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| Gregg S MeyerSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Country: USA Publications
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The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's activities in patient safety researchGregg S Meyer
Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Bulfinch 205, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 15:i25-30. 2003..To update the international community on the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) recent and current activities in improving patient safety...
Perspective: a culture of respect, part 2: creating a culture of respectLucian L Leape
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Acad Med 87:853-8. 2012....- Design and evaluation of simulation scenarios for a program introducing patient safety, teamwork, safety leadership, and simulation to healthcare leaders and managersJeffrey B Cooper
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Boston, MA, USA
Simul Healthc 6:231-8. 2011..These kinds of clinical simulation exercises can be used to teach healthcare leaders and managers safety leadership and teamwork skills and behaviors... - Contemporary performance of U.S. teaching and nonteaching hospitalsDavid M Shahian
Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Med 87:701-8. 2012..To compare the performance of U.S. teaching and nonteaching hospitals using a portfolio of contemporary, publicly reported metrics... 
Design and implementation of an application and associated services to support interdisciplinary medication reconciliation efforts at an integrated healthcare delivery networkEric G Poon
Clinical Informatics Research and Development, Suite 201, 93 Worcester St, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:581-92. 2006..Results from early pilot testing suggest that this new medication reconciliation process is well accepted by clinicians and has significant potential to prevent medication errors during transitions of care...- Predictors of nonadherence to national hospital quality measures for heart failure and pneumoniaDavid M Shahian
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Quality and Safety, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02114, USA
Am J Med 124:636-46. 2011..Understanding factors associated with process measure nonadherence may improve both patient care and future measure design... - Perspective: a culture of respect, part 1: the nature and causes of disrespectful behavior by physiciansLucian L Leape
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Acad Med 87:845-52. 2012..A major contributor to disrespectful behavior is the stressful health care environment, particularly the presence of "production pressure," such as the requirement to see a high volume of patients... - Hospital-wide mortality as a quality metric: conceptual and methodological challengesDavid M Shahian
Center for Quality and Safety and Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Med Qual 27:112-23. 2012.... - Association of National Hospital Quality Measure adherence with long-term mortality and readmissionsDavid M Shahian
Center for Quality and Safety and Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:325-36. 2012..Our investigation addresses methodological concerns with previous studies to better clarify the process-outcomes association for three common conditions... - A case for safety leadership team training of hospital managersSara J Singer
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 36:188-200. 2011..Despite the need for such training, few programs teach multidisciplinary groups of managers about specific behaviors that can enhance their role as leadership teams in the realm of patient safety... - Patient safety climate in hospitals: act locally on variation across unitsEric G Campbell
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:319-26. 2010..A study was conducted to assess the extent and nature of variation in safety climate across units within an academic medical center... - Restructuring within an academic health center to support quality and safety: the development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General HospitalRichard M J Bohmer
Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Acad Med 84:1663-71. 2009..The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest incremental financial resources... - The roles of government in improving health care quality and safetyNing Tang
Harvard University, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:47-55. 2004..Translating general principles regarding the appropriate role of government into specific actions within a rapidly changing, decentralized delivery system will require the combined efforts of the public and private sectors... - A middle ground on public accountabilityThomas H Lee
Partners HealthCare System, Boston, MA 02199, USA
N Engl J Med 350:2409-12. 2004 - Relationship between performance measurement and accreditation: implications for quality of care and patient safetyMarlene R Miller
Advisory Council on Performance Measurement for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, USA
Am J Med Qual 20:239-52. 2005..There is a need to continuously reevaluate all measurement tools to ensure they are providing the public with reliable, consistent information about health care quality and safety... - Use of administrative data for clinical quality measurementDavid F Torchiana
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 129:1223-5. 2005 - The effects of HMO penetration on preventable hospitalizationsChunliu Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Health Serv Res 39:345-61. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that HMO penetration has significant effects in reducing preventable hospitalizations due to some ambulatory care sensitive conditions... - The power of two: improving patient safety through better physician-patient communicationGregg S Meyer
Fam Pract Manag 9:47-8. 2002 - Use of evidence-based data to drive your patient safety programGregg S Meyer
Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Am J Infect Control 30:314-7. 2002..The research results generated by this initiative will provide an evidentiary base for system improvements that, when implemented, will greatly enhance the safety of the nation's health care system...