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Do proxies reflect patients' health concerns about urinary incontinence and gait problems?Takahiro Higashi
Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606 8501, Japan
Health Qual Life Outcomes 3:75. 2005..While falls and urinary incontinence are prevalent among older patients, who sometimes rely on proxies to provide their health information, the validity of proxy reports of concern about falls and urinary incontinence remains unknown...- Quality of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritisC H MacLean
UCLA Division of Rheumatology, 1000 Veteran Ave, Room 32 59, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1670, USA
JAMA 284:984-92. 2000..Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at risk for substantial morbidity because of their arthritis and premature mortality due to comorbid diseases. However, little is known about the quality of the health care that these patients receive... - Comparison of administrative data and medical records to measure the quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older patientsCatherine H Maclean
Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, California, USA
Med Care 44:141-8. 2006..However, it is unclear how performance based on administrative data and medical records compare... - Systematic review of the effects of n-3 fatty acids in inflammatory bowel diseaseCatherine H Maclean
Southern California Evidence Based Practice Center, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:611-9. 2005..n-3 Fatty acids are purported to have health effects in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but studies have reported mixed results... - Quality indicators for the care of osteoarthritis in vulnerable eldersCatherine H Maclean
RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S383-91. 2007 - Measuring quality in arthritis care: methods for developing the Arthritis Foundation's quality indicator setCatherine H Maclean
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California and University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, USA
Arthritis Rheum 51:193-202. 2004..To develop a comprehensive set of explicit process measures to assess the quality of health care for osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and analgesics use... - Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on cancer risk: a systematic reviewCatherine H Maclean
Southern California Evidence Based Practice Center, RAND Health, Santa Monica 90407 2138, USA
JAMA 295:403-15. 2006..Omega-3 fatty acids are purported to reduce the risk of cancer. Studies have reported mixed results... - Evaluating the quality of care in rheumatic diseasesC H MacLean
University of California Los Angeles Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Curr Opin Rheumatol 13:99-103. 2001..Although much work has been done to characterize the quality of health care, little is known about the quality of care for the rheumatic diseases. This paper reviews what is known about health care quality for these diseases... - How useful are unpublished data from the Food and Drug Administration in meta-analysis?Catherine H Maclean
RAND, 1700 Main Street, M 23C, Santa Monica, CA 90407 2138, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:44-51. 2003..07) did not differ significantly or practically. Data from FDA reviews may be a viable data source for systematic reviews and meta-analyses but only after being subjected to the same methodologic scrutiny as published data... - Application of explicit process of care measurement to rheumatoid arthritis: Moving from evidence to practiceK L Kahn
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Arthritis Rheum 55:884-91. 2006..To construct quality measures with measurement validity and meaning for clinicians... - The Vulnerable Elders Survey: a tool for identifying vulnerable older people in the communityD Saliba
RAND, Santa Monica, California 90401, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 49:1691-9. 2001..Self-reported diagnoses and conditions, when added to the system, do not enhance predictive ability. The function-based targeting system relies on self-report and is easily transported across care settings... - Rigorous development does not ensure that guidelines are acceptable to a panel of knowledgeable providersTeryl K Nuckols
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:37-44. 2008..No studies have examined whether this technical quality consistently leads to acceptability... - Measuring process of arthritis care: the Arthritis Foundation's quality indicator set for rheumatoid arthritisDinesh Khanna
Division of Immunology, University of Cincinnati and VAMC, OH, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 35:211-37. 2006.... - The complexity of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis: metrics for better understanding chronic disease careKatherine L Kahn
University of California at Los Angeles, Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90095 1736, USA
Med Care 45:55-65. 2007..Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provide an important opportunity for understanding care of patients with a serious chronic condition... - Multimorbidity is associated with better quality of care among vulnerable eldersLillian C Min
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 1687, USA
Med Care 45:480-8. 2007..Possible reasons include competing guidelines for individual conditions, burden of numerous recommendations, and difficulty implementing treatments for multiple conditions... - A collaborative effort to apply the evidence-based review process to the field of nutrition: challenges, benefits, and lessons learnedEthan M Balk
Tufts New England Medical Center Evidence based Practice Center, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 85:1448-56. 2007..The goals of these systematic reviews, the processes that were used, the benefits and limitations of the collaboration, and the conclusions of the reviews, including recommendations for future research, are summarized here... - Quality indicators for the care of breast cancer in vulnerable eldersArash Naeim
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S258-69. 2007 - Quality indicators for the care of osteoporosis in vulnerable eldersJennifer Grossman
David Geffen School of Medicine, and Division of Rheumatology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S392-402. 2007 - Quality indicators for the care of vision impairment in vulnerable eldersSusannah Rowe
Boston University Medical Campus, Boston, MA, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S450-6. 2007 - Quality indicators for pain management in vulnerable eldersShiri Etzioni
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S403-8. 2007 - Quality indicators for the care of pressure ulcers in vulnerable eldersBarbara M Bates-Jensen
School of Nursing and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:S409-16. 2007 - Quality of care in the rheumatic diseases: current status and future directionsJinoos Yazdany
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Curr Opin Rheumatol 20:159-66. 2008.... - Predictors of overall quality of care provided to vulnerable older peopleLillian C Min
Division of Geriatrics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1705-11. 2005..In this study, the influences of clinical conditions, types of care processes, and sociodemographic characteristics on the quality of care received by vulnerable older people were evaluated... - A metaanalysis of severe upper gastrointestinal complications of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugsJoshua J Ofman
Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Beverly Hills 90212, USA
J Rheumatol 29:804-12. 2002..Prior pooled estimates about the effect of patient and drug variables on increased risk must be viewed with caution... - Meta-analysis of dyspepsia and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugsJoshua J Ofman
Cedars Sinai Health System and Zynx Health Inc, Los Angeles, California 90212, USA
Arthritis Rheum 49:508-18. 2003..Using published and unpublished data sources, we sought to determine estimates of the risks of dyspepsia associated with NSAIDs... - The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable community-dwelling older patientsNeil S Wenger
RAND Health, Santa Monica, California, USA
Ann Intern Med 139:740-7. 2003..Previous studies have focused on general medical conditions aimed at prolonging life, not on geriatric issues important for quality of life... - The quality of medical care provided to vulnerable older patients with chronic painJoshua Chodosh
Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:756-61. 2004..To assess the quality of chronic pain care provided to vulnerable older persons... - Detection and management of falls and instability in vulnerable elders by community physiciansLaurence Z Rubenstein
UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1527-31. 2004..To investigate quality of care for falls and instability provided to vulnerable elders... - Case finding for population-based studies of rheumatoid arthritis: comparison of patient self-reported ACR criteria-based algorithms to physician-implicit review for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritisHonghu Liu
UCLA Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1736, USA
Semin Arthritis Rheum 33:302-10. 2004..To evaluate the interrater reliability of rheumatologist diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the concordance between rheumatologist and computer algorithms for assessing the accuracy of a diagnosis of RA... - Quality of care indicators for gout managementTed R Mikuls
University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Omaha Veterans Administration Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198 3025, USA
Arthritis Rheum 50:937-43. 2004..Despite the significant health impact of gout, there is no consensus on management standards. To guide physician practice, we sought to develop quality of care indicators for gout management... - The quality of pharmacologic care for vulnerable older patientsTakahiro Higashi
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:714-20. 2004.... - Measuring the quality of care provided to community dwelling vulnerable elders dually enrolled in Medicare and MedicaidDavid S Zingmond
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Med Care 45:931-8. 2007..Small studies suggest that the quality of healthcare provided to older patients needs improvement. However, measuring the quality of care for larger groups of older adults is difficult... - Measuring quality in arthritis care: the Arthritis Foundation's quality indicator set for analgesicsKenneth G Saag
Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics of Musculoskeletal Disorders, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 3296, USA
Arthritis Rheum 51:337-49. 2004..To develop systematically validated quality indicators (QIs) addressing analgesic safety... - Measuring quality in arthritis care: the Arthritis Foundation's Quality Indicator set for osteoarthritisJames N Pencharz
Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Arthritis Rheum 51:538-48. 2004..These measures can be used to gain an understanding of the quality of care for patients with osteoarthritis... - The effect of a quality improvement initiative on the quality of other aspects of health care: the law of unintended consequences?David A Ganz
Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Med Care 45:8-18. 2007..Policymakers and clinicians are concerned that initiatives to improve the quality of care for some conditions may have unintended negative consequences for quality in other conditions... - Telephone reminder calls increased response rates to mailed study consent formsShana B Traina
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:743-6. 2005..This study assessed the impact of follow-up reminder phone calls on response rates to a mailed consent form packet... - Patients' global ratings of their health care are not associated with the technical quality of their careJohn T Chang
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California; RAND Health, Santa Monica, California; and RAND Health, Arlington, Virginia
Ann Intern Med 144:665-72. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Vulnerable elders' global ratings of care should not be used as a marker of technical quality of care. Assessments of quality of care should include both patient evaluations and independent assessments of technical quality... - Quality of osteoarthritis care for community-dwelling older adultsDavid A Ganz
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, V A Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, STAR Program, University of California Los Angeles, 911 Broxton Plaza 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Arthritis Rheum 55:241-7. 2006..To describe the quality of osteoarthritis care provided to community-dwelling elderly patients and to characterize arthritis-related function in these patients... - Quality of care is associated with survival in vulnerable older patientsTakahiro Higashi
RAND Health, Santa Monica, California 90407-2138, USA
Ann Intern Med 143:274-81. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Better performance on process quality measures is strongly associated with better survival among community-dwelling vulnerable older adults... - The efficacy of omega-3 fatty acids on cognitive function in aging and dementia: a systematic reviewAmalia M Issa
The Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center - RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 21:88-96. 2006..However, limited evidence suggests a possible association between omega-3 fatty acids and reduced risk of dementia...