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Electronic health records and quality of diabetes careRandall D Cebul
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
N Engl J Med 365:825-33. 2011..All practices, including many safety-net primary care practices, belonged to a regional quality collaborative and publicly reported performance...
Using electronic medical records to measure and improve performanceRandall D Cebul
Cleveland, Ohio 44109 1998, USA
Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc 119:65-75; discussion 75-6. 2008..In the current presentation I describe how these limitations are being addressed using EMRs, highlighting the design and selected preliminary results of a large trial to improve the care of patients with diabetes...
Care fragmentation and emergency department use among complex patients with diabetesConstance W Liu
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44016, USA
Am J Manag Care 16:413-20. 2010..To evaluate the association between patterns of fragmented care and emergency department (ED) use among adult patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease...
Electronic medical record-assisted design of a cluster-randomized trial to improve diabetes care and outcomesThomas E Love
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:383-91. 2008..Electronic medical records (EMRs) have the potential to facilitate the design of large cluster-randomized trials (CRTs)...
Disease prevention and health promotion in medical education: reflections from an academic health centerDavid Litaker
Department of Medicine, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, OH 44106 6033, USA
Acad Med 79:690-7. 2004..The authors assessed whether students were exposed to key content in these areas and whether they felt this exposure was adequate...
Managed care penetration, insurance status, and access to health careDavid Litaker
Department of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 6033, USA
Med Care 41:1086-95. 2003..Although managed care activity influences healthcare prices and overall utilization, its relationship to access and its broader effects across different insurance categories has not been well studied...
Mortality trends during a program that publicly reported hospital performanceDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Med Care 40:879-90. 2002..It is unclear whether publicly reporting hospitals' risk-adjusted mortality leads to improvements in outcomes...
Outcomes of rehabilitation services for nursing home residentsPatrick K Murray
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 84:1129-36. 2003..To examine survival and community discharge outcomes related to rehabilitation services among patients admitted to nursing homes before the implementation of the Balanced Budget Amendment of 1997...
Mortality trends for 23,505 Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure in Northeast Ohio, 1991 to 1997David W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Am Heart J 146:258-64. 2003..This study analyzed mortality trends from 1991 to 1997 for 23,505 Medicare patients hospitalized with a first admission for HF at 29 Northeast Ohio hospitals...
The effect of publicly reporting hospital performance on market share and risk-adjusted mortality at high-mortality hospitalsDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Med Care 41:729-40. 2003..It is unclear whether publicly reporting hospitals' risk-adjusted mortality affects market share and mortality at outlier hospitals...
Changes in the use of do-not-resuscitate orders after implementation of the Patient Self-Determination ActDavid W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy and Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:343-9. 2003..To determine changes in the use of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and mortality rates following a DNR order after the Patient Self-determination Act (PSDA) was implemented in December 1991...
Redirecting patients to improve stroke outcomes: implications of a volume-based approach in one urban marketMark E Votruba
Department of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Med Care 44:1129-36. 2006..4%; lower thresholds would redirect fewer patients but have negligible effects on mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings fail to support redirecting acute stroke patients based on hospital stroke volume...
Overcoming bias in estimating the volume-outcome relationshipAlexander C Tsai
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine WG-57, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945, USA
Health Serv Res 41:252-64. 2006..Taken together, our results suggest that efforts to concentrate hospital-based CHF care in high-volume hospitals may not reduce mortality among elderly patients...
Rehabilitation services after the implementation of the nursing home prospective payment system: differences related to patient and nursing home characteristicsPatrick K Murray
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500 MetroHealth Dr, Cleveland, OH 44109 1998, USA
Med Care 43:1109-15. 2005..This study examines the changes that occurred in nursing home patients and rehabilitation services following the PPS...
Trends in postdischarge mortality and readmissions: has length of stay declined too far?David W Baker
Center for Health Care Research and Policy, and Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:538-44. 2004..Length of hospital stay continues to decline, but the effect on postdischarge outcomes is unclear...
Improving the quality of hemodialysis treatment: a community-based randomized controlled trial to overcome patient-specific barriersAshwini R Sehgal
Division of Nephrology, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500 MetroHealth Dr, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA
JAMA 287:1961-7. 2002..Inadequate dialysis is also associated with increased hospitalizations and high inpatient costs. Our previous work identified 3 barriers to adequate hemodialysis: dialysis underprescription, catheter use, and shortened treatment time...
Research Grants
- Trial of Decision Support to Improve Diabetes OutcomesRANDALL CEBUL; Fiscal Year: 2006..CCF will lead the components of the study related to patient empowerment utilizing the MyChart clinical application currently being deployed at CCF. ..
