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| Rita Mangione-SmithSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Measuring the effectiveness of a collaborative for quality improvement in pediatric asthma care: does implementing the chronic care model improve processes and outcomes of care?Rita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1752, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:75-82. 2005..To examine whether a collaborative to improve pediatric asthma care positively influenced processes and outcomes of that care...- The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United StatesRita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Child Health Institute, and Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98115 8160, USA
N Engl J Med 357:1515-23. 2007..Little is known about the magnitude of deficits in the quality of care delivered to children, since comprehensive studies have been lacking... - Ruling out the need for antibiotics: are we sending the right message?Rita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, Calif, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:945-52. 2006..To examine the relationships among physician-parent communication practices, physicians' perceptions of parental expectations for antibiotic treatment, and inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory tract infections... - Racial/ethnic variation in parent expectations for antibiotics: implications for public health campaignsRita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1752, USA
Pediatrics 113:e385-94. 2004..Widespread overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics are a major public health concern. Little is known about racial/ethnic differences in parents seeking antibiotics for their children's upper respiratory illnesses... - Online commentary during the physical examination: a communication tool for avoiding inappropriate antibiotic prescribing?Rita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, 12 365 Marion Davies Children s Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1752, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:313-20. 2003..No problem' online commentary is a communication technique that may provide an effective and efficient method for resisting perceived expectations to prescribe antibiotics... 
Characterizing providers' immunization communication practices during health supervision visits with vaccine-hesitant parents: a pilot studyDouglas J Opel
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Vaccine 30:1269-75. 2012..To determine the feasibility of using direct observation of provider-parent immunization discussions and to characterize provider communication practices with vaccine-hesitant parents...- Why do physicians think parents expect antibiotics? What parents report vs what physicians believeTanya Stivers
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles 90095 1752, USA
J Fam Pract 52:140-8. 2003..To examine the relation between parent expectations for antibiotics, parent communication behaviors, and physicians' perceptions of parent expectations for antibiotics... 
Quality of care indicators for the structure and organization of inpatient rehabilitation care of children with traumatic brain injuryJennifer M Zumsteg
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 93:386-93.e1. 2012....- Validity and reliability of a survey to identify vaccine-hesitant parentsDouglas J Opel
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States
Vaccine 29:6598-605. 2011..To assess the construct validity and reliability of the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines survey... - Variation in adherence to new quality-of-care indicators for the acute rehabilitation of children with traumatic brain injuryFrederick P Rivara
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Box 359960, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 91804, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 93:1371-6. 2012..To determine variations in care provided by 9 inpatient rehabilitation units for children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) using newly developed quality indicators... - Measuring the quality of care for group A streptococcal pharyngitis in 5 US health plansRita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, 10833 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:491-7. 2005..There is a high degree of professional consensus that children diagnosed with pharyngitis should only receive antibiotics if they have a positive test for group A streptococcus (GAS)... - Measuring the quality of antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory infections and bronchitis in 5 US health plansRita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1752, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:751-7. 2005..To develop and test the validity of a quality-of-care performance measure that examines antibiotic prescribing rates in children diagnosed as having upper respiratory infection (URI) or bronchitis... - Learning from a distance: effectiveness of online spirometry training in improving asthma careJames W Stout
Department of Pediatrics and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:88-95. 2012..We evaluated the effectiveness of a virtually delivered quality improvement (QI) program designed to improve primary care management for children with asthma... - Deciding not to measure performance: the case of acute otitis mediaRita Mangione-Smith
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:27-36. 2003..This is the case with AOM. Unfortunately, the evidence base will likely remain inadequate to support the development of such a measure in the future... - Variations in the quality of inpatient rehabilitation care to facilitate school re-entry and cognitive and communication function for children with TBIStephanie K Ennis
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Brain Inj 27:179-88. 2013..To examine variations in processes of paediatric inpatient rehabilitation care related to school re-entry and management of cognitive and communication impairments after traumatic brain injury... - Effectiveness of Spirometry Fundamentals™ for increasing the proper use of spirometry in patients with asthma and COPDBrooke Latzke-Davis
Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children s Hospital Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Prim Care Respir J 20:441-7. 2011..To examine whether exposure to the Spirometry Fundamentals™ CD-ROM results in improved quality of spirometry testing in primary care... - Quality of care indicators for the rehabilitation of children with traumatic brain injuryFrederick P Rivara
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 93:381-5.e9. 2012..To develop measurement tools for assessing compliance with identifiable processes of inpatient care for children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) that are reliable, valid, and amenable to implementation... - Quality measures for primary care of complex pediatric patientsAlex Y Chen
Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Pediatrics 129:433-45. 2012..Our objective was to examine evidence for primary care based on the patient-centered medical home model and to identify valid and meaningful quality measures for use in complex pediatric patients... - The PedsQL™ Infant Scales: feasibility, internal consistency reliability, and validity in healthy and ill infantsJames W Varni
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Texas A and M University, 3137 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 3137, USA
Qual Life Res 20:45-55. 2011..The objective of this study was to report on the initial feasibility, internal consistency reliability, and validity of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants... - An observational study of antibiotic prescribing behavior and the Hawthorne effectRita Mangione-Smith
UCLA, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752, USA
Health Serv Res 37:1603-23. 2002..Future interventions aimed at decreasing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing should consider "harnessing" the Hawthorne effect through performance feedback to participating physicians... - Evaluation of a quality improvement collaborative in asthma care: does it improve processes and outcomes of care?Matthias Schonlau
RAND Health, Santa Monica, Calif, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:200-8. 2005..We wanted to examine whether a collaborative to improve asthma care influences process and outcomes of care in asthmatic adults... - Identifying children's health care quality measures for Medicaid and CHIP: an evidence-informed, publicly transparent expert processRita Mangione-Smith
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children s Hospital Research Institute, 1100 Olive Way, Suite 500, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Acad Pediatr 11:S11-21. 2011..To describe the process used to identify the recommended core set of quality measures as mandated by the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) and provide an overview of the measures selected... - Development of a survey to identify vaccine-hesitant parents: the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines surveyDouglas J Opel
Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA USA
Hum Vaccin 7:419-25. 2011..Conclusions: The Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines survey was constructed using qualitative methodology to identify vaccine-hesitant parents and has content and face validity. Further psychometric testing is needed... - Bridging the quality chasm for children: need for valid, comprehensive measurement toolsRita Mangione-Smith
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:909-10. 2007 - How do ethnicity and primary language spoken at home affect management practices and outcomes in children and adolescents with asthma?Kitty S Chan
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:283-9. 2005..However, little is known about how language barriers influence asthma management practices and outcomes... - The PedsQL: reliability and validity of the short-form generic core scales and Asthma ModuleKitty S Chan
RAND Corporation, Health Program, Santa Monica, California, USA
Med Care 43:256-65. 2005..0 SF15, a shortened version of the 23-item PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales, which is a pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument, and the PedsQL 3.0 SF22 Asthma Module, a short-form of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module...
Research Grants
- Improving Communication during Pediatric Visits for Acute Respiratory IllnessRita Mangione Smith; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Developing Quality Measures to Assess Pediatric Inpatient Respiratory CareRita Mangione Smith; Fiscal Year: 2009..Without such measurement tools, it is not possible to assess where deficits exist and how to target efforts to best improve care. This tool will be designed for dissemination and use among all hospitals caring for children nationally. ..
- Developing Quality Measures to Assess Pediatric Inpatient Respiratory CareRita Mangione Smith; Fiscal Year: 2010..Without such measurement tools, it is not possible to assess where deficits exist and how to target efforts to best improve care. This tool will be designed for dissemination and use among all hospitals caring for children nationally. ..
- Improving Asthma Outcomes Through Spirometry Distance LearningRita Mangione Smith; Fiscal Year: 2010....