Risk Adjustment

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "But my patients are different!": risk adjustment in 2012 and beyond. 
  • A demand-side view of risk adjustment. 
  • American College of Cardiology key data elements and definitions for measuring the clinical management and outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndromes. A report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Acute Coronary Syndromes Writing Committee). 
  • Assessing the impact of total quality management and organizational culture on multiple outcomes of care for coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients. 
  • Association of metabolic syndrome and its individual components with outcomes among patients with high-risk non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Association of patient case-mix adjustment, hospital process performance rankings, and eligibility for financial incentives. 
  • Blood Pressure, Antihypertensive Polypharmacy, Frailty, and Risk for Serious Fall Injuries Among Older Treated Adults With Hypertension. 
  • Case mix adjustment in nursing systems research: the case of resident outcomes in nursing homes. 
  • Case-mix adjustment of adolescent mental health treatment outcomes. 
  • Challenges in comparing risk-adjusted bypass surgery mortality results: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. 
  • Child welfare agency ties to providers and schools and substance abuse treatment use by adolescents. 
  • Clinical trials evaluating red blood cell transfusion thresholds: An updated systematic review and with additional focus on patients with cardiovascular disease. 
  • Comparison of Anticoagulant Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation - Novel Oral Anticoagulants Versus Vitamin K Antagonists. 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Contemporary mortality risk prediction for percutaneous coronary intervention: results from 588,398 procedures in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of targeting patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for therapy with bivalirudin versus heparin monotherapy according to predicted risk of bleeding. 
  • Development of a clinical registry-based 30-day readmission measure for coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • Do hospitals and surgeons with higher coronary artery bypass graft surgery volumes still have lower risk-adjusted mortality rates? 
  • Door-to-balloon time and mortality among patients undergoing primary PCI. 
  • Drug Treatment of STEMI in the Elderly: Focus on Fibrinolytic Therapy and Insights from the STREAM Trial. 
  • Early evidence on the quality of care provided by special needs plans. 
  • Effect of dialysis center profit-status on patient survival: a comparison of risk-adjustment and instrumental variable approaches. 
  • Electronically Available Comorbidities Should Be Used in Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment. 
  • Estimating Mortality Risk for Adult Congenital Heart Surgery: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Evaluating diagnosis-based risk-adjustment methods in a population with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • Gender differences in mortality after mitral valve operation: evidence for higher mortality in perimenopausal women. 
  • Guidance on public reporting of healthcare-associated infections: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 
  • HCC Coding, Risk Adjustment, and Physician Income: What You Need to Know. 
  • Impact of managed care on the treatment, costs, and outcomes of fee-for-service Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Impact of physician assistant care on office visit resource use in the United States. 
  • Incremental value of clinical data beyond claims data in predicting 30-day outcomes after heart failure hospitalization. 
  • Influence of hospital procedural volume on care process and mortality for patients undergoing elective surgery for mitral regurgitation. 
  • Is bariatric surgery safe in academic centers? 
  • Isolated tricuspid regurgitation: outcomes and therapeutic interventions. 
  • Issues in quality measurement: target population, risk adjustment, and ratings. 
  • Marriage and mortality after noncardiac surgery. 
  • Measures of adherence to oral hypoglycemic agents at the primary care clinic level: the role of risk adjustment. 
  • Measuring the impact of a quality improvement collaboration to decrease maternal mortality in a Ghanaian regional hospital. 
  • Medicare HMO penetration and mortality outcomes of ischemic stroke. 
  • Mortality Trends After a Voluntary Checklist-based Surgical Safety Collaborative. 
  • Mortality benefit with prasugrel in the TRITON-TIMI 38 coronary artery bypass grafting cohort: risk-adjusted retrospective data analysis. 
  • Multiple Chronic Conditions in Older Adults with Acute Coronary Syndromes. 
  • Nurse staffing and adverse events in hospitalized children. 
  • Opioid tolerance--a predictor of increased length of stay and higher readmission rates. 
  • Patterns of anticoagulation following bioprosthetic valve implantation: observations from ANSWER. 
  • Performance of comorbidity, risk adjustment, and functional status measures in expenditure prediction for patients with diabetes. 
  • Perverse incentives in the Medicare prescription drug benefit. 
  • Possible incremental benefits of specialized rehabilitation bed units among veterans after lower extremity amputation. 
  • Predictors of prolonged length of stay after lobectomy for lung cancer: a Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database risk-adjustment model. 
  • Procedural volume as a marker of quality for CABG surgery. 
  • Public reporting of quality measures what are we trying to accomplish? 
  • Pulmonary artery catheterization in acute coronary syndromes: insights from the GUSTO IIb and GUSTO III trials. 
  • Regional variation in prosthesis choice for aortic valve replacement in older patients. 
  • Regionalization of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and implications for patient travel distance. 
  • Risk adjustment for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. 
  • Risk adjustment of ischemic stroke outcomes for comparing hospital performance: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. 
  • 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. 
  • The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2008 cardiac surgery risk models: part 1--coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2008 cardiac surgery risk models: part 2--isolated valve surgery. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2008 cardiac surgery risk models: part 3--valve plus coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Composite Measure of Individual Surgeon Performance for Adult Cardiac Surgery: A Report of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Quality Measurement Task Force. 
  • 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 Lung Cancer Resection Risk Model: Higher Quality Data and Superior Outcomes. 
  • The appropriateness of 30-day mortality as a quality metric in colorectal cancer surgery. 
  • The complex relationship between pediatric cardiac surgical case volumes and mortality rates in a national clinical database. 
  • The effect of high-risk ST elevation myocardial infarction transfer patients on risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality: A report from the American Heart Association Mission: Lifeline program. 
  • The evaluation of treatment when center-specific selection criteria vary with respect to patient risk. 
  • The hazards of stroke case selection using administrative data. 
  • The impact of high-risk cases on hospitals' risk-adjusted coronary artery bypass grafting mortality rankings. 
  • The impact of statistical adjustment on economic profiles of interventional cardiologists. 
  • The performance of administrative and self-reported measures for risk adjustment of Veterans Affairs expenditures. 
  • The relative effect of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, disability, and comorbidities on cost of care for elderly persons. 
  • The risk of risk-adjustment measures for perioperative spine infection after spinal surgery. 
  • Ticagrelor with aspirin or alone in high-risk patients after coronary intervention: Rationale and design of the TWILIGHT study. 
  • Toward a level playing field: predictive factors for the outcomes of mental health treatment for adolescents. 
  • Transradial approach for coronary angiography and intervention in the elderly: A meta-analysis of 777,841 patients. 
  • Trends in presenting characteristics and hospital mortality among patients with ST elevation and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1990 to 2006. 
  • Variation of Thyroidectomy-Specific Outcomes Among Hospitals and Their Association With Risk Adjustment and Hospital Performance. 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine