Quality of Health Care

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  • 2011 ACCF/AHA/SCAI Guideline for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. 
  • 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. 
  • 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). 
  • 2016 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update on New Pharmacological Therapy for Heart Failure: An Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Failure Society of America. 
  • 28th Bethesda Conference. Introduction. 
  • 28th Bethesda Conference. Task Force 1: Clinical practice guideline development, dissemination and computerization. 
  • 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 Touchy Subject: Can Physicians Improve Value by Discussing Costs and Clinical Benefits With Patients? 
  • A check-up for safety culture in "my patient care area". 
  • A comparison of U.S. and Canadian cardiac catheterization practices in detecting severe coronary artery disease after myocardial infarction: efficiency, yield and long-term implications. 
  • A comparison of analgesic management for emergency department patients with sickle cell disease and renal colic. 
  • A comprehensive assessment of satisfaction with care: preliminary psychometric analysis in an oncology institute in Italy. 
  • A decade in diabetes specialist services, 2000 to 2011, in England: the views of consultant diabetologists and diabetes specialist nurses amidst persistent healthcare delivery change. 
  • A health services research agenda for cellular, molecular and genomic technologies in cancer care. 
  • A method for assessing drug therapy appropriateness. 
  • A natural experiment in the quality of care in gout. 
  • A necessary sea change for nurse faculty development: spotlight on quality and safety. 
  • A network perspective on patient experiences and health status: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey 2004 to 2011. 
  • A participatory action research pilot study of urban health disparities using rapid assessment response and evaluation. 
  • A pilot study examining the severity and outcome of the post-cardiac arrest syndrome: a comparative analysis of two geographically distinct hospitals. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A process to facilitate decision making in pediatric stem cell transplantation: the individualized care planning and coordination model. 
  • A prospective registry evaluating the epidemiology and clinical care of traumatic brain injury patients presenting to a regional referral hospital in Moshi, Tanzania: challenges and the way forward. 
  • A retrospective cohort study to quantify the contribution of health systems to child survival in Kenya: 1996-2014. 
  • A review of quality of care evaluation for the palliation of dyspnea. 
  • A social-ecological framework: A model for addressing ethical practice in nursing. 
  • A survey of current problems in meta-analysis. Discussion from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research inter-PORT Work Group on Literature Review/Meta-Analysis. 
  • AAPM-RSS Medical Physics Practice Guideline 9.a. for SRS-SBRT. 
  • 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/ASE/ASNC/HRS/IAC/Mended Hearts/NASCI/RSNA/SAIP/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/SNMMI 2014 health policy statement on use of noninvasive cardiovascular imaging: a report of the American College of Cardiology Clinical Quality Committee. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2007 Clinical Competence Statement on vascular imaging with computed tomography and magnetic resonance. 
  • ACCF/AHA 2011 key data elements and definitions of a base cardiovascular vocabulary for electronic health records: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards. 
  • 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/ACR/SCAI/SIR/SVM/SVN/SVS 2010 performance measures for adults with peripheral artery disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures, the American College of Radiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the Society for Interventional Radiology, the Society for Vascular Medicine, the Society for Vascular Nursing, and the Society for Vascular Surgery (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Performance Measures for Peripheral Artery Disease). 
  • ACR Presidential Address: RethinkingRheumatology: A Brave New World. 
  • AHA/ACCF [corrected] 2009 performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association task force on performance measures (writing committee to develop performance measures for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease): developed in collaboration with the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation; and Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association: endorsed by the American College of Preventive Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine, and Society for Women's Health Research. 
  • AHA/ACCF secondary prevention and risk reduction therapy for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2011 update: a guideline from the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Foundation endorsed by the World Heart Federation and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. 
  • Accuracy of standard measures of family planning service quality: findings from the simulated client method. 
  • Acute decompensated heart failure: update on new and emerging evidence and directions for future research. 
  • Adaptation of a postoperative handoff communication process for children with heart disease: a quantitative study. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Items When Caring for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies Versus Solid Tumors. 
  • Adherence to explicit strategies for common medical conditions. 
  • Adherence to mental health treatment in a primary care clinic. 
  • Adult asthma disease management: an analysis of studies, approaches, outcomes, and methods. 
  • Adults' lack of a usual source of care: a matter of preference? 
  • Advancing our craft: focus group methods and practice. 
  • Age differences in care practices and outcomes for hospitalized patients with cancer. 
  • Age- and gender-related differences in quality of care and outcomes of patients hospitalized with heart failure (from OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Agreement and validity of pharmacy data versus self-report for use of osteoporosis medications among chronic glucocorticoid users. 
  • Aligning physician and hospital incentives: editorial comment. 
  • Alternative pay-for-performance scoring methods: implications for quality improvement and patient outcomes. 
  • American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) Supplement. Introduction. 
  • American Society of Clinical Oncology statement: achieving high-quality cancer survivorship care. 
  • American Society of Pediatric Nephrology position paper on linking reimbursement to quality of care. 
  • An analysis of the causes of adverse events from the Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • An organizational and economic framework for restructuring psychiatric nurse labor use. 
  • An organized approach to improvement in guideline adherence for acute myocardial infarction: results with the Get With The Guidelines quality improvement program. 
  • An unequal burden: poor patient-provider communication and sickle cell disease. 
  • Analysis of site performance in academic-based and community-based centers in the IDEAL Study. 
  • Anarchy and the surgical care of President William McKinley. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship: a matter of process or outcome? 
  • Appropriateness of medication prescribing in ambulatory elderly patients. 
  • Appropriateness of percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Are PRO discharge screens associated with postdischarge adverse outcomes? 
  • Are for-profit hospital conversions harmful to patients and to Medicare? 
  • Are physicians' perceptions of healthcare quality and practice satisfaction affected by errors associated with electronic health record use? 
  • Are psychiatrists' characteristics related to how they care for depression in the medically ill? Results from a national case-vignette survey. 
  • 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. 
  • Are smoking and alcohol misuse associated with subsequent hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions? 
  • Aspirin in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction in elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Patterns of use and outcomes. 
  • Assessing the Quality and Comparative Effectiveness of Team-Based Care for Heart Failure: Who, What, Where, When, and How. 
  • Assessing the effectiveness of mental health care in routine clinical practice. Characteristics, development, and uses of patient outcomes modules. 
  • Assessing the value of patient-generated data to comparative effectiveness research. 
  • Assessment of acute otitis externa and otitis media with effusion performance measures in otolaryngology practices. 
  • Assessment of quality of cancer-related follow-up care from the cancer survivor's perspective. 
  • Assessment of the scope and quality of clinical practice guidelines in lung cancer. 
  • Association Between Hospital Process Composite Performance and Patient Outcomes After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care. 
  • Association of 30-Day Readmission Metric for Heart Failure Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Quality of Care and Outcomes. 
  • 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 hospital myocardial infarction volume with adherence to American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association performance measures: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Association of hospital primary angioplasty volume in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with quality and outcomes. 
  • Association of race/ethnicity with clinical risk factors, quality of care, and acute outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Associations between use of the hospitalist model and quality of care and outcomes of older patients hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Associations of patient demographic characteristics and regional physician density with early physician follow-up among medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Attention to inpatients' religious and spiritual concerns: predictors and association with patient satisfaction. 
  • Availability of palliative care services for children with cancer in economically diverse regions of the world. 
  • Barriers Influencing Linkage to Hypertension Care in Kenya: Qualitative Analysis from the LARK Hypertension Study. 
  • Best Practices in Transgender Health: A Clinician's Guide. 
  • Better medicine by default. 
  • Better off not knowing: improving clinical care by limiting physician access to unsolicited diagnostic information. 
  • Better outcomes for patients treated at hospitals that participate in clinical trials. 
  • Beyond costs and benefits: understanding how patients make health care decisions. 
  • Biospecimens and biorepositories for the community pathologist. 
  • Breast cancer in the elderly. Current patterns of care. 
  • Can patient navigation improve receipt of recommended breast cancer care? Evidence from the National Patient Navigation Research Program. 
  • Cancer care quality measures: diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. 
  • Capacity of health-care facilities to deliver HIV treatment and care services, Northern Tanzania, 2004. 
  • Cardiology and emergency medicine: united we stand, divided we fall. 
  • Care and outcomes of Asian-American acute myocardial infarction patients: findings from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program. 
  • Care and outcomes of Hispanic patients admitted with heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction: findings from get with the guidelines-heart failure. 
  • Care coordination for complex cancer survivors in an integrated safety-net system: a study protocol. 
  • Care of non-ST-segment elevation patients: insights from the CRUSADE national quality improvement initiative. 
  • Certificates of added qualifications in orthopedic surgery. 
  • Challenges and controversies of complex interventions in osteoarthritis management: recognizing inappropriate and discordant care. 
  • Challenges and opportunities in quantifying the quality of care for acute myocardial infarction: summary from the Acute Myocardial Infarction Working Group of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology First Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. 
  • Changes in health service use and mortality among U.S. elderly in 1980-1986. 
  • Changes in primary medical care delivery, 1975-1979: findings from the physician capacity utilization surveys. 
  • Changes in the Delivery of Veterans Affairs Cancer Care: Ensuring Delivery of Coordinated, Quality Cancer Care in a Time of Uncertainty. 
  • Changing the model of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Characteristics of basic health units and detection of tuberculosis cases. 
  • Characteristics, performance measures, and in-hospital outcomes of the first one million stroke and transient ischemic attack admissions in get with the guidelines-stroke. 
  • Characteristics, quality of care, and in-hospital outcomes of Asian-American heart failure patients: Findings from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • Choosing wisely in pediatric hospital medicine: five opportunities for improved healthcare value. 
  • Classifying general medicine readmissions. Are they preventable? Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies in Health Services Group on Primary Care and Hospital Readmissions. 
  • Clinical characteristics, process of care, and outcomes of Hispanic patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from Can Rapid risk stratification of Unstable angina patients Suppress ADverse outcomes with Early implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE). 
  • Clinical trial design in neonatal pharmacology: effect of center differences, with lessons from the Pediatric Oncology Cooperative Research experience. 
  • Closing the quality gap: revisiting the state of the science (vol. 2: the patient-centered medical home). 
  • Collaborative quality improvement vs public reporting for percutaneous coronary intervention: A comparison of percutaneous coronary intervention in New York vs Michigan. 
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening Quality Measures: Beyond Colonoscopy. 
  • Comfort in the last 2 weeks of life: relationship to accessing palliative care services. 
  • Coming together to achieve quality cardiovascular care. 
  • Coming together to achieve quality cardiovascular care. 
  • Commentary: Personalized health planning and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: an opportunity for academic medicine to lead health care reform. 
  • Commercialism in nonprofit hospitals. 
  • Communication factors in the follow-up of abnormal mammograms. 
  • Comparing Unmet Needs to Optimize Quality: Characterizing Inpatient and Outpatient Palliative Care Populations. 
  • Comparing mortality and time until death for medicare HMO and FFS beneficiaries. 
  • 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 medicine resident diabetes care between Veterans Affairs and academic health care systems. 
  • Comparison of performance achievement award recognition with primary stroke center certification for acute ischemic stroke care. 
  • Competencies and Tools to Shift Payments From Volume to Value. 
  • Competition among physicians, revisited. 
  • Complexities of defibrillator deactivation. 
  • Conflict associated with decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. 
  • Consumers' descriptions of quality health care. 
  • Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience. 
  • Continuity of medical care, health insurance, and nonmedical advice in the first 3 years of life. 
  • Critical pathways for patients with acute chest pain at low risk. 
  • Current worldwide nuclear cardiology practices and radiation exposure: results from the 65 country IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Cross-Sectional Study (INCAPS). 
  • Data for cardiovascular modeling. 
  • Data quality in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (GWTG-Stroke): results from a national data validation audit. 
  • Day care for persons with dementia: the impact of the physical environment on staff stress and quality of care. 
  • Defining High-Quality Palliative Care in Oncology Practice: An American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Guidance Statement. 
  • Defining quality, disseminating evidence, and enforcing guidelines for cancer treatment. 
  • Defining the priorities and challenges for the adoption of Information Technology in HealthCare: opinions from an expert panel. 
  • Delineation of nursing administration research priorities. 
  • Delivery of Community-Based Palliative Care: Findings from a Time and Motion Study. 
  • Depression and coronary heart disease: recommendations for screening, referral, and treatment: a science advisory from the American Heart Association Prevention Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, and Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research: endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association. 
  • Depression treatment in a sample of 1,801 depressed older adults in primary care. 
  • Determinants of physician recognition and follow-up of abnormal laboratory values. 
  • Developing the PedsValue Modules-A National Pediatric High Value Care Curriculum. 
  • Development of the Quality Data Collection Tool for Prospective Quality Assessment and Reporting in Palliative Care. 
  • Diabetes Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of a Resident Clinic Practice Partnership System. 
  • Diabetes, quality of care, and in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Diabetes-specific emotional distress among African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Differences in Acute Ischemic Stroke Quality of Care and Outcomes by Primary Stroke Center Certification Organization. 
  • Differential access to quality rural healthcare: professional and policy challenges. 
  • Directory of Internet documents for consumers on quality of care. 
  • Discussing Health Care Expenses in the Oncology Clinic: Analysis of Cost Conversations in Outpatient Encounters. 
  • Disease management in healthcare organizations: results of in-depth interviews with disease management decision makers. 
  • Disease management of congestive heart failure. 
  • Disparities in breast carcinoma treatment in Asian/Pacific Islander women. A challenge to the provider. 
  • Do anticoagulation management services improve care? Implications of the Managing Anticoagulation Services Trial. 
  • Do corporate chains affect quality of care in nursing homes? The role of corporate standardization. 
  • Do guidelines influence practice? 
  • Do outcomes equal quality? 
  • Do we understand the effects of 'managed care' in ophthalmology? A review and analysis. 
  • Does PCMH "Work"?--The Need to Use Implementation Science to Make Sense of Conflicting Results. 
  • Does government regulation enhance quality of cardiovascular procedures? 
  • Does perverse economic incentive lead to the irrational uses of medicines? 
  • Dynamics of patient targeting for care management in Medicaid: a case study of the Durham Community Health Network. 
  • Early Palliative Care for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: Is It Really so Difficult to Achieve? 
  • Early evidence on the quality of care provided by special needs plans. 
  • Early experiences with accountable care in Medicaid: special challenges, big opportunities. 
  • Education and training in evidence-based urology. 
  • Education partnerships between GRECCs and other VA organizations, Non-VA governmental agencies, academic medical centers, and centers of excellence. 
  • Educational program in crisis management for cardiac surgery teams including high realism simulation. 
  • Effect of practice integration between urologists and radiation oncologists on prostate cancer treatment patterns. 
  • Effectively identifying the inpatient with hyperglycemia to increase patient care and lower costs. 
  • Effectiveness of the Middle East respiratory syndrome-coronavirus protocol in enhancing the function of an Emergency Department in Qatar. 
  • Effects of admission to a teaching hospital on the cost and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Effects of health insurance on physicians' fees. 
  • Effects of state managed care patient protection laws on physician satisfaction. 
  • Effects of the Medicare prospective payment system on hospital cost containment: an early appraisal. 
  • Effects of the threat of medical malpractice litigation and other factors on birth outcomes. 
  • Electronic health record decision support and quality of care for children with ADHD. 
  • Electronic health records and quality of care for heart failure. 
  • Electronic medical records and improving the quality of the screening process. 
  • Electronic nursing documentation as a strategy to improve quality of patient care. 
  • Elevator talk: observational study of inappropriate comments in a public space. 
  • Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies. 
  • End-of-life care at an academic medical center: are attending physicians, house staff, nurses, and bereaved family members equally satisfied? Implications for palliative care. 
  • Enterprise Imaging Governance: HIMSS-SIIM Collaborative White Paper. 
  • Entry-Level Competencies Required of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners Providing HIV Specialty Care: A National Practice Validation Study. 
  • Estimating the impact of health services in a community. 
  • Ethnic disparities in stroke: epidemiology, acute care, and postacute outcomes. 
  • Evaluation and management of the atrial fibrillation patient: a report from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. 
  • Evaluation of a Preoperative Clinic for Women With Gynecologic Cancer. 
  • Evaluation of a social franchising and telemedicine programme and the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, Bihar, India. 
  • Evaluation of a telephone advice nurse in a nursing faculty managed pediatric community clinic. 
  • Evaluation of failure to rescue as a quality metric in pediatric heart surgery: an analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinics. 
  • Evaluation of the use of a stabilization device to improve the quality of care in patients with peripherally inserted central catheters. 
  • Evidence-based Management of Cancer Pain. 
  • Evidence-based care for all patients. 
  • Evolution of critical care cardiology: transformation of the cardiovascular intensive care unit and the emerging need for new medical staffing and training models: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Evolution of the surgeon-volume, patient-outcome relationship. 
  • Exploration of fairness in health services: a qualitative analysis. 
  • Exploratory case method to determine the frequency of redundant orders within manually consolidated order lists. 
  • Exploring the behavior of hospital composite performance measures: an example from coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • FOCUS: the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists' initiative to improve quality and safety in the cardiovascular operating room. 
  • Factors Impacting Perceived Access to Early Prenatal Care among Pregnant Veterans Enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Family perspectives on the quality of pediatric palliative care. 
  • Fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Florence Nightingale and the India sanitary reforms. 
  • Focused anesthesia interview resource to improve efficiency and quality. 
  • Gender disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: large-scale observations from the CRUSADE (Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines) National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Generalizability and longitudinal outcomes of a national heart failure clinical registry: Comparison of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) and non-ADHERE Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Geographic health information systems: a platform to support the 'triple aim'. 
  • Get With the Guidelines-Stroke is associated with sustained improvement in care for patients hospitalized with acute stroke or transient ischemic attack. 
  • Getting to proven: evaluating quality across all of palliative care. 
  • Giving birth at a health-care facility in rural China: is it affordable for the poor? 
  • Global variation in quality of care among patients hospitalized with acute heart failure in an international trial: findings from the acute study clinical effectiveness of nesiritide in decompensated heart failure trial (ASCEND-HF). 
  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies. 
  • Growth of the teaching nursing home. The Veterans Administration experience. 
  • Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist. 
  • Guidelines for the use of survivorship care plans: a systematic quality appraisal using the AGREE II instrument. 
  • HIV testing preferences in Tanzania: a qualitative exploration of the importance of confidentiality, accessibility, and quality of service. 
  • H_pe for mHealth: more "y" or "o" on the horizon? 
  • Handovers from the OR to the ICU. 
  • Harnessing the power of default options to improve health care. 
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): must there be a trade-off between privacy and quality of health care, or can we advance both? 
  • Health care for childhood cancer survivors: insights and perspectives from a Delphi panel of young adult survivors of childhood cancer.. 
  • Health care governance for quality and safety: the new agenda. 
  • Health care reform and the federal transformation initiatives: capitalizing on the potential of advanced practice psychiatric nurses. 
  • Health reform and physician-led accountable care: the paradox of primary care physician leadership. 
  • Health systems evaluation of telemedicine: a staged approach. 
  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • Healthcare Affiliation Networks: A Unique Quality Partnership to Aid in Making Communities Healthier. 
  • Healthcare Resource Availability, Quality of Care, and Acute Ischemic Stroke Outcomes. 
  • Hereditary angioedema from the patient's perspective: A follow-up patient survey. 
  • High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution. 
  • Home blood pressure management and improved blood pressure control: results from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Hospices' preparation and practices for quality measurement. 
  • 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 arrival time and intravenous t-PA use in US Academic Medical Centers, 2001-2004. 
  • Hospital certification for optimizing cardiovascular disease and stroke quality of care and outcomes. 
  • Hospital credentialing for laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is stricter better? 
  • Hospital ownership and cost and quality of care: is there a dime's worth of difference? 
  • Hospital performance and differences by kidney function in the use of recommended therapies after non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Hospital rate review: a theory and an empirical review. 
  • Hospital readmissions after liver surgery for metastatic colorectal cancer. 
  • Hospital staff and family perspectives regarding quality of pediatric palliative care. 
  • 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. 
  • Hospitalized hemorrhagic stroke patients with renal insufficiency: clinical characteristics, care patterns, and outcomes. 
  • House staff perceptions of how handoff quality influences code blue and rapid response team events. 
  • How Obamacare will impact reproductive health. 
  • How good are measures of physician quality of care? 
  • How mental health providers see managed care. 
  • I Brazilian Registry of Heart Failure - Clinical Aspects, Care Quality and Hospitalization Outcomes. 
  • Identifying high-quality hospitals: consult the ratings or flip a coin? 
  • Ignorance is bliss but not in health care: teaching consumers about quality care. 
  • Impact of Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care accreditation on quality: an ACTION Registry®-Get With The Guidelines™ analysis. 
  • Impact of an Expanded Hospital Recognition Program for Stroke Quality of Care. 
  • Impact of body weight and extreme obesity on the presentation, treatment, and in-hospital outcomes of 50,149 patients with ST-Segment elevation myocardial infarction results from the NCDR (National Cardiovascular Data Registry). 
  • Impact of case volume on hospital performance assessment. 
  • Impact of early discharge after coronary artery bypass graft surgery on rates of hospital readmission and death. The Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Investigators. 
  • Impact of percutaneous coronary intervention performance reporting on cardiac resuscitation centers: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Implementation of a statewide system for coronary reperfusion for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Implementing Culture Change in Nursing Homes: An Adaptive Leadership Framework. 
  • Implementing and maintaining an infusion alliance. 
  • Implications and challenges using practice guidelines for chronic angina. 
  • Improving Care And Lowering Costs: Evidence And Lessons From A Global Analysis Of Accountable Care Reforms. 
  • Improving Nursing Home Care through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data (INFORM): Protocol for a cluster-randomized trial. 
  • Improving Oncology Quality Measurement in Accountable Care: Filling Gaps with Cross-Cutting Measures. 
  • Improving Quality and Safety Through Use of Secondary Data: Methods Case Study. 
  • Improving colorectal cancer screening and care in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare system. 
  • Improving health care efficiency and quality using tablet personal computers to collect research-quality, patient-reported data. 
  • Improving health care for adult survivors of childhood cancer: recommendations from a delphi panel of health policy experts. 
  • Improving integrated care in low- and middle-income countries: the final STEMI frontier? 
  • Improving newborn screening follow-up in pediatric practices: quality improvement innovation network. 
  • Improving quality of care through disease management: principles and recommendations from the American Heart Association's Expert Panel on Disease Management. 
  • Improving the quality of anticoagulation of patients with atrial fibrillation in managed care organizations: results of the managing anticoagulation services trial. 
  • Improving the quality of cancer care in an aging population: recommendations from an IOM report. 
  • Improving the quality of care for women with cardiovascular disease: report of a DCRI Think Tank, March 8 to 9, 2007. 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • Improving the spiritual dimension of whole person care: reaching national and international consensus. 
  • Improving the use of evidence-based heart failure therapies in the outpatient setting: the IMPROVE HF performance improvement registry. 
  • In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps. 
  • Increasing rates of breast cancer and cardiac surveillance among high-risk survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma following a mailed, one-page survivorship care plan. 
  • Industry relations. 
  • Influence of a performance-improvement initiative on quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Influence of clinical trial enrollment on the quality of care and outcomes for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Influence of diabetes on characteristics and outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure: a report from the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF). 
  • Influence of hospital length of stay for heart failure on quality of care. 
  • 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. 
  • Informed Decision Making: Assessment of the Quality of Physician Communication about Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. 
  • Initiation, Continuation, or Withdrawal of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. 
  • Innovation in care for individuals with cognitive impairment: Can reimbursement policy spread best practices? 
  • Insurance coverage and care of patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Insurance status and outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage: findings from Get With The Guidelines-stroke. 
  • Integrating quality into the cycle of therapeutic development. 
  • Integrative medicine and the search for the best practice of medicine. 
  • Internet education of African American consumers on quality of care. 
  • Into the looking glass: factors and opportunities to reshape eye care in the next 25 years. 
  • Introducing quality reports. 
  • Introduction. Quality of health care. 
  • Is Advanced Imaging in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Ever Warranted? Reconciling Clinical Judgment With Common Quality Measures. 
  • Is high-quality medicine a thing of the past? 
  • Joint policy statement--guidelines for care of children in the emergency department. 
  • Jurisdiction over nursing care systems in nursing homes: latent class analysis. 
  • Lack of impact of electronic health records on quality of care and outcomes for ischemic stroke. 
  • Lessons Learned From Implementing Health Coaching in The Heart Healthy Lenoir Hypertension Study. 
  • Lessons from India in Organizational Innovation: A Tale of Two Heart Hospitals 
  • Lessons from the Liverpool Care Pathway--evidence is key. 
  • Lessons learned from a clinical trial. 
  • Lessons learned from the CRUSADE National Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Letter: Art of medicine for aged doctors. 
  • Leveraging observational registries to inform comparative effectiveness research. 
  • Licensed practical nurse scope of practice and quality of nursing home care. 
  • Longitudinal adherence to fecal occult blood testing impacts colorectal cancer screening quality. 
  • Making quality important. 
  • Managed care organizations should not disclose their physicians' financial incentives. 
  • Managed care: rationing without justice, but not unjustly. 
  • Management of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: measuring quality, cost, and value. 
  • Management of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation: report of a NAMDRC consensus conference. 
  • Management of pneumonia in the nursing home. 
  • Mandated treatment in the community for people with mental disorders. 
  • Measuring and improving quality of care: a report from the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology First Scientific Forum on Assessment of Healthcare Quality in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. 
  • Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Measuring the Quality of VA Care. 
  • Measuring the quality of dying in long-term care. 
  • Medical and Surgical Innovations in Health Care. 
  • Minding the gap between efforts to reduce readmissions and disparities. 
  • Mispredictions and misrecollections: challenges for subjective outcome measurement. 
  • Mobile health technology evaluation: the mHealth evidence workshop. 
  • More Value From Payment Reform in Health Care and Biomedical Innovation. 
  • Mothers' perspectives on the quality of postpartum care in Central Shanghai, China. 
  • NAPNAP research agenda revisions: preliminary survey results. 
  • National randomized controlled trial of virtual house calls for Parkinson disease. 
  • National survey of hospital strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions: findings from the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure registry. 
  • New JNCQ web site: supporting your work in quality and safety. 
  • New approaches to assessing and treating early-stage colon and rectal cancer: summary statement from 2007 Santa Monica Conference. 
  • New models of care: building medical homes in empowered communities. 
  • New paradigms for physician-industry relations: overview and application for SVS members. 
  • Nonfinancial incentives for quality: a policy statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Nuclear Cardiology Practice in Asia: Analysis of Radiation Exposure and Best Practice for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging　- Results From the IAEA Nuclear Cardiology Protocols Cross-Sectional Study (INCAPS). 
  • Nurse staffing and adverse events in hospitalized children. 
  • Nursing home director of nursing leadership style and director of nursing-sensitive survey deficiencies. 
  • Obstetricians' prior malpractice experience and patients' satisfaction with care. 
  • Off-hour admission and in-hospital stroke case fatality in the get with the guidelines-stroke program. 
  • Oncology Care Model: Short- and Long-Term Considerations in the Context of Broader Payment Reform. 
  • One size does not fit all: HIV testing preferences differ among high-risk groups in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Operationalizing the Measuring What Matters Spirituality Quality Metric in a Population of Hospitalized, Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Operator-specific outcomes. A call to professional responsibility. 
  • Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF): rationale and design. 
  • Orthopaedic resident education--it's a whole new game: "If I'm going to be a spine surgeon, why do I need to learn how to reconstruct an anterior cruciate ligament?": AOA critical issues. 
  • Orthopaedic trauma for the general orthopaedist: avoiding problems and pitfalls in treatment. 
  • Outcomes after ischemic stroke for hospitals with and without Joint Commission-certified primary stroke centers. 
  • Outcomes and costs within a disease management program for advanced congestive heart failure. 
  • Outcomes for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction in hospitals with and without onsite coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the New York State experience. 
  • Outcomes of physician job satisfaction: a narrative review, implications, and directions for future research. 
  • Outcomes research in oncology: improving patients' experiences with cancer treatment. 
  • Overcoming Barriers to Using Patient-Reported Outcomes for Clinical Inquiry. 
  • Overlooked and underserved: "action signs" for identifying children with unmet mental health needs. 
  • Pain as a quality of care measure in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: one step forward, but is it the best foot? Comment on the article by Lovell et al. 
  • Pain coping in Latino populations. 
  • Pain in the emergency department: results of the pain and emergency medicine initiative (PEMI) multicenter study. 
  • Palliative Care in the African American Community #204. 
  • Palliative care and the search for value in health reform. 
  • Palliative services enhance the quality and value of gynecologic cancer care. 
  • Parents' expectations regarding their children's eye care: interview results. 
  • Parents' perceptions of quality health care. 
  • Patient and hospital characteristics associated with traditional measures of inpatient quality of care for patients with heart failure. 
  • Patient expectations regarding eye care: focus group results. 
  • Patient outcomes. A measure of nursing's value. 
  • 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 satisfaction and its relationship with clinical quality and inpatient mortality in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Patient satisfaction and quality of care in walk-in clinics, family practices and emergency departments: the Ontario Walk-In Clinic Study. 
  • Patient satisfaction instruments used at academic medical centers: results of a survey. 
  • Patient-reported quality of supportive care among patients with colorectal cancer in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. 
  • Patterns of aspirin dosing in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes in the CRUSADE Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Patterns of care quality and prognosis among hospitalized ischemic stroke patients with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Patterns of transfer for patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome from community to tertiary care hospitals. 
  • Pay for performance, quality of care, and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Pay-for-Performance Incentives: Holy Grail or Sippy Cup? 
  • Pay-for-performance and the Millennium Development Goals. 
  • Payment and Care for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Patients: Toward a Specialized Medical Home for Complex Care Patients. 
  • Payment for quality: guiding principles and recommendations: principles and recommendations from the American Heart Association's Reimbursement, Coverage, and Access Policy Development Workgroup. 
  • Payment source, quality of care, and outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Pediatric oncology nursing. 
  • Pediatric-Specific End-of-Life Care Quality Measures: An Unmet Need of a Vulnerable Population. 
  • Pennsylvania's Focus on Heart Attack--grading the scorecard. 
  • Perceptions of quality health care among parents of children with bleeding disorders. 
  • Perceptions of the certification standards of the American Board of Internal Medicine. 
  • Performance measures have a major effect on cardiovascular outcomes: a review. 
  • Performance of Consultative Palliative Care Model in Achieving Quality Metrics in the ICU. 
  • Persistent problems of access to appropriate, affordable TB services in rural China: experiences of different socio-economic groups. 
  • Person-Centered Incontinence Care in Residential Care Facilities for Older Adults With Cognitive Decline: Feasibility and Preliminary Effects on Quality of Life and Quality of Care. 
  • Perspective: Autonomic care systems for hospitalized patients. 
  • Physician and stakeholder perceptions of conflict of interest policies in oncology. 
  • Physician assistants and nurse practitioners perform effective roles on teams caring for Medicare patients with diabetes. 
  • Physician extenders, protocols, and quality medical care. 
  • Physician participation and nonparticipation in Medicaid managed care: the TennCare experience. 
  • Pivoting to Value-Based Care in North Carolina. 
  • Point/Counterpoint: The 2014 initiative can have potentially unintended negative consequences for medical physics in diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine. 
  • Political perspectives on uncertified home care agencies. 
  • Population-based assessment of cancer survivors' financial burden and quality of life: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Postacute rehabilitation quality of care: toward a shared conceptual framework. 
  • Practice Guidelines for Teledermatology. 
  • Precision Medicine: From Science To Value. 
  • Predictors of hospital readmission after stroke: a systematic review. 
  • Predictors of primary care physicians' self-reported intention to conduct suicide risk assessments. 
  • Prehospital electrocardiograms (ECGs) do not improve the process of emergency department care in hospitals with higher usage of ECGs in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients. 
  • Prehospital spinal immobilization and the backboard quality assessment study. 
  • Preoperative visual acuity among cataract surgery patients and countries' state of development: a global study. 
  • Preparing for the end of life: preferences of patients, families, physicians, and other care providers. 
  • Preservation of excellence. 
  • President's Page: Quality: it's in your hands. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of osteoporosis treatment in nursing home residents with known osteoporosis or recent fracture. 
  • Prevalence and variability of internal mammary artery graft use in contemporary multivessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery: analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database. 
  • Primary Health Care and Cervical Cancer Mortality Rates in Brazil: A Longitudinal Ecological Study. 
  • Primary care clinician attitudes towards electronic clinical reminders and clinical practice guidelines. 
  • Principles from clinical trials relevant to clinical practice: Part II. 
  • Priorities for Evaluating Palliative Care Outcomes in Intensive Care Units. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Process improvement in surgery. 
  • Prolonged emergency department stays of non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction patients are associated with worse adherence to the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for management and increased adverse events. 
  • Promoting a good death for persons with dementia in nursing facilities: family caregivers' perspectives. 
  • Promoting equity: developing quality measures for sickle cell disease. 
  • Prospective evaluation of beta-blocker use at the time of hospital discharge as a heart failure performance measure: results from OPTIMIZE-HF. 
  • Providers' attitudes towards treating depression and self-reported depression treatment practices in HIV outpatient care. 
  • Providing care at the end of life: do Medicare rules impede good care? 
  • Putting evidence for diabetes care into practice. 
  • Putting palliative care on the global health agenda. 
  • Quality Measurement: A Primer for Hand Surgeons. 
  • Quality Of Health Care In India: Challenges, Priorities, And The Road Ahead. 
  • Quality and Safety in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 
  • Quality and safety education for advanced nursing practice. 
  • Quality assessment and improvement in group psychotherapy. 
  • Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • Quality management of potential chemotherapy-induced neutropenic complications: evaluation of practice in an academic medical center. 
  • Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 1--Conceptual framework and measure selection. 
  • Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 2--Statistical considerations in composite measure scoring and provider rating. 
  • Quality measures for the use of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy in patients with colorectal cancer: a systematic review. 
  • Quality measures in high-risk pregnancies: Executive Summary of a Cooperative Workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 
  • Quality of Acute Care for Patients With Urinary Stones in the United States. 
  • Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya. 
  • Quality of Care and Ischemic Stroke Risk After Hospitalization for Transient Ischemic Attack: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Quality of acute myocardial infarction care and outcomes in 33,997 patients aged 80 years or older: findings from Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD). 
  • Quality of care and in-hospital outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease in rural and urban hospitals (from Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease Program). 
  • Quality of care and outcomes among patients with acute myocardial infarction by level of kidney function at admission: report from the get with the guidelines coronary artery disease program. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes among patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease: A Get With the Guidelines -- Heart Failure Program study. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes for in-hospital ischemic stroke: findings from the National Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes in women hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Quality of care by classification of myocardial infarction: treatment patterns for ST-segment elevation vs non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Quality of care for atrial fibrillation among patients hospitalized for heart failure. 
  • Quality of care for patients with acute coronary syndromes as a function of hospital revascularization capability: Insights from get with the guidelines-CAD. 
  • Quality of care information for consumers on the Internet. 
  • Quality of care of and outcomes for African Americans hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the OPTIMIZE-HF (Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure) registry. 
  • Quality of clinical documentation and anticoagulation control in patients with chronic nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in routine medical care. 
  • Quality of clinical reports on behavioral interventions for hypertension. 
  • Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana. 
  • Quality of medical care and excess mortality in older patients with mental disorders. 
  • Quality of palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in a community consortium. 
  • Quality of pharmacotherapy and outcomes for older veterans discharged from the emergency department. 
  • Quality of reproductive health services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients. 
  • Quality still doesn't pay in heart failure management. 
  • Quality-Cost Relationship in Congenital Heart Surgery. 
  • RESPECT-Mil: feasibility of a systems-level collaborative care approach to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in military primary care. 
  • Race/ethnicity, quality of care, and outcomes in ischemic stroke. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in care: the perspectives of cardiovascular surgeons. 
  • Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care. 
  • Racial-ethnic disparities in stroke care: the American experience: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Randomized trial of targeted performance feedback to facilitate quality improvement in acute myocardial infarction care. 
  • Rapid-learning system for cancer care. 
  • Rates of surveillance and management of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients evaluated at a liver transplant center. 
  • Rationing by any other name. 
  • 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. 
  • Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses: Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. 
  • Recommendations for a clinical decision support for the management of individuals with chronic kidney disease. 
  • Records of medical malpractice litigation: a potential indicator of health-care quality in China. 
  • Reducing health care hazards: lessons from the commercial aviation safety team. 
  • Reenergizing Research While Improving Patient Care. 
  • Regional differences in clinical profile, quality of care, and outcomes among Hispanic patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction in the Get with Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) registry. 
  • Regional differences in quality of care and outcomes for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes: an analysis from the get with the guidelines coronary artery disease program. 
  • Regulation and mindful resident care in nursing homes. 
  • Rehabilitation after hip fracture--equal opportunity for all? 
  • Relationship between patient satisfaction with inpatient care and hospital readmission within 30 days. 
  • Relationship between physician and hospital coronary angioplasty volume and outcome in elderly patients. 
  • Relationship between use of electronic health record features and health care quality: results of a statewide survey. 
  • Relationships between emerging measures of heart failure processes of care and clinical outcomes. 
  • Remembering Our True North: Realizing Exceptional Cancer Quality in an Era of Exceptional Change. 
  • Reperfusion strategies and quality of care in 5339 patients age 80 years or older presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: analysis from get with the guidelines-coronary artery disease. 
  • Representativeness of a national heart failure quality-of-care registry: comparison of OPTIMIZE-HF and non-OPTIMIZE-HF Medicare patients. 
  • Resident workload, pager communications, and quality of care. 
  • Resource utilization control processes as indicators of quality in managed care organizations: a proposal. 
  • Retrospective assessment of initial stroke severity: comparison of the NIH Stroke Scale and the Canadian Neurological Scale. 
  • Review article: perioperative checklist methodologies. 
  • Review of the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia: practice improvement. 
  • Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness: A National Informatics-Enabled Registry for Quality Improvement. 
  • Risk adjustment of ischemic stroke outcomes for comparing hospital performance: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • Risk classification of adult primary care patients by self-reported quality of life. 
  • Risk factors for 30-day reoperation and 3-month readmission: analysis from the Quality and Outcomes Database lumbar spine registry. 
  • Rural health prepayment schemes in China: towards a more active role for government. 
  • Rurality, gender, and mental health treatment. 
  • Satisfaction with a new model of professional practice in critical care. 
  • Scaling new heights in quality improvement: the PINNACLE (Practice Innovation And Clinical Excellence) program. 
  • Scheduled telephone visits in the veterans health administration patient-centered medical home. 
  • Scientific evidence underlying the ACC/AHA clinical practice guidelines. 
  • Setting the vision: applied patient-reported outcomes and smart, connected digital healthcare systems to improve patient-centered outcomes prediction in critical illness. 
  • Sex and Race/Ethnicity-Related Disparities in Care and Outcomes After Hospitalization for Coronary Artery Disease Among Older Adults. 
  • Sex differences in medical care after acute myocardial infarction: what can be done to address the problem? 
  • Sharing your work: building knowledge about nursing care quality. 
  • Shifting Away From Fee-For-Service: Alternative Approaches to Payment in Gastroenterology. 
  • 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 patients in quality-improvement activities have the same protections as participants in research studies? 
  • Should we link payment to quality? 
  • Should your practice participate in a quality-reporting program? 
  • Sickle cell disease patients' perceptions of emergency department pain management. 
  • Simple principles of clinical trials remain powerful. 
  • Special care units: a typology of care settings for memory-impaired older adults. 
  • Specialist and primary care physicians' views on barriers to adequate preparation of patients for renal replacement therapy: a qualitative study. 
  • Standardized management improves outcomes after the Norwood procedure. 
  • Standards for measures used for public reporting of efficiency in health care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research and the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Standards for measures used for public reporting of efficiency in health care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes research and the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Standards for practice: effectiveness and acceptance. 
  • Standards for statistical models used for public reporting of health outcomes: an American Heart Association Scientific Statement from the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Writing Group: cosponsored by the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention and the Stroke Council. Endorsed by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. 
  • Strategies For Assessing Delivery System Innovations. 
  • Stratification of complexity improves the utility and accuracy of outcomes analysis in a Multi-Institutional Congenital Heart Surgery Database: Application of the Risk Adjustment in Congenital Heart Surgery (RACHS-1) and Aristotle Systems in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Stroke care quality in China: Substantial improvement, and a huge challenge and opportunity. 
  • Structural/organizational characteristics of health services partly explain racial variation in timeliness of radiation therapy among elderly breast cancer patients. 
  • Studying ulcerative colitis over the World Wide Web. 
  • Substantial Progress Yet Significant Opportunity for Improvement in Stroke Care in China. 
  • Substituted judgment in principle and practice: a national physician survey. 
  • Supporting Muslim Patients During Advanced Illness. 
  • Surgeons' perceptions of public reporting of hospital and individual surgeon quality. 
  • TEAM-UP for quality: a cluster randomized controlled trial protocol focused on preventing pressure ulcers through repositioning frequency and precipitating factors. 
  • Taking Root: a grounded theory on evidence-based nursing implementation in China. 
  • Targeted interventions improve shared agreement of daily goals in the pediatric intensive care unit. 
  • Teaching by the nurse: how important is it to patients? 
  • Testing the generalizability of the ISO model for nursing diagnoses. 
  • The CHAMPUS Tidewater Demonstration Project. 
  • The Imaging Council of the American College of Cardiology. 
  • The Louisiana emergency department behavioral health challenge. 
  • The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Systematic Review 
  • The Program for Maintenance of Certification in Pediatrics (PMCP). 
  • The Prospective Registry Evaluating Myocardial Infarction: Events and Recovery (PREMIER)--evaluating the impact of myocardial infarction on patient outcomes. 
  • The Publication Ranking Score for pediatric urology: quantifying thought leadership within the subspecialty. 
  • The Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2017 Update on Outcomes and Quality. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons: 30-day operative mortality and morbidity risk models. 
  • The Value of Negative Results in Quality Improvement: A Simulation Perspective. 
  • The assistant medical officer in Sri Lanka: mid-level health worker in decline. 
  • The association between hospital characteristics and rates of preventable complications and adverse events. 
  • The continuity and quality of primary care. 
  • The determinants of HMOs' contracting with hospitals for bypass surgery. 
  • The effect of poststroke cognitive impairment on rehabilitation process and functional outcome. 
  • The effects of New York's bypass surgery provider profiling on access to care and patient outcomes in the elderly. 
  • The effects of computerized medical records on provider efficiency and quality of care. 
  • The fall of the house of medicine? 
  • The financial toxicity of cancer treatment: a pilot study assessing out-of-pocket expenses and the insured cancer patient's experience. 
  • The future of health disparities research: 2008 and beyond. 
  • The impact of contract primary care on health care expenditures and quality of care. 
  • The impact of patient self-testing of prothrombin time for managing anticoagulation: rationale and design of VA Cooperative Study #481--the Home INR Study (THINRS). 
  • The many meanings of care in clinical research. 
  • The nature and effectiveness of general hospital psychiatric services. 
  • The need for a national infrastructure to improve the rational use of therapeutics. 
  • The obesity paradox in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from 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 Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • The patient centered medical home. A systematic review. 
  • The patient experience and health outcomes. 
  • The power of relationship for high-quality long-term care. 
  • The practice of quality: incorporating high-yield strategies into the daily reality of medical practice. 
  • The profit motive in medicine. 
  • The quality imperative for palliative care. 
  • The quality of cardiovascular disease care for adolescents with kidney disease: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium study. 
  • The quality of pharmacotherapy in older veterans discharged from the emergency department or urgent care clinic. 
  • The quality of telemedicine research. 
  • The relation between methods and recommendations in clinical practice guidelines for hypertension and hyperlipidemia. 
  • The relationship between malpractice claims history and subsequent obstetric care. 
  • The relationship of patient satisfaction with care and clinical outcomes. 
  • The resident as surgeon: an analysis of ACS-NSQIP. 
  • The role of evidence reports in evidence-based medicine: a mechanism for linking scientific evidence and practice improvement. 
  • The role of professional societies in limiting indication creep. 
  • The role of risk models in upholding standards for percutaneous coronary interventions. 
  • The role of standards in electronic prescribing. 
  • The use of think-aloud protocols to identify a decision-making process of community pharmacists aimed at improving CMS Star Ratings scores. 
  • The value in musculoskeletal care: summary and recommendations. 
  • The value of data collection within a palliative care program. 
  • The year in cardiovascular surgery. 
  • Time to define high-quality palliative care in oncology. 
  • Top 10 Tips About the Physician Quality Reporting System for Palliative Care Professionals. 
  • Top nurse-management staffing collapse and care quality in nursing homes. 
  • Towards a new order in cardiovascular medicine: re-engineering through global collaboration. 
  • Trans-national scale-up of services in global health. 
  • Translating evidence into practice: use of statins in real-world patients with heart failure. 
  • Treatment and risk in heart failure: gaps in evidence or quality? 
  • Treatment options, selection, and satisfaction among African American and white men with prostate carcinoma in North Carolina. 
  • Trends in the Use of Guideline-Directed Therapies Among Dialysis Patients Hospitalized With Systolic Heart Failure: Findings From the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Program. 
  • Tretinoin and the prevention of keratinocyte carcinoma (Basal and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin): a veterans affairs randomized chemoprevention trial. 
  • Turning Data Into Information: Opportunities to Advance Rehabilitation Quality, Research, and Policy. 
  • Underrepresentation of older adults in cancer trials--reply. 
  • Understanding racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer-related physical well-being: the role of patient-provider interactions. 
  • Understanding the critical importance of diagnosis in the measurement of quality of care. 
  • Unintended consequences of health information technology: Evidence from Veterans Affairs Colorectal Cancer Oncology Watch Intervention 
  • Urologist attitudes toward end-of-life care. 
  • Use of a standardized patient satisfaction questionnaire to assess the quality of care provided by ophthalmology residents. 
  • Use of aldosterone antagonists in heart failure. 
  • Use of cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients hospitalized with heart failure. 
  • Use of features in electronic health records and health care quality: How are they related? 
  • Use of the PATH Alliance database to measure adherence to IDSA guidelines for the therapy of candidemia. 
  • Using Electronic Health Record Data to Measure Care Quality for Individuals with Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions. 
  • Using NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology to measure the quality of colorectal cancer care in the veterans health administration. 
  • Using SQUIRE 2.0 to Guide Your Quality Improvement Work. 
  • Using the Internet to teach consumers about quality care. 
  • Using the PRACTICE mnemonic to apply cultural competency to genetics in medical education and patient care. 
  • Using the Web to improve seniors' awareness of their role in preventing medical errors. 
  • Utility of EQ-5D to assess patients undergoing cataract surgery. 
  • Utilization of diagnostic tests: assessing appropriateness. 
  • Utilization of secondary prevention therapies in patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease identified during cardiac catheterization: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Cath-PCI Registry. 
  • Validation of the surveillance system for tuberculosis in Botswana. 
  • Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach for Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes. 
  • Variation in perioperative care across centers for infants undergoing the Norwood procedure. 
  • Variations in and correlates of length of stay in academic hospitals among patients with heart failure resulting from systolic dysfunction. 
  • Veterans Affairs primary care organizational characteristics associated with better diabetes control. 
  • Vision loss among diabetics in a group model Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). 
  • Voices of oncology nursing society members matter in advocacy and decisions related to U.S. Health Policy. 
  • Voiding cystography practices and preferences of North American pediatric urologists. 
  • WHO in 2002: Why does the world still need WHO? 
  • Walk-in clinics in Ontario. An atmosphere of tension. 
  • Was This Readmission Preventable? Qualitative Study of Patient and Provider Perceptions of Readmissions. 
  • We need a new paradigm in gynecologic cancer care: SGO proposes solutions for delivery, quality and reimbursement policies. 
  • Weekend hospital admission and discharge for heart failure: association with quality of care and clinical outcomes. 
  • What constitutes quality of family experience at the end of life? Perspectives from family members of patients who died in the hospital. 
  • What do patients say about emergency departments in online reviews? A qualitative study. 
  • What does quality care mean to nurses in rural hospitals? 
  • What drives outcomes for emotional and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents? 
  • What lessons can be drawn from tuberculosis (TB) control in China in the 1990s? An analysis from a health system perspective. 
  • When a chance to cut is not a chance to cure: a future for palliative surgery? 
  • When money is saved by reducing healthcare costs, where do US primary care physicians think the money goes? 
  • Where Children Die: Obstacles to Quality End-of-Life Care. 
  • Where in the world is ASRA AcutePOP? 
  • [From study to standard to systems of care: ongoing needs to increase evidence adoption]. 
  • [Health services in Canada and Norway. Looked at from the psychiatric point of view] 
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  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Barbeito, Atilio, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Barfield, Raymond Carlton, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke Science & Society
  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Nursing
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Cary, Michael Paul, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Check, Devon Karnes, Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Crowley, Matthew Janik, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Everett, Christine M, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Fisher, Deborah Anne, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Grambow, Steven C., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • LeBlanc, Thomas William, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Mohanan, Manoj, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Economics
  • Muhlbaier, Lawrence H., Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
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  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health
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