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Effectiveness of clinical decision support in controlling inappropriate imagingC Craig Blackmore
Center for Health Care Solutions, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 8:19-25. 2011..However, evidence of effectiveness in reducing inappropriate imaging utilization is limited...
Applying lean methods to improve quality and safety in surgical sterile instrument processingC Craig Blackmore
Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 39:99-105. 2013..Errors in the processing of sterile instruments may lead to increased operative times and costs, as well as potentially contributing to surgical infections and perioperative morbidity...- Nurse practitioner-staffed clinic at virginia mason improves care and lowers costs for women with benign breast conditionsC Craig Blackmore
Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 32:20-6. 2013..This model demonstrates the feasibility of achieving higher quality at lower cost through integrated care... - Evidence-based imaging and cost-effectiveness analysis in cardiopulmonary imagingC Craig Blackmore
Center for Health Services Research and Department of Radiology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98111, USA
J Thorac Imaging 27:272-6. 2012.... - Using evidence to inform coverage decisions: the Washington State experienceC Craig Blackmore
Center for Health Services Research, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Acad Radiol 19:1055-9. 2012..Evidence-based policy can provide a valuable contribution to improving the quality of medical care through limiting public resources to those interventions of proven effectiveness... - Evidence-based imaging in trauma radiology: where we are and how to move forwardC C Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98111, USA
Acta Radiol 50:482-9. 2009..Application of the many validated clinical prediction rules to trauma imaging is also discussed. In addition, the challenges of evidence-based imaging and the needs for future research are detailed... - Applying evidence-based imaging to policy: the Washington State experienceC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Center for Healthcare Solutions, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98111, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 6:366-71. 2009..Under the Washington model, stronger evidence for the effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of imaging will be required for the dissemination of new technologies and for reimbursement for some existing imaging approaches... - At Virginia Mason, collaboration among providers, employers, and health plans to transform care cut costs and improved qualityC Craig Blackmore
Center for Health Care Solutions, Virginia Mason Health System, Seattle, Washington, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:1680-7. 2011.... - Evidence-based radiology and the ACR Appropriateness CriteriaC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 3:505-9. 2006..In this article, we provide concrete suggestions for improving the evidence basis of the Appropriateness Criteria... - Evidence-based radiology: review and disseminationL Santiago Medina
Department of Radiology, Miami Children s Hospital, 3100 SW 62nd Ave, Miami, FL 33155, USA
Radiology 244:331-6. 2007..Although radiology has made important progress in this field in recent years, the specialty is still behind other specialties that have been at the forefront of evidence-based medicine in the past decade... - Critically assessing the radiology literatureC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Acad Radiol 11:134-40. 2004..Finally, discussion centers on the strength of evidence for both positive and negative findings in a research study... - Resource cost analysis of cervical spine trauma radiographyC C Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104 8560, USA
Radiology 220:581-7. 2001.... - Pelvic ring disruptions in emergency radiologyLloyd E Stambaugh
Harborview Medical Center, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Eur J Radiol 48:71-87. 2003..Armed with these tools, the emergency radiologist can detect pelvic fractures early and guide subsequent imaging and therapy... - Quality improvement in radiology: white paper report of the Sun Valley Group meetingC Daniel Johnson
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 3:544-9. 2006..Among these is a formal educational program for all radiologists interested in implementing a quality improvement program within their practice, to be hosted by the ACR... - Radiographic and clinical predictors of bladder rupture in blunt trauma patients with pelvic fractureGreg Avey
Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box 359960, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Acad Radiol 13:573-9. 2006..In addition to hematuria, specific pelvic injury patterns are associated with bladder rupture. If validated, a clinical prediction rule derived from this data has the potential to guide the care of the blunt trauma patient... - Clinical prediction rules in trauma imaging: who, how, and why?C Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Radiology 235:371-4. 2005..In this review, several examples from trauma imaging are used to demonstrate the development, validation, and use of clinical prediction rules... - Observational studies in radiologyC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Box 359728, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 183:1203-8. 2004 - Evidence-based approach to using CT in spinal traumaF A Mann
Department of Radiology, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98109 2499, USA
Eur J Radiol 48:39-48. 2003..Although there are no clinical prediction rules validated outside of the cervical spine, these proven capabilities have been extrapolated to the thoracolumbar spine... - Evidence-based imaging evaluation of the cervical spine in traumaC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Neuroimaging Clin N Am 13:283-91. 2003..The high-risk cervical spine criteria used at the author's center seem to be valid for identifying appropriate patients for initial imaging with CT... - Defining quality in radiologyC Craig Blackmore
Department of Radiology and Health Services, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
J Am Coll Radiol 4:217-23. 2007..This essay is a discussion of the definition of radiology quality and the implications of that definition...