Quality Assurance, Health Care

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'Sleeping with the enemy?' Expectations and reality in imaging children in the emergency setting. 
  • 2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards update: A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Expert Consensus documents developed in collaboration with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Society for Vascular Medicine. 
  • 2012 American College of Cardiology Foundation/Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions expert consensus document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards update: American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on expert consensus documents Society of Thoracic Surgeons Society for Vascular Medicine. 
  • 2014 ACC/AHA Key Data Elements and Definitions for Cardiovascular Endpoint Events in Clinical Trials: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Committee to Develop Cardiovascular Endpoints Data Standards). 
  • A National Emergency Airway Registry for children: landscape of tracheal intubation in 15 PICUs. 
  • A Normal Thyroid by Any Other Name: Linguistic Analysis of Statements Describing a Normal Thyroid Gland from Noncontrast Chest CT Reports. 
  • A North American multilaboratory study of CD4 counts using flow cytometric panLeukogating (PLG): a NIAID-DAIDS Immunology Quality Assessment Program Study. 
  • A call to ACTION (acute coronary treatment and intervention outcomes network): a national effort to promote timely clinical feedback and support continuous quality improvement for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • A comprehensive evaluation of the PRESAGE/optical-CT 3D dosimetry system. 
  • A decade with the chronic care model: some progress and opportunity for more. 
  • 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 global sensitivity analysis of performance of a medical diagnostic test when verification bias is present. 
  • A leadership framework for culture change in health care. 
  • A morning briefing: setting the stage for a clinically and operationally good day. 
  • A novel surgeon credentialing and quality assurance process using transoral surgery for oropharyngeal cancer in ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group Trial E3311. 
  • A phase III randomized prospective trial of external beam radiotherapy, mitomycin C, carmustine, and 6-mercaptopurine for the treatment of adults with anaplastic glioma of the brain. CNS Cancer Consortium. 
  • A population-based study of inpatient outcomes after operative management of nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in the United States. 
  • A quality assurance method that utilizes 3D dosimetry and facilitates clinical interpretation. 
  • A quality assurance program for an inpatient department of ophthalmology. 'Indicators and criteria'. 
  • A quality assurance program for the on-board imager®. 
  • A quality assurance study on the accuracy of measuring physical function under current conditions for use of clinical video telehealth. 
  • A quality improvement program for hemodialysis vascular access. 
  • A quality improvement program to enhance after-hours telephone communication between nurses and physicians in a long-term care facility. 
  • A review of how the quality of HIV clinical services has been evaluated or improved. 
  • A roadmap for academic health centers to establish good laboratory practice-compliant infrastructure. 
  • A safe practice standard for barcode technology. 
  • A semi-automated tool for treatment plan-quality evaluation and clinical trial quality assurance. 
  • A systematic review of interventions to improve outcomes for elders discharged from the emergency department. 
  • A systematic review of the PTSD Checklist's diagnostic accuracy studies using QUADAS. 
  • A time of accelerated change in academic cardiovascular medicine: implications for academic divisions of cardiology and their training programs. 
  • A varying patient safety profile between black and nonblack adults with decreased estimated GFR. 
  • AACVPR/ACCF/AHA 2010 update: performance measures on cardiac rehabilitation for referral to cardiac rehabilitation/secondary prevention services: a report of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Performance Measures for Cardiac Rehabilitation). 
  • AAPM Task Group 198 Report: An implementation guide for TG 142 quality assurance of medical accelerators. 
  • ACC/AHA 2007 methodology for the development of clinical data standards: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards. 
  • ACC/AHA 2008 performance measures for adults with ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to develop performance measures for ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction): developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Emergency Physicians: endorsed by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and Society of Hospital Medicine. 
  • ACC/AHA 2008 statement on performance measurement and reperfusion therapy: a report of the ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures (Work Group to address the challenges of performance measurement and reperfusion therapy). 
  • ACC/AHA classification of care metrics: performance measures and quality metrics: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Ad Hoc Task Force on Cardiac Catheterization. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for cardiac catheterization and cardiac catheterization laboratories. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Ad Hoc Task Force on Cardiac Catheterization. 
  • ACC/AHA/SCAI 2014 health policy statement on structured reporting for the cardiac catheterization laboratory: a report of the American College of Cardiology Clinical Quality Committee. 
  • ACC/AHA/SCAI/AMA-Convened PCPI/NCQA 2013 Performance Measures for Adults Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, the American Medical Association-Convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. 
  • ACC/AHA/SCAI/AMA-Convened PCPI/NCQA 2013 performance measures for adults undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, the American Medical Association-Convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2010 Position Statement on Composite Measures for Healthcare Performance Assessment: a report of American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to Develop a Position Statement on Composite Measures). 
  • ACCF/AHA 2010 Position Statement on Composite Measures for Healthcare Performance Assessment: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures (Writing Committee to develop a position statement on composite measures). 
  • ACCF/AHA clinical practice guideline methodology summit report: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • ACCF/AHA methodology for the development of quality measures for cardiovascular technology: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. 
  • ACCF/AHA/SCAI 2007 update of the Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac Interventional Procedures: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training (Writing Committee to Update the 1998 Clinical Competence Statement on Recommendations for the Assessment and Maintenance of Proficiency in Coronary Interventional Procedures). 
  • ACCF/AHA/SCAI 2007 update of the clinical competence statement on cardiac interventional procedures: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians Task Force on Clinical Competence and Training (writing Committee to Update the 1998 Clinical Competence Statement on Recommendations for the Assessment and Maintenance of Proficiency in Coronary Interventional Procedures). 
  • ACCF/ASE/ACEP/AHA/ASNC/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2008 appropriateness criteria for stress echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriateness Criteria Task Force, American Society of Echocardiography, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Heart Association, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 
  • ACCF/HRS/AHA/ASE/HFSA/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2013 appropriate use criteria for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation appropriate use criteria task force, Heart Rhythm Society, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Failure Society of America, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • ACCF/HRS/AHA/ASE/HFSA/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR 2013 appropriate use criteria for implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation appropriate use criteria task force, Heart Rhythm Society, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, Heart Failure Society of America, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 
  • AGA Institute Quality Measure Development for the Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19. 
  • AHA scientific statement: practice standards for electrocardiographic monitoring in hospital settings: an American Heart Association Scientific Statement from the Councils on Cardiovascular Nursing, Clinical Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Disease in the Young: endorsed by the International Society of Computerized electrocardiology and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. 
  • ATS statement: guidelines for the six-minute walk test. 
  • Ability to generate patient registries among practices with and without electronic health records. 
  • Acceptance-enhanced behavior therapy for trichotillomania: Randomized controlled trial rationale, method, and strategies for recruiting minority participants. 
  • Accuracy of the aristotle basic complexity score for classifying the mortality and morbidity potential of congenital heart surgery operations. 
  • 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. 
  • Achieving Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging II: proceedings from the Second American College of Cardiology -- Duke University Medical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging. 
  • Achieving quality in cardiovascular imaging: proceedings from the American College of Cardiology-Duke University Medical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging. 
  • Adaptive leadership framework for chronic illness: framing a research agenda for transforming care delivery. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Measures Using Point-of-Care Data Collection Across Diverse Clinical Settings. 
  • Adopting a surgical safety checklist could save money and improve the quality of care in U.S. hospitals. 
  • After Action Reviews. 
  • Agreement of Ocular Symptom Reporting Between Patient-Reported Outcomes and Medical Records. 
  • Alternative pay-for-performance scoring methods: implications for quality improvement and patient outcomes. 
  • American College of Cardiology/Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions Clinical Expert Consensus Document on cardiac catheterization laboratory standards. A report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents. 
  • American Gastroenterological Association Institute and College of American Pathologists Quality Measure Development for Detection of Mismatch Repair Deficiency and Lynch Syndrome Management. 
  • American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Quality Initiative Joint Consensus Statement on Postoperative Delirium Prevention. 
  • American Society of Echocardiography recommendations for quality echocardiography laboratory operations. 
  • American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement on pulmonary rehabilitation. 
  • An evaluation of the relationship between the quality of prophylactic cranial radiotherapy in childhood acute leukemia and institutional experience: a Quality Assurance Review Center-Pediatric Oncology Group study. 
  • An examination of Alzheimer's disease case definitions using Medicare claims and survey data. 
  • An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. 
  • An optometric quality assurance program. 
  • Analyzing the effect of data quality on the accuracy of clinical decision support systems: a computer simulation approach. 
  • Anesthesia-based pain services improve the quality of postoperative pain management. 
  • Answering unanswered questions: proposal for a shared resource in clinical diagnostic radiology research. 
  • Appropriate use of cardiovascular technology: 2013 ACCF appropriate use criteria methodology update: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation appropriate use criteria task force. 
  • Are preferences for equity over efficiency in health care allocation "all or nothing"? 
  • Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. 
  • Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Assessing quality and utilization patterns in health care delivery systems. 
  • Assessing quality in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. 
  • Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot. 
  • Assessing the quality of colorectal cancer care: do we have appropriate quality measures? (A systematic review of literature). 
  • Assessment of chiropractic outcomes for low back pain and neck pain: a health plan quality incentive model. 
  • Assessment of chiropractic treatment for active duty, U.S. military personnel with low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Association between hospital post-resuscitative performance and clinical outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 
  • Association between hospital procedure volume and early complications after pacemaker implantation: results from a large, unselected, contemporary cohort of the German nationwide obligatory external quality assurance programme. 
  • Association of insurance status with inpatient treatment for coronary artery disease: findings from the Get With the Guidelines program. 
  • Audit, quality control, and performance in thoracic surgery: a North American perspective. 
  • Automated monitoring of outcomes: application to treatment of drug abuse. 
  • Automated quality control in nuclear medicine using the structured noise index. 
  • Barriers to and facilitators of clinical practice guideline use in nursing homes. 
  • Barriers to follow-up care of survivors in the United States and the United Kingdom. 
  • Basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography examination: a consensus statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Best practices in the Veterans Health Administration's MOVE! Weight management program. 
  • Beyond the Affordable Care Act: achieving real improvements in Americans' health. 
  • 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 evidence for practice: not without dissemination. 
  • Business-success literature and the health care enterprise: the need to test "insights". 
  • Cancer Screening in Primary Care: So Much Progress, So Much Left to Do. 
  • Candidate Quality Measures for Hand Surgery. 
  • Cardiovascular research in India: a perspective. 
  • Carotid endarterectomy trends in the patterns and outcomes of care at academic medical centers, 1990 through 1995. 
  • Carotid endarterectomy. 
  • Casablanca redux: we are shocked that public reporting of rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections are inaccurate. 
  • Case study: Transforming cancer care at a community oncology practice. 
  • Causes of the change in the rates of mortality and severe complications of diabetes mellitus: 1992-2012. 
  • Challenges in the clinical application of advanced technologies to reduce radiation-associated normal tissue injury. 
  • Challenges of Maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Low-Resource Settings:  A Health Program Evaluation Framework Case Study From East Africa. 
  • Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes for nonadherent patients with heart failure: findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF). 
  • Characterization and outcomes of women and men with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and nonobstructive coronary artery disease: results from the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) quality improvement initiative. 
  • Checklists, safety, my culture and me. 
  • Chronic venous leg ulcer treatment: future research needs. 
  • Chronic wounds of the lower extremity: a preliminary performance measurement set. 
  • Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society: the highest quality in global data collection. 
  • Clinical review: checklists - translating evidence into practice. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Tumor Response Assessment Methods: Standard of Care Versus Computer-Assisted Response Evaluation. 
  • Comparative effectiveness research: Policy context, methods development and research infrastructure. 
  • Comparing the effects of antidepressants: consensus guidelines for evaluating quantitative reviews of antidepressant efficacy. 
  • Comparison of Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) Measure Adherence Between Oncology Fellows, Advanced Practice Providers, and Attending Physicians. 
  • 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 edge analysis techniques for the determination of the MTF of digital radiographic systems. 
  • Comparison of increasingly detailed elicitation methods for the assessment of adverse events in pediatric psychopharmacology. 
  • Comparisons of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) quality assurance (QA) systems: sensitivity analysis to machine errors. 
  • Compendium of resources for radiation safety in medical imaging using ionizing radiation. 
  • Compliance with therapeutic guidelines in Radiation Therapy Oncology Group prospective gastrointestinal clinical trials. 
  • Comprehensive genomic studies: emerging regulatory, strategic, and quality assurance challenges for biorepositories. 
  • Comprehensive long-term follow-up programs for pediatric cancer survivors. 
  • Conceptual overview of frameworks for measuring quality in rehabilitation. 
  • Conformance with preferred practice patterns in caring for children with esotropia. 
  • Conformance with supportive care quality measures is associated with better quality of life in patients with cancer receiving palliative care. 
  • Connecting child care quality to child outcomes: drawing policy lessons from nonexperimental data. 
  • Connecting information to improve health. 
  • Constancy checks of well-type ionization chambers with external-beam radiation units. 
  • Contemporary therapy of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Continued improvements in quality improvement research. 
  • Corneoscleral rim cultures: lack of utility and implications for clinical decision-making and infection prevention in the care of patients undergoing corneal transplantation. 
  • Cost minimization in endoscopy center scheduling: a case-controlled study. 
  • Costs associated with multimorbidity among VA patients. 
  • Craniotomy for resection of meningioma in the elderly: a multicentre, prospective analysis from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. 
  • Creating an evidence-based practice environment: one hospital's journey. 
  • Creating high reliability in health care organizations. 
  • Creation of state-level Medicare database for healthcare evaluation applications. 
  • Critical Review of Current Approaches for Echocardiographic Reproducibility and Reliability Assessment in Clinical Research. 
  • Cross-platform analysis of HIV-1 RNA data generated by a multicenter assay validation study with wide geographic representation. 
  • Crossing the Global Quality Chasm in Health Care: Where Does Rehabilitation Stand? 
  • Crowdsourcing consensus: proposal of a novel method for assessing accuracy in echocardiography interpretation. 
  • Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes? 
  • Current issues and actions in radiation protection of patients. 
  • Cytologic features of adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified, in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Cytologic features of squamous cell carcinoma in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Defining care provided for breast cancer based on medical record review or Medicare claims: information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patterns of Care Study. 
  • Delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation for patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Delivered Dose Distribution Visualized Directly With Onboard kV-CBCT: Proof of Principle. 
  • Determinants of medical system delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer within the Veteran Affairs Health System. 
  • Determining appropriate use of an air medical program. 
  • Developing and sustaining quality improvement partnerships in the VA: the Colorectal Cancer Care Collaborative. 
  • Developing process-support tools for patient safety: finding the balance between validity and feasibility. 
  • Development and implementation of a hospital-based patient safety program. 
  • Development and longitudinal validation of the overall benefit of analgesia score: a simple multi-dimensional quality assessment instrument. 
  • Development and participant assessment of a practical quality improvement educational initiative for surgical residents. 
  • Development of a Congenital Heart Surgery Composite Quality Metric: Part 1-Conceptual Framework. 
  • Development of a Quality Checklist Using Delphi Methods for Prescriptive Clinical Prediction Rules: the QUADCPR. 
  • Development of an accurate EPID-based output measurement and dosimetric verification tool for electron beam therapy. 
  • Development, implementation and user experience of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) dialysis dashboard. 
  • Diabetes on a cardiovascular ward: adherence to current recommendations. 
  • Differences in the approval process for interventional devices in Europe and USA: IN MEDIO STAT VIRTUS. 
  • Diode-based transmission detector for IMRT delivery monitoring: a validation study. 
  • Diode-based transmission detector for IMRT delivery monitoring: a validation study. 
  • Does prospective payment reduce inpatient length of stay? 
  • Echocardiographic imaging in clinical trials: American Society of Echocardiography Standards for echocardiography core laboratories: endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Effect of altering automatic exposure control settings and quality reference mAs on radiation dose, image quality, and diagnostic efficacy in MDCT enterography of active inflammatory Crohn's disease. 
  • Effect of improving the quality of radiographic interpretation on the ability to predict pulmonary tuberculosis relapse. 
  • Effect of patient selection method on provider group performance estimates. 
  • Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. 
  • Efficient independent planar dose calculation for FFF IMRT QA with a bivariate Gaussian source model. 
  • Electronic health (eHealth) interventions for weight management among racial/ethnic minority adults: a systematic review. 
  • Empowering patients to improve the quality of their care: design and implementation of a shared health maintenance module in a US integrated healthcare delivery network. 
  • Enhancing awareness of hospice through physician assisted living: public health perspectives. 
  • Establishing standards and measurement methods for medical education. 
  • Establishing the feasibility of the dosimetric compliance criteria of RTOG 1308: phase III randomized trial comparing overall survival after photon versus proton radiochemotherapy for inoperable stage II-IIIB NSCLC. 
  • Evaluating quality of care in the new health care environment. 
  • Evaluation and appraisal of randomized controlled trials in myeloma. 
  • Evaluation of a Hospital-Based Pneumonia Nurse Navigator Program. 
  • Evaluation of public health demonstration programs: the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of WISEWOMAN. 
  • Evaluation of the quality of care in congenital heart surgery: contribution of the Aristotle complexity score. 
  • Evolution in measuring the quality of dying. 
  • Evolution of the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative supportive care quality measures portfolio and conformance at a Veterans Affairs medical center. 
  • Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout. 
  • External Quality Assessment Program for Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Logistical Considerations. 
  • External Quality Assessment for Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Unique Requirements and Challenges. 
  • Feeling Heard and Understood: A Patient-Reported Quality Measure for the Inpatient Palliative Care Setting. 
  • First-pass radionuclide angiography. 
  • Foundation for the Accreditation of Hematopoietic Cell Therapy (FAHCT) response to FDA (Docket no. 97N-0068). FAHCT Board of Directors. 
  • Frequency of nonsystem delays in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention and implications for door-to-balloon time reporting (from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program). 
  • From concept to application: the impact of a community-wide intervention to improve the delivery of preventive services to children. 
  • GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence--study limitations (risk of bias). 
  • Gaps in referral to cardiac rehabilitation of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States. 
  • Global quality imaging: emerging issues. 
  • Grading a physician's value--the misapplication of performance measurement. 
  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines. Part 1 of 3. An overview of the GRADE approach and grading quality of evidence about interventions. 
  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. 
  • Grading the strength of a body of evidence when assessing health care interventions: an EPC update. 
  • Guideline for flow cytometric immunophenotyping: a report from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of AIDS. 
  • Guidelines for quality assurance in multicenter trials: a position paper. 
  • Heart failure care in the outpatient cardiology practice setting: findings from IMPROVE HF. 
  • Heimlich valve orientation error leading to radiographic tension pneumothorax: analysis of an error and a call for education, device redesign and regulatory action. 
  • Hierarchical modeling: its time has come. 
  • High sensitivity and specificity of clinical microscopy in rural health facilities in western Kenya under an external quality assurance program. 
  • Hyperthermia quality assurance guidelines. 
  • Identification of poorly performing transplant centers using the UNOS center-specific data. 
  • Identifying clinical competencies that support rehabilitation and empowerment in individuals with severe mental illness. 
  • Image quality and dose in mammography in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe: results from IAEA projects. 
  • Image-Rich Radiology Reports: A Value-Based Model to Improve Clinical Workflow. 
  • Impact of Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care accreditation on quality: an ACTION Registry®-Get With The Guidelines™ analysis. 
  • Impact of specific postoperative complications on the outcomes of emergency general surgery patients. 
  • Implementation of Complex Interventions: Lessons Learned From the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Transitional Care Portfolio. 
  • Implementation of condition help: family teaching and evaluation of family understanding. 
  • Implementation of echocardiography core laboratory best practices: a case study of the PARTNER I trial. 
  • Implementation of new clinical programs in the VHA healthcare system: the importance of early collaboration between clinical leadership and research. 
  • Implementation of remote 3-dimensional image guided radiation therapy quality assurance for radiation therapy oncology group clinical trials. 
  • Implementation of the Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative Vascular Access Guidelines. 
  • Implementing diffusion-weighted MRI for body imaging in prospective multicentre trials: current considerations and future perspectives. 
  • Improved surgeon performance in clinical trials: an analysis of quality assurance audits from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. 
  • Improvements in quality improvement. 
  • Improving depression care for older, minority patients in primary care. 
  • Improving imaging: our professional imperative. 
  • Improving patient safety in intensive care units in Michigan. 
  • Improving physician assistant education and practice in SUD and policy recommendations on substance abuse education for physician assistants. 
  • Improving preventive service delivery through office systems. 
  • Improving processes of hospital care during the last hours of life. 
  • Improving safety culture results in Rhode Island ICUs: lessons learned from the development of action-oriented plans. 
  • Improving the Quality of Palliative Care Through National and Regional Collaboration Efforts. 
  • Improving the use of evidence-based heart failure therapies in the outpatient setting: the IMPROVE HF performance improvement registry. 
  • Inappropriate medication use among frail elderly inpatients. 
  • Influence of stroke subtype on quality of care in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program. 
  • Initial level of care and clinical status in a managed mental health program. 
  • Institutional review board training for community practices: advice from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Practice-Based Research Network listserv. 
  • Institutional review of outside cytology materials: a retrospective analysis of two institutions' experiences. 
  • Integrating Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Quality Checks into the World Health Organization's Safe Surgery Checklist: A Pilot Study. 
  • Integrating technology into palliative care research. 
  • Integrating the biopsychosocial model into quality measures in palliative care: a case for improving the hospice item set. 
  • Integration of Personalized Health Planning and Shared Medical Appointments for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. 
  • Intensity-modulated radiation therapy in gynecologic malignancies. 
  • Intercomparison of methods for image quality characterization. I. Modulation transfer function. 
  • Intercomparison of methods for image quality characterization. II. Noise power spectrum. 
  • International technology transfer of a GCLP-compliant HIV-1 neutralizing antibody assay for human clinical trials. 
  • Is rehospitalization after heart failure admission a marker of poor quality? Time for re-evaluation. 
  • Issues in quality measurement: target population, risk adjustment, and ratings. 
  • It's how you say it: Systematic A/B testing of digital messaging cut hospital no-show rates. 
  • Knowledge-Based Statistical Inference Method for Plan Quality Quantification. 
  • LINAC based stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases: guidance for clinical implementation. 
  • Lessons learned from the CRUSADE National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Leukemia/lymphoma in cerebrospinal fluid: distinguishing between cases that performed well and poorly in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Non-gynecologic Cytology. 
  • Linkage of Laboratory Results to Medicare Fee-for-Service Claims. 
  • Linking evidence-based medicine therapeutic summary measures to clinical decision analysis. 
  • Malpractice: provider risk or consumer protection? 
  • Management of observation units. American College of Emergency Physicians. 
  • Management of patients with peripheral artery disease (compilation of 2005 and 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline Recommendations): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. 
  • Managing to improve quality: the relationship between accreditation standards, safety practices, and patient outcomes. 
  • Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically ill. 
  • Measurement of the detective quantum efficiency in digital detectors consistent with the IEC 62220-1 standard: Practical considerations regarding the choice of filter material. 
  • Measuring blood pressure for decision making and quality reporting: where and how many measures? 
  • Measuring handoff quality in labor and delivery: development, validation, and application of the Coordination of Handoff Effectiveness Questionnaire (CHEQ). 
  • Measuring health care performance now, not tomorrow: essential steps to support effective health reform. 
  • Measuring nursing care time and tasks in long-term services and supports: one size does not fit all. 
  • Measuring quality in electrophysiology. 
  • Measuring the significance of field validation in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology: how good are the experts? 
  • Measuring the significance of participant evaluation of acceptability of cases in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Medical Physics 3.0: Ensuring Quality and Safety in Medical Imaging. 
  • Medical records and quality of care in acute coronary syndromes: results from CRUSADE. 
  • Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures. 
  • Medication dosing in outpatients with heart failure after implementation of a practice-based performance improvement intervention: findings from IMPROVE HF. 
  • Medication performance measures and mortality following acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Methodological Research Priorities in Palliative Care and Hospice Quality Measurement. 
  • Methodological standardization for a multi-institutional in vivo trial of localized 31P MR spectroscopy in human cancer research. In vitro and normal volunteer studies. 
  • Models for delivering survivorship care. 
  • Monitoring and ordering practices for human papillomavirus in cervical cytology: findings from the College of American Pathologists Gynecologic Cytopathology Quality Consensus Conference working group 5. 
  • Monitoring the quality of conduct of clinical trials: a survey of current practices. 
  • Moving from IMRT QA measurements toward independent computer calculations using control charts. 
  • Moving physicians from fee-for-service first step to 'doc fix,' mcClellan says. 
  • Multicenter randomized controlled trial on Duration of Therapy for Thrombosis in Children and Young Adults (the Kids-DOTT trial): pilot/feasibility phase findings. 
  • NAPNAP research agenda: 2014-2019. 
  • National Survey of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Medication Safety Practices. 
  • National survey of patient specific IMRT quality assurance in China. 
  • National trends in health care utilization and racial and socioeconomic disparities in pediatric pyogenic arthritis. 
  • New medical technologies in a cost containment environment: Implantable antitachyarrhythmia devices. 
  • New strategies for aligning physicians with health system incentives. 
  • Novel approaches to clinical trials: device-related infections. 
  • Nursing home research: the first International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) research conference. 
  • Open access in primary care: results of a North Carolina pilot project. 
  • Opening Pandora's Box: From Readmissions to Transitional Care Patient-Centered Outcome Measures. 
  • Opportunities for improvement on current nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure in Latin America: Findings from the 65-country IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols cross-sectional Study (INCAPS). 
  • Optimizing the quality of breast cancer biomarker use at Duke Cancer Institute. 
  • Our Work to Define the Elusive Optimal Staffing Levels. 
  • Overcoming the challenges facing quality-improvement strategies for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Panel discussion. Pediatric imaging in the emergency department. 
  • Paramedic transtelephonic communication to cardiologist of clinical and electrocardiographic assessment for rapid reperfusion of ST-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Pay for performance, quality of care, and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Paying attention: A leap toward quality care. 
  • Pediatric-Specific End-of-Life Care Quality Measures: An Unmet Need of a Vulnerable Population. 
  • Peer Review of Scholarly Work. 
  • Perceptions of the medical home by parents of children with chronic illnesses. 
  • Performance measures for mental healthcare in Singapore. 
  • Perianesthetic and Anesthesia-Related Mortality in a Southeastern United States Population: A Longitudinal Review of a Prospectively Collected Quality Assurance Data Base. 
  • Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. 
  • Physical examination tests of the shoulder: a systematic review with meta-analysis of individual tests. 
  • Physician process and patient outcome measures for diabetes care: relationships to organizational characteristics. 
  • Pixel response-based EPID dosimetry for patient specific QA. 
  • Policy to practice: increased family presence and the impact on patient- and family-centered care adoption. 
  • Practical implementation of the Guidelines for Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in the emergency department. 
  • Practice patterns for peer review in radiation oncology. 
  • Practice profile. Community collaboration to improve care and reduce health disparities. 
  • Practice still makes perfect. 
  • Pressure Injury Prevention: Outcomes and Challenges to Use of Resident Monitoring Technology in a Nursing Home. 
  • Prevalence of non-A, non-B hepatitis/hepatitis C virus antibody in laboratory quality-assurance sera. 
  • Process control analysis of IMRT QA: implications for clinical trials. 
  • Products and product-line management in nursing. 
  • Propensity score interval matching: using bootstrap confidence intervals for accommodating estimation errors of propensity scores. 
  • Protocolized approach to the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: benefits of reducing variability in care. 
  • Psychiatric nursing outcome research: the state of the science. 
  • Putting the "M" back in maternal-fetal medicine: A 5-year report card on a collaborative effort to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. 
  • Quality Measures That Address the Upper Limb. 
  • Quality Measures in Upper Limb Surgery. 
  • Quality and the college of american pathologists. 
  • Quality assessment and improvement in group psychotherapy. 
  • Quality assurance for image-guided radiation therapy utilizing CT-based technologies: a report of the AAPM TG-179. 
  • Quality improvement in pediatrics: past, present, and future. 
  • Quality in echocardiography: choosing to succeed. 
  • Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 1--Conceptual framework and measure selection. 
  • Quality of care for acute coronary syndrome patients with known atherosclerotic disease: results from the Get With the Guidelines Program. 
  • Quality of care for patients diagnosed with diabetes at screening. 
  • Quality of care for sudden cardiac arrest: Proposed steps to improve the translation of evidence into practice. 
  • Quality of nonmetastatic colorectal cancer care in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Quality-assurance study of simultaneously sampled, non-correlating cervical cytology and biopsies. 
  • Quantitation of clinical feedback on image quality differences between two CT scanner models. 
  • Quantitative Approach to Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for Linear Accelerator Quality Assurance. 
  • RTOG quality assurance guidelines for clinical trials using hyperthermia administered by ultrasound. 
  • RTOG quality assurance guidelines for clinical trials using hyperthermia for deep-seated malignancy. 
  • RTOG quality assurance guidelines for clinical trials using hyperthermia. 
  • RTOG quality assurance guidelines for interstitial hyperthermia. 
  • Racial differences among patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery: a population-based trend analysis from 2002 to 2008. 
  • Radiotherapy in pediatric medulloblastoma: quality assessment of Pediatric Oncology Group Trial 9031. 
  • Randomized Trials in Cardiovascular Imaging: Where to Next? 
  • Randomized trial to improve fracture prevention in nursing home residents. 
  • Rationale and strategies for implementing community-based transfer protocols for primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Re-examining TG-142 recommendations in light of modern techniques for linear accelerator based radiosurgery. 
  • ReCAP: Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Pilot Program to Facilitate Quality Improvement Learning in Oncology: Experience of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Training Program. 
  • Readmission after major surgery: effect of the postdischarge environment. 
  • Real-time pretreatment review limits unacceptable deviations on a cooperative group radiation therapy technique trial: quality assurance results of RTOG 0933. 
  • Receipt of monitoring of diabetes mellitus in older adults with comorbid dementia. 
  • Recent trends in the care of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: insights from the CRUSADE initiative. 
  • Recommendations for improving the quality of care through stroke centers and systems: an examination of stroke center identification options: multidisciplinary consensus recommendations from the Advisory Working Group on Stroke Center Identification Options of the American Stroke Association. 
  • Recommendations for the reporting of tissues removed as part of the surgical treatment of common malignancies of the eye and its adnexa. 
  • Recommendations for the reporting of tissues removed as part of the surgical treatment of common malignancies of the eye and its adnexa. 
  • Reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in North Carolina NICUs. 
  • Reforming payments to healthcare providers: the key to slowing healthcare cost growth while improving quality? 
  • Regional variation in antenatal corticosteroid use: a network-level quality improvement study. 
  • Regulatory and ethical considerations for linking clinical and administrative databases. 
  • Relation of low hemoglobin and anemia to morbidity and mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure (insight from the OPTIMIZE-HF registry). 
  • Reliability analysis framework for computer-assisted medical decision systems. 
  • Reporting of harm in randomized controlled trials published in the urological literature. 
  • Results from the Quality Research in Radiation Oncology (QRRO) survey: Evaluation of dosimetric outcomes for low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy. 
  • Revealing and resolving patient safety defects: the impact of leadership WalkRounds on frontline caregiver assessments of patient safety. 
  • Self-reported barriers to pediatric surgical care in Guatemala. 
  • Signposts along the journey toward high-quality palliative care: the value of measuring what matters. 
  • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Special Statement: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) update. 
  • Special article: basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography examination: a consensus statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. 
  • Spinal anesthesia for orthopedic surgery: a detailed video assessment of quality. 
  • Standardize concepts, not tools for quality improvement. 
  • Standardized assessment for evaluation of team skills: validity and feasibility. 
  • Standards in clinical decision support: activities in health level seven. 
  • Standards of care: practicing what we preach. 
  • Statistical issues in the analysis and interpretation of outcomes for congenital cardiac surgery. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. 
  • Strengthening an academic nursing center through partnership 
  • Striving for excellence. A neglected challenge to young physicians. 
  • Success stories: how hospitals are improving care. 
  • Survivorship: childhood cancer survivors. 
  • Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: pilot study of a new system. 
  • Temporal trends in the management of potentially resectable lung cancer. 
  • Terminal ileum intubation is not associated with colonoscopy quality measures. 
  • The ABZs of Pediatric CT. 
  • The ALARA concept in pediatric imaging: building bridges between radiology and emergency medicine: consensus conference on imaging safety and quality for children in the emergency setting, Feb. 23-24, 2008, Orlando, FL - Executive Summary. 
  • The Implementation of Measuring What Matters in Research and Practice: Series Commentary. 
  • The STS AVR+CABG composite score: a report of the STS Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2019 Update on Outcomes and Quality. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Isolated Aortic Valve Replacement (AVR) Composite Score: a report of the STS Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons voluntary public reporting initiative: the first 4 years. 
  • The Texas Medication Algorithm Project: development and implementation of the schizophrenia algorithm. 
  • The Think A-Head campaign: an introduction to ImageGently 2.0. 
  • The appropriateness of 30-day mortality as a quality metric in colorectal cancer surgery. 
  • The audit process and how to ensure a successful audit. 
  • The better colectomy project: association of evidence-based best-practice adherence rates to outcomes in colorectal surgery. 
  • The case for practical clinical trials in psychiatry. 
  • The devil is in the details: the need for integrated cardiovascular data for performance measures and feedback. 
  • The dissociation between door-to-balloon time improvement and improvements in other acute myocardial infarction care processes and patient outcomes. 
  • The heart failure clinic: a consensus statement of the Heart Failure Society of America. 
  • The impact of a measurement and feedback intervention on blood pressure control in ambulatory cardiology practice. 
  • The impact of advanced technologies on treatment deviations in radiation treatment delivery. 
  • The impact of emergency department structure and care processes in delivering care for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • The importance of "quality of care". 
  • The methodology of visual field testing with frequency doubling technology in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2006. 
  • The multidisciplinary approach to adenocarcinoma of the prostate at Moore Regional Hospital. 
  • The need for multiple measures of hospital quality: results from the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry of the American Heart Association. 
  • The pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder treatment study: rationale, design, and methods. 
  • The potential for failure in gynecologic regulatory proficiency testing with current slide validation criteria: results from the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison in Gynecologic Cytology Program. 
  • The role of the American College of Cardiology in promoting and maintaining the delivery of quality cardiovascular care in the future. 
  • The role of the principal clinical coordinator in the Health Care Financing Administration's Health Care Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • The status of air medical quality assurance. 
  • The utility of clinical measures for the diagnosis of achilles tendon injuries: a systematic review with meta-analysis. 
  • Third universal definition of myocardial infarction. 
  • Three IMRT advanced planning tools: A multi-institutional side-by-side comparison. 
  • To err on humans is not benign. Incentives for adoption of medical error-reporting systems. 
  • Total quality improvement in the IVF laboratory: choosing indicators of quality. 
  • Toward improved coronary artery revascularization: is this as good as it gets? 
  • Tracking China's health reform. 
  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in Germany 2008-2014: on its way to standard therapy for aortic valve stenosis in the elderly? 
  • Translating evidence-based falls prevention into clinical practice in nursing facilities: Results and lessons from a quality improvement collaborative. 
  • Trends in the use of evidence-based treatments for coronary artery disease among women and the elderly: findings from the get with the guidelines quality-improvement program. 
  • Trust in insurers and access to physicians: associated enrollee behaviors and changes over time. 
  • Two-stage sampling in pharmaceutical applications. 
  • Usability and Acceptability of the QDACT-PC, an Electronic Point-of-Care System for Standardized Quality Monitoring in Palliative Care. 
  • Use of time during body computed tomography scanning in a tertiary care teaching hospital: focus on patient throughput. 
  • Using NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology to measure the quality of colorectal cancer care in the veterans health administration. 
  • Using a medical simulation center as an electronic health record usability laboratory. 
  • Using clinical trial summary results to establish quality measures [4] 
  • Using improvement science to promote evidence-based practice in a childhood cancer and hematology center. 
  • Using qualitative studies to improve the usability of an EMR. 
  • Utility of the advanced chronic kidney disease patient management tools: case studies. 
  • Utilizing knowledge from prior plans in the evaluation of quality assurance. 
  • Validated System for Centralized Grading of Retinopathy of Prematurity: Telemedicine Approaches to Evaluating Acute-Phase Retinopathy of Prematurity (e-ROP) Study. 
  • Validation of a quality assessment system for blood gas and electrolyte testing. 
  • Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure. 
  • Variability in the diagnosis and point selection for persons with frequent headache by traditional Chinese medicine acupuncturists. 
  • Variation in perioperative vasoactive therapy in cardiovascular surgical care: data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • Variation in safety culture dimensions within and between US and Swiss Hospital Units: an exploratory study. 
  • Vectoring for true north: building a research base on family support. 
  • Volumetric-modulated arc therapy: effective and efficient end-to-end patient-specific quality assurance. 
  • Wachter, McClellan offer takes on measuring quality. 
  • What are the barriers to scaling up health interventions in low and middle income countries? A qualitative study of academic leaders in implementation science. 
  • What aspects of hospital culture influence quality? 
  • What is quality in maternal and neonatal health care? 
  • Whither infection control in community hospitals? Musings about the near future. 
  • Why Physics in Medicine? 
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  • Alexander, John Hunter Peel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Cardiology
  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Goldstein, Benjamin Alan, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • O'Daniel, Jennifer Colleen, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Taicher, Brad Matthew, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics
  • Wu, Qingrong, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Duke Science & Society