Peter Yorgin is a Nephrology physician affiliated with Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego. OpenAlex indexes 66 publications with 1,488 citations (h-index 22).
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Medicare prescribing footprint (2021)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Cancer & immunology
50%Kinase inhibitor50%Afinitor100%Part D<11 patientsMetabolism & gastrointestinal
50%Corticosteroid50%Prednisone100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- A clinical predictive model of chronic kidney disease in children with posterior urethral valves
Pediatric Nephrology
2018 - Physiology of the Developing Kidney: Acid–Base Homeostasis and its Disorders
Pediatric Nephrology
2014 - Nephrotic syndrome in an 18-year-old boy with congenital myelomeningocele: Questions
Pediatric Nephrology
2012
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