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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...
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...
Racial disparities in rehospitalization among Medicare patients in skilled nursing facilitiesYue Li
Division of General Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA
Am J Public Health 101:875-82. 2011..We examined racial disparities in rehospitalization rates among a cohort of non-Hispanic White and Black Medicare beneficiaries admitted to skilled nursing facilities for postacute care...
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...
Origination of medical advance directives among nursing home residents with and without serious mental illnessXueya Cai
Division of General Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Dr, C44 N GH, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Psychiatr Serv 62:61-6. 2011..This study tested whether persons with serious mental illness are as likely as other nursing home residents to make informed choices about treatments through medical advance care plans...
State regulatory enforcement and nursing home termination from the medicare and medicaid programsYue Li
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa and Iowa City VA Medical Center, SE610 GH, 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Serv Res 45:1796-814. 2010..We examined the relationship between state quality enforcement and nursing home terminations from the two programs...
Provision of mental health services in U.S. nursing homes, 1995-2004Yue Li
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, SE610 GH, 200 Hawkins Dr, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Psychiatr Serv 61:349-55. 2010..The study also determined cross-sectional correlates of service availability and models of services...
Racial disparities in receipt of influenza and pneumococcus vaccinations among US nursing-home residentsYue Li
Health Policy Research Institute and the Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S256-62. 2010..We examined racial disparities in receipt and documentation of influenza and pneumococcus vaccinations among nursing-home residents...
The effect of state regulatory stringency on nursing home qualityDana B Mukamel
Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, 100 Academy, Suite 110, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
Health Serv Res 47:1791-813. 2012..To test the hypothesis that more stringent quality regulations contribute to better quality nursing home care and to assess their cost-effectiveness...
Total knee arthroplasty volume, utilization, and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries, 1991-2010Peter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Dr, 6GH SE, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
JAMA 308:1227-36. 2012..Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is one of the most common and costly surgical procedures performed in the United States...
National release of the nursing home quality report cards: implications of statistical methodology for risk adjustmentYue Li
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Health Serv Res 44:79-102. 2009..DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTINGS: Secondary data from the national Minimum Data Set files of 2004 and 2005 that include 605,433 long-term residents in 9,336 facilities...
Nursing homes appeals of deficiencies: the informal dispute resolution processDana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Health Policy Research Institute, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 13:512-6. 2012..This study presents for the first time national statistics about the IDR process and an analysis of the factors that influence nursing homes' decisions to request an IDR...
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...
The "Nursing Home Compare" measure of urinary/fecal incontinence: cross-sectional variation, stability over time, and the impact of case mixYue Li
Division of General Internal Medicine, SE610 GH, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Serv Res 45:79-97. 2010....
The volume-outcome relationship in nursing home care: an examination of functional decline among long-term care residentsYue Li
Health Policy Research Institute, and Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Med Care 48:52-7. 2010..This study sought to determine whether a similar association exists between nursing home volume of long-term care residents and rates of decline in physical function...
Adverse outcomes in hip arthroplasty: long-term trendsBrian R Wolf
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 94:e103. 2012..Our objective was to describe long-term trends in demographics, comorbidities, and adverse outcomes for older patients who underwent primary and revision total hip arthroplasty...
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...
Does state regulation of quality impose costs on nursing homes?Dana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Health Policy Research Institute, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
Med Care 49:529-34. 2011..Government regulation is intended to enhance quality, safety, fairness, or competition in the regulated industry. Such regulation entails both direct and indirect costs...
What factors contribute to successful appeals of nursing homes' deficiencies in the informal dispute resolution process?Dana B Mukamel
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Health Policy Research Institute, Irvine, CA 92697 5800, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 14:101-4. 2013..To determine what factors contribute to successful appeals of nursing home deficiencies in the Informal Dispute Resolution (IDR) process...
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...
Does risk adjustment of the CMS quality measures for nursing homes matter?Dana B Mukamel
University of California Irvine, Center for Health Policy Research, Irvine, California 92697 5800, USA
Med Care 46:532-41. 2008..The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publish a report card for nursing homes with 19 clinical quality measures (QMs). These measures include minimal risk adjustment...
Outliers: hospitals with consistently lower and higher than predicted joint arthroplasty readmission ratesPeter Cram
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA CADRE, Iowa City Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, IA, USA
Geriatr Orthop Surg Rehabil 2:135-47. 2011..Our objective was to examine readmission rates and whether hospitals with high and low readmission rates at baseline remain outliers in subsequent years...
Impact of length of stay after coronary bypass surgery on short-term readmission rate: an instrumental variable analysisYue Li
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Division of Health Policy and Outcomes Research, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Med Care 51:45-51. 2013..To determine the effect of postoperative length of stay (LOS) on 30-day readmission after coronary artery bypass surgery...
Research Grants
- State Nursing Home Technical Assistance Programs: Variation & Impact on QualityYue Li; Fiscal Year: 2009..We will combine data from different sources including a survey of state TA programs, and use statistical regression techniques including instrumental variable analysis for hypothesis testing. ..
- Physician Referral & Mental-Disorder Related Disparities in CABG QualityYue Li; Fiscal Year: 2010....
- State Nursing Home Technical Assistance Programs: Variation & Impact on QualityYue Li; Fiscal Year: 2010..We will combine data from different sources including a survey of state TA programs, and use statistical regression techniques including instrumental variable analysis for hypothesis testing. ..
