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Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortiumCarolyn De Coster
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 6:77. 2006..This paper presents a list of high-priority methodological areas for researchers using health administrative data...
Can administrative data be used to compare postoperative complication rates across hospitals?Patrick S Romano
Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817, USA
Med Care 40:856-67. 2002..Several quality assessment systems use administrative data to identify postoperative complications, with uncertain validity...- HIM's role in monitoring patient safetyPatrick S Romano
UC Davis Division of General Medicine, Stanford University, USA
J AHIMA 73:72-4. 2002 - Validity of selected AHRQ patient safety indicators based on VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program dataPatrick S Romano
UC Davis Division of General Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, 4150 V Street, PSSB Suite 2400, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Health Serv Res 44:182-204. 2009.... - Do well-publicized risk-adjusted outcomes reports affect hospital volume?Patrick S Romano
Division of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, 95817, USA
Med Care 42:367-77. 2004..Report cards on hospital performance are common but have uncertain impact... - The evolving science of quality measurement for hospitals: implications for studies of competition and consolidationPatrick S Romano
Division of General Medicine and Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Int J Health Care Finance Econ 4:131-57. 2004.... - Grading the graders: how hospitals in California and New York perceive and interpret their report cardsP S Romano
Department of Internal Medicine, and the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817, USA
Med Care 37:295-305. 1999..Concerns about quality of care are increasing as hospitals struggle to lower costs. Hospital report cards are controversial, but little is known about their impact... - Can decision analysis help us decide whether ultrasound screening for fetal anomalies is worth it?P S Romano
Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95817, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 847:154-72. 1998..We found that routine ultrasound appears to be the preferred strategy for most women. This choice is sensitive primarily to the specificity of ultrasound and women's willingness-to-pay for the reassurance of a normal ultrasound... - Can administrative data be used to ascertain clinically significant postoperative complications?Patrick S Romano
Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817, USA
Am J Med Qual 17:145-54. 2002..ICD-9-CM complication codes are more promising as a tool to help providers identify their own adverse outcomes than as a tool for comparing performance... - Coding of perineal lacerations and other complications of obstetric care in hospital discharge dataPatrick S Romano
Division of General Medicine, the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Obstet Gynecol 106:717-25. 2005..To assess the validity of obstetric complications, including the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Core Measure on perineal lacerations, in the California Patient Discharge Data Set... 
Impact of public reporting of coronary artery bypass graft surgery performance data on market share, mortality, and patient selectionPatrick S Romano
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
Med Care 49:1118-25. 2011..The impact of publicly reporting risk-adjusted outcomes for hospitals and surgeons remains controversial, with particular concern about unintended consequences...- Cases of iatrogenic pneumothorax can be identified from ICD-9-CM coded dataBanafsheh Sadeghi
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Med Qual 25:218-24. 2010..At least 1725 hospital-acquired pneumothoraxes could have been prevented in 2004 through universal use of ultrasound guidance during internal jugular cannulation... - Survival enhancing indications for coronary artery bypass graft surgery in CaliforniaZhongmin Li
Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 8:257. 2008..We performed this study to explore variations in clinical indications for CABG surgery among California hospitals and surgeons... - Detection of postoperative respiratory failure: how predictive is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicator?Garth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 211:347-354.e1-29. 2010..We sought to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) of this indicator... - How valid is the ICD-9-CM based AHRQ patient safety indicator for postoperative venous thromboembolism?Richard H White
Division of General Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95817, USA
Med Care 47:1237-43. 2009..However, few studies have evaluated the accuracy of these ICD-9-CM codes across multiple hospitals... - Hospital variation in readmission after coronary artery bypass surgery in CaliforniaZhongmin Li
University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 5:729-37. 2012..Readmission rates also vary widely between hospitals, but the reasons for this variation have not been studied previously... - Positive predictive value of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicator for central line-related bloodstream infection ("selected infections due to medical care")Patricia A Zrelak
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA Battelle Memorial Institute in Sacramento, CA, USA
J Healthc Qual 33:29-36. 2011..PSI 7 has a low positive predictive value compared with other PSIs recently studied. Present on admission diagnoses and improved coding for infections related to central venous catheters (implemented October 2007) may improve validity... - Evaluation of the predictive value of ICD-9-CM coded administrative data for venous thromboembolism in the United StatesRichard H White
Division of General Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Thromb Res 126:61-7. 2010..To determine the positive predictive value of International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) discharge codes for acute deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism... - Quality of care of children in the emergency department: association with hospital setting and physician trainingMadan Dharmar
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Pediatr 153:783-9. 2008..To investigate differences in the quality of emergency care for children related to differences in hospital setting, physician training, and demographic factors... - Clinical practice and variation in care for childhood obesity at seven clinics in CaliforniaUlfat Shaikh
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of Medicine, 2516 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Qual Prim Care 20:335-44. 2012..The goal of this network is to improve childhood obesity prevention and management practices at participating clinics... - Positive predictive value of the AHRQ accidental puncture or laceration patient safety indicatorGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817
Ann Surg 250:1041-5. 2009..We sought to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) of this indicator... - A national profile of patient safety in U.S. hospitalsPatrick S Romano
Division of General Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:154-66. 2003..The PSIs may be used in AHRQ's National Quality Report, while providers may use them to screen for preventable complications, target opportunities for improvement, and benchmark performance... - Designing an abstraction instrument: lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ patient safety indicatorsGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 37:20-8. 2011.... - Variation in academic medical centers' coding practices for postoperative respiratory complications: implications for the AHRQ postoperative respiratory failure Patient Safety IndicatorGarth H Utter
Department of Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Med Care 50:792-800. 2012..We sought to determine whether hospitals vary in the use of 518.81 versus 518.5 and whether such variation correlates with coder beliefs... - Ovarian cancer: can we make the clinical diagnosis earlier?Lloyd H Smith
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Cancer 104:1398-407. 2005..The aim of this study was to provide an objective evaluation of symptoms that precede a diagnosis of ovarian cancer... - Preliminary assessment of pediatric health care quality and patient safety in the United States using readily available administrative dataKathryn M McDonald
Center for Health Policy Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Pediatrics 122:e416-25. 2008..Our aim was to develop indicators using inpatient administrative data to assess aspects of the quality of inpatient pediatric care and access to quality outpatient care... - Screening mammography beliefs and recommendations: a web-based survey of primary care physiciansShagufta Yasmeen
Department of Internal Medicine and Centre for Healthcare Policy and Research University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 12:32. 2012.... - Using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety indicators for targeting nursing quality improvementPatricia A Zrelak
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California Davis, UC Davis Medical Center, 2103 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
J Nurs Care Qual 27:99-108. 2012..In this paper, we describe how the AHRQ PSI may be used to identify nursing-specific opportunities to improve care based on data from the national AHRQ PSI validation pilot project... - The CABG surgery volume-outcome relationship: temporal trends and selection effects in California, 1998-2004James P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis Children s Hospital, and Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, 2516 Stockton Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Health Serv Res 43:174-92. 2008.... - Assessment of a novel hybrid Delphi and Nominal Groups technique to evaluate quality indicatorsSheryl Davies
Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University CHP PCOR, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA 94305 6019, USA
Health Serv Res 46:2005-18. 2011..To test the implementation of a novel structured panel process in the evaluation of quality indicators... - Impact of public reporting on access to coronary artery bypass surgery: the California Outcomes Reporting ProgramZhongmin Li
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 89:1131-8. 2010..However, the impact of this program on operative mortality and access to surgery for high-risk patients has not been clarified... - Impact of between-hospital volume and within-hospital volume on mortality and readmission rates for trauma patients in CaliforniaJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Crit Care Med 32:1477-83. 2004..Since this study found that both between-hospital volume and within-hospital volume measures are associated with outcomes, we recommend that both measures be included in future volume-outcome investigations... - Incidence of cervical cytological abnormalities with aging in the women's health initiative: a randomized controlled trialShagufta Yasmeen
Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, 95817, USA
Obstet Gynecol 108:410-9. 2006..To estimate the incidence of cytological abnormalities and cervical cancer and to determine the effect of oral estrogen and progestin on cervical cytology among postmenopausal women participating in a multi-institution clinical trial... - Comorbidities and mammography use interact to explain racial/ethnic disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosisShagufta Yasmeen
University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California, USA
Cancer 117:3252-61. 2011..Interactions with comorbidity burden and comorbidity-related care have not been examined as potential explanations for racial/ethnic disparities in advanced-stage breast cancer at diagnosis... - What data do California HMOs use to select hospitals for contracting?Julie A Rainwater
Division of General Medicine, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, 4150 V Street, PSSB Suite 2400, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Manag Care 9:553-61. 2003.... - Incidence of symptomatic venous thromboembolism after different elective or urgent surgical proceduresRichard H White
Division of General Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Thromb Haemost 90:446-55. 2003..Because of the high incidence of VTE diagnosed after hospital discharge, further studies of extended thromboprophylaxis appear warranted... - Expanding the uses of AHRQ's prevention quality indicators: validity from the clinician perspectiveSheryl Davies
Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Med Care 49:679-85. 2011..Recently, interest has expanded to using the measures at the level of payer or large physician groups, including public reporting or pay-for-performance programs. However, the validity of these expanded applications is unknown... - Potentially avoidable rehospitalizations following acute myocardial infarction by insurance statusJorge A Garcia
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95817 1498, USA
J Community Health 28:167-84. 2003..2.61; 95% confidence interval, 1.33 to 5.11). Additional studies are needed to define the role of health insurance on clinical outcomes and health care access across a broader range of conditions and communities... - The California Hospital Outcomes Project: using administrative data to compare hospital performanceP S Romano
Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 21:668-82. 1995..In response to providers' concerns, OSHPD has undertaken a validation study to explore whether differences in coding, unmeasured risk factors, or processes of care explain the reported differences in risk-adjusted outcome rates... - Risk of advanced-stage breast cancer among older women with comorbiditiesShagufta Yasmeen
University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1510-9. 2012..We compared mammography use, and overall and advanced-stage breast cancer rates, among female Medicare beneficiaries with different levels of comorbidity... - Medication errors among acutely ill and injured children treated in rural emergency departmentsJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:361-7, 367.e1-2. 2007..We identify the incidence, nature, and consequences of medication errors among acutely ill and injured children receiving care in a sample of rural emergency departments (EDs)... - Networked for change? Identifying obstetric opinion leaders and assessing their opinions on caesarean deliveryRichard L Kravitz
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, 4150 V Street Suite 2500, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Soc Sci Med 57:2423-34. 2003..However, they did not consistently support policies designed to reduce the caesarean delivery rate. The results have implications for the generalizability of opinion leader strategies... - Looking forward, looking back: assessing variations in hospital resource use and outcomes for elderly patients with heart failureMichael K Ong
Departments of Medicine and Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:548-57. 2009..This study examines the association between mortality and resource use at the hospital level, when all Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure are examined... - Accuracy of obstetric diagnoses and procedures in hospital discharge dataShagufta Yasmeen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 194:992-1001. 2006..CONCLUSION: The validity of hospital-reported obstetric procedures and diagnoses varies, with moderate to high accuracy for some codes but poor accuracy for others... - Lack of Insurance is Associated With Increased Risk for Hernia ComplicationsJason A London
Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Ann Surg 250:331-7. 2009..We sought to determine whether lack of insurance is associated with an increased likelihood of presenting to a hospital with a complicated hernia, and whether insurance status might be associated with clinical outcomes... - California surveillance for pesticide-related illness and injury: coverage, bias, and limitationsLouise N Mehler
Department of Pesticide Regulation, California Environmental Protection Agency, P.O. Box 4015, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95812-4015, USA
J Agromedicine 11:67-79. 2006..Work is needed to explore domestic exposures and occurrences beyond the reach of the health care system... - Acculturation and its association with health-risk behaviors in a rural Latina populationOlivia C Kasirye
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis 95616-8638, USA
Ethn Dis 15:733-9. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Acculturation is an important predictor of health-risk behavior among women. Further research is needed to better understand the phenomenon and to avert associated adverse health consequences... - Sociodemographic factors and the assignment of do-not-resuscitate orders in patients with acute myocardial infarctionsJ A Garcia
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento 95817 1498, USA
Med Care 38:670-8. 2000..This study examined the impact of sociodemographic and clinical factors, measured at the individual or ecological (zip code) level, on the assignment of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders... - Length of hospital stay for treatment of deep venous thrombosis and the incidence of recurrent thromboembolismR H White
Division of General Medicine, University of California at Davis, Sacramento 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 158:1005-10. 1998..Current guidelines suggest that all patients with acute deep venous thrombosis should be treated with intravenous heparin for at least 5 days, overlapping with warfarin sodium for 4 to 5 days... - Thyroid cancer in pregnancyS Yasmeen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California Davis, USA
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 91:15-20. 2005..To compare stage at diagnosis, treatment and survival among pregnant women with thyroid cancer to non-pregnant women with thyroid cancer, and to assess the impact of treatment on maternal and perinatal outcomes... - Endoscopy-based triage significantly reduces hospitalization rates and costs of treating upper GI bleeding: a randomized controlled trialJ G Lee
Division of Gastroenterology, General Medicine, and Emergency Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 50:755-61. 1999.... - Predictors of rehospitalization for symptomatic venous thromboembolism after total hip arthroplastyR H White
Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, USA
N Engl J Med 343:1758-64. 2000..Risk factors associated with these symptomatic thromboembolic events are not well defined... - A population-based study of the effectiveness of inferior vena cava filter use among patients with venous thromboembolismR H White
Division of General Medicine, Suite 2400, PSSB, 4150 V St, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:2033-41. 2000..There are few population-based data regarding the effectiveness of inferior vena cava filter use in the prevention of symptomatic pulmonary embolism... - Lifetime earnings for physicians across specialtiesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Med Care 50:1093-101. 2012..Earlier studies estimated annual income differences across specialties, but lifetime income may be more relevant given physicians' long-term commitments to specialties... - A population-based analysis of socioeconomic status and insurance status and their relationship with pediatric trauma hospitalization and mortality ratesJames P Marcin
Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, USA
Am J Public Health 93:461-6. 2003..We investigated socioeconomic disparities in injury hospitalization rates and severity-adjusted mortality for pediatric trauma... - Patient preferences for physician characteristics in university-based primary care clinicsJorge A Garcia
Department of Internal Medicine Division of General Medicine, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California 95817 1498, USA
Ethn Dis 13:259-67. 2003..To examine patient preferences for age-,gender-, and racial/ethnic-concordant primary care physicians... - Frequency and predictive value of a mammographic recommendation for short-interval follow-upShagufta Yasmeen
University of California, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Internal Medicine, Davis, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:429-36. 2003.... - Impact of environmental tobacco smoke on children with sickle cell diseaseDaniel C West
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95817, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:1197-201. 2003..Parallels between the biological effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on nonsmokers and the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease (SCD) suggest that complications of SCD could be exacerbated by ETS exposure... - Elective cervical discectomy in California: postoperative in-hospital complications and their risk factorsP S Romano
Division of General Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento 95817, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 22:2677-92. 1997..Important comorbidities should be identified and treated, if appropriate, before cervical spine surgery... - Mechanical and suboptimal pharmacologic prophylaxis and delayed mobilization but not morbid obesity are associated with venous thromboembolism after total knee arthroplasty: a case-control studyBanafsheh Sadeghi
School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
J Hosp Med 7:665-71. 2012..Suboptimal dosing, delayed initiation, and overreliance on mechanical methods may also limit the effectiveness of thromboprophylaxis... - Accuracy of parental report and electronic health record documentation as measures of diet and physical activity counselingUlfat Shaikh
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, 95817, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:81-7. 2012..To determine whether parental reports and electronic health record documentation of physician counseling on nutrition and physical activity reflect actual counseling provided... - Endoscopic evidence of mucosal injury in patients taking ticlopidine compared with patients taking aspirin/nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and controlsRafiq A Sheikh
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
J Clin Gastroenterol 34:529-32. 2002..We studied the endoscopic evidence of mucosal damage in patients taking ticlopidine compared with patients taking aspirin/nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and matched controls... - Breast cancer stage at diagnosis in relation to duration of medicaid enrollmentC I Perkins
California Department of Health Services, Cancer Surveillance Section, Sacramento, California 95815 4402, USA
Med Care 39:1224-33. 2001..This study evaluates breast cancer stage among women on Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, in relation to duration of coverage to assess the impact of including women with recently acquired benefits in the Medi-Cal group... - Does "mainstreaming" guarantee access to care for medicaid recipients with asthma?Y A Bair
Graduate Group in Epidemiology and the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, USA
J Gen Intern Med 16:475-81. 2001..Recent reforms in the federal Medicaid program have attempted to integrate beneficiaries into the mainstream by providing them with managed care options. However, the effects of mainstreaming have not been systematically evaluated... - Tracking rates of Patient Safety Indicators over time: lessons from the Veterans AdministrationAmy K Rosen
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC 152, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 44:850-61. 2006.... - Peer group benchmarks are not appropriate for health care quality report cardsPatrick S Romano
Am Heart J 148:921-3. 2004 - Why rescue the administrative data version of the "failure to rescue" quality indicatorKathryn M McDonald
Med Care 45:277-9. 2007 - The treatment of hip fractures: variations in careJay R Lieberman
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 442:239-44. 2006..Level of Evidence: Descriptive Study, Level II (retrospective cohort study). See the Guidelines for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence... - Improving the quality of hospital care in AmericaPatrick S Romano
N Engl J Med 353:302-4. 2005 - Comparison of outcomes after hospitalization for deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolismSusan Murin
Thromb Haemost 88:407-14. 2002..Venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism appear to be distinct, albeit overlapping, clinical entities with different natural histories... - Asking too much of administrative data?Patrick S Romano
J Am Coll Surg 196:337-8; author reply 338-9. 2003 - Mortality among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reformKevin G Volpp
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
JAMA 298:975-83. 2007..The association of duty hour reform with mortality among patients in teaching hospitals nationally has not been well established... - How often are potential patient safety events present on admission?Robert L Houchens
Thomson Healthcare, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:154-63. 2008..The AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) were initially developed as measures of potential patient safety problems that use routine administrative data without POA information. The impact of adding POA information to PSIs was examined... - Evaluating the patient safety indicators: how well do they perform on Veterans Health Administration data?Amy K Rosen
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford VAMC 152, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 43:873-84. 2005..Although the Veterans Health Administration (VA) is a national leader in patient safety, accurate information on the epidemiology of patient safety events in the VA is still unavailable... - Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of careJeffrey H Silber
Center for Outcomes Research, The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Med Care 45:918-25. 2007..This study examines the reliability and validity of different FTR measures currently in use... - Re: Short-interval follow-up mammography: are we doing the right thing?Shagufta Yasmeen
J Natl Cancer Inst 95:1175-6. 2003 - Using patient safety indicators to estimate the impact of potential adverse events on outcomesPeter E Rivard
VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Med Care Res Rev 65:67-87. 2008..This study contributes to the literature measuring outcomes of medical errors and provides evidence that AHRQ PSIs may be useful indicators for comparison across delivery systems... - Nurse-patient ratios: a systematic review on the effects of nurse staffing on patient, nurse employee, and hospital outcomesThomas A Lang
Tom Lang Communications, Murphys, CA, USA
J Nurs Adm 34:326-37. 2004..To determine whether the peer-reviewed literature supports specific, minimum nurse-patient ratios for acute care hospitals and whether nurse staffing is associated with patient, nurse employee, or hospital outcomes... - Licensed caregiver characteristics and staffing in California acute care hospital unitsMargaret Blakeman Hodge
California State University Stanislaus, Turlock 95382, USA
J Nurs Adm 34:125-33. 2004..The authors describe the results of a California survey characterizing licensed caregivers, identifying staffing levels by unit type, and describing how staffing levels vary across hospital types... - Reevaluating the benefits of folic acid fortification in the United States: economic analysis, regulation, and public healthScott D Grosse
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mail Stop E 87, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1917-22. 2005..The cost savings (net reduction in direct costs) were estimated to be in the range of 88 million dollars to 145 million dollars per year... - Costs of occupational COPD and asthmaJ Paul Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8638, USA
Chest 121:264-72. 2002..1 to $2.1 billion for asthma. CONCLUSIONS: The estimated $6.6 billion cost of occupational COPD and asthma in 1996 is likely to rise with the increasing prevalence of these diseases and warrants preventive intervention... - Mortality among patients in VA hospitals in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reformKevin G Volpp
Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
JAMA 298:984-92. 2007..The association of these changes with mortality among hospitalized patients has not been well established... - How do we maximize the impact of the public reporting of quality of care?Martin N Marshall
National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester, UK
Int J Qual Health Care 16:i57-63. 2004.... - Lifestyle risk factors predict healthcare costs in an aging cohortJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:379-87. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Seniors who were leaner, smoked fewer cigarettes over a lifetime, reduced their smoking, or walked farther had significant subsequent cost savings compared to those with less-healthy lifestyle-related habits...