Comorbidity and Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery at Cardiac Specialty Hospitals Versus General Hospitals.

Constance W. Hwang, Gerard F. Anderson, Marie Diener-West, Neil R. Powe
Medical Care. 45(8):720-728, August 2007.


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Are Preventable Hospitalizations Sensitive to Changes in Access to Primary Care?: The Case of the Oregon Health Plan.

Somnath Saha, Rachel Solotaroff, Ady Oster, Andrew B. Bindman
Medical Care. 45(8):712-719, August 2007.

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The Role of Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Helping Providers Assess Their Performance on the AQA Starter Set

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Speakers from this Web conference discussed the experiences of their HIE organizations in implementing the the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) "starter set" of 26 clinical performance measures for the ambulatory care setting.

The starter set of measures is intended to provide clinicians, consumers, and purchasers with a set of quality indicators that may be used for quality improvement, public reporting, and pay-for-performance programs.

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The extent and importance of unintended consequences related to computerized provider order entry.

Ash JS, Sittig DF, Poon EG, Guappone K, Campbell E, Dykstra RH.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007 Jul-Aug;14(4):415-23.

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A National Web Conference on Computerized Provider Order Entry: Lessons Learned from the Trenches

Jul 10, 2007, 02:00 PM-03:30 PM
Joan S. Ash, Ph.D., Oregon Health & Sciences University; Barbara Moran, R.N., B.S.N., M.B.A., Huron Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital; Peggy Esch, Denni McColm, and Cindi Lockhart, Citizens Memorial Health

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Lessons learned from performance feedback by a quality improvement organization.

Van Hoof TJ, Pearson DA, Giannotti TE, Tate JP, Elwell A, Barr JK, Meehan TP.

J Healthc Qual. 2006 May-Jun;28(3):20-31.

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Population control charts for population data.

Hansen JP.

J Healthc Qual. 2007 Jan-Feb;29(1):29-36.

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Improving the use of evidence-based heart failure therapies in the outpatient setting: the IMPROVE HF performance improvement registry.

Fonarow GC, Yancy CW, Albert NM, Curtis AB, Stough WG, Gheorghiade M, Heywood JT, Mehra M, O'Connor CM, Reynolds D, Walsh MN.
Am Heart J. 2007 Jul;154(1):12-38.

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Are High-Quality Cardiac Surgeons Less Likely to Operate on High-Risk Patients Compared to Low-Quality Surgeons? Evidence from New York State

Laurent G. Glance, Andrew Dick, Dana B. Mukamel, Yue Li, Turner M. Osler Health Services Research (OnlineEarly Articles). doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00753.x

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Administrative Data Algorithms Can Describe Ambulatory Physician Utilization

Baiju R. Shah, Janet E. Hux, Andreas Laupacis, Bernard Zinman, Karen Cauch-Dudek, Gillian L. Booth
Health Services Research (2007) 42 (4), 1783–1796.

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Using Performance Data to Identify Preferred Hospitals

Meredith B. Rosenthal, Mary Beth Landrum, Ellen Meara, Haiden A. Huskamp, Rena M. Conti, and Nancy L. Keating
Health Services Research (OnlineEarly Articles). doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00744.x

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Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research: Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory

Elizabeth H. Bradley, Leslie A. Curry, Kelly J. Devers
Health Services Research (2007) 42 (4), 1758-1772.

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Relationship between management philosophy and clinical outcomes.

Khatri N, Halbesleben JR, Petroski GF, Meyer W.
Health Care Manage Rev. 2007 Apr-Jun;32(2):128-39.

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The association between culture, climate and quality of care in primary health care teams.

Hann M, Bower P, Campbell S, Marshall M, Reeves D.
Fam Pract. 2007 Jun 24; DOI 10.1093/fampra/cmm020.

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Just What the Doctor Ordered. Review of the Evidence of the Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry System on Medication Errors

Tatyana. A. Shamliyan, Sue Duval, Jing Du, Robert L. Kane
Health Services Research Published article online: 26-Jun-2007doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2007.00751.x

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Errors prevented by and associated with bar-code medication administration systems.

Cochran GL, Jones KJ, Brockman J, Skinner A, Hicks RW.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007 May;33(5):293-301, 245.

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Overestimating Outcome Rates: Statistical Estimation When Reliability Is Suboptimal

Rodney A. Hayward, Michele Heisler, John Adams, R. Adams Dudley, and Timothy P. Hofer
Health Services Research 42 (4), 1718–1738.

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Is Zero the Ideal Death Rate?

Lee, Thomas H., Torchiana, David F., Lock, James E.
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 111-113

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Quality of Primary Care in England with the Introduction of Pay for Performance

Campbell, Stephen, Reeves, David, Kontopantelis, Evangelos, Middleton, Elizabeth, Sibbald, Bonnie, Roland, Martin
N Engl J Med 2007 357: 181-190

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Do Hospitals Provide Lower Quality Care on Weekends?

David J. Becker
Health Services Research 42 (4), 1589–1612.

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