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| Jill A MarstellerSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Design of a quality and performance improvement project for small primary care practices: reflections on the Center for Practice InnovationJill A Marsteller
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Prim Care 19:49-57. 2011..Small practices often lack the human, financial and technical resources to make necessary practice improvements and infrastructure investments in order to achieve sustainable change that promotes quality and efficiency...
Developing process-support tools for patient safety: finding the balance between validity and feasibilityJill A Marsteller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:604-7, 561. 2008..The Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group, which has developed many process-support tools--three of which are reported in this issue--describes its approach to tool development...
A simple intervention promoting patient safety improvements in small internal medicine practicesJill A Marsteller
Health Policy and Management, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 433 Hampton House, 624 N Broadway Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Qual Prim Care 18:307-16. 2010..Some safety issues, however, may be easily and inexpensively addressed, given the necessary information on what is required...
Health care provider evaluation of a substitutive model of hospital at homeJill A Marsteller
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Med Care 47:979-85. 2009..To evaluate Hospital at Home (HaH), a substitute for inpatient care, from the perspectives of participating providers...
Physician satisfaction with chronic care processes: a cluster-randomized trial of guided careJill A Marsteller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ann Fam Med 8:308-15. 2010..This study evaluates the effect of the Guided Care model on primary care physicians' impressions of processes of care for chronically ill older patients...
The team checkup tool: evaluating QI team activities and giving feedback to senior leadersLisa H Lubomski
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:619-23, 561. 2008..This tool can close the gap between hospital executives and frontline QI teams, improve knowledge of team activities, and help teams to identify and remedy barriers to progress...
A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units*Jill A Marsteller
From the Department of Health Policy and Management JAM, JBS, Y JH, C JH, PJP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD and Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine JAM, JBS, CGH, PJP, DAT, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Crit Care Med 40:2933-9. 2012..To determine the causal effects of an intervention proven effective in pre-post studies in reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit...
Using evidence, rigorous measurement, and collaboration to eliminate central catheter-associated bloodstream infectionsMelinda Sawyer
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 38:S292-8. 2010..If successful, this program will be the first national quality improvement program in the United States with quantifiable and measurable goals...
Creating high reliability in health care organizationsPeter J Pronovost
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins University, 1901 Thames Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Health Serv Res 41:1599-617. 2006....
Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational studyPeter J Pronovost
Quality and Safety Research Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1909 Thames Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
BMJ 340:c309. 2010..Design Collaborative cohort study to implement and evaluate interventions to improve patients' safety...
Using an interdisciplinary approach to identify factors that affect clinicians' compliance with evidence-based guidelinesAyse P Gurses
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 38:S282-91. 2010....
Variation in local institutional review board evaluations of a multicenter patient safety studyDavid A Thompson
Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, School of Nursing Division of Acute and Chronic Care, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Healthc Qual 34:33-9. 2012..The adoption of uniformity would not only reduce inefficiencies but also attenuate the perceived arbitrary nature of current IRB review processes that often inappropriately influence hypothesis-generation and study design...
Preventing bloodstream infections: a measurable national success story in quality improvementPeter J Pronovost
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:628-34. 2011....
Using human factors engineering to improve patient safety in the cardiovascular operating roomAyse P Gurses
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Work 41:1801-4. 2012....
How do teams in quality improvement collaboratives interact?Jill A Marsteller
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:267-76. 2007..Considering QI collaboratives as networks, interactions among reams were documented, and the associations between network roles and performance were examined...
The effect of disability on personal quality of primary care received by older adultsChun Ju Hsiao
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Disabil Rehabil 31:1835-42. 2009..A 'response shift' phenomenon may explain the lack of an observed association between persistent disability and personal quality of care...
Electronic health record-based monitoring of primary care patients at risk of medication-related toxicityDavid G Bundy
Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 38:216-23. 2012....
Outpatient tonsillectomy in children: demographic and geographic variation in the United States, 2006Emily F Boss
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Pediatr 160:814-9. 2012..To examine geographic and demographic variation for outpatient tonsillectomy in children nationally...
Validity and usefulness of members reports of implementation progress in a quality improvement initiative: findings from the Team Check-up Tool (TCT)Kitty S Chan
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Implement Sci 6:115. 2011..Yet, the science for measuring context is immature. The goal of this study is to validate measures from a short instrument tailored to track dynamic context and progress for a team-based quality improvement (QI) intervention...
