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| Xueya CaiSummaryAffiliation: University of Iowa Country: USA Publications
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Are African American patients more likely to receive a total knee arthroplasty in a low-quality hospital?Xueya Cai
Division of General Internal Medicine, C44 Q GH, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 470:1185-93. 2012..Prior studies have reported that African American patients tend to receive total joint arthroplasties in low-volume hospitals compared with Caucasian patients, suggesting potential racial disparity in the quality of arthroplasty care...
Uncompensated care provided by for-profit, not-for-profit, and government owned hospitalsPeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 10:90. 2010..Our objective was to compare the amount of uncompensated care provided by not-for-profit (NFP), for-profit (FP) and government owned hospitals...
Long-term trends in hip arthroplasty use and volumePeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Arthroplasty 27:278-285.e2. 2012..36), whereas the percentage of revision THA performed by low-volume hospitals declined (P < .001). In aggregate, these results suggest minimal evidence that regionalization of THA is occurring...
Association of race and sites of care with pressure ulcers in high-risk nursing home residentsYue Li
Division of General Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
JAMA 306:179-86. 2011..A variety of nursing home quality improvement programs have been implemented during the last decade but their implications for racial disparities on quality are unknown...
Is higher volume of postacute care patients associated with a lower rehospitalization rate in skilled nursing facilities?Yue Li
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:103-18. 2012..The inverse volume-outcome association in postacute SNF care may reflect a "practice makes perfect" effect, a "selective referral" effect, or both...
Total knee arthroplasty outcomes in top-ranked and non-top-ranked orthopedic hospitals: an analysis of Medicare administrative dataPeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Mayo Clin Proc 87:341-8. 2012..To examine outcomes of Medicare enrollees who underwent primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in top-ranked orthopedic hospitals identified through the U.S. News & World Report hospital rankings and 2 comparison groups of hospitals...
Hospital costs associated with smoking in veterans undergoing general surgeryAparna S Kamath
The Center for Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation at the Iowa City VA Healthcare System, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 214:901-8.e1. 2012....
Mentally ill Medicare patients less likely than others to receive certain types of surgeryYue Li
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1307-15. 2011..Those who did undergo an elective procedure generally experienced poorer outcomes both in the hospital and after discharge. Efforts to improve access to and outcomes of nonpsychiatric care for mentally ill patients are warranted...
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of Medicare patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, 1991-2008Peter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
JAMA 305:1560-7. 2011..Total hip arthroplasty is a common surgical procedure but little is known about longitudinal trends...
Mortality rates are similar after hip fractures for rural and urban patientsBenjamin J Miller
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 470:1763-70. 2012..Proximal femoral fractures are common in the elderly. The best care depends on expeditious presentation, medical stabilization, and treatment of the condition...
Are patients with serious mental illness more likely to be admitted to nursing homes with more deficiencies in care?Yue Li
Division of General Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Med Care 49:397-405. 2011..However, it is unknown whether they are equally likely to be admitted to nursing homes with adequate quality of care compared with other patients...
Use of routine clinical preventive services among daily smokers, non-daily smokers, former smokers, and never-smokersMark W Vander Weg
Comprehensive Access and Delivery Research and Evaluation Center, Iowa City VA Health Care Center, 601 Highway 6 West, Mail Stop 152, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 14:123-30. 2012....
