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Association of diagnostic coding with trends in hospitalizations and mortality of patients with pneumonia, 2003-2009Peter 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...
Volume, quality of care, and outcome in pneumoniaPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:262-9. 2006..The establishment of minimum volume thresholds has been proposed as a means of improving outcomes for patients with various medical and surgical conditions...- Quality of care for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasePeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:894-903. 2006..Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is 1 of the 10 leading causes of hospitalization among adults in the United States... - Physician characteristics, attitudes, and use of computerized order entryPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
J Hosp Med 1:221-30. 2006..Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is a widely advocated patient safety intervention, yet little is known about its adoption by attending physicians or community hospitals... - Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvementPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
N Engl J Med 356:486-96. 2007..Public reporting and pay for performance are intended to accelerate improvements in hospital care, yet little is known about the benefits of these methods of providing incentives for improving care... - Outcomes of care by hospitalists, general internists, and family physiciansPeter K Lindenauer
Center for Quality and Safety Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
N Engl J Med 357:2589-600. 2007.... - The era of big performance measurement: here at last?Peter K Lindenauer
Clinical and Quality Informatics, Baystate Health, Massachusetts, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:307-8. 2008..Despite progress in identifying a starter set of performance measures, more sophisticated measures need to be developed that promote adherence to desired care processes while discouraging overuse errors... - Public reporting and pay-for-performance programs in perioperative medicine: are they meeting their goals?Peter Lindenauer
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut Street, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 76:S3-8. 2009..Likewise, consumers' awareness and use of publicly available hospital and provider quality data have been low but appear to be increasing... - Activated protein C and hospital mortality in septic shock: a propensity-matched analysisPeter K Lindenauer
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA
Crit Care Med 38:1101-7. 2010..We sought to compare the outcomes of patients with septic shock who received early treatment with activated protein C to those who did not... - Association of corticosteroid dose and route of administration with risk of treatment failure in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasePeter K Lindenauer
Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut St, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
JAMA 303:2359-67. 2010..Systemic corticosteroids are beneficial for patients hospitalized with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, their optimal dose and route of administration are uncertain... - Perioperative beta-blocker therapy and mortality after major noncardiac surgeryPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass 01199, USA
N Engl J Med 353:349-61. 2005..We assessed the use of perioperative beta-blockers and their association with in-hospital mortality in routine clinical practice... - Use of antihypertensive agents in the management of patients with acute ischemic strokeP K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut St, P 5931, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Neurology 63:318-23. 2004..To protect the ischemic penumbra, guidelines have recommended against treating all but the severest elevations in blood pressure during acute ischemic stroke... - Lipid-lowering therapy and in-hospital mortality following major noncardiac surgeryPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass 01199, USA
JAMA 291:2092-9. 2004..Although lipid-lowering medications are considered a key component in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, their potential benefit during the perioperative period is uncertain... - The potential preventability of postoperative myocardial infarction: underuse of perioperative beta-adrenergic blockadePeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Mass, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:762-6. 2004..We sought to determine how often postoperative MI might be considered preventable through appropriate use of these medications... - Quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: assessing the impact of hospitalistsPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut St P 5928, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:1251-6. 2002..The quality of care provided to patients hospitalized for heart failure has been shown to vary by physician, hospital, and region. Hospitalists appear to reduce costs and length of stay, yet their impact on quality of care is less certain... - The role of the institutional review board in quality improvement: a survey of quality officers, institutional review board chairs, and journal editorsPeter K Lindenauer
Division of Healthcare Quality, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut Street P 5928, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Am J Med 113:575-9. 2002..We sought to determine whether quality officers, IRB chairs, and journal editors share similar views about the role of IRB review and informed consent in quality improvement... - Hospitalists and the practice of inpatient medicine: results of a survey of the National Association of Inpatient PhysiciansP K Lindenauer
Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA 01199, USA
Ann Intern Med 130:343-9. 1999..Financial incentives were common (43%) but modest. Accurate information about hospitalists and their practices will be important to clinicians, educators, researchers, and policymakers as the hospitalist movement continues to grow... - Little evidence of correlation between growth in health care spending and reduced mortalityMichael B Rothberg
Tufts University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1523-31. 2010..The message to be underscored once again for policy makers is that health care dollars provide inconsistent value, and future spending increases should be targeted to care that improves outcomes... - Forecasting the impact of a clinical practice guideline for perioperative beta-blockers to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortalityMichael Schmidt
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:63-9. 2002..A clinical practice guideline may be one method to achieve these goals at little cost... - Potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized eldersMichael B Rothberg
Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
J Hosp Med 3:91-102. 2008..Prescribing of potentially harmful medications has not been well documented in hospitals... - Improving the care of patients with regard to chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis: the effect of feedback to clinicians on adherence to antiemetic prescribing guidelinesWilson C Mertens
Baystate Regional Cancer Program, Division of Hematology Oncology, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA 01107, USA
J Clin Oncol 21:1373-8. 2003..To evaluate the effect of performance and outcomes feedback on adherence to clinical practice guidelines regarding chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis (CINE)... - Association of admission date with cancer patient survival at a regional hospice: utility of a statistical process control analysisWilson C Mertens
Cancer Services, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Baystate Medical Center and Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Hosp Palliat Care 21:275-84. 2004..SPC charts proved to be an effective method of tracking and evaluating hospice LOS on an ongoing basis... - Improving nurse-to-patient staffing ratios as a cost-effective safety interventionMichael B Rothberg
Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts 01199, USA
Med Care 43:785-91. 2005..Responding to research confirming the link between nurse staffing and patient outcomes, 14 states have introduced legislation to limit patient-to-nurse ratios. However, increased staffing places a considerable financial burden on hospitals... 
Effects of quality improvement collaborativesPeter K Lindenauer
BMJ 336:1448-9. 2008- Length of stay and mortality in pulmonary embolism: high time for evidence-based discharge criteriaDaniel J Brotman
Arch Intern Med 168:683-4. 2008 - Primary care physician attitudes regarding communication with hospitalistsSteven Z Pantilat
Dis Mon 48:218-29. 2002..It may be possible to tailor communication to individual PCPs. Further research could assess the impact of such communication on patient satisfaction and outcomes...