Karen Homa

Summary

Affiliation: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Determining next steps in a hand hygiene improvement initiative by examining variation in hand hygiene compliance rates
    Karen Homa
    Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 20:116-21. 2011
  2. ncbi Do lessons learned in a training intervention on web-based health care resources diffuse to nonexposed members in the primary care setting? A comparative study
    Karen Homa
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 17:330-40. 2008
  3. ncbi Analysis of means used to compare providers' referral patterns
    Karen Homa
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 16:256-64. 2007
  4. ncbi Dialysis access venous stenoses: treatment with balloon angioplasty--1- versus 3-minute inflation times
    Andrew R Forauer
    Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Radiology 249:375-81. 2008
  5. ncbi Computerized questionnaires and the quality of survey data
    Brett Hanscom
    Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:1797-801. 2002
  6. ncbi Screening for depressive symptoms in patients with chronic spinal pain using the SF-36 Health Survey
    Thomas L Walsh
    The Spine Center, Department of Orthopedics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Spine J 6:316-20. 2006
  7. ncbi Visual assessment of linear scars: a new tool
    Carolyn L Kerrigan
    Section of Plastic Surgery and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Plast Reconstr Surg 124:1513-9. 2009
  8. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 2. Creating a rich information environment
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:5-15. 2003
  9. ncbi Publicly reporting comprehensive quality and cost data: a health care system's transparency initiative
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:573-84. 2005
  10. ncbi The rate and variation of referrals to behavioral medicine services for patients reporting poor mental health in the national spine network
    Thomas L Walsh
    Spine Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
    Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:E154-60. 2005

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi Determining next steps in a hand hygiene improvement initiative by examining variation in hand hygiene compliance rates
    Karen Homa
    Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 20:116-21. 2011
    ..In 2006, HH compliance occurred 41% of the time and by 2009, it had improved to 91%. We wanted to understand some of the unexplained variability in HH to help determine where to target more specific strategies...
  2. ncbi Do lessons learned in a training intervention on web-based health care resources diffuse to nonexposed members in the primary care setting? A comparative study
    Karen Homa
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 17:330-40. 2008
    ..The aim of this study was to determine whether those who attended an Internet health care resource training intervention transferred knowledge and skills to others in the practice...
  3. ncbi Analysis of means used to compare providers' referral patterns
    Karen Homa
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 16:256-64. 2007
    ..The objective of this study was to demonstrate through a case study how an analysis of means (ANOM) chart can be used to compare groups and to advocate the usefulness of this method in improvement work...
  4. ncbi Dialysis access venous stenoses: treatment with balloon angioplasty--1- versus 3-minute inflation times
    Andrew R Forauer
    Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 1 Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Radiology 249:375-81. 2008
    ..To examine prospectively the effects of balloon inflation time on the technical success of balloon angioplasty in dialysis access venous stenosis and on postintervention primary patency...
  5. ncbi Computerized questionnaires and the quality of survey data
    Brett Hanscom
    Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:1797-801. 2002
    ..A retrospective data quality analysis was conducted...
  6. ncbi Screening for depressive symptoms in patients with chronic spinal pain using the SF-36 Health Survey
    Thomas L Walsh
    The Spine Center, Department of Orthopedics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Spine J 6:316-20. 2006
    ..Although a specific and reliable survey to detect depression could be employed, an additional survey would unnecessarily increase responder and analyst burdens if the general health status survey could be used instead...
  7. ncbi Visual assessment of linear scars: a new tool
    Carolyn L Kerrigan
    Section of Plastic Surgery and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Plast Reconstr Surg 124:1513-9. 2009
    ..This study was designed to determine whether patients and surgeons rated scars similarly and to test the intrarater and interrater reliability of the surgeons' ratings...
  8. ncbi Microsystems in health care: Part 2. Creating a rich information environment
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:5-15. 2003
    ..DISCUSSION: Information exchange is the interface that connects staff to patients and staff to staff within the microsystem; microsystem to microsystem; and microsystem to macro-organization...
  9. ncbi Publicly reporting comprehensive quality and cost data: a health care system's transparency initiative
    Eugene C Nelson
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:573-84. 2005
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  10. ncbi The rate and variation of referrals to behavioral medicine services for patients reporting poor mental health in the national spine network
    Thomas L Walsh
    Spine Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
    Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 30:E154-60. 2005
    ..Descriptive analysis of cross-sectional data collected prospectively in 20 National Spine Network (NSN) centers...
  11. ncbi Residency education, preventive medicine, and population health care improvement: the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine approach
    Tina Foster
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center DHMC, Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency DHLPMR Program, Lebanon, NH, USA
    Acad Med 83:390-8. 2008
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  12. ncbi Evaluation of a new wound closure device for linear surgical incisions: 3M Steri-Strip S Surgical Skin Closure versus subcuticular closure
    Carolyn L Kerrigan
    Section of Plastic Surgery and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Plast Reconstr Surg 125:186-94. 2010
    ..Technological innovations are often adopted before scientific comparison to an accepted standard. The authors' study compared suture with a new coaptive film device, 3M Steri-Strip S Surgical Skin Closure, on linear incisions...
  13. ncbi A conceptual idea to improve access in a complex health care system
    Karen Homa
    Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    Qual Manag Health Care 13:243-63. 2004
    ..The target audience is health care organizations that want to improve access to their services but are challenged by the complexity of their processes...
  14. ncbi A training intervention to improve information management in primary care
    Karen E Schifferdecker
    Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
    Fam Med 40:423-32. 2008
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  15. ncbi Where's the fall?
    Karen Homa
    J Healthc Qual 30:44-5. 2008