Access to subspecialty care for patients with mobility impairment: a surveyTara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
Ann Intern Med 158:441-6. 2013
..Adults who use wheelchairs have difficulty accessing physicians and receive less preventive care than their able-bodied counterparts...
A mixed-methods analysis of patient reviews of hospital care in England: implications for public reporting of health care quality data in the United StatesTara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 39:7-15. 2013
..In contrast, the National Health Service (NHS) in England encourages patients to provide feedback to hospitals on their quality-reporting website, NHS Choices. The scope and content of the narrative feedback was studied...
- What is the best method for estimating the burden of severe sepsis in the United States?
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
J Crit Care 27:414.e1-9. 2012
..The aim of the study was to compare estimates of hospitalizations, outcomes, and costs produced by 2 approaches for defining severe sepsis...
- Variation in the care of septic shock: the impact of patient and hospital characteristics
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
J Crit Care 27:329-36. 2012
..The aim of this study was to examine treatments of septic shock in a sample of US hospitals and to assess whether patient and hospital characteristics are associated with use of sepsis therapies...
- Incorporating initial treatments improves performance of a mortality prediction model for patients with sepsis
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 21:44-52. 2012
..We aimed to determine the incremental benefit of adding information about critical care services to a sepsis mortality prediction model...
- Hospitalizations, costs, and outcomes of severe sepsis in the United States 2003 to 2007
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA
Crit Care Med 40:754-61. 2012
..To assess trends in number of hospitalizations, outcomes, and costs of severe sepsis in the United States...
- The relationship between hospital spending and mortality in patients with sepsis
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:292-9. 2011
..We sought to characterize variations in hospital spending and mortality rates and to determine whether higher levels of spending are associated with better hospital survival...
Content of weblogs written by health professionalsTara Lagu
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1642-6. 2008
..Medical weblogs ("blogs") have emerged as a new connection between health professionals and the public...
- Effect of patient comorbidities on filling of antihypertensive prescriptions
Tara Lagu
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:24-30. 2009
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- Patients' evaluations of health care providers in the era of social networking: an analysis of physician-rating websites
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, 280 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:942-6. 2010
..Internet-based social networking tools that allow users to share content have enabled a new form of public reporting of physician performance: the physician-rating website...
- Development and validation of a model that uses enhanced administrative data to predict mortality in patients with sepsis
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA
Crit Care Med 39:2425-30. 2011
..We aimed to determine whether a sepsis risk-adjustment model that uses only administrative data could be used when other intensive care unit risk-adjustment methods are unavailable...
- The impact of concordant and discordant conditions on the quality of care for hyperlipidemia
Tara Lagu
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1208-13. 2008
..Physician treatment of cardiovascular risk factors may be affected by specific types of patient comorbidities...
- Association of diagnostic coding with trends in hospitalizations and mortality of patients with pneumonia, 2003-2009
Peter K Lindenauer
Baystate Medical Center, 280 Chestnut St, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
JAMA 307:1405-13. 2012
..While this may be the result of advances in clinical care or improvements in quality, it may also represent an artifact of changes in diagnostic coding...
- Income inequality and 30 day outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia: retrospective cohort study
Peter K Lindenauer
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
BMJ 346:f521. 2013
..To examine the association between income inequality and the risk of mortality and readmission within 30 days of hospitalization...
- Epidemiology and outcomes of acute respiratory failure in the United States, 2001 to 2009: A national survey
Mihaela S Stefan
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts Division of General Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts Program in Clinical and Translational Research, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
J Hosp Med 8:76-82. 2013
..The objective of this study was to evaluate trends in hospitalization, cost, and short-term outcomes in acute respiratory failure (ARF) between 2001 and 2009 in the United States...
- Physician, monitor thyself: professionalism and accountability in the use of social media
Tara Lagu
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Division of General Internal Medicine, Boston, USA
J Clin Ethics 22:187-90. 2011
..In this commentary, we highlight issues introduced by the report and suggest some specific ways that the recommendations of the committee can be implemented by medical schools, residency programs, and practicing physicians...
