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  • 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". 
  • Analysis of Temporal Trends and Variation in the Use of Defibrillation Testing in Contemporary Practice. 
  • 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 Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcome Reports: Update of the Utstein Resuscitation Registry Template for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Consensus Report From a Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association, European Resuscitation Council, Australian and New Zealand Council on Resuscitation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, Resuscitation Council of Asia). 
  • 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. 
  • Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation With and Without On-Site Cardiothoracic Surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • Design and Implementation of a Comprehensive Surveillance System for Venous Thromboembolism in a Defined Region Using Electronic and Manual Approaches. 
  • Detection of air and surface contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in hospital rooms of infected patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis. 
  • 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. 
  • Drugs and the exercise test. 
  • 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 a Quality of Care Improvement Initiative in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome in Resource-Constrained Hospitals in China: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Establishing funding rates for colonoscopy and gastroscopy procedures in Ontario. 
  • 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. 
  • Evaluation of dilute hydrogen peroxide technology for continuous room decontamination of multidrug-resistant organisms. 
  • Evolving the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: A Call for Peace, Happiness, and Improved Patient-Centered Outcomes. 
  • 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. 
  • Getting physicians to open the survey: little evidence that an envelope teaser increases response rates. 
  • 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. 
  • High hospital volume is associated with better outcomes for breast cancer surgery: analysis of 233,247 patients. 
  • 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 distance, socioeconomic status, and timely treatment of ischemic stroke. 
  • Hospital epidemiologists' and infection preventionists' opinions regarding hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia as a potential healthcare-associated infection metric. 
  • 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 a hospital-wide antibiotic restriction policy program on the resistance rates of nosocomial Gram-negative bacteria. 
  • 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 a billable transitional care model for stroke patients: the COMPASS 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. 
  • Improving Practices in US Hospitals to Prevent Venous Thromboembolism: lessons from ENDORSE. 
  • 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 provider volume on length of stay, operating room time, and discharge status for rotator cuff repair. 
  • 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. 
  • Misclassification of Myocardial Injury as Myocardial Infarction: Implications for Assessing Outcomes in Value-Based Programs. 
  • 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? 
  • Performance achievement award program for Get With The Guidelines--Coronary Artery Disease is associated with global and sustained improvement in cardiac care for patients hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction. 
  • 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. 
  • Predicting Inpatient Dissatisfaction Following Total Joint Arthroplasty: An Analysis of 3,593 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey Responses. 
  • 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 Optimization Checklists Within the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Bundle Have Not Decreased Hospital Returns for Total Knee Arthroplasty. 
  • 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 Disparities in Partial Nephrectomy Persist Across Hospital Types: Results From a Population-based Cohort. 
  • 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. 
  • Recommended guidelines for reviewing, reporting, and conducting research on in-hospital resuscitation: the in-hospital "Utstein style". American Heart Association. 
  • Recommended guidelines for reviewing, reporting, and conducting research on in-hospital resuscitation: the in-hospital 'Utstein style'. American Heart Association. 
  • 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. 
  • Relative impact of surgeon and hospital volume on operative mortality and complications following pancreatic resection in Medicare patients. 
  • 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 evolution of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): Is it time for more inclusive metrics? 
  • The future of the hospital: an economist's perspective. 
  • The impact of a statewide pre-hospital STEMI strategy to bypass hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention capability on treatment times. 
  • The impact of clinical vs administrative claims coding on hospital risk-adjusted outcomes. 
  • The impact of extreme-risk cases on hospitals' risk-adjusted percutaneous coronary intervention mortality ratings. 
  • The importance of consistent, high-quality acute myocardial infarction and heart failure care results from the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines Program. 
  • The need for multiple measures of hospital quality: results from the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry of the American Heart Association. 
  • The relationship of hospital market concentration, costs, and quality for major surgical procedures. 
  • The relationship of patient satisfaction with care and clinical outcomes. 
  • The risk of risk-adjustment measures for perioperative spine infection after spinal surgery. 
  • The role of nationwide nosocomial infection surveillance in detecting epidemic bacteremia due to contaminated intravenous fluids. 
  • The role of the surface environment in healthcare-associated infections. 
  • The third delay: understanding waiting time for obstetric referrals at a large regional hospital in Ghana. 
  • Thinking Outside the Box: Treating Acute Heart Failure Outside the Hospital to Improve Care and Reduce Admissions. 
  • Total arthroplasty versus hemiarthroplasty for glenohumeral osteoarthritis: role of provider volume. 
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Era of Quality Assessment. 
  • Treatment Patterns and Outcomes for Patients with Adrenocortical Carcinoma Associated with Hospital Case Volume in the United States: A Reply. 
  • Treatment of chronic conditions with traditional Chinese medicine: findings from traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in Hubei, China. 
  • Trends and Demographics in the Utilization of Total Wrist Arthroplasty. 
  • Trends in endovascular therapy and clinical outcomes within the nationwide Get With The Guidelines-Stroke registry. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Trends in postoperative length of stay after bypass surgery. 
  • Trends in the use of diagnostic coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery across North Carolina. 
  • Trends in the use of feeding tubes in North Carolina hospitals. 
  • Trends in the utilization of high-volume hospitals by minority and underinsured surgical patients. 
  • Tuberculosis among health care workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a retrospective cohort analysis. 
  • Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation. 
  • Unpredictable drug shortages: an ethical framework for short-term rationing in hospitals. 
  • Use of Appropriate Use Criteria Is Increasing, but What Are Their Effects on Medical Care? 
  • Use of anti-tuberculosis drugs among newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis inpatients in China: a retrospective study. 
  • Use of mechanical circulatory support in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Use, Temporal Trends, and Outcomes of Endovascular Therapy After Interhospital Transfer in the United States. 
  • Using a society database to evaluate a patient safety collaborative: the Cardiovascular Surgical Translational Study. 
  • Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure. 
  • Variability in survival and post-cardiac arrest care following successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Variation and Trends in the Documentation of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in GWTG-Stroke Hospitals. 
  • Variation in Hospital Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rates Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States: A Report From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry. 
  • Variation in surgical management of vesicoureteral reflux: influence of hospital and patient factors. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Variation in use of blood transfusion in coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Variation of Thyroidectomy-Specific Outcomes Among Hospitals and Their Association With Risk Adjustment and Hospital Performance. 
  • Venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in the acute care hospital setting (ENDORSE survey): findings in surgical patients. 
  • Vestibular schwannoma surgical volume and short-term outcomes in Maryland. 
  • Volume-outcome relationship in acute myocardial infarction: the balloon and the needle. 
  • Weekend/holiday versus weekday hospital discharge and guideline adherence (from the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines--Coronary Artery Disease database). 
  • What Factors Drive Inpatient Satisfaction After Knee Arthroplasty? 
  • Where do continuing care retirement community residents die? 
  • Working group recommendations: methods for geriatric evaluation and management research. 
  • Yelp Reviews Of Hospital Care Can Supplement And Inform Traditional Surveys Of The Patient Experience Of Care. 
  • [Venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in the acute hospital care setting (ENDORSE study): results obtained in France]. 
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