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Comparing patient-reported hospital adverse events with medical record review: do patients know something that hospitals do not?Joel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard School of Public Health, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Intern Med 149:100-8. 2008..Hospitals routinely survey patients about the quality of care they receive, but little is known about whether patient interviews can detect adverse events that medical record reviews do not...
Disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patients' ratings of the quality of careLenny Lopez
MDiv, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford St, Ninth Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1888-94. 2009..Little is known about how the characteristics of adverse events (AEs) affect the likelihood of disclosure or how the disclosure of an AE relates to patients' perception of quality of care...- An empirical assessment of boarding and quality of care: delays in care among chest pain, pneumonia, and cellulitis patientsShan W Liu
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1339-48. 2011..To the best of our knowledge, no study has compared the quality of care of boarded and nonboarded patients... - Clinicians' assessments of electronic medication safety alerts in ambulatory careSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1627-32. 2009..We undertook a study of respondents' satisfaction with e-prescribing systems, their perceptions of alerts, and their perceptions of behavior changes resulting from alerts... - Assessing the value of electronic prescribing in ambulatory care: a focus group studySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Med Inform 78:571-8. 2009..We sought to understand the reasons for adoption and use of e-prescribing, as well as clinicians' complaints about and perceived benefits of drug allergy and interaction alerts... - Providing culturally competent care: residents in HRSA Title VII funded residency programs feel better preparedAlexander R Green
The Disparities Solutions Center at the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Acad Med 83:1071-9. 2008..The authors sought to determine whether primary care residents in Title VII-funded training programs feel better prepared than those in nonfunded programs to provide care to culturally diverse patients... - Can we rely on patients' reports of adverse events?Junya Zhu
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Boston, MA 02215 5450, USA
Med Care 49:948-55. 2011..Evidence suggests that patients can report a variety of adverse events (AEs) not captured by traditional methods such as a chart review. Little is known, however, about whether patient reports are useful for measuring patient safety... - Error reporting and disclosure systems: views from hospital leadersJoel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
JAMA 293:1359-66. 2005..The Institute of Medicine has recommended establishing mandatory error reporting systems for hospitals and other health settings... 
Hospitalized patients' participation and its impact on quality of care and patient safetySaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 23:269-77. 2011..To understand the extent to which hospitalized patients participate in their care, and the association of patient participation with quality of care and patient safety...- Resident physicians' preparedness to provide cross-cultural careJoel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA
JAMA 294:1058-67. 2005..Two recent reports from the Institute of Medicine cited cross-cultural training as a mechanism to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care, but little is known about residents' educational experience in this area... - Pay-for-performance programs to reduce racial/ethnic disparities: what might different designs achieve?Joel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 23:144-60. 2012..Nevertheless, in order to maximize both improvements in quality and reductions in national disparities, P4P programs should consider an approach that considers both overall quality and reductions in disparities when setting incentives... - Measuring residents' perceived preparedness and skillfulness to deliver cross-cultural careElyse R Park
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:1053-6. 2009..As patient populations become increasingly diverse, we need to be able to measure residents' preparedness and skillfulness to provide cross-cultural care... - An empirical model to estimate the potential impact of medication safety alerts on patient safety, health care utilization, and cost in ambulatory careSaul N Weingart
Center for Patient Safety, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1465-73. 2009..Because ambulatory care clinicians override as many as 91% of drug interaction alerts, the potential benefit of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) with decision support is uncertain... - Personal characteristics associated with resident physicians' self perceptions of preparedness to deliver cross-cultural careLenny Lopez
Department of Medicine, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1953-8. 2008..Recent reports from the Institute of Medicine emphasize patient-centered care and cross-cultural training as a means of improving the quality of medical care and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities... - Adverse events during hospitalization: results of a patient surveyFloyd J Fowler
Center for Survey Research, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:583-90. 2008.... - Race and gender disparities in rates of cardiac revascularization: do they reflect appropriate use of procedures or problems in quality of care?Arnold M Epstein
Division of General Medicine Section on Health Services and Policy Research, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 41:1240-55. 2003..However, few studies have examined whether these differences reflect problems in quality of care... - State Medicaid coverage and access to care for low-income adultsJoel S Weissman
Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:307-19. 2008..Budgetary pressures have led some states to limit Medicaid eligibility. We evaluated access to care for all low-income adults by the extent of state Medicaid coverage... - Institutional academic industry relationshipsEric G Campbell
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
JAMA 298:1779-86. 2007..To date there are no empirical data to support the establishment and evaluation of institutional policies and practices related to managing these relationships... - Quality of care provided to individual patients in US hospitals: results from an analysis of national Hospital Quality Alliance dataChristine Vogeli
Department of Medicine, MGH Institute for Health Policy, 50 Staniford Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Med Care 47:591-9. 2009..3 million individuals receiving care in non-federal US hospitals in 2005. MEASURES: The proportion of patients who received all applicable care processes, and the mean proportion of applicable processes received by hospitalized patients... - Primary care resident perceived preparedness to deliver cross-cultural care: an examination of training and specialty differencesJoseph A Greer
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1107-13. 2007..The goals of this study were to identify factors that relate to primary care residents' perceived preparedness to provide cross-cultural care and to explore the extent to which these perceptions vary across primary care specialties... - Hospital workload and adverse eventsJoel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Med Care 45:448-55. 2007..Hospitals are under pressure to increase revenue and lower costs, and at the same time, they face dramatic variation in clinical demand... - Financial relationships between institutional review board members and industryEric G Campbell
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 355:2321-9. 2006..Little is known about the nature, extent, and consequences of financial relationships between industry and institutional review board (IRB) members in academic institutions. We surveyed IRB members about such relationships... - The educational impact of ACGME limits on resident and fellow duty hours: a pre-post survey studyReshma Jagsi
Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Med 81:1059-68. 2006..05). CONCLUSION: This study shows that it may be possible to reduce residents' hours--and the perceived adverse impact of fatigue--while generally preserving the self-assessed quality, quantity, and outcomes of graduate medical education... - Primary medication non-adherence: analysis of 195,930 electronic prescriptionsMichael A Fischer
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:284-90. 2010..Little is known about the frequency with which patients fail to fill prescriptions when new medications are started ("primary non-adherence") or predictors of failure to fill... - A pilot study examining undesirable events among emergency department-boarded patients awaiting inpatient bedsShan W Liu
Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:381-5. 2009..We describe the frequency of undesirable events among patients boarding at a single, urban, tertiary, teaching emergency department (ED) through retrospective chart abstraction... - Use of advance directives for nursing home residents in the emergency departmentRobin M Weinick
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Hosp Palliat Care 25:179-83. 2008..As treatment may vary based solely on available documentation, such information gaps may decrease the likelihood of adherence in the emergency department to patients' previously expressed care preferences... - Overrides of medication alerts in ambulatory careThomas Isaac
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:305-11. 2009..Electronic prescribing systems with decision support may improve patient safety in ambulatory care by offering drug allergy and drug interaction alerts. However, preliminary studies show that clinicians override most of these alerts... - Mixed messages: residents' experiences learning cross-cultural careElyse R Park
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Acad Med 80:874-80. 2005..This article explores a select group of residents' perceptions of their preparedness to deliver quality care to diverse populations... - A mixed-methods study of the quality of care provided to patients boarding in the emergency department: comparing emergency department and inpatient responsibility modelsShan W Liu
1Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:679-98. 2012..A theoretically better responsibility model may not deliver better care to boarded patients because of cultural, resource prioritization, and systems issues... - The trouble with uncompensated hospital careJoel S Weissman
Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Institute for Health Policy and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
N Engl J Med 352:1171-3. 2005 - Age-related differences in preventive care among adults with diabetesStephen D Persell
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Med 116:630-4. 2004 - Residents report on adverse events and their causesReshma Jagsi
Department of Radiation Oncology, and Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:2607-13. 2005..Eliciting residents' perspectives is important because residents may perceive events, actions, and causal relationships that medical record reviewers or observers cannot... - Uptake of electronic prescribing in community-based practicesMichael A Fischer
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:358-63. 2008..In April 2004, 2 large insurers in Massachusetts began a program to fund e-prescribing systems for targeted clinicians and practices. We studied the adoption and uptake of e-prescribing by the targeted prescribers... - Physicians' needs in coping with emotional stressors: the case for peer supportYue Yung Hu
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Surg 147:212-7. 2012..To design an evidence-based intervention to address physician distress, based on the attitudes toward support among physicians at our hospital... - Hospitalists and the quality of care in hospitalsLenny Lopez
Institute for Health Policy and Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:1389-94. 2009..Little is known about the link between hospitalists and performance on hospital-level quality indicators... - Access to medications and medical care after participation in HIV clinical trials: a systematic review of trial protocols and informed consent documentsAndrea L Ciaranello
Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
HIV Clin Trials 10:13-24. 2009..We describe the frequency with which these posttrial services are described in the protocols and informed consent forms (ICFs) of antiretroviral drug (ARV) trials... - Adherence to practice guidelines: the role of specialty society guidelinesLucian L Leape
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Am Heart J 145:19-26. 2003..We investigated whether physician adherence to guidelines for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varied by source, development methods, or the extent of their evidence-base... - Undiagnosed hypertension and hypercholesterolemia among uninsured and insured adults in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyJohn Z Ayanian
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 93:2051-4. 2003 - Social disparities in cancer: lessons from a multidisciplinary workshopJoel S Weissman
Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, and, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Cancer Causes Control 16:71-4. 2005..Noting the heterogeneous patterns of inequality across cancer types, the multiple underlying causes of disparities, and the role of the health care system itself, the authors call for an organized program of multidisciplinary research... - Institutional academic industry relationship: results of interviews with university leadersEric G Campbell
Institute for Health Policy, 50 Staniford St, 9th Fl, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Account Res 11:103-18. 2004..Further tracking and study of the IAIRs is required to understand and anticipate the full effects of these relationships on the scientific enterprise in the United States... - Effect of electronic prescribing with formulary decision support on medication use and costMichael A Fischer
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:2433-9. 2008..In April 2004, 2 large Massachusetts insurers began providing an e-prescribing system with FDS to community-based practices... - Childhood Cancer Survivor Study participants' perceptions and knowledge of health insurance coverage: implications for the Affordable Care ActElyse R Park
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Cancer Surviv 6:251-9. 2012..The current study explored adult childhood cancer survivors' quality of health insurance coverage... - Disparity in use of orthotopic liver transplantation among blacks and whitesAndrea E Reid
Gastrointestinal Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Liver Transpl 10:834-41. 2004..Although waiting times were similar once listed, black race affected outcomes while awaiting OLT. The process of referral and evaluation for OLT should be investigated further... - Complication rates on weekends and weekdays in US hospitalsEran Bendavid
Center for Health Policy, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, Calif 94305, USA
Am J Med 120:422-8. 2007..Recent studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that patient safety may be compromised on weekends. Our objective was to determine whether rates of complications in hospitals are higher on weekends than on weekdays... - Resident physicians' use of professional and nonprofessional interpreters: a national surveyKaren C Lee
JAMA 296:1050-3. 2006 - Trends in racial disparities in careKenneth G Keppel
N Engl J Med 353:2081-5; author reply 2081-5. 2005 - Disparities in health care are driven by where minority patients seek care: examination of the hospital quality alliance measuresRomana Hasnain-Wynia
Health Research and Educational Trust, American Hospital Association, and Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60606, USA
Arch Intern Med 167:1233-9. 2007..We assessed racial/ethnic disparities using the Hospital Quality Alliance Inpatient Quality of Care Indicators... - The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's limits on residents' work hours and patient safety. A study of resident experiences and perceptions before and after hours reductionsReshma Jagsi
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5010, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:493-500. 2008..We sought to assess the impact of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident work hour limits implemented on July 1, 2003, on resident experiences and perceptions regarding patient safety... - Teaching hospitals and quality of care: a review of the literatureJohn Z Ayanian
Harvard Medical School, USA
Milbank Q 80:569-93, v. 2002..Some factors related to teaching status, such as organizational culture, staffing, technology, and volume, may lead to higher-quality care...