to use helicopter EMS for patients injured far from trauma centers and the decision to bypass non-trauma centers in favor of transport to a trauma center. He has also identified risk factors for unplanned transfer to intensive care within 24 hours among all patients admitted from the ED to hospital ward in Kaiser Permanente Northern California hospitals. He has received research awards for this body of work from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the National Association of EMS Physicians, Academy Health, and the Society for Medical Decision Making. He is currently working on a project to determine reasons why some patients with severe injuries who present to non-trauma center EDS are not transferred to trauma centers.
His previous work described the availability of preventive care services in U.S. emergency departments and patients' preferences for these types of services. Dr. Delgado completed his emergency medicine training in the Stanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency and medical school at Columbia University in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Publications
- Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Versus Ground Emergency Medical Services for Trauma Scene Transport in the United States. Ann Emerg Med. 2013
- Risk factors for unplanned transfer to intensive care within 24 hours of admission from the emergency department in an integrated healthcare system. J Hosp Med. 2013; (1): 13-9
- Characteristics of U.S. emergency departments that offer routine human immunodeficiency virus screening. Acad Emerg Med. 2012; (8): 894-900
- Helicopter vs ground transportation for patients with trauma. JAMA. 2012; (6): 563; author reply 565
- Predictors of emergency department death for patients presenting with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms. J Vasc Surg. 2012; (3): 651-5
- National survey of preventive health services in US emergency departments. Ann Emerg Med. 2011; (2): 104-108.e2
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