Joseph S Ross

..Although the uninsured comprise a range of income levels, little attention has been directed at higher-income uninsured adults and their patterns of care...

..The evaluation of hospital performance as measured by RSMRs and RSRRs has not been well characterized...

..In-hospital mortality measures, which are widely used to assess hospital quality, are not based on a standardized follow-up period and may systematically favor hospitals with shorter lengths of stay (LOSs)...

..We provide a national perspective on hospital performance for the 2010 release of these measures...

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..We describe trends in the proportion of patients with AMI with contraindications that could lead to discretionary exclusion from public reporting...

..The goal of this study was to compare patterns of downstream testing and procedures after stress testing with imaging performed at physician offices versus at hospital-outpatient facilities..

..Whether regionalization will improve outcomes depends in part on the magnitude of existing differences in outcomes between PCI and non-PCI hospitals within the same health care region...

..Emergency department (ED) visits are also a marker of hospital-based acute care following discharge but little is known about ED use during this period...

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..This maldistribution could be addressed through a variety of strategies, including the use of telemedicine and economic incentives...

..The purpose of this study was to describe radiation exposure from cardiac imaging procedures over time in a general population...

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..To investigate clinical trialists' opinions and experiences of sharing of clinical trial data with investigators who are not directly collaborating with the research team...

..Minimizing marketing's impact on clinical trial research and strengthening the science will protect medical literature's integrity and the public's health...

..The upcoming reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act focuses on improving the review process for new drug applications at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

..We sought to examine the association between having a usual source of care (USOC) and receiving medication treatment of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia...

..Information varied considerably from state to state, by health condition and by process and outcome measures reported. We examine the implications of these findings for future state initiatives...

..We present a model approved by the National Quality Forum for the purpose of public reporting of hospital-level readmission rates by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

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..We estimated the expected benefits (decreased mortality from CRC) and harms (SC-related mortality) of SC based on sex, age, and comorbidity...

..To review patterns of publication of clinical trials funded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in peer reviewed biomedical journals indexed by Medline...

..We investigated physician perspectives on how patients' SES influences care...

..To examine the effect of attending a medical school with an active policy on restricting gifts from representatives of pharmaceutical and device industries on subsequent prescribing behavior...

..We examined the correlation between stroke care quality at hospital discharge and within 6 months postdischarge...

..However, there have been limited data on the costs and cost effectiveness of such programs...

..However, little has been reported about improvements in hospital short-term mortality rates or reductions in between-hospital variation in short-term mortality rates...

..However, we found lower adherence among a small subgroup of housestaff at a slightly greater risk for cervical disease and most likely to benefit from screening...

..Seeding trials, clinical studies conducted by pharmaceutical companies that are designed to seem as if they answer a scientific question but primarily fulfill marketing objectives, have not been described in detail...

..Examine the association between poverty and preventive care use among older working adults...

..Recent litigation related to rofecoxib provided a unique opportunity to examine guest authorship and ghostwriting, practices that have been suspected in biomedical publication but for which there is little documentation...

..It is not known what effect using care from multiple sources has on the quality of care patients receive...

..We examine the implications of these findings for the millions of vulnerable Americans who rely on safety-net hospitals for their care...

..Recent legislation in 5 states and the District of Columbia mandated state disclosure of payments made to physicians by pharmaceutical companies. In 2 of these states, Vermont and Minnesota, payment disclosures are publicly available...

..Our objective was to examine whether rates of appropriate cardiac catheterization after admission for acute myocardial infarction varied between states with and without CON regulation of cardiac catheterization...

..Outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and congestive heart failure (CHF) at specialty cardiac hospitals are uncertain...

..We compared use of preventive care among veterans receiving care through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) plans, and Medicare health maintenance organizations (HMOs)...

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