Using Electronic Health Records to Measure Physician Performance for Acute Conditions in Primary Care

Empirical Evaluation of the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinical Quality Measure Set.
Jeffrey A. Linder; Erin O. Kaleba; Karen S. Kmetik
Medical Care Volume 47(2) February 2009 pp 208-216
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Empirically Derived Composite Measures of Surgical Performance.

Douglas O. Staiger; Justin B. Dimick; Onur Baser; Zhaohui Fan; John D. Birkmeyer
Medical Care Volume 47(2) February 2009 pp 226-233
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Identifying Potentially Avoidable Hospital Admissions From Canadian Long-Term Care Facilities.

Jennifer D. Walker; Gary F. Teare; David B. Hogan; Steven Lewis; Colleen J. Maxwell
Medical Care Volume 47(2) February 2009 pp 250-254
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Assessing the effectiveness of quality improvement strategies in Europe: the MARQuIS project

Quality and Safety in Health Care 2009;18 (Suppl 1)

This supplement is focused on the methods, results and recommendations from the research project "Methods of Assessing Response to Quality Improvement Strategies" (MARQuIS). MARQuIS was funded by the Scientific Support to Policies component of the European Union Sixth Framework Research Programme (Contract SP21-CT-2004-513712), and it lasted from January 2004 to June 2008.

Improving the Quality of Health Care: Who Is Responsible for What?

J. Frank Wharam; Daniel Sulmasy
JAMA. 2009;301(2):215-217.
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Evaluating service delivery interventions to enhance patient safety

Celia Brown, Richard Lilford
BMJ 2008;337:a2764
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Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for adverse drug reactions in older adults: retrospective cohort study

Min Zhang, C D'Arcy J Holman, Sylvie D Price, Frank M Sanfilippo, David B Preen, Max K Bulsara
BMJ 2009;338:a2752
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Readmissions as a result of adverse drug reactions in older people
Susan Morgan
BMJ 2009;338:a2436
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What's the Risk? A Simple Approach for Estimating Adjusted Risk Measures from Nonlinear Models Including Logistic Regression

Lawrence C. Kleinman, Edward C. Norton
Health Services Research Volume 44 Issue 1 p 288-302
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Advancing Measurement of Patient Safety Culture

Liane Ginsburg, Debra Gilin, Deborah Tregunno, Peter G. Norton, Ward Flemons, Mark Fleming
Health Services Research Volume 44 Issue 1 p 205-224
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Validity of Selected AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators Based on VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Data

Patrick S. Romano, Hillary J. Mull, Peter E. Rivard, Shibei Zhao, William G. Henderson, Susan Loveland, Dennis Tsilimingras, Cindy L. Christiansen, Amy K. Rosen
Health Services Research Volume 44 Issue 1 p 182-204
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Building the Path to High-Quality Care

Carolyn Clancy
Health Services Research Volume 44 Issue 1 p 1-4
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Comparison of Two VA Laboratory Data Repositories Indicates That Missing Data Vary Despite Originating From the Same Source.

Kathleen A. McGinnis; Melissa Skanderson; Forrest L. Levin; Cynthia Brandt; Joseph Erdos; Amy C. Justice

Medical Care Volume 47(1) January 2009 pp 121-124

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Identification and Validation of Vertebral Compression Fractures Using Administrative Claims Data.

Jeffrey R. Curtis; Amy S. Mudano; Daniel H. Solomon; Juan Xi; Mary Elkins Melton; Kenneth G. Saag
Medical Care Volume 47(1) January 2009 pp 69-72
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Patient Safety Climate in 92 US Hospitals: Differences by Work Area and Discipline.

Sara J. Singer; David M. Gaba; Alyson Falwell; Shoutzu Lin; Jennifer Hayes; Laurence Baker
Medical Care Volume 47(1) January 2009 pp 23-31
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Public Reporting in Health Care: How Do Consumers Use Quality-of-Care Information?: A Systematic Review.

Marjan Faber; Marije Bosch; Hub Wollersheim; Sheila Leatherman; Richard Grol
Medical Care Volume 47(1) January 2009 pp 1-8
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Do report cards tell consumers anything they don't know already? The case of Medicare HMOs.

Dafny L, Dranove D.
Rand J Econ. 2008 Autumn;39(3):790-821.
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National Registry of Myocardial Infarction

Trends in presenting characteristics and hospital mortality among patients with ST elevation and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006
William J. Rogers, Paul D. Frederick, Edna Stoehr, John G. Canto, Joseph P. Ornato, C. Michael Gibson, Charles V. Pollack, Joel M. Gore, Nisha Chandra-Strobos, Eric D. Peterson, William J. French, for the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction Investigators
American Heart Journal, Volume 156, Issue 6, pages 1026-1034
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Trends in reperfusion strategies, door-to-needle and door-to-balloon times, and in-hospital mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006
C. Michael Gibson, Yuri B. Pride, Paul D. Frederick, Charles V. Pollack, John G. Canto, Alan J. Tiefenbrunn, W. Douglas Weaver, Costas T. Lambrew, William J. French, Eric D. Peterson, William J. Rogers, for the NRMI Investigators
American Heart Journal, Volume 156, Issue 6, pages 1035-1044
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Trends in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006
Eric D. Peterson, Bimal R. Shah, Lori Parsons, Charles V. Pollack, William J. French, John G. Canto, C. Michael Gibson, William J. Rogers, for the NRMI Investigators
American Heart Journal, Volume 156, Issue 6, pages 1045-1055
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Interruptions in Medicaid Coverage and Risk for Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care–Sensitive Conditions

A. B. Bindman, A. Chattopadhyay and G. M. Auerback
Ann Intern Med 2008; 854-860.

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Measuring Hospital Inefficiency: The Effects of Controlling for Quality and Patient Burden of Illness

Ryan L. Mutter, Michael D. Rosko, Herbert S. Wong
Health Services Research Volume 43 Issue 6 (December 2008): p 1992-2013
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Physician Autonomy and Informed Decision Making: Finding the Balance for Patient Safety and Quality

Simon C. Mathews; Peter J. Pronovost
JAMA. 2008;300(24):2913-2915.
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