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Improving the home health acute-care hospitalization quality measureCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, 3001 Chesterfield Ave, Charleston, WV 25304, USA
Health Serv Res 45:712-27. 2010..1) To demonstrate average length of service (ALOS) bias in the currently used acute-care hospitalization (ACH) home health quality measure, limiting comparability across agencies, and (2) to propose alternative ACH measures...
Impact of a national campaign on hospital readmissions in home care patientsCharles Price Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, 3001 Chesterfield Place, Charleston, WV 25304, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 21:176-82. 2009..Assess impact of nationwide home health quality improvement campaign to reduce acute care hospitalization of home health recipients...
Improving self-reporting of adverse drug events in a West Virginia hospitalCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, Wesr Virginia 25304, USA
Am J Med Qual 21:335-41. 2006..We concluded that underreporting of preventable adverse drug events in this hospital is comparable to published rates and that surveillance of adverse drug events to detect underreporting is feasible...- e-Prescribing, efficiency, quality: lessons from the computerization of UK family practiceCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, WV 25304, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:470-5. 2006..These features include electronic prescribing, improved quality and consistency of care, practice efficiencies that have both timesaving and revenue generating effects, and potential shielding from malpractice claims... - Using statewide audit and feedback to improve hospital care in West VirginiaCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Saf 30:143-51. 2004..Audit and feedback systems have significantly improved medical care in numerous settings, and they appear to work by stimulating competition rather than through command and control... - Promoting influenza and pneumococcal immunization in older adultsKaren L Hannah
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:286-93. 2005.... - ACE inhibitor use and mortality reduction: do controlled trial results equal clinical practice?Charles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, USA
W V Med J 102:304-6. 2006..Logistic regression showed that being discharged on an ACEI had a significant negative association with mortality one year later (P = .0009), reducing mortality in patients with heart failure by about one third... - Do mass media affect Medicare beneficiaries' use of diabetes services?Charles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, West Virginia 25304, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:51-3. 2005..Appropriate secondary preventive care for people with diabetes can reduce complications and premature death, yet many people with diabetes do not get these services. Mass media may influence individual health behavior... - Impact of the 2004 influenza vaccine shortage on repeat immunization ratesCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, 3001 Chesterfield Avenue, Charleston, WV 25304, USA
Ann Fam Med 4:541-7. 2006..We assessed the impact of the severe influenza vaccine shortage of 2004 on individual physicians' immunization performance... - Quality of ambulatory care for diabetes and lower-extremity amputationCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute Inc, Charleston, WV 25304, USA
Am J Med Qual 22:410-7. 2007..73; 95% confidence interval = 0.53-0.99), and controls were more likely to use physicians with high performance in lipid screening (chi(2) = 6.631, P = .012) and hemoglobin A1c testing (chi(2) = 6.079, P = .014)... - Predictors of medication errorsCharles P Schade
Am J Med Qual 23:405-6. 2008 - WVMI provides follow-up on beta blocker useCharles P Schade
W V Med J 98:183. 2002 - Beta blocker use in acute myocardial infarction in West VirginiaCharles P Schade
West Virginia Medical Institute, Charleston, USA
W V Med J 98:56-60. 2002..Cardiologists said they were using more beta blockers in AMI than five years ago, and speculated that high rates of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and non-specialist physicians were responsible for low rates in West Virginia...