Jeremiah D Schuur

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Assessment of Medicare's imaging efficiency measure for emergency department patients with atraumatic headache
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 60:280-90.e4. 2012
  2. ncbi Measuring quality of care in syncope: case definition affects reported electrocardiogram use but does not bias reporting
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 16:40-9. 2009
  3. ncbi Critical pathways for post-emergency outpatient diagnosis and treatment: tools to improve the value of emergency care
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:e52-63. 2011
  4. ncbi Pregnancy testing in women of reproductive age in US emergency departments, 2002 to 2006: assessment of a national quality measure
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 55:449-457.e2. 2010
  5. ncbi Effect of oral contrast for abdominal computed tomography on emergency department length of stay
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
    Emerg Radiol 17:267-73. 2010
  6. ncbi The impact of Medicaid coverage and reimbursement on access to diagnostic mammography
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Cancer 115:5566-78. 2009
  7. ncbi Making greater use of dedicated hospital observation units for many short-stay patients could save $3.1 billion a year
    Christopher W Baugh
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 31:2314-23. 2012
  8. ncbi Infection and natural history of emergency department-placed central venous catheters
    Christopher H LeMaster
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 56:492-7. 2010
  9. ncbi Episodes of care: is emergency medicine ready?
    Jennifer L Wiler
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 59:351-7. 2012
  10. ncbi Predictors of hand hygiene in the emergency department
    Arjun K Venkatesh
    Brigham and Women s Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:1120-3. 2011

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Publications18

  1. ncbi Assessment of Medicare's imaging efficiency measure for emergency department patients with atraumatic headache
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 60:280-90.e4. 2012
    ..We aim to determine the reliability, validity, and accuracy of OP-15...
  2. ncbi Measuring quality of care in syncope: case definition affects reported electrocardiogram use but does not bias reporting
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 16:40-9. 2009
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  3. ncbi Critical pathways for post-emergency outpatient diagnosis and treatment: tools to improve the value of emergency care
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 18:e52-63. 2011
    ..Increased use of critical pathways after emergency care is a potential way to improve the value of emergency care...
  4. ncbi Pregnancy testing in women of reproductive age in US emergency departments, 2002 to 2006: assessment of a national quality measure
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 55:449-457.e2. 2010
    ..We assess performance and explore definitions for a new emergency department (ED) quality measure: the proportion of women aged 14 to 50 years who have abdominal pain and receive pregnancy testing (aimed at detecting ectopic pregnancy)...
  5. ncbi Effect of oral contrast for abdominal computed tomography on emergency department length of stay
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
    Emerg Radiol 17:267-73. 2010
    ..Adjusted LOS decreased from 324 min (312-337) to 297 min (285-309). Not routinely requiring oral contrast for CTAP in the ED is associated with a half-hour reduction in LOS among all patients undergoing CTAP...
  6. ncbi The impact of Medicaid coverage and reimbursement on access to diagnostic mammography
    Jeremiah D Schuur
    Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Cancer 115:5566-78. 2009
    ..The objective of the current study was to determine the association between reported insurance type (Medicaid vs Medicare), Medicaid reimbursement rate, and access to diagnostic mammography (DM)...
  7. ncbi Making greater use of dedicated hospital observation units for many short-stay patients could save $3.1 billion a year
    Christopher W Baugh
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 31:2314-23. 2012
    ..6 million, and national cost savings would be $3.1 billion. Future policies intended to increase the cost-efficiency of hospital care should include support for observation unit care as an alternative to short-stay inpatient admission...
  8. ncbi Infection and natural history of emergency department-placed central venous catheters
    Christopher H LeMaster
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 56:492-7. 2010
    ..We design a retrospective chart review methodology to determine bloodstream infection and duration of catheterization for central venous catheters placed in the ED...
  9. ncbi Episodes of care: is emergency medicine ready?
    Jennifer L Wiler
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 59:351-7. 2012
    ..We then describe a meaningful role for emergency medicine in an episode of care setting...
  10. ncbi Predictors of hand hygiene in the emergency department
    Arjun K Venkatesh
    Brigham and Women s Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:1120-3. 2011
    ..7% over 5,865 opportunities. Observation unit, hallway or high-visibility location, glove use, and worker type predicted worse HH. Hallway location was the strongest predictor (relative risk, 88.9% [95% confidence interval, 85.9%-92.1%])...
  11. ncbi Parametric versus nonparametric statistical tests: the length of stay example
    Munirih Qualls
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 17:1113-21. 2010
    ..The demonstration shows how inappropriate analysis of ED LOS increases the probability of type II errors...
  12. ncbi Estimates of electronic medical records in U.S. Emergency departments
    Benjamin P Geisler
    Institute for Technology Assessment, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e9274. 2010
    ..We analyze data from a nationally representative sample of US EDs to ascertain the adoption of various EMR functionalities...
  13. ncbi The time burden of alcohol-based hand cleanser when using nonsterile gloves
    Joseph M Reardon
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:96-8. 2013
    ..We report gloving episodes per hour, gloving times with and without handrub, and handrub recommendations compliance. Handrub adds 46 seconds to each glove-use episode, and we provide national extrapolations...
  14. ncbi Emergency department utilization after the implementation of Massachusetts health reform
    Peter B Smulowitz
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 58:225-234.e1. 2011
    ..Our objective is to determine the relationship between health reform and ED use for low-severity conditions...
  15. ncbi Medication errors recovered by emergency department pharmacists
    Jeffrey M Rothschild
    Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 55:513-21. 2010
    ..We assess the impact of emergency department (ED) pharmacists on reducing potentially harmful medication errors...
  16. ncbi A mixed-methods study of the quality of care provided to patients boarding in the emergency department: comparing emergency department and inpatient responsibility models
    Shan W Liu
    1Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    Med Care Res Rev 69:679-98. 2012
    ..A theoretically better responsibility model may not deliver better care to boarded patients because of cultural, resource prioritization, and systems issues...
  17. ncbi Can paramedics read ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction on prehospital 12-lead electrocardiograms?
    Ketan Trivedi
    Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Prehosp Emerg Care 13:207-14. 2009
    ..Objective. To determine whether paramedics can accurately diagnose STEMI on a prehospital 12-lead ECG and decide to activate the cardiac catheterization laboratory appropriately...
  18. ncbi The role of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in the development of guidelines and performance measures
    Jesse M Pines
    Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 17:e130-40. 2010
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