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A longitudinal study of chiropractic use among older adults in the United StatesPaula Weigel
Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Chiropr Osteopat 18:34. 2010..abstract:..- Defining emergency department episodes by severity and intensity: A 15-year study of Medicare beneficiariesBrian Kaskie
Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 10:173. 2010.... - Hospital characteristics and patient populations served by physician owned and non physician owned orthopedic specialty 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 7:155. 2007..Our objective was to assess whether physician owned specialty orthopedic hospitals and non physician owned specialty orthopedic hospitals differ with respect to hospital characteristics and patient populations served... - Dual use of Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration: are there adverse health outcomes?Fredric D Wolinsky
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City Health Care System, 601 Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA52246, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 6:131. 2006..This article examines whether an indirect measure of dual use based on inpatient services is associated with increased mortality risk... - 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... - Older adults who persistently present to the emergency department with severe, non-severe, and indeterminate episode patternsBrian Kaskie
Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
BMC Geriatr 11:65. 2011..In this research, we classified older adults into population groups that persistently present with severe, non-severe, or indeterminate patterns of ED episodes. We then contrasted the three groups using a comprehensive set of covariates... - A 12-year prospective study of stroke risk in older Medicare beneficiariesFredric D Wolinsky
Center for Research on the Implementation of Innovative Strategies into Practice, Iowa City Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
BMC Geriatr 9:17. 2009..Stroke costs about $66B annually in the US, and also results in serious, long-term disability. Therefore, it is prudent to identify all possible risk factors and their effects so that appropriate intervention points may be targeted... - Declining mortality following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care SystemStephan D Fihn
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Cardiovasc Disord 9:44. 2009..Mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is declining worldwide. We sought to determine if mortality in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has also been declining... 
Using hospital performance data in quality improvement: the Cleveland Health Quality Choice experienceG E Rosenthal
Institute for Health Care Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Improv 24:347-60. 1998..The project developed and validated CHOICE, a severity adjustment system that includes diagnosis-specific models for medical, surgical, and obstetrical patients which are based on clinical data abstracted from patients' medical records...- In-hospital mortality following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Veterans Health Administration and private sector hospitalsGary E Rosenthal
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa 52242, USA
Med Care 41:522-35. 2003..Compare severity-adjusted in-hospital mortality in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in VA and private sector hospitals in two geographic regions... - What patients should ask of consumers' guides to health care qualityG E Rosenthal
University of Iowa, Department of Veteran Affairs
Eval Health Prof 21:316-31. 1998..Although the evaluation of health care quality is undoubtedly complex, the four questions that we pose provide a basis for developing a more rational approach to informing the public about health care quality... - Differences in length of stay in Veterans Health Administration and other United States hospitals: is the gap closing?Gary E Rosenthal
Program in Interdisciplinary Research in Health Care Organization, Iowa City VA Medical Center, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, 52242, USA
Med Care 41:882-94. 2003..Compare risk-adjusted length of stay (LOS) in VA and other United States (non-VA) hospitals and determine if relative differences in LOS have changed in recent years... - Mortality and length of stay in a veterans affairs hospital and private sector hospitals serving a common marketGary E Rosenthal
Division of General Internal Medicine, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:601-8. 2003..To compare severity-adjusted in-hospital mortality and length of stay (LOS) in a Veterans Administration (VA) hospital and private sector hospitals serving the same health care market... - Age and the risk of in-hospital death: insights from a multihospital study of intensive care patientsGary E Rosenthal
Research Service, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:1205-12. 2002..To determine independent relationships between age and the risk of in-hospital death... - Length of stay as a source of bias in comparing performance in VA and private sector facilities: lessons learned from a regional evaluation of intensive care outcomesP J Kaboli
Department of Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
Med Care 39:1014-24. 2001..Compare intensive care unit (ICU) mortality and length of stay (LOS) in a VA hospital and private sector hospitals and examine the impact of hospital utilization on mortality comparisons... - Measuring prognosis and case mix in hospitalized elders. The importance of functional statusK E Covinsky
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
J Gen Intern Med 12:203-8. 1997.... - Severity-adjusted mortality and length of stay in teaching and nonteaching hospitals. Results of a regional studyG E Rosenthal
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106 4961, USA
JAMA 278:485-90. 1997..However, little empirical data exist about their relative quality and efficiency. The current study compared severity-adjusted mortality and length of stay (LOS) in teaching and nonteaching hospitals... - Predicting resource utilization in a Veterans Health Administration primary care population: comparison of methods based on diagnoses and medicationsTerry L Wahls
Medical Service, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Med Care 42:123-8. 2004..The findings suggest that diagnosis-based measures could be preferable for ambulatory case-mix adjustment and are valid across a wide range of populations... - Mortality of Department of Veterans Affairs patients undergoing coronary revascularization in private sector hospitalsMary S Vaughan Sarrazin
CRIISP 152, Iowa City VA Medical Center, 601 Highway 6 West, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
Health Serv Res 42:1802-21. 2007..This study estimates whether use of VA services is a marker for increased risk by comparing outcomes of VA users and other patients undergoing coronary revascularization in private sector hospitals... - Impact of risk-adjusting cesarean delivery rates when reporting hospital performanceD C Aron
Department of Medicine and Institute of Health Care Research, Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, OH 44106 4961, USA
JAMA 279:1968-72. 1998..However, most rankings do not account for patient factors that affect the likelihood of cesarean delivery... 
Use of mechanical and noninvasive ventilation in black and white chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients within the Veterans Administration health care systemKatrina T Cannon
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Med Care 47:129-33. 2009..However, little is known about potential racial differences in use of mechanical ventilation (MV), and the newer modality of noninvasive ventilation (NIV), in treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...- Patient and hospital differences underlying racial variation in outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgerySuma H Konety
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Circulation 111:1210-6. 2005..The increasing disparity in outcomes as follow-up increased is consistent with the hypothesis that black patients have less access to secondary prevention and rehabilitation services after surgery... - Hospital volume-outcome relationships among medical admissions to ICUsLakshmi Durairaj
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA
Chest 128:1682-9. 2005..The lack of a consistent volume-outcome relationship may reflect unmeasured patient complexity in higher-volume hospitals, relative standardization of care across ICUs, or lack of efficacy of some accepted ICU processes of care... - Psychiatric comorbidity and mortality after acute myocardial infarctionThad E Abrams
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City VA Healthcare System, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:213-20. 2009..This study compared associations between psychiatric comorbidity and AMI outcomes that were derived using secondary diagnosis codes and codes captured from prior outpatient encounters... - The relationship of gender and in-hospital death: increased risk of death in menH S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, TX 77030, USA
Med Care 37:318-24. 1999..The prognostic importance of gender in hospitalized patients has been poorly studied. The current study compared in-hospital death rates between men and women after adjusting for severity of illness... - Mortality of Department of Veterans Affairs patients admitted to private sector hospitals for 5 common medical conditionsMary S Vaughan-Sarrazin
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice CRIISP, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
Am J Med Qual 22:186-97. 2007..Results using propensity-matched samples were similar. The use of Veterans Affairs services is not a strong marker of unmeasured severity among patients in private sector hospitals... - Perceptions of care of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery in Veterans Health Administration and private sector hospitalsMary I Feria
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Am J Med Qual 18:242-50. 2003..The findings indicate that patient perceptions of care may be lower in VA than in private sector hospitals. Future studies should examine whether the VA's recent focus on improving patient satisfaction has narrowed these differences... - Is there a July phenomenon? The effect of July admission on intensive care mortality and length of stay in teaching hospitalsWilliam A Barry
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:639-45. 2003.... - Surgical volume and outcomes of off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery: Does it matter?Suma H Konety
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 137:1116-23.e1. 2009..However, the impact of hospital volume on the outcomes of off-pump relative to on-pump bypass grafting has not been evaluated... - Are older patients more satisfied with hospital care than younger patients?C Komal Jaipaul
Received from Medicine Service, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:23-30. 2003..Determine relationships between age, self-reported health, and satisfaction in a large cohort of hospitalized patients... - The relation between health status changes and patient satisfaction in older hospitalized medical patientsK E Covinsky
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ohio 44016-4961, USA
J Gen Intern Med 13:223-9. 1998..Comprehensive efforts to measure the outcomes and quality of hospital care will need to consider both patient satisfaction and changes in health status during hospitalization... - Risk adjusting cesarean delivery rates: a comparison of hospital profiles based on medical record and birth certificate dataD L DiGiuseppe
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Health Serv Res 36:959-77. 2001..In contrast, limiting models to data elements with known reliability may yield rankings that are more similar to rankings based on medical record data... - The aftermath of hip fracture: discharge placement, functional status change, and mortalitySuzanne E Bentler
Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Am J Epidemiol 170:1290-9. 2009..Sex, age, dementia, and frailty were significantly associated with mortality. This is one of the few studies to prospectively capture these declines in functional status after hip fracture... - Racial differences in mortality among veterans hospitalized for exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseMary Vaughan Sarrazin
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice 152, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 101:656-62. 2009..The lower risk-adjusted mortality in African Americans was not explained by more aggressive care... - Do hospitals with lower mortality have higher patient satisfaction? A regional analysis of patients with medical diagnosesC Komal Jaipaul
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242, USA
Am J Med Qual 18:59-65. 2003..Associations were strongest for dimensions of satisfaction measuring patient communication, coordination of care, and nursing care and weakest for physician care... - Day of the week of intensive care admission and patient outcomes: a multisite regional evaluationMitchell J Barnett
Program for Interdisciplinary Research in Health Care Organization, Iowa City VA Medical Center and the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 52246, USA
Med Care 40:530-9. 2002..However, the similar risk for death in patients admitted on Friday and Monday suggests that "weekend effects" may be more related to unmeasured severity of illness and/or selection bias than to differences in quality of care... - Mortality in Medicare beneficiaries following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in states with and without certificate of need regulationMary S Vaughan-Sarrazin
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center and University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
JAMA 288:1859-66. 2002..While there have been several studies investigating whether these regulations have affected health care investment, few have evaluated the relationship between certificate of need regulation and quality of care... - The annual guide to "America's best hospitals". Evidence of influence among health care leadersG E Rosenthal
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Care Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Gen Intern Med 11:366-9. 1996..g., physicians, corporate managers) were aware of the guide. Our results demonstrate the likely influence of one prominent guide to health care quality and highlight the need for formal independent assessment of such guides... - Outcomes-based trial of an inpatient nurse practitioner service for general medical patientsM H Pioro
Division of General Internal Medicine and Institute for Health Care Research, VA Medical Center, Cleveland, USA
J Eval Clin Pract 7:21-33. 2001.... - Internists' attitudes towards terminal sedation in end of life careL C Kaldjian
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
J Med Ethics 30:499-503. 2004.... - A comparison of total hip and knee replacement in specialty and general hospitalsPeter Cram
Division of General Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 89:1675-84. 2007..Our objective was to compare the characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing major joint replacement in specialty orthopaedic and general hospitals... - Prior hospitalization and the risk of heart attack in older adults: a 12-year prospective study of Medicare beneficiariesFredric D Wolinsky
Department of Health Management, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, E 205 General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:769-77. 2010..We investigated whether prior hospitalization was a risk factor for heart attacks among older adults in the survey on Assets and Health Dynamics among the Oldest Old... - Differences in mortality and use of revascularization in black and white patients with acute MI admitted to hospitals with and without revascularization servicesIoana Popescu
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice CRIISP, Iowa City VA Medical Center, USA
JAMA 297:2489-95. 2007..However, few studies have examined patterns of care for AMI patients admitted to hospitals with and without revascularization services... - An interpersonal continuity of care measure for Medicare Part B claims analysesFredric D Wolinsky
Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:S160-8. 2007..This article presents an interpersonal continuity of care measure... - Associations with reduced length of stay and costs on an academic hospitalist servicePeter J Kaboli
Research Service, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Am J Manag Care 10:561-8. 2004..Prior studies of hospitalist services have suggested improved efficiency and quality of care compared with traditional inpatient services... - Continuity of care with a primary care physician and mortality in older adultsFredric D Wolinsky
Departments of Health Management and Policy and General Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, E 205 General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:421-8. 2010..We examined whether older adults who had continuity of care with a primary care physician (PCP) had lower mortality... - Reporting medical errors to improve patient safety: a survey of physicians in teaching hospitalsLauris C Kaldjian
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:40-6. 2008..Collecting data on medical errors is essential for improving patient safety, but factors affecting error reporting by physicians are poorly understood... - Variations in the associations between psychiatric comorbidity and hospital mortality according to the method of identifying psychiatric diagnosesThad E Abrams
The Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice CRIISP, Iowa City VA Healthcare System, Iowa City, IA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:317-22. 2008..This study examined if associations varied according to the method of identifying psychiatric comorbidity and agreement between the different methods... - Emergency department utilization patterns among older adultsFredric D Wolinsky
The Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:204-9. 2008..We identified 4-year (2 years before and 2 years after the index [baseline] interview) ED use patterns in older adults and the factors associated with them... - Racial segregation and disparities in health care delivery: conceptual model and empirical assessmentMary S Vaughan Sarrazin
Center for Research in Innovative Implementation Strategies for Practice CRIISP, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52246, USA
Health Serv Res 44:1424-44. 2009..This study examines two dimensions of racial segregation across hospitals, using a disease for which substantial disparities have been documented... - Racial differences in hospital use after acute myocardial infarction: does residential segregation play a role?Mary Vaughan Sarrazin
Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w368-78. 2009..Eliminating health care disparities may require policies that address social factors leading to segregation... - Hospital episodes and physician visits: the concordance between self-reports and medicare claimsFredric D Wolinsky
Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Med Care 45:300-7. 2007..Health services use typically is examined using either self-reports or administrative data, but the concordance between the 2 is not well established... - Exploring the association of dual use of the VHA and Medicare with mortality: separating the contributions of inpatient and outpatient servicesFredric D Wolinsky
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City VA Medical Center, Iowa City, IA 52246, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 7:70. 2007..Older veterans may use both the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Medicare, but the association of dual use with health outcomes is unclear. We examined the association of indirect measures of dual use with mortality... - Failure to recognize and act on abnormal test results: the case of screening bone densitometryPeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:90-7. 2005..Failure to follow up on abnormal test results is common. A model was developed to capture the reasons why providers did not take action on abnormal test results... - Cardiac revascularization in specialty and general hospitalsPeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
N Engl J Med 352:1454-62. 2005..The emergence of specialty hospitals focusing on narrow procedural areas has generated controversy, although little is known about their quality... - Hospital volume and selection of valve type in older patients undergoing aortic valve replacement surgery in the United StatesErik B Schelbert
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
Circulation 111:2178-82. 2005..Hospital volume has been linked to quality of care. The relation between hospital volume and recommended use of bioprosthetic valves in older patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) is unknown... - Patient preference for being informed of their DXA scan resultsPeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Clin Densitom 7:275-80. 2004..Patients undergoing DXA scanning were interested in receiving their scan results and educational material directly from the testing center. This might represent an effective intervention for improving care of patients with osteoporosis... - Treatment variation in older black and white patients undergoing aortic valve replacementErik B Schelbert
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
Circulation 112:2347-53. 2005..However, differential use of hospitals with variable practice patterns might also contribute to variations in care... - Facilitating and impeding factors for physicians' error disclosure: a structured literature reviewLauris C Kaldjian
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:188-98. 2006.... - Certificate of need regulations and use of coronary revascularization after acute myocardial infarctionIoana Popescu
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City VA Medical Center, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City 52240, USA
JAMA 295:2141-7. 2006..While many states have repealed certificate of need regulations in recent years, few analyses have examined relationships between certificate of need regulations and outcomes of care... - An empirically derived taxonomy of factors affecting physicians' willingness to disclose medical errorsLauris C Kaldjian
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:942-8. 2006..However, the variables that may facilitate or impede disclosure are diverse and lack conceptual organization... - Effects of weekend admission and hospital teaching status on in-hospital mortalityPeter Cram
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
Am J Med 117:151-7. 2004..We compared mortality rates between patients admitted on weekends and weekdays and whether weekend-weekday variation in rates differed between patients admitted to teaching and nonteaching hospitals in California... - Influence of psychiatric comorbidity on surgical mortalityThad E Abrams
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Iowa City VA Medical Center, IA 52246 2208, USA
Arch Surg 145:947-53. 2010..To examine the potential effect of 5 existing psychiatric comorbidities on postsurgical mortality... - Preexisting comorbid psychiatric conditions and mortality in nonsurgical intensive care patientsThad E Abrams
Iowa City VA Medical Center, 601 Highway 6 West, Mailstop 152, Iowa City, IA 52246 2208, USA
Am J Crit Care 19:241-9. 2010..To examine the effects of preexisting comorbid psychiatric conditions on mortality in a large cohort of patients admitted to a nonsurgical intensive care unit... - Identifying medication misadventures: poor agreement among medical record, physician, nurse, and patient reportsPeter J Kaboli
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice CRIISP, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Pharmacotherapy 30:529-38. 2010..To analyze and compare four different methods of detecting medication misadventures in order to determine the optimal system for reporting clinically observed medication misadventures... - Disclosing medical errors to patients: attitudes and practices of physicians and traineesLauris C Kaldjian
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 1 106 MEB, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:988-96. 2007..Disclosing errors to patients is an important part of patient care, but the prevalence of disclosure, and factors affecting it, are poorly understood... - Patient and physician beliefs about control over health: association of symmetrical beliefs with medication regimen adherenceAlan J Christensen
Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa, 11 Seashore Hall East, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:397-402. 2010..Past work suggests that the degree of similarity between patient and physician attitudes may be an important predictor of patient-centered outcomes... - Recent hospitalization and the risk of hip fracture among older AmericansFredric D Wolinsky
University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, E 205 General Hospital, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:249-55. 2009..We identified hip fracture risks in a prospective national study... - Lack of gender and racial differences in surgery and mortality in hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries with bleeding peptic ulcerG S Cooper
Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Gen Intern Med 12:485-90. 1997..The findings raise the possibility that studies that have shown race and gender differences in management of coronary artery disease and cancer may not be generalizable to other common diagnoses... - Patient and physician attitudes in the health care context: attitudinal symmetry predicts patient satisfaction and adherenceJamie A Cvengros
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:262-8. 2007..There is increasing interest in the role that patient and physician health-related attitudes may play in predicting patient outcomes... - Baseline NIH stroke scale responses estimate the probability of each particular stroke subtypeE C Leira
Department of Neurology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Cerebrovasc Dis 26:573-7. 2008.... - Use of complementary and alternative medicine by older patients with arthritis: a population-based studyP J Kaboli
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
Arthritis Rheum 45:398-403. 2001..The use of CAM for arthritis was most common among those with poorer self-assessed health and higher use of traditional health care resources... - Development and reliability testing of the clinical pharmacist recommendation taxonomyAngela B Hoth
Center for Research in the Implementation of Innovative Strategies in Practice, Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa 52246, USA
Pharmacotherapy 27:639-46. 2007..To evaluate the reliability of a newly developed taxonomy--the Clinical Pharmacist Recommendation (CPR) taxonomy--to classify clinical pharmacy interventions... - Should disagreement about physician-assisted suicide discourage professional societies from engaging in public debate? A survey of 677 Connecticut internistsLauris C Kaldjian
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Conn Med 66:603-9. 2002..To determine whether physicians within a state-level professional association who disagree about the ethics of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) also disagree about organized professional engagement in public discussions regarding PAS... - Nurse and patient communication profiles in a home-based telehealth intervention for heart failure managementBonnie J Wakefield
Research Service, Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, 800 Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65201, USA
Patient Educ Couns 71:285-92. 2008..This study compared differences in nurse and patient communication profiles between two telehealth modes: telephone and videophone, and evaluated longitudinal changes in communication, nurse perceptions, and patient satisfaction... - Do faculty and resident physicians discuss their medical errors?L C Kaldjian
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Med Ethics 34:717-22. 2008..Discussions about medical errors facilitate professional learning for physicians and may provide emotional support after an error, but little is known about physicians' attitudes and practices regarding error discussions with colleagues... - Valve type and long-term outcomes after aortic valve replacement in older patientsE B Schelbert
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
Heart 94:1181-8. 2008.... - Failure to recognize newly identified aortic dilations in a health care system with an advanced electronic medical recordJennifer R S Gordon
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Iowa City Veterans Administration Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Ann Intern Med 151:21-7, W5. 2009..Concern is growing about missed test results, but data assessing their effect on patient safety are limited... - Limitations of hospital volume as a measure of quality of care for coronary artery bypass graft surgeryKarl F Welke
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239 3098, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 80:2114-9. 2005..The objective of this study is to quantify the relationship between hospital volume alone and CABG mortality... - Hospital volume and outcome after coronary angioplasty: is there a role for certificate of need regulation?Mary S Vaughan Sarrazin
Am Heart J 147:383-5. 2004 - Veterans' use of Department of Veterans Affairs care and perceptions of outsourcing inpatient careBonnie J Wakefield
Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital, 800 Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65201, USA
Mil Med 172:565-71. 2007..These issues should be considered in the development of future policy toward outsourcing VA care to the private sector... - Provider profiling and quality improvement efforts in coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the effect on short-term mortality among Medicare beneficiariesEdward L Hannan
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, USA
Med Care 41:1164-72. 2003..In the last decade, a few states or regions in the United States have initiated efforts to publicly disseminate coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery outcomes and/or formally initiate quality improvement programs for CABG surgery... - Comparison of cardiac surgery volumes and mortality rates between the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Medicare databases from 1993 through 2001Karl F Welke
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239 3098, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 84:1538-46. 2007.... - Reliability of birth certificate data: a multi-hospital comparison to medical records informationDavid L DiGiuseppe
Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Matern Child Health J 6:169-79. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that the reliability of birth certificate data vary for specific elements. Researchers and health policymakers need to be cognizant of the potential limitations of specific data elements... - Physician-owned specialty hospitals and coronary revascularization utilization: too much of a good thing?Peter Cram
JAMA 297:998-9. 2007 - Conflicts and concordance between measures of medication prescribing qualityMichael A Steinman
Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF, San Franciso, California 94121, USA
Med Care 45:95-9. 2007..However, little is known about the relationship between these instruments or the concordance of their quality assessments when applied to the same group of patients... - Polypharmacy and prescribing quality in older peopleMichael A Steinman
Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California 94121, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1516-23. 2006..To evaluate the relationship between inappropriate prescribing, medication underuse, and the total number of medications used by patients... - Delays in transfer to the ICU: a preventable adverse advent?Peter J Kaboli
J Gen Intern Med 18:155-6. 2003 - A curriculum for training quality scholars to improve the health and health care of veterans and the community at largeMark E Splaine
Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
Qual Manag Health Care 10:10-8. 2002..Our program provides insights for medical education to better prepare physicians to participate in and lead the improvement of health care...