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Shrinkage estimators for a composite measure of quality conceptualized as a formative constructMichael Shwartz
School of Management, Boston University, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Health Serv Res 48:271-89. 2013..To demonstrate the value of shrinkage estimators when calculating a composite quality measure as the weighted average of a set of individual quality indicators...- Bringing responsibility for small area variations in hospitalization rates back to the hospital: the propensity to hospitalize index and a test of the Roemer's LawMichael Shwartz
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Med Care 49:1062-7. 2011..To assign responsibility for variations in small area hospitalization rates to specific hospitals and to evaluate the Roemer's Law in a way that does not artificially induce correlation between bed supply and utilization... 
Do variations in disease prevalence limit the usefulness of population-based hospitalization rates for studying variations in hospital admissions?Michael Shwartz
School of Management, Boston University, MA 02215, USA
Med Care 43:4-11. 2005....- How well can we identify the high-performing hospital?Michael Shwartz
VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 68:290-310. 2011..This highlights the challenge in identifying high-performing hospitals to learn organizational-level best practices... - Estimating a composite measure of hospital quality from the Hospital Compare database: differences when using a Bayesian hierarchical latent variable model versus denominator-based weightsMichael Shwartz
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Med Care 46:778-85. 2008..A single composite measure calculated from individual quality indicators (QIs) is a useful measure of hospital performance and can be justified conceptually even when the indicators are not highly correlated with one another... - Survey-assessed quality and organizational factors related to quality in Pursuing Perfection hospitalsMichael Shwartz
Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, School of Management, Boston University, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 19:349-63. 2010.... - Examining the impact of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) on the Veterans Health Administration: the case of readmissionsAmy K Rosen
Center for Leadership, Organization and Management Research COLMR, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Med Care 51:37-44. 2013..By focusing primarily on outcomes in the inpatient setting one may overlook serious adverse events that may occur after discharge (eg, readmissions, mortality) as well as opportunities for improving outpatient care... - Comparing the importance of disease rate versus practice style variations in explaining differences in small area hospitalization rates for two respiratory conditionsErol A Pekoz
School of Management, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Stat Med 22:1775-86. 2003..Our results show that for the two conditions, disease rate variation explains at least as much of the variation in hospitalization rates as does practice style variation... - Approximate models for aggregate data when individual-level data sets are very large or unavailableErol A Pekoz
Boston University School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, U S A
Stat Med 29:2180-93. 2010..The performance of several approximation approaches is compared using data on 5 quality indicators from 32 Veterans Administration nursing homes... - Does more "appropriateness" explain higher rates of cardiac procedures among patients hospitalized with coronary heart disease?Joseph D Restuccia
School of Management, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Med Care 40:500-9. 2002..There have been few studies of the extent to which differences in the pool of patients being managed might account for geographic variations in treatment rates... - Transformational change in health care systems: an organizational modelCarol VanDeusen Lukas
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 32:309-20. 2007..S. health care system. Six years later, many health care organizations have embraced the report's goals, but few have succeeded in making the substantial transformations needed to achieve those aims... - Person-centered Care Practices and Quality in Department of Veterans Affairs Nursing Homes: Is There a Relationship?Jennifer L Sullivan
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research COLMR, VA Boston Healthcare System Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA Boston University School of Management, Boston, MA University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research CHQOER Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VAMC, Bedford, MA
Med Care 51:165-71. 2013..To examine variation in culture change to a person-centered care (PCC) model, and the association between culture change and a composite measure of quality in 107 Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes... - Accounting for variation in technical quality and patient satisfaction: the contribution of patient, provider, team, and medical centerKelly L Stolzmann
VA Boston Healthcare System, Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management Research COLMR, Boston, MA 02130, USA
Med Care 48:676-82. 2010..We analyzed the amount of variation in technical quality and patient satisfaction accounted for at the patient, provider, team, and medical center level... - Strengthening organizations to implement evidence-based clinical practicesCarol VanDeusen Lukas
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research, Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 35:235-45. 2010.... - A survey of hospital quality improvement activitiesAlan B Cohen
Boston University Health Policy Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:571-95. 2008.... 
Hospital implementation of health information technology and quality of care: are they related?Joseph D Restuccia
Health Policy Institute, Boston University School of Management, 53 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:109. 2012....- The feasibility and value of new measures showing patterns of quality for patients with 3 chronic conditionsStephen M Davidson
Strategy and Policy Department and Health Sector Management Program, Boston University School of Management, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 31:37-51. 2008.... - Achieving consensus across diverse stakeholders on quality measures for mental healthcareRichard C Hermann
Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
Med Care 42:1246-53. 2004.... - Validating the patient safety indicators in the Veterans Health Administration: do they accurately identify true safety events?Amy K Rosen
Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research COLMR, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA or
Med Care 50:74-85. 2012..However, few studies have determined how accurately the PSIs identify true safety events...