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Patient safety events during pediatric hospitalizationsMarlene R Miller
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 111:1358-66. 2003..Our objective was to describe potential patient safety events for hospitalized children, using the patient safety indicators (PSIs), and examine associations with these events...- Potentially inappropriate medication use in the community-dwelling elderly: findings from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel SurveyC Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 6011 Executive Blvd, Suite 200, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
JAMA 286:2823-9. 2001..Using explicit criteria, prior studies have found that 23.5% and 17.5% of the US community-dwelling elderly population used at least 1 of 20 potentially inappropriate medications in 1987 and 1992, respectively... - Assessing patient safety in the United States: challenges and opportunitiesChunliu Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Med Care 43:I42-7. 2005..One chapter in the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is focused on patient safety... - Ambulatory care visits for treating adverse drug effects in the United States, 1995-2001Chunliu Zhan
Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:372-8. 2005.... 
Administrative data based patient safety research: a critical reviewC Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 12:ii58-63. 2003....- Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalizationChunliu Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
JAMA 290:1868-74. 2003..Although medical injuries are recognized as a major hazard in the health care system, little is known about their impact... - Accidental iatrogenic pneumothorax in hospitalized patientsChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Med Care 44:182-6. 2006..This study assessed the risk for AIP in patients hospitalized with specific diagnoses who underwent specific procedures... - Potential benefits and problems with computerized prescriber order entry: analysis of a voluntary medication error-reporting databaseChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 63:353-8. 2006..The potential benefits and problems associated with computerized prescriber-order-entry (CPOE) systems were studied... - Medicare payment for selected adverse events: building the business case for investing in patient safetyChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1386-93. 2006..But these extra payments cover less than a third of the extra costs incurred by hospitals in treating these adverse events. We conclude that both Medicare and hospitals gain financially by improving patient safety... - How useful are voluntary medication error reports? The case of warfarin-related medication errorsChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:36-45. 2008..A study was conducted to explore the value and limitations of voluntary medical error reports and to learn about common errors in warfarin use... - Suboptimal prescribing in elderly outpatients: potentially harmful drug-drug and drug-disease combinationsChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:262-7. 2005..To assess the prevalence and correlates of potentially harmful drug-drug combinations and drug-disease combinations prescribed for elderly patients at outpatient settings... - Patient Safety Indicators: using administrative data to identify potential patient safety concernsM R Miller
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Health Serv Res 36:110-32. 2001..Until better error-reporting systems are developed the PSIs can serve to shed light on the problem of medical errors not limited solely to mortality because of errors... - Pediatric patient safety in hospitals: a national picture in 2000Marlene R Miller
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Pediatrics 113:1741-6. 2004..To describe potential patient safety events for hospitalized children, examine associated factors, and explore impacts of safety events... - Cardiac device implantation in the United States from 1997 through 2004: a population-based analysisChunliu Zhan
Center for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:13-9. 2008..This study used hospital administrative data to assess cardiac device implantations in the United States, selected perioperative outcomes, and associated patient and hospital characteristics... 
Prevention health care quality in America: findings from the first National Healthcare Quality and Disparities reportsEd Kelley
National Healthcare Quality Report, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Rd, Suite 300, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 1:A03. 2004- Modifying DRG-PPS to include only diagnoses present on admission: financial implications and challengesChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Med Care 45:288-91. 2007..This study used data from 2 states currently coding POA to assess the financial impact if Medicare pays based on POA conditions only and to examine the challenges in implementing POA coding... - Racial and ethnic differences in patient assessments of interactions with providers: disparities or measurement biases?Elizabeth Dayton
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:109-14. 2006..The article then suggests strategies for refining future research on racial/ethnic disparities based on patient assessment of health care... - Relationship between performance measurement and accreditation: implications for quality of care and patient safetyMarlene R Miller
Advisory Council on Performance Measurement for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, USA
Am J Med Qual 20:239-52. 2005..There is a need to continuously reevaluate all measurement tools to ensure they are providing the public with reliable, consistent information about health care quality and safety... - The validity of ICD-9-CM codes in identifying postoperative deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolismChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:326-31. 2007..International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes recorded in hospital claims have been used to identify and study DVT/PE, but the validity of this method is not well studied... - Incidence and short-term outcomes of primary and revision hip replacement in the United StatesChunliu Zhan
Centers for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 89:526-33. 2007.... - Consumer assessments of care for children and adults in health plans: how do they compare?Chunliu Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Med Care 40:145-54. 2002..This study examined how adult and child assessments differed in ranking health plans and explored whether the differences justified the additional cost and respondent burden in administering both surveys... - The effects of HMO penetration on preventable hospitalizationsChunliu Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Health Serv Res 39:345-61. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that HMO penetration has significant effects in reducing preventable hospitalizations due to some ambulatory care sensitive conditions... 
Identification of hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections from Medicare claims: sensitivity and positive predictive valueChunliu Zhan
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20850 6649, USA
Med Care 47:364-9. 2009..This study was to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) and sensitivity in identifying patients in Medicare claims who had urinary catheterization and who had hospital-acquired CAUTIs...- Variation in racial and ethnic differences in consumer assessments of health careNicole Lurie
RAND Corporation, 1200 S Hayes S, Arlington, VA 22202, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:502-9. 2003..Prior studies have documented significant racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare, but data about disparities from consumer assessments of care are inconsistent... - Nurse staffing and postsurgical adverse events: an analysis of administrative data from a sample of U.S. hospitals, 1990-1996Christine Kovner
Division of Nursing, School of Education, New York University, New York 10003-6677, USA
Health Serv Res 37:611-29. 2002..The results provide additional evidence for health policy makers to consider when making decisions about required staffing levels to minimize adverse events... - Burden of illness for children and where we stand in measuring the quality of this health careMarlene R Miller
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:268-78. 2005..Measures of health care quality for children are not as well developed as those for adults. It is also unclear the extent to which the current pool of measures address common causes of illness and health care utilization for children...