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Comparison of use of medications after acute myocardial infarction in the Veterans Health Administration and MedicareL A Petersen
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VAMedical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Circulation 104:2898-904. 2001..We compared use of medications after acute myocardial infarction in the VA with that in non-VA healthcare settings under fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare financing...
Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of a cluster randomized controlled trial of pay for performance for hypertension treatment: study protocolLaura A Petersen
Health Policy and Quality Program, Michael E, DeBakey VA Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, and Section for Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Implement Sci 6:114. 2011..abstract:..- Impact of race on cardiac care and outcomes in veterans with acute myocardial infarctionLaura A Petersen
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 40:I86-96. 2002..The goal of this study was to assess racial differences in process of care and outcome for acute myocardial infarction in the VA health care system... - Do financial incentives in a globally budgeted healthcare payment system produce changes in the way patients are categorized? A five-year studyLaura A Petersen
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA MedicalCenter, and Section for Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex 77030, USA
Am J Manag Care 13:513-22. 2007..To assess the responses to financial incentives after a change in the payment system in a capitation-style healthcare payment system over a 5-year period... - Pay for performance in myocardial infarction: are we reaping the rewards?Laura A Petersen
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med 5:134-5. 2008 
The association of Medicare drug coverage with use of evidence-based medications in the Veterans Health AdministrationMichael L Johnson
College of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Sciences and Administration, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Ann Pharmacother 43:1565-75. 2009..Veterans with Medicare managed-care plans have access to pharmacy benefits outside the Veterans Health Administration (VA), but how this coverage affects use of medications for specific disease conditions within the VA is unclear...- Relationship between clinical conditions and use of Veterans Affairs health care among Medicare-enrolled veteransLaura A Petersen
Department, of Medicine, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, 2002 Holcombe Blvd Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 45:762-91. 2010..To determine how reliance on Veterans Affairs (VA) for medical care among veterans enrolled in Medicare is affected by medical conditions, access, and patient characteristics... - The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICUJochen Profit
Section of Neonatology, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Baylor College of Medicine, VA HSR and D, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 97:F127-32. 2012..Little information is available on the use of the SAQ for this purpose in the NICU setting... - Timely follow-up of abnormal diagnostic imaging test results in an outpatient setting: are electronic medical records achieving their potential?Hardeep Singh
Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service, Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1578-86. 2009.... - Preoperative statin therapy decreases risk of postoperative renal insufficiencySalim S Virani
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Cardiovasc Ther 28:80-6. 2010..Although current guidelines recommend withholding statins in perioperative patients, little information is available on whether perioperative statin use increases risk for postoperative renal failure... - Will hypertension performance measures used for pay-for-performance programs penalize those who care for medically complex patients?Laura A Petersen
MPH, Health Services Research and Development 152, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Circulation 119:2978-85. 2009..We examined the impact of coexisting conditions on the quality of care for hypertension and patient perception of overall quality of their health care... - Importance of patient, provider, and facility predictors of hepatitis C virus treatment in veterans: a national studyJennifer R Kramer
Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 106:483-91. 2011..Several patient characteristics are known to impact hepatitis C virus (HCV) antiviral treatment rates. However, it is unclear whether, and to what extent, health-care providers or facility characteristics impact HCV treatment rates... - Racial differences in attitudes regarding cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment: a qualitative studyLeChauncy D Woodard
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Patient Educ Couns 57:225-31. 2005..The efficacy of such interventions would need to be tested in further work... - Process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction for patients with mental illness in the VA health care system: are there disparities?Laura A Petersen
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VA Medical Center, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 38:41-63. 2003..To compare process of care and outcome after acute myocardial infarction, for patients with and without mental illness, cared for in the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care system... - Barriers to non-HDL cholesterol goal attainment by providersSalim S Virani
Health Policy and Quality Program, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med 124:876-80.e2. 2011..This study assessed providers' knowledge of, attitude toward, and practice regarding non-HDL-C... - Institutional, provider, and patient correlates of low-density lipoprotein and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal attainment according to the Adult Treatment Panel III guidelinesSalim S Virani
Health Policy and Quality Program, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence and Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am Heart J 161:1140-6. 2011.... - Use of smoking cessation interventions and aspirin for secondary prevention: are there racial disparities?Eunice H Ambriz
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence 152, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Med Qual 19:166-71. 2004..05). Our findings highlight the need for improvement in use of smoking cessation interventions and aspirin among all patients with CAD and indicate an area where future quality improvement efforts may be warranted... - Impact of comorbidity type on measures of quality for diabetes careLeChauncy D Woodard
Health Policy and Quality Program, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, and Section for Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Med Care 49:605-10. 2011..We assessed the effect of comorbidity type (concordant, discordant, or both) on the receipt of guideline-recommended care among patients with diabetes... - Missed opportunities to initiate endoscopic evaluation for colorectal cancer diagnosisHardeep Singh
Houston VA HSR and D Center of Excellence and The Center of Inquiry to Improve Outpatient Safety Through Effective Electronic Communication, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 104:2543-54. 2009..Our objective was to describe missed opportunities to diagnose CRC before endoscopic referral, in terms of patient characteristics, nature of clinical clues, and types of diagnostic-process breakdowns involved... - Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol calculation and goal awareness among physicians-in-trainingSmita I Negi
Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
J Clin Lipidol 6:50-7. 2012..Non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) goal attainment per Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) guidelines remains low... - Treating chronically ill people with diabetes mellitus with limited life expectancy: implications for performance measurementLeChauncy D Woodard
Health Policy and Quality Program, Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 60:193-201. 2012..To develop an algorithm to identify individuals with limited life expectancy and examine the effect of limited life expectancy on glycemic control and treatment intensification in individuals with diabetes mellitus... - Improving follow-up of abnormal cancer screens using electronic health records: trust but verify test result communicationHardeep Singh
The Center of Inquiry to Improve Outpatient Safety Through Effective Electronic Communication, VA Medical Center 152 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 9:49. 2009..We determined if technical and/or workflow-related aspects of automated communication in the electronic health record could lead to the lack of response... - Frequency and correlates of treatment intensification for elevated cholesterol levels in patients with cardiovascular diseaseSalim S Virani
Health Policy and Quality Program, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston, TX, USA
Am Heart J 162:725-732.e1. 2011.... - Notification of abnormal lab test results in an electronic medical record: do any safety concerns remain?Hardeep Singh
Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Am J Med 123:238-44. 2010..We examined whether automated notifications of abnormal laboratory results (alerts) in an integrated electronic medical record resulted in timely follow-up actions... - Quality of depression care and its impact on health service use and mortality among veteransJeffrey A Cully
Houston Veterans Affairs VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence and the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA
Psychiatr Serv 59:1399-405. 2008..This study examined Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data over a six-year period to determine whether quality of depression care was related to patients' health service use and mortality... - Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of health services: bias, preferences, or poor communication?Carol M Ashton
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:146-52. 2003..We evaluate the evidence that poor communication is a cause of disparities and propose some remedies drawn from the communication sciences... - Reducing referral delays in colorectal cancer diagnosis: is it about how you ask?Hardeep Singh
VA Medical Center 152, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 19:e27. 2010..The authors tested whether certain details of information transmitted through computerised provider order entry (CPOE)-based referrals affected timeliness of diagnostic colonoscopy for patients with newly diagnosed CRC... - Does poorer familiarity with Medicare translate into worse access to health care?Robert O Morgan
Division of Management, Policy, and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:2053-60. 2008..To examine the relationship between a global measure of Medicare program familiarity and a broad set of measures of actual and perceived healthcare access... - Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widelyJochen Profit
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, VA HSR and D, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 97:F120-6. 2012..Variation in healthcare delivery and outcomes in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) may be partly explained by differences in safety culture... - Exploring situational awareness in diagnostic errors in primary careHardeep Singh
VA Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:30-8. 2012.... - Is lipid-lowering therapy underused by African Americans at high risk of coronary heart disease within the VA health care system?LeChauncy D Woodard
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2112-7. 2004..We examined whether racial differences exist in cholesterol monitoring, use of lipid-lowering agents, and achievement of guideline-recommended low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease... - Knowledge and awareness of peripheral vascular disease are poor among women at risk for cardiovascular diseaseRuth L Bush
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Surg Res 145:313-9. 2008..In a cross-sectional study, we assessed the prevalence of PVD and associated atherosclerotic risk factors in ambulatory women veterans as well as knowledge and awareness of PVD and its consequences... - Communication outcomes of critical imaging results in a computerized notification systemHardeep Singh
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 14:459-66. 2007..We standardized processes and procedures in a computerized test result notification system and examined their effectiveness to reduce errors in communication of abnormal imaging results... - Regionalization and the underuse of angiography in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System as compared with a fee-for-service systemLaura A Petersen
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Section for Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
N Engl J Med 348:2209-17. 2003..Further work should focus on how regionalization policies could be improved with effective referral and triage processes... - Follow-up actions on electronic referral communication in a multispecialty outpatient settingHardeep Singh
Houston VA HSR and D Center of Excellence and The Center of Inquiry to Improve Outpatient Safety Through Effective Electronic Communication, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:64-9. 2011..We used an EHR to examine follow-up actions on electronic referral communication in a large multispecialty VA facility... - Impact of clinical complexity on the quality of diabetes careLeChauncy D Woodard
Health Policy and Quality Program, Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Manag Care 18:508-14. 2012..To assess the impact of clinical complexity on 3 dimensions of diabetes care... - How variability in the institutional review board review process affects minimal-risk multisite health services researchLaura A Petersen
Health Services Research and Development 152, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Ann Intern Med 156:728-35. 2012..The Department of Health and Human Services recently called for public comment on human subjects research protections... - Does pay-for-performance improve the quality of health care?Laura A Petersen
Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:265-72. 2006..This produces no financial incentives and, in some cases, produces disincentives for quality. Increasing numbers of programs link payment to performance... - Obesity: an independent predictor of in-hospital postoperative renal insufficiency among patients undergoing cardiac surgery?Salim S Virani
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Tex Heart Inst J 36:540-5. 2009.... - Children with chronic illness return to their baseline functional status after organ dysfunction on the first day of admission in the pediatric intensive care unitKatri V Typpo
Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
J Pediatr 157:108-113.e1. 2010..To determine chronic illness outcomes after admission with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) for patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)... - Patient-to-nurse ratios and outcomes of moderately preterm infantsJochen Profit
Houston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence 152, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Pediatrics 125:320-6. 2010..The objective of this study was to test the influence of patient-to-nurse ratios (PNRs) on outcomes of care provided to moderately preterm infants... - Comparing self-reported health status and diagnosis-based risk adjustment to predict 1- and 2 to 5-year mortalityKenneth Pietz
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Service, the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center 152, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Serv Res 42:629-43. 2007..To compare the ability of two diagnosis-based risk adjustment systems and health self-report to predict short- and long-term mortality... - The effect of referral and transfer patients on hospital funding in a capitated health care delivery systemKenneth Pietz
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Veterans Health Affairs, Houston, Texas, USA
Med Care 45:951-8. 2007.... - Variations in definitions of mortality have little influence on neonatal intensive care unit performance ratingsJochen Profit
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Electronic address
J Pediatr 162:50-55.e2. 2013..To measure the influence of varying mortality time frames on performance rankings among regional neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in a large state... - Improving benchmarking by using an explicit framework for the development of composite indicators: an example using pediatric quality of careJochen Profit
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Implement Sci 5:13. 2010..Without a scientifically robust and comprehensive approach to measurement of the quality of healthcare, performance measurement will ultimately fail to achieve its quality improvement goals... - A decision-theoretic approach to identifying future high-cost patientsKenneth Pietz
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 44:842-9. 2006..The objective of this study was to develop and evaluate a method of allocating funding for very-high-cost (VHC) patients among hospitals... - VHA pharmacy use in veterans with Medicare drug coverageRobert O Morgan
Division of Management, Policy, and Community Health, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, USA
Am J Manag Care 15:e1-8. 2009..To determine how Medicare benefits affect veterans' use of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) pharmacy services... - Measuring errors and adverse events in health careEric J Thomas
The Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine, Division of General Medicine, and Department of Medicine at The University of Texas Houston Medical School, 77030, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:61-7. 2003..We propose a general framework to help health care providers, researchers, and administrators choose the most appropriate methods to meet their patient safety measurement goals... - Racial differences in how patients perceive physician communication regarding cardiac testingTracie C Collins
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston VA Medical Center, Texas, USA
Med Care 40:I27-34. 2002..Mistrust may be a source of some of the documented racial variation in health care utilization... - Comparison of the predictive validity of diagnosis-based risk adjusters for clinical outcomesLaura A Petersen
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 43:61-7. 2005..In this comparative analysis using VA data, DCG models were generally superior to ACG models in predicting clinical outcomes, although ACG model performance was enhanced by the addition of age... - Errors in cancer diagnosis: current understanding and future directionsHardeep Singh
Health Policy and Quality Program, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Clin Oncol 25:5009-18. 2007.... - Passive monitoring versus active assessment of clinical performance: impact on measured quality of careSylvia J Hysong
Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Med Care 49:883-90. 2011..The effect of actively versus passively monitoring performance on measured quality of care is not known... - Medical errors involving trainees: a study of closed malpractice claims from 5 insurersHardeep Singh
Health Policy and Quality Program, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston, Texas, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:2030-6. 2007..To describe the characteristics of and factors contributing to trainee errors, we analyzed malpractice claims in which trainees were judged to have played an important role in harmful errors... - Implementing pay-for-performance in the neonatal intensive care unitJochen Profit
Section of Neonatology, Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Pediatrics 119:975-82. 2007..In this article, we describe approaches to measuring quality and implementing pay-for-performance in the NICU setting... - Quality of life and peripheral arterial diseaseDebra R Liles
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Surg Res 136:294-301. 2006..In this article, we review measurement instruments available to assess patient-reported QoL, and discuss the potential these tools have for providing accurate and meaningful information to complement traditional clinical outcome data... - Propensity score analysis in observational studies: outcomes after abdominal aortic aneurysm repairMichael L Johnson
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston VAMC, 2002 Holcomb Blvd (112, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Surg 192:336-43. 2006..Patients who underwent elective EVAR had substantially lower perioperative mortality and morbidity rates compared with patients having open repair, which was not explained solely by patient selection in an observational dataset... - Identifying diagnostic errors in primary care using an electronic screening algorithmHardeep Singh
Division of Health Policy and Quality, Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:302-8. 2007..Our objectives were to assess the feasibility of computerized screening to identify diagnostic errors in primary care and to categorize diagnostic breakdowns using a recently published taxonomy... - Prescription errors and outcomes related to inconsistent information transmitted through computerized order entry: a prospective studyHardeep Singh
Houston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2002 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:982-9. 2009..We determined the nature and frequency of such errors and identified their potential predictive variables... - Does resident hours reduction have an impact on surgical outcomes?Haytham M A Kaafarani
Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
J Surg Res 126:167-71. 2005..We assessed the impact of restricting surgical resident work hours as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), on postoperative outcomes... - Barriers to proliferation of electronic medical recordsIgnacio Valdes
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Health Services Research and Development Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Inform Prim Care 12:3-9. 2004..Proliferation of standard electronic health records/ electronic medical records (EHR/EMR) software is an essential precursor of this integration. Proliferation of EHR/EMR software has not occurred in the United States... - Using a multifaceted approach to improve the follow-up of positive fecal occult blood test resultsHardeep Singh
Health Policy and Quality Program, Houston VA HSR and D Center of Excellence, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 104:942-52. 2009..We evaluated their effects on timeliness and appropriateness of positive-FOBT follow-up and identified factors that affect colonoscopy performance... - Racial differences in health-related beliefs, attitudes, and experiences of VA cardiac patients: scale development and applicationNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research a VA Health Services Research and Development National Center of Excellence, Bedford VA Medical Center, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 40:I72-85. 2002.... - Racial differences in trust: reaping what we have sown?Laura A Petersen
Med Care 40:81-4. 2002 - Pay for performance is growing upJochen Profit
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:713-4. 2007 - Comparing performance of multinomial logistic regression and discriminant analysis for monitoring access to care for acute myocardial infarctionMonir Hossain
VA Boston Health Care System, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC, West Roxbury, MA, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 55:400-6. 2002..The choice of MLR or DA with proportional priors, or DA with equal priors for monitoring time intervals of predicted hospital arrival time for a population should depend on the consequences of misclassification errors... - Contribution of the Veterans Health Administration in understanding racial disparities in access and utilization of health care: a spirit of inquiryEugene Z Oddone
Med Care 40:I3-13. 2002 - Functional status outcomes among white and African-American cardiac patients in an equal access systemNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VA Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Am Heart J 153:418-25. 2007..We explored whether racial differences in functional outcomes occur in settings where differences in access and treatment are minimized... - Racial differences in cardiac catheterization as a function of patients' beliefsNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2091-7. 2004..We examined racial differences in cardiac catheterization rates and reviewed whether patients' beliefs or other variables were associated with observed disparities... - Are primary care services a substitute or complement for specialty and inpatient services?John C Fortney
VA HSR and D CeMHOR 152 NLR, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, 2200 Fort Roots Drive, North Little Rock, AR 72114, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1422-42. 2005..To determine whether strategies designed to increase members' use of primary care services result in decreases (substitution) or increases (complementation) in the use and cost of other types of health services... - Outcomes after acute coronary syndrome admission to primary versus tertiary Veterans Affairs medical centers: the Veterans Affairs Access to Cardiology studyJohn S Rumsfeld
Cardiology and Health Services Research, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
Am Heart J 151:32-8. 2006..We compared the health status and rehospitalization of patients with ACS admitted to primary versus tertiary care Veterans Affairs hospitals... - Racial differences in prevalence of coronary obstructions among men with positive nuclear imaging studiesJeff Whittle
Primary Care Division, Clement J Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 47:2034-41. 2006..The purpose of this research was to compare coronary obstruction between clinically similar African Americans (AA) and white persons undergoing coronary angiography... - Health care funding levels and patient outcomes: a national studyMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Health Econ 16:385-93. 2007..Our goal was to determine whether this relationship holds true in a non-Medicare population cared for in a large integrated health care system with a capitated budget allocation system... - Effect of using information from only one system for dually eligible health care usersMargaret M Byrne
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Med Care 44:768-73. 2006..We sought to determine whether all diagnoses and total illness burden of patients who use both the VA and Medicare health care systems can be obtained from examination of data from only one of these systems... - Chronic kidney disease is associated with angiographic coronary artery diseaseMichel Chonchol
Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colo 80262, USA
Am J Nephrol 28:354-60. 2008..Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a dramatically increased risk for cardiovascular mortality. Few prior studies have examined the independent association of CKD with coronary anatomy...