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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement: developed in collaboration with the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Failure Society of America, Mended Hearts, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • 2012 ACCF/AATS/SCAI/STS expert consensus document on transcatheter aortic valve replacement: developed in collaboration with the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Failure Society of America, Mended Hearts, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • 30-day mortality and readmission after hemorrhagic stroke among Medicare beneficiaries in Joint Commission primary stroke center-certified and noncertified hospitals. 
  • A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates. 
  • A Hospital Level Analysis of 30-Day Readmission Performance for Heart Failure Patients and Long-Term Survival: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • A Person-Centered Approach to Poststroke Care: The COMprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Services Model. 
  • A comparison of models for predicting early hospital readmissions. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates. 
  • A discrete event simulation tool to support and predict hospital and clinic staffing. 
  • A framework for quality improvement: an analysis of factors responsible for improvement at hospitals participating in the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) quality improvement initiative. 
  • A hemorrhage of off-label use. 
  • A multivariate approach for classifying hospitals and computing blended payment rates. 
  • A nationwide survey on perception, experience, and expectations of hybrid coronary revascularization among top-ranked US hospitals. 
  • A prospective neurosurgical registry evaluating the clinical care of traumatic brain injury patients presenting to Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • ACCF/AHA consensus conference report on professionalism and ethics. 
  • Access to emergency care services: a transversal ecological study about Brazilian emergency health care network. 
  • Accuracy of ICD-9-CM Codes by Hospital Characteristics and Stroke Severity: Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Program. 
  • Achievement of guideline-concordant care and in-hospital outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease in teaching and nonteaching hospitals: results from the Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program. 
  • Addressing geographic access barriers to emergency care services: a national ecologic study of hospitals in Brazil. 
  • Adopting a surgical safety checklist could save money and improve the quality of care in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Advancing obstetric and neonatal care in a regional hospital in Ghana via continuous quality improvement. 
  • Affective journeys: the emotional structuring of medical tourism in India. 
  • Alternative pay-for-performance scoring methods: implications for quality improvement and patient outcomes. 
  • An economic and linear model of the hospital. 
  • An evaluation of stroke education in AVAIL registry hospitals. 
  • An international cluster-randomized quality improvement trial to increase the adherence to evidence-based therapies for acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients: Rationale and design of the BRIDGE STROKE Trial. 
  • An investigation of the efficacy of electronic consenting interfaces of research permissions management system in a hospital setting. 
  • An organized approach to improvement in guideline adherence for acute myocardial infarction: results with the Get With The Guidelines quality improvement program. 
  • An urgent need to understand and address the safety and well-being of hospital "sitters". 
  • Antimicrobial resistance trends and outbreak frequency in United States hospitals. 
  • Antiplatelet therapy use after discharge among acute myocardial infarction patients with in-hospital bleeding. 
  • Appropriateness and Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at Top-Ranked and Nonranked Hospitals in the United States. 
  • Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Aprotinin use during cardiac surgery: recent alterations and effects on blood product utilization. 
  • Are acute stroke-ready hospitals ready? 
  • Are quality improvements associated with the Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) program sustained over time? A longitudinal comparison of GWTG-CAD hospitals versus non-GWTG-CAD hospitals. 
  • Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations. 
  • Assessing the impact of total quality management and organizational culture on multiple outcomes of care for coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Association of 30-Day Readmission Metric for Heart Failure Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Quality of Care and Outcomes. 
  • Association of Delivery System Integration and Outcomes for Major Cancer Surgery. 
  • Association of Hospital and Physician Characteristics and Care Processes With Racial Disparities in Procedural Outcomes Among Contemporary Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery. 
  • Association of acute myocardial infarction cardiac arrest patient volume and in-hospital mortality in the United States: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Acute Coronary Treatment And Intervention Outcomes Network Registry. 
  • Association of early physician follow-up and 30-day readmission after non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction among older patients. 
  • Association of evidence-based care processes and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes: performance matters. 
  • Association of hospital coronary artery bypass volume with processes of care, mortality, morbidity, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons composite quality score. 
  • Association of hospital primary angioplasty volume in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with quality and outcomes. 
  • Association of patient case-mix adjustment, hospital process performance rankings, and eligibility for financial incentives. 
  • Better outcomes for patients treated at hospitals that participate in clinical trials. 
  • Blood pressure paradox in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from 139,194 patients in the Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines (CRUSADE) quality improvement initiative. 
  • Building an ontology for pressure ulcer risk assessment to allow data sharing and comparisons across hospitals. 
  • Cardiac biomarker measurement after elective percutaneous coronary interventions in older patients: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social/health maintenance organization demonstration. 
  • Case shifting and the Medicare Prospective Payment System. 
  • Center variation and outcomes associated with delayed sternal closure after stage 1 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 
  • Center variation in hospital costs for patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. 
  • Challenges in comparing risk-adjusted bypass surgery mortality results: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. 
  • Change in hospital-level use of transradial percutaneous coronary intervention and periprocedural outcomes: insights from the national cardiovascular data registry. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Characteristics of men reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Clinical Profile of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients Included in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. 
  • Clinical decision support: a tool of the hospital trade. 
  • Clopidogrel use and hospital quality in medically managed patients with non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Cluster of oseltamivir-resistant 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infections on a hospital ward among immunocompromised patients--North Carolina, 2009. 
  • Cluster-Randomized Trial of Personalized Site Performance Feedback in Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Cognitive function and acute care utilization. 
  • Common ground: measuring intrainstitutional mortality among pediatric surgical procedures. 
  • Comparison of 30-day mortality models for profiling hospital performance in acute ischemic stroke with vs without adjustment for stroke severity. 
  • Comparison of Acute Ischemic Stroke Care and Outcomes Between Comprehensive Stroke Centers and Primary Stroke Centers in the United States. 
  • Comparison of composite measure methodologies for rewarding quality of care: an analysis from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines program. 
  • Comparison of methods for recovery of Clostridium difficile from an environmental surface. 
  • Comparison of performance achievement award recognition with primary stroke center certification for acute ischemic stroke care. 
  • Comparison of performance on Hospital Compare process measures and patient outcomes between hospitals that do and do not participate in Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network Registry-Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Comparison of the appropriateness of coronary angiography and coronary artery bypass graft surgery between Canada and New York State. 
  • Compliance with acute stroke care quality measures in hospitals with and without primary stroke center certification: the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Comprehensive electrocardiogram-to-device time for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A report from the American Heart Association mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Constant Lethality of Gunshot Injuries From Firearm Assault: United States, 2003-2012. 
  • Continuous chest compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation training promotes rescuer self-confidence and increased secondary training: a hospital-based randomized controlled trial*. 
  • Controlling antimicrobial resistance in the hospital. 
  • Conversion vs Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Increased Cost of Care and Perioperative Complications. 
  • Coping with critical drug shortages: an ethical approach for allocating scarce resources in hospitals. 
  • Coronary care in New York City hospitals. 
  • Cost Drivers of a Hospital-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Phase 3 Clinical Trial. 
  • Data quality in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (GWTG-Stroke): results from a national data validation audit. 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Defibrillation time intervals and outcomes of cardiac arrest in hospital: retrospective cohort study from Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation registry. 
  • Defining the Value Proposition for Specialist Palliative Care Delivered in Intensive Care Units. 
  • Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days. 
  • Dentists in the US should be integrated into the hospital team. 
  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: evaluation and outcomes. 
  • Differences in Hospital Readmission Risk across All Payer Groups in South Carolina. 
  • Differential case ascertainment in clinical registry versus administrative data and impact on outcomes assessment for pediatric cardiac operations. 
  • Differentiating between marketing-driven and technology-driven vendors of medical information systems. 
  • Direct Transfer From the Referring Hospitals to the Catheterization Laboratory to Minimize Reperfusion Delays for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Dissociation between hospital performance of the smoking cessation counseling quality metric and cessation outcomes after myocardial infarction. 
  • Distribution and characteristics of severe traumatic brain injury at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Do hospitals and surgeons with higher coronary artery bypass graft surgery volumes still have lower risk-adjusted mortality rates? 
  • Does Age Influence Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Use and Outcome? 
  • Does nonpayment for hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections lead to overtesting and increased antimicrobial prescribing? 
  • Does the multidisciplinary approach improve oncological outcomes in men undergoing surgical treatment for prostate cancer? 
  • Doing the right things and doing them the right way: association between hospital guideline adherence, dosing safety, and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Door-to-balloon times in hospitals within the get-with-the-guidelines registry after initiation of the door-to-balloon (D2B) Alliance. 
  • Door-to-needle times for tissue plasminogen activator administration and clinical outcomes in acute ischemic stroke before and after a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Dynamics and clinical implications of the nursing home-hospital interface. 
  • Economic analysis of tirilazad mesylate for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Economic evaluation of a phase III clinical trial in Europe and Australia. 
  • Editorial comment. 
  • Effect of Regional Hospital Market Competition on Use Patterns of Free Flap Breast Reconstruction. 
  • Effect of inborn vs. outborn delivery on neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: secondary analyses of the NICHD whole-body cooling trial. 
  • Effect of physician and hospital experience on patient outcomes for endovascular treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease. 
  • Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection). 
  • Effects of regulation on hospital costs and input use. 
  • Elevator talk: observational study of inappropriate comments in a public space. 
  • Emergency Department (ED), ED Observation, Day Hospital, and Hospital Admissions for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Emergency medical service hospital prenotification is associated with improved evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Enhancement of decision rules to increase generalizability and performance of the rule-based system assessing risk for pressure ulcer. 
  • Estimating leptospirosis incidence using hospital-based surveillance and a population-based health care utilization survey in Tanzania. 
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Community and Hospital Medical Record Integration on Management of Behavioral Health in the Emergency Department. 
  • Evaluating the generalizability of a large streamlined cardiovascular trial: comparing hospitals and patients in the dual antiplatelet therapy study versus the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Excess costs of hospital care associated with neonatal candidemia. 
  • Expanded hospital role for family physicians. 
  • Exploring the behavior of hospital composite performance measures: an example from coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Eye dose assessment and management: overview. 
  • Factors associated with high hospital resource use in a population-based study of children with orofacial clefts. 
  • Fatal Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infections in febrile hospitalized adults in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 
  • Geographic variation in resource use for coronary artery bypass surgery. IHD Port Investigators. 
  • Get With The Guidelines program participation, process of care, and outcome for Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Global initiative for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (GLIMP): an international, observational cohort study. 
  • Guideline adherence after ST-segment elevation versus non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Has Public Reporting of Hospital Readmission Rates Affected Patient Outcomes?: Analysis of Medicare Claims Data. 
  • Health Optimization Program for Elders: Improving the Transition From Hospital to Skilled Nursing Facility. 
  • Health care insurance, financial concerns in accessing care, and delays to hospital presentation in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Hospital Practice of Direct-Home Discharge and 30-Day Readmission After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy (STS/ACC TVT) Registry. 
  • Hospital Quality Metrics: "America's Best Hospitals" and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Hospital Variation in Adherence Rates to Secondary Prevention Medications and the Implications on Quality. 
  • Hospital Variation in Functional Recovery After Stroke. 
  • Hospital Variation in Home-Time After Acute Ischemic Stroke: Insights From the PROSPER Study (Patient-Centered Research Into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research). 
  • Hospital case volume is associated with mortality in patients hospitalized with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Hospital certification for optimizing cardiovascular disease and stroke quality of care and outcomes. 
  • Hospital discharge communications during care transitions for patients with acute kidney injury: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Hospital evaluation of health literacy and associated outcomes in patients after acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Hospital patterns of medical management strategy use for patients with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction and 3-vessel or left main coronary artery disease. 
  • Hospital percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness and in-hospital procedural outcomes: insights from the NCDR. 
  • Hospital performance and differences by kidney function in the use of recommended therapies after non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Hospital variability in the rate of finding obstructive coronary artery disease at elective, diagnostic coronary angiography. 
  • Hospital variability in use of anticoagulant strategies during acute myocardial infarction treated with an early invasive strategy. 
  • Hospital variation and characteristics of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator use in patients with heart failure: data from the GWTG-HF (Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure) registry. 
  • Hospital variation in intravenous inotrope use for patients hospitalized with heart failure: insights from Get With The Guidelines. 
  • Hospital variation in treatment and outcomes in acute coronary syndromes: Insights from the Alberta Contemporary Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Invasive Treatment Strategies (COAPT) study. 
  • Hospital workers bypass traditional occupational injury reporting systems when reporting patient and visitor perpetrated (type II) violence. 
  • Hospital-Based Palliative Care with Medicare Claims: Evidence From Colorado. 
  • How North Carolina Hospitals, Health Systems, and Care Providers are Uniting to Fight the Opioid Epidemic. 
  • How U.S. children's hospitals use social media: A mixed methods study. 
  • Hypercholesterolemia and prostate cancer: a hospital-based case-control study. 
  • Identification of hospital outliers in bleeding complications after percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Identification of population at risk for future Clostridium difficile infection following hospital discharge to be targeted for vaccine trials. 
  • Identifying high-quality hospitals: consult the ratings or flip a coin? 
  • Impact of Patient Characteristics on Hospital-Level Outcomes Assessment in Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • Impact of an Expanded Hospital Recognition Program for Stroke Quality of Care. 
  • Impact of case volume on hospital performance assessment. 
  • Impact of change to molecular testing for Clostridium difficile infection on healthcare facility-associated incidence rates. 
  • Impact of hospital procedure volume on surgical operation and long-term outcomes in high-risk curatively resected rectal cancer: findings from the Intergroup 0114 Study. 
  • Impact of hospital type II violent events: use of psychotropic drugs and mental health services. 
  • Implementation Lessons Learned From the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study: Process and Perceptions of Enhanced Disinfection with Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices. 
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Self-Scheduling in a Hospital System. 
  • Implementation of a Recovery-Oriented Training Program for Psychiatric Nurses in the Inpatient Setting: A Mixed-Methods Hospital Quality Improvement Study. 
  • Implementation of strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Implementation of the Surgical Safety Checklist in South Carolina Hospitals Is Associated with Improvement in Perceived Perioperative Safety. 
  • Importance of hospital volume in the overall management of pancreatic cancer. 
  • Improvements in quality improvement. 
  • In-Hospital and Three-Year Outcomes of Heart Failure Patients in South India: The Trivandrum Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Incidence, correlates, and outcomes of acute, hospital-acquired anemia in patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Increased environmental sample area and recovery of Clostridium difficile spores from hospital surfaces by quantitative PCR and enrichment culture. 
  • Infection control in the Russian Federation: review of a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Influence of race, insurance, socioeconomic status, and hospital type on receipt of guideline-concordant adjuvant systemic therapy for locoregional breast cancers. 
  • Influence of stroke subtype on quality of care in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program. 
  • Influence of transfer-in rates on quality of care and outcomes at receiving hospitals in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Influenza vaccination of household contacts of newborns: a hospital-based strategy to increase vaccination rates. 
  • Inpatient Consults and Complications During Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty in a Bundled Care Model. 
  • International aid and natural disasters: a pre- and post-earthquake longitudinal study of the healthcare infrastructure in Leogane, Haiti. 
  • Interrater Reliability of Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events and Pneumonia. 
  • Interventions to improve transitional care between nursing homes and hospitals: a systematic review. 
  • Interview by Marilyn H. Oermann with Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, executive director of The Leapfrog Group. 
  • Introducing personalized health for the family: the experience of a single hospital system. 
  • Invited Commentary. 
  • Is Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Stroke Mortality an Adequate Proxy for Risk-Standardized 30-Day Stroke Mortality Data? Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? 
  • Is more better? 
  • Is the impact of hospital and surgeon volumes on the in-hospital mortality rate for coronary artery bypass graft surgery limited to patients at high risk? 
  • Juries and justice: are malpractice and other personal injuries created equal? 
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction assessment among patients with acute myocardial infarction and its association with hospital quality of care and evidence-based therapy use. 
  • Lessons learned from hospital Ebola preparation. 
  • Liver cases from Aker Hospital 1945-48. 
  • Managing to improve quality: the relationship between accreditation standards, safety practices, and patient outcomes. 
  • Medicare data transparency may confuse consumers comparing hospitals for total joint arthroplasty. 
  • Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures. 
  • Medication errors in acute cardiovascular and stroke patients: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Meeting Medicare requirements for transitional care: Do stroke care and policy align? 
  • Metrics for quantifying antibiotic use in the hospital setting: results from a systematic review and international multidisciplinary consensus procedure. 
  • Modeling the Potential Economic Impact of the Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Episode-Based Payment Model. 
  • Modest Associations Between Electronic Health Record Use and Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality of Care and Outcomes: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • More on Scylla and Charybdis. 
  • Mortality and time to extubation in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Multi-year study of human metapneumovirus infection at a large US Midwestern Medical Referral Center. 
  • NHAMCS Validation of Emergency Severity Index as an Indicator of Emergency Department Resource Utilization. 
  • Narrative feedback from OR personnel about the safety of their surgical practice before and after a surgical safety checklist intervention. 
  • National trends in vertebral augmentation procedures for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. 
  • Natural ventilation for the prevention of airborne contagion. 
  • New source of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a nursery. 
  • No association between hospital-reported perioperative venous thromboembolism prophylaxis and outcome rates in publicly reported data. 
  • Occupational Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Among Healthcare Workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 
  • Organ procurement: expenditures and financial incentives. 
  • Organizational characteristics and patient experiences with hospital care: a survey study of hospital chief patient experience officers. 
  • Outcomes after ischemic stroke for hospitals with and without Joint Commission-certified primary stroke centers. 
  • Patient and hospital characteristics associated with inappropriate percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States. 
  • Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation and Improved Chronic Disease Quality: A Longitudinal Observational Study. 
  • Patterns and outcomes of red blood cell transfusion in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Patterns of care quality and prognosis among hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Pay for performance, quality of care, and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. 
  • Pennsylvania's Focus on Heart Attack--grading the scorecard. 
  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Utilization and Appropriateness across the United States. 
  • Percutaneous coronary interventions in facilities without cardiac surgery on site: a report from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). 
  • Percutaneous injury, blood exposure, and adherence to standard precautions: are hospital-based health care providers still at risk? 
  • Perpetrator, worker and workplace characteristics associated with patient and visitor perpetrated violence (Type II) on hospital workers: a review of the literature and existing occupational injury data. 
  • Persistent diarrhoea in Nigerian children aged less than five years: a hospital-based study. 
  • Physical assault, physical threat, and verbal abuse perpetrated against hospital workers by patients or visitors in six U.S. hospitals. 
  • Physician Networks and Ambulatory Care-sensitive Admissions. 
  • Platelet transfusions: utilization and associated costs in a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Poststroke hypertension in Africa. 
  • Practice Variation Among Hospitals in Revascularization Therapy and Its Association With Procedure-related Mortality. 
  • Practice pattern variability for myocardial revascularization: impact on resource use across 24 centers. 
  • Predictors of delivery of hospital-based heart failure patient education: a report from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Prehospital notification by emergency medical services reduces delays in stroke evaluation: findings from the North Carolina stroke care collaborative. 
  • Prehospital system delay in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction care: a novel linkage of emergency medicine services and in hospital registry data. 
  • Prenatal immunization education the pediatric prenatal visit and routine obstetric care. 
  • Preoperative pain level and patient expectation predict hospital length of stay after total hip arthroplasty. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Gastrostomy Tube and Tracheostomy Placement in Anoxic/Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathic Survivors of In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the United States. 
  • Psychiatric emergency room: a resource for the eighties. 
  • Qualitative Analysis of Palliative Care for Pediatric Patients With Cancer at Bugando Medical Center: An Evaluation of Barriers to Providing End-of-Life Care in a Resource-Limited Setting. 
  • Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • Quality of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes as a function of hospital revascularization capability: Insights from get with the guidelines-CAD. 
  • Race and trust in the health care system. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in time to acute reperfusion therapy for patients hospitalized with myocardial infarction. 
  • Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Racial variations in treatment and outcomes of black and white patients with high-risk non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: insights from CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines?). 
  • Rationale and design of a cluster-randomized multifaceted intervention trial to improve stroke care quality in China: The GOLDEN BRIDGE-Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Regional Variation in 30-Day Ischemic Stroke Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries Treated in Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Hospitals. 
  • Regional variation in identified cancer care needs of early-career oncologists in China, India, and Pakistan. 
  • Regionalization of hepatic resections is associated with increasing disparities among some patient populations in use of high-volume providers. 
  • Relation of dyspnea severity on admission for acute heart failure with outcomes and costs. 
  • Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes. 
  • Relationship between hospital performance measures and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Relationship of health-related quality of life to health care utilization and mortality among older adults. 
  • Relationship of the distance between non-PCI hospitals and primary PCI centers, mode of transport, and reperfusion time among ground and air interhospital transfers using NCDR's ACTION Registry-GWTG: a report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline Program. 
  • Removing a constraint on hospital utilization: a natural experiment in Maryland. 
  • Reperfusion paradox in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Resolving Malpractice Disputes: Imaging the Jury's Shadow 
  • Response by Kumbhani et al to Letters Regarding Article, "Association Between Hospital Volume, Processes of Care, and Outcomes in Patients Admitted With Heart Failure: Insights From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure". 
  • Risk Adjusted Mortality Ratings and Public Reporting for High-Risk PCI. 
  • Risk adjustment of ischemic stroke outcomes for comparing hospital performance: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Risk score for intracranial hemorrhage in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator. 
  • Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. 
  • Selection of Stent Type in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Presenting With Acute Myocardial Infarction: An Analysis From the ACTION (Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network) Registry-Get With the Guidelines. 
  • Self-monitoring by Environmental Services May Not Accurately Measure Thoroughness of Hospital Room Cleaning. 
  • Self-regulation in the era of big data: appropriate use of appropriate use criteria. 
  • Seriously ill hospitalized adults: do we spend less on older patients? Support Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preference for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Shifting Medicare patients out of the hospital. 
  • Short-term outcomes after esophagectomy at 164 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program hospitals: effect of operative approach and hospital-level variation. 
  • Should hepatic resections be performed at high-volume referral centers? 
  • Socioeconomic trends in hospitalization for multiple sclerosis. 
  • Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina. 
  • Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. 
  • Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies used by hospitals to improve speed of tissue-type plasminogen activator treatment in acute ischemic stroke. 
  • Stroke patient outcomes in US hospitals before the start of the Joint Commission Primary Stroke Center certification program. 
  • Summary of evidence regarding hospital strategies to reduce door-to-balloon times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of hospital and individual surgeon quality. 
  • Surgical safety checklists in ontario, Canada. 
  • Targeted versus standard feedback: results from a randomized quality improvement trial. 
  • Temporal Trends in and Factors Associated With Use of Single- Versus Dual-Coil Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Leads: Data From the NCDR ICD Registry. 
  • Temporal changes in the use of drug-eluting stents for patients with non-ST-Segment-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention from 2006 to 2008: results from the can rapid risk stratification of unstable angina patients supress ADverse outcomes with early implementation of the ACC/AHA guidelines (CRUSADE) and acute coronary treatment and intervention outcomes network-get with the guidelines (ACTION-GWTG) registries. 
  • Temporal trends in lung transplant center volume and outcomes in the United States. 
  • Temporal trends in patient characteristics and treatment with intravenous thrombolysis among acute ischemic stroke patients at Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals. 
  • The Association of Duration of participation in get with the guidelines-resuscitation with quality of Care for in-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 
  • The Association of Transfer Rate From Hospitals Without Revascularization Capabilities and Mortality Risk for Older Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients. 
  • The Educational Innovations Project: a community of practice. 
  • The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology. 
  • The Impact of Bleeding Avoidance Strategies on Hospital-Level Variation in Bleeding Rates Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry. 
  • The National Cardiovascular Data Registry Voluntary Public Reporting Program: An Interim Report From the NCDR Public Reporting Advisory Group. 
  • The New York State Primary Angioplasty Registry and procedural volume. 
  • The Preservation and Handling of Vein Grafts in Current Surgical Practice: Findings of a Survey Among Cardiovascular Surgeons of Top-Ranked US Hospitals. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. 
  • The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability. 
  • The association between hospital characteristics and rates of preventable complications and adverse events. 
  • The association of in-hospital guideline adherence and longitudinal postdischarge mortality in older patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • The association of myocardial infarction process of care measures and in-hospital mortality: a report from the NCDR®. 
  • The complex relationship between center volume and outcome in patients undergoing the Norwood operation. 
  • The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public. 
  • The deadly toll of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in community hospitals. 
  • The devil is in the details: the need for integrated cardiovascular data for performance measures and feedback. 
  • The economic costs to United States hospitals of invasive fungal infections in transplant patients. 
  • The effects of New York's bypass surgery provider profiling on access to care and patient outcomes in the elderly. 
  • The future of the hospital: an economist's perspective. 
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