Quality Improvement

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program for In-Center Hemodialysis: A Patient-Centered Quality Improvement Program. 
  • A Practical Approach to Quality Assurance Implementation in Clinical Echocardiographic Laboratories 
  • A Prospective Emergency Department Quality Improvement Project to Improve the Treatment of Vaso-Occlusive Crisis in Sickle Cell Disease: Lessons Learned. 
  • A Quality Improvement Initiative for Designing and Implementing a Military Service Screening Tool for a Community Emergency Department. 
  • A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Early Detection of Syphilis Infection or Re-infection in HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • A Research Agenda for Communication Between Health Care Professionals and Patients Living With Serious Illness. 
  • A Standard Set of Outcome Measures for the Comprehensive Appraisal of Cleft Care. 
  • A Survey to Evaluate Facilitators and Barriers to Quality Measurement and Improvement: Adapting Tools for Implementation Research in Palliative Care Programs. 
  • A clustered randomized trial to IMProve treatment with AntiCoagulanTs in patients with Atrial Fibrillation (IMPACT-AF): design and rationale. 
  • A composite index for predicting readmission following emergency general surgery. 
  • A cross-sectional study of medical students' knowledge of patient safety and quality improvement. 
  • A knowledge-based approach to improving and homogenizing intensity modulated radiation therapy planning quality among treatment centers: an example application to prostate cancer planning. 
  • A longitudinal, collaborative, practice-based learning and improvement model to improve post-discharge heart failure outcomes. 
  • A mobile health technology platform for quality assurance and quality improvement of malaria diagnosis by community health workers. 
  • A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units*. 
  • A multifaceted intervention to narrow the evidence-based gap in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes: rationale and design of the Brazilian Intervention to Increase Evidence Usage in Acute Coronary Syndromes (BRIDGE-ACS) cluster-randomized trial. 
  • 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 quantitative measure of diabetes risk in community practice impacts clinical decisions: the PREVAIL initiative. 
  • A randomized, controlled trial of team-based competition to increase learner participation in quality-improvement education. 
  • A roadmap to improve the quality of atrial fibrillation management: proceedings from the fifth Atrial Fibrillation Network/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference. 
  • ABR examinations: the why, what, and how. 
  • ACC/AHA/STS Statement on the Future of Registries and the Performance Measurement Enterprise: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACC/AHA/STS Statement on the Future of Registries and the Performance Measurement Enterprise: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. 
  • ACCF/AHA/SCAI 2013 Update of the Clinical Competence Statement on Coronary Artery 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 Revise the 2007 Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac Interventional Procedures). 
  • Academic Health Systems' Third Curve: Population Health Improvement. 
  • Accuracy of standard measures of family planning service quality: findings from the simulated client method. 
  • Acute management of stroke patients taking non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants Addressing Real-world Anticoagulant Management Issues in Stroke (ARAMIS) Registry: Design and rationale. 
  • Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: results from a quality improvement learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management. 
  • Advances in prevention and health services delivery 2010-2011. 
  • Advancing Value Assessment in the United States: A Multistakeholder Perspective. 
  • Advancing obstetric and neonatal care in a regional hospital in Ghana via continuous quality improvement 
  • Adverse Events in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Infectious Orbital Complications of Sinusitis: 30-Day NSQIP Pediatric Outcomes. 
  • Affinity Chart Analysis: A Method for Structured Collection, Aggregation, and Response to Customer Needs in Radiology. 
  • American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery estimation of bariatric surgery procedures in the United States, 2011-2014. 
  • An Evidence-Based Cue-Selection Guide and Logic Model to Improve Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Long-term Care. 
  • An observation unit may help improve an institution's Press Ganey satisfaction score. 
  • Application of a proactive risk analysis to emergency department sickle cell care. 
  • Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. 
  • Assessment of Operator Variability in Risk-Standardized Mortality Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From the NCDR. 
  • 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 Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Program Participation and Clinical Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries With Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Association of Rapid Care Process Implementation on Reperfusion Times Across Multiple ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Networks. 
  • Association of neighborhood characteristics with incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and rates of bystander-initiated CPR: implications for community-based education intervention. 
  • Associations Between Unplanned Cardiac Reinterventions and Early Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Findings From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database 
  • Automated Technique to Measure Noise in Clinical CT Examinations. 
  • Benchmarking the American Society of Breast Surgeon Member Performance for More Than a Million Quality Measure-Patient Encounters. 
  • Benefits of Population Segmentation Analysis for Developing Health Policy to Promote Patient-Centred Care. 
  • Blending Quality Improvement and Research Methods for Implementation Science, Part I: Design and Data Collection. 
  • Blending Quality Improvement and Research Methods for Implementation Science, Part II: Analysis of the Quality of Implementation. 
  • Blending Quality Improvement and Research Methods for Implementation Science, Part III: Analysis of the Effectiveness of Implementation. 
  • Building capacity in VA to provide emergency gynecology services for women. 
  • CHAMBER: A Regional Performance Improvement CME Initiative for Breast Cancer Health Care Providers. 
  • CKD as a Model for Improving Chronic Disease Care through Electronic Health Records. 
  • CONNECT for quality: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve fall prevention in nursing homes. 
  • Calm in the midst of cytokine storm: a collaborative approach to the diagnosis and treatment of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and macrophage activation syndrome. 
  • Caregiver staffing in nursing homes and their influence on quality of care: using dynamic panel estimation methods. 
  • Causes and Predictors of 30-Day Readmission After Shoulder and Knee Arthroscopy: An Analysis of 15,167 Cases. 
  • Check it, change it: a community-based intervention to improve blood pressure control. 
  • Check it, change it: a community-based, multifaceted intervention to improve blood pressure control. 
  • Clinical Impact of External Laryngeal Manipulation During Laryngoscopy on Tracheal Intubation Success in Critically Ill Children. 
  • Clinical Quality Improvement Curriculum for Faculty in an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Closing the quality gap: revisiting the state of the science (vol. 4: medication adherence interventions: comparative effectiveness). 
  • Cluster-Randomized Trial of Personalized Site Performance Feedback in Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Collaborative quality improvement vs public reporting for percutaneous coronary intervention: A comparison of percutaneous coronary intervention in New York vs Michigan. 
  • Combining orthopedic special tests to improve diagnosis of shoulder pathology. 
  • Commentary on Vickers. 
  • Common Resident Errors When Interpreting Computed Tomography of the Abdomen and Pelvis: A Review of Types, Pitfalls, and Strategies for Improvement. 
  • Comparative effectiveness studies to improve clinical outcomes in end stage renal disease: the DEcIDE patient outcomes in end stage renal disease study. 
  • 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 laparoscopic versus open adrenalectomy: results from American College of Surgeons-National Surgery Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Comparison of team-focused CPR vs standard CPR in resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results from a statewide quality improvement initiative. 
  • Competency-based goals, objectives, and linked evaluations for rheumatology training programs: a standardized template of learning activities from the Carolinas Fellows Collaborative. 
  • Compliance with acute stroke care quality measures in hospitals with and without primary stroke center certification: the North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Comprehensive electrocardiogram-to-device time for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A report from the American Heart Association mission: Lifeline program. 
  • Concept Maps for Improved Science Reasoning and Writing: Complexity Isn't Everything. 
  • Consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems surgical care survey: benefits and challenges. 
  • Cost-related health literacy: a key component of high-quality cancer care. 
  • Critical care cardiology research: a call to action. 
  • Crowdsourcing consensus: proposal of a novel method for assessing accuracy in echocardiography interpretation. 
  • Current quality of cardiovascular prevention for Million Hearts: an analysis of 147,038 outpatients from The Guideline Advantage. 
  • Data quality in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Stroke (GWTG-Stroke): results from a national data validation audit. 
  • Decreasing the Incidence of Tuohy-Borst Clamp Connector Disconnections From Perineural Catheters: A Quality Improvement Study. 
  • Development and implementation of a proficiency testing program for Luminex bead-based cytokine assays. 
  • Development and initial testing of the stroke rapid-treatment readiness tool. 
  • Development of a Quality Improvement Bundle to Reduce Tracheal Intubation-Associated Events in Pediatric ICUs. 
  • Doctor Who? A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve Patients' Knowledge of Their Inpatient Physicians. 
  • Does mpMRI improve clinical criteria in selecting men with prostate cancer for active surveillance? 
  • Does recipient age impact functional outcomes of orthotopic heart transplantation? 
  • Door-to-needle times for tissue plasminogen activator administration and clinical outcomes in acute ischemic stroke before and after a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Effect of Promoting High-Quality Staff Interactions on Fall Prevention in Nursing Homes: A Cluster-Randomized Trial. 
  • Effect of a Multifaceted Quality Improvement Intervention on Hospital Personnel Adherence to Performance Measures in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke in China: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of a multifaceted intervention on use of evidence-based therapies in patients with acute coronary syndromes in Brazil: the BRIDGE-ACS randomized trial. 
  • Effectiveness of an Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Approach to Cultural Competence Training: The Veterans Affairs' "Caring for Women Veterans" Program. 
  • Emergency Department (ED), ED Observation, Day Hospital, and Hospital Admissions for Adults with Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Emergency medical service hospital prenotification is associated with improved evaluation and treatment of acute ischemic stroke. 
  • End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Use for Tracheal Intubation: Analysis From the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) Registry. 
  • Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED) 
  • Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED). 
  • Enhancing the Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged from the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED): Preliminary Results from Enhancing Quality of Prescribing Practices for Older Veterans Discharged from the Emergency Department, a Novel Multicomponent Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Enhancing the Value of Statewide Hospital Discharge Data: Improving Clinical Content and Race-Ethnicity Data. 
  • Ensuring vitamin D supplementation in nursing home patients--a quality improvement project. 
  • Establishing a Regional Glaucoma Physician Collaborative to Improve Quality of Care. 
  • Establishing a framework for improving the quality of clinical and translational research. 
  • Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice. 
  • Evaluation of identifier field agreement in linked neonatal records. 
  • Evolution of the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative supportive care quality measures portfolio and conformance at a Veterans Affairs medical center. 
  • Expanding Group Peer Review: A Proposal for Medical Education Scholarship. 
  • Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout. 
  • Factors Associated With Hospital Length of Stay Following Fibular Free-Tissue Reconstruction of Head and Neck Defects: Assessment Using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) Criteria. 
  • Factors associated with improvement in utilization of cardiac resynchronization therapy in eligible heart failure patients: findings from IMPROVE HF. 
  • Failure to rescue and pulmonary resection for lung cancer. 
  • Financial incentives in primary care practice: the struggle to achieve population health goals. 
  • Frequency of Desaturation and Association With Hemodynamic Adverse Events During Tracheal Intubations in PICUs. 
  • Gallstone ileus: revisiting surgical outcomes using National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data. 
  • Get With The Guidelines AFIB: novel quality improvement registry for hospitalized patients with atrial fibrillation. 
  • Global disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality. 
  • Global quality imaging: improvement actions. 
  • Good to Great: Quality-Improvement Initiative Increases and Sustains Pediatric Health Care Worker Hand Hygiene Compliance. 
  • Group diabetes self-management education in a primary care setting: a quality improvement project. 
  • Guideline-Appropriate Care and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure in Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Guideline-Based Educational Intervention to Decrease the Risk for Readmission of Newborns With Severe Hyperbilirubinemia 
  • Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist. 
  • H_pe for mHealth: more "y" or "o" on the horizon? 
  • Handoffs in the era of duty hours reform: a focused review and strategy to address changes in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Common Program Requirements. 
  • Heart Rhythm Monitoring Strategies for Cryptogenic Stroke: 2015 Diagnostics and Monitoring Stroke Focus Group Report. 
  • Helping Babies Breathe implementation in Zanzibar, Tanzania. 
  • High Heart Failure Readmission Rates: Is It the Health System's Fault? 
  • Hospital Standards to Promote Optimal Surgical Care of the Older Adult: A Report From the Coalition for Quality in Geriatric Surgery. 
  • Hospital readmissions reduction program. 
  • Hospital text paging communication as a surgical quality improvement initiative. 
  • How can we optimize the processes of care for acute coronary syndromes to improve outcomes? 
  • Hypertension control among patients followed by cardiologists. 
  • Identification of hospital outliers in bleeding complications after percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Identifying Targets for Improving Mental Healthcare of Adolescents with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Perspectives from Pediatric Rheumatology Clinicians in the United States and Canada. 
  • Identifying pediatric emergence delirium by using the PAED Scale: a quality improvement project. 
  • Image-Rich Radiology Reports: A Value-Based Model to Improve Clinical Workflow. 
  • Impact of Cardiac Cath Lab Organization on Process and Outcome Quality: A Case Study 
  • Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Specialists on the Design and Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Inappropriate Medications in a Veterans Affairs Emergency Department. 
  • Impact of an expanded hospital recognition program for heart failure quality of care. 
  • Impact of percutaneous coronary intervention performance reporting on cardiac resuscitation centers: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Impact of remote monitoring on clinical events and associated health care utilization: A nationwide assessment. 
  • Implementation and Quality Improvement of a Screening and Counseling Program for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in an Academic General Internal Medicine Practice. 
  • Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Implementation of Regional ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Systems of Care: Successes and Challenges. 
  • Implementation of a Recovery-Oriented Training Program for Psychiatric Nurses in the Inpatient Setting: A Mixed-Methods Hospital Quality Improvement Study. 
  • Implementation of an Exercise Program in an Assisted Living Facility. 
  • Implementation of personalized music listening for assisted living residents with dementia. 
  • Implementation of the Josie King Care Journal in a pediatric intensive care unit: a quality improvement project. 
  • Implementing a Continuous Quality Improvement Program in a High-Volume Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory: Improving Care for Patients With Aortic Stenosis. 
  • Implementing a Daily Maintenance Care Bundle to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Oncology Patients. 
  • Implementing a home-based exercise prescription for older patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication: a quality improvement project. 
  • Implementing distress management guidelines in ambulatory oncology: a quality improvement project. 
  • Implementing evidence-based medication safety interventions on a progressive care unit. 
  • Improved Quality of Thyroid Ultrasound Reports After Implementation of the ACR Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System Nodule Lexicon and Risk Stratification System. 
  • Improvement in Care and Outcomes for Emergency Medical Service-Transported Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) With and Without Prehospital Cardiac Arrest: A Mission: Lifeline STEMI Accelerator Study. 
  • Improvement in quality indicators using NCDR® registries: First international experience. 
  • Improvements in pulmonary and general critical care reduces mortality following ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Improving Care of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Next Steps. 
  • Improving Congestive Heart Failure Care with a Clinical Decision Unit. 
  • Improving ICU-Based Palliative Care Delivery: A Multicenter, Multidisciplinary Survey of Critical Care Clinician Attitudes and Beliefs. 
  • Improving Oncology Quality Measurement in Accountable Care: Filling Gaps with Cross-Cutting Measures. 
  • Improving Outcomes in Colorectal Surgery by Sequential Implementation of Multiple Standardized Care Programs. 
  • Improving Patient-Centered Transitional Care after Complex Abdominal Surgery. 
  • Improving Quality of Care for Sickle Cell Patients in the Pediatric Emergency Department. 
  • Improving Resident and Fellow Engagement in Patient Safety Through a Graduate Medical Education Incentive Program. 
  • Improving care transitions: current practice and future opportunities for pharmacists. 
  • Improving clinician performance of inpatient venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis. 
  • Improving door-to-needle times in acute ischemic stroke: the design and rationale for the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Target: Stroke initiative. 
  • Improving geriatric prescribing in the ED: a qualitative study of facilitators and barriers to clinical decision support tool use. 
  • Improving patient flow in the emergency department by placing a family nurse practitioner in triage: a quality-improvement project. 
  • Improving post-intensive care unit neuropsychiatric outcomes: understanding cognitive effects of physical activity. 
  • Improving quality and decreasing cost in gynecologic oncology care. Society of gynecologic oncology recommendations for clinical practice. 
  • Improving the Documentation Process for Referrals into Diabetes Education: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Improving the Efficiency of Care for Pediatric Patients Hospitalized With Asthma. 
  • Improving the Process of Enteral Nutrition Preparation With Milk Technicians: Perceptions of Cost, Time, and Quality. 
  • Improving the end-of-life experience in Singapore: building capacity in palliative care education and research. 
  • Improving the management of tibia stress fractures: a collaborative, outpatient clinic-based quality improvement project. 
  • Improving the quality of survivorship for older adults with cancer. 
  • In reference to "Managing superutilizers--staying patient centered is the solution". 
  • In situ simulated cardiac arrest exercises to detect system vulnerabilities. 
  • In vitro assessment of long-term reliability of low-cost μECoG arrays. 
  • Incorporating Interprofessional Evidenced-Based Sepsis Simulation Education for Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and Licensed Care Providers Within Long-term Care Settings for Process and Quality Improvement. 
  • Indicators of integration of oncology and palliative care programs: an international consensus. 
  • Integrating palliative care information and hospice referral in medicaid primary care. 
  • Interrater Reliability of Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events and Pneumonia. 
  • Introduction to the STS National Database Series: Outcomes Analysis, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety. 
  • Introductory commentary: a strategic review of options for building on lessons learnt from IMCI and iCCM. 
  • Is Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Stroke Mortality an Adequate Proxy for Risk-Standardized 30-Day Stroke Mortality Data? Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Is implementation fidelity associated with improved access to care in a school-based Child and Family Team model? 
  • Is there a role for simultaneous hepatic and colorectal resections? A contemporary view from NSQIP. 
  • Key Characteristics of Rehabilitation Quality Improvement Publications: Scoping Review From 2010 to 2016. 
  • Laparoscopic versus open Hartmann procedure for the emergency treatment of diverticulitis: a propensity-matched analysis. 
  • Laparoscopy is safe among patients with congestive heart failure undergoing general surgery procedures. 
  • Large-scale quality improvement for radiation protection of children worldwide: lessons from the past applied to the present. 
  • Leukopenia is associated with worse but not prohibitive outcomes following emergent abdominal surgery. 
  • Local interaction strategies and capacity for better care in nursing homes: a multiple case study. 
  • Locoregional versus general anesthesia for open inguinal herniorrhaphy: a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program analysis. 
  • Long-term care in North Carolina. 
  • Long-term results of a postoperative pneumonia prevention program for the inpatient surgical ward. 
  • Low-Cost Intervention to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rate at a Comprehensive Cancer Center. 
  • Making it local: Beacon Communities use health information technology to optimize care management. 
  • Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems: an analysis of observational and interventional studies grounded in complexity science. 
  • Measuring outcomes in cleft lip and palate treatment. 
  • Measuring the impact of a quality improvement collaboration to decrease maternal mortality in a Ghanaian regional hospital. 
  • Measuring the process of preventive service delivery in primary care practices for children 
  • Meta-Evaluation: Experiences in an Accelerated Graduate Nurse Education Program. 
  • Methodological Research Priorities in Palliative Care and Hospice Quality Measurement. 
  • Mobile health technology evaluation: the mHealth evidence workshop. 
  • Modest Associations Between Electronic Health Record Use and Acute Myocardial Infarction Quality of Care and Outcomes: Results From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Monitoring and improving acute stroke care: The North Carolina Stroke Care Collaborative. 
  • Monitoring the quality of clinical inquiry projects. 
  • Morbidity and Mortality Conference for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Multicenter development, implementation, and patient safety impacts of a simulation-based module to teach handovers to pediatric residents. 
  • Multicenter validation of American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading system for acute colonic diverticulitis and its use for emergency general surgery quality improvement program. 
  • Multistate 5-Year Initiative to Improve Care for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Primary Results From the HeartRescue Project. 
  • Multistate implementation of guideline-based cardiac resuscitation systems of care: description of the HeartRescue project. 
  • National survey of hospital strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions: findings from the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure registry. 
  • New standards for safe patient handling and mobility. 
  • No need to wait: an analysis of the timing of cholecystectomy during admission for acute cholecystitis using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Nurse perception of Bispectral Index monitoring as an adjunct to sedation scale assessment in the critically ill paediatric patient. 
  • Nurse-Initiated Telephone Follow Up after Ureteroscopic Stone Surgery. 
  • Nutrition therapy for the critically ill surgical patient: we need to do better! 
  • Oncology payment reform to achieve real health care reform. 
  • 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 protein intake in premature infants: a neonatal quality improvement project. 
  • Outcomes after pediatric kidney transplantation improving: how can we do even better? 
  • Outcomes before and after implementation of a pediatric rapid-response extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program. 
  • Outcomes of a multi-community hypertension implementation study: the American Heart Association's Check. Change. Control. program. 
  • Palliative Care in the African American Community #204. 
  • Patient and Neighborhood Factors Associated with Presentation Delay in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Insights from the NCDR (R) 
  • Patient safety and quality improvement education: a cross-sectional study of medical students' preferences and attitudes. 
  • Patient-reported outcomes in cancer care - hearing the patient voice at greater volume. 
  • Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics. 
  • Perception Versus Actual Performance in Timely Tissue Plasminogen Activation Administration in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Perioperative Optimization of Geriatric Lower Extremity Bypass in the Era of Increased Performance Accountability. 
  • Perioperative outcomes for pediatric neurosurgical procedures: analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatrics. 
  • Physiologic goal-directed therapy in the perioperative period: the volume prescription for high-risk patients. 
  • Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina. 
  • Practice and quality improvement: successful implementation of TeamSTEPPS tools into an academic interventional ultrasound practice. 
  • Practice-based research networks add value to evidence-based quality improvement. 
  • Predictors of Major Morbidity or Mortality After Resection for Esophageal Cancer: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database Risk Adjustment Model. 
  • Predictors of adherence to performance measures in patients with acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Prehospital sepsis care: Understanding provider knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes. 
  • Preparing quality improvement, research, and evidence-based practice manuscripts. 
  • Procedural competency of gastroenterology trainees: from apprenticeship to milestones. 
  • Process improvement in surgery. 
  • Promoters and Barriers to Implementation of Tracheal Intubation Airway Safety Bundle: A Mixed-Method Analysis. 
  • Promoting Patient Safety: Results of a TeamSTEPPS® Initiative. 
  • Promoting Same-Day Discharge for Gynecologic Oncology Patients in Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy. 
  • Prospective measurement of patient exposure to radiation during pediatric ureteroscopy. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 1--history, rationale, consequences. 
  • Public reporting of cardiac surgery performance: Part 2--implementation. 
  • Quality Improvement Guidelines for Percutaneous Nephrostomy. 
  • Quality Improvement Implementation: Improving Reproducibility in the Echocardiography Laboratory. 
  • Quality Improvement Interventions to Improve Appropriateness of Imaging Studies: Necessary, But Are They Sufficient? 
  • Quality Improvement Pearls for the Palliative Care and Hospice Professional. 
  • Quality Of Health Care In India: Challenges, Priorities, And The Road Ahead. 
  • Quality assessment and improvement in interventional cardiology: a Position Statement of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Part II: public reporting and risk adjustment. 
  • Quality improvement and evidence-based practice change projects and the institutional review board: is approval necessary? 
  • Quality improvement in an anticoagulation clinic: development of a new treatment protocol. 
  • Quality improvement in heart rhythm care: the path forward. 
  • Quality improvement in pediatrics: past, present, and future. 
  • Quality improvement process in a sickle cell infusion center. 
  • Quality in perioperative echocardiography: it's about time. 
  • Quality of care and outcomes for in-hospital ischemic stroke: findings from the National Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Quality of reporting on randomised controlled trials of auriculotherapy for pain. 
  • Race and improvements in the use of guideline-recommended therapies for patients with heart failure: findings from IMPROVE HF. 
  • Racial disparities in outcomes after appendectomy for acute appendicitis. 
  • Racially Associated Disparities in Hospice and Palliative Care Access: Acknowledging the Facts While Addressing the Opportunities to Improve. 
  • Radiation exposure in gastroenterology: improving patient and staff protection. 
  • Rational and design of a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial evaluating quality improvement initiative for reducing cardiovascular events among patients with acute coronary syndromes in resource-constrained hospitals in China. 
  • Rationale and design of a cluster-randomized multifaceted intervention trial to improve stroke care quality in China: The GOLDEN BRIDGE-Acute Ischemic Stroke. 
  • 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 data monitoring committees from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. 
  • Reducing CKD risks among vulnerable populations in primary care. 
  • Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults With Acute Bronchitis in an Urgent Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Reenergizing Research While Improving Patient Care. 
  • Regional variation in antenatal corticosteroid use: a network-level quality improvement study. 
  • Regional versus general anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program perspective. 
  • Relationship Between Adverse Tracheal Intubation Associated Events and PICU Outcomes. 
  • Reliability Of A Surgeon-Reported Morbidity And Mortality Database: A Comparison Of Short-Term Morbidity Between The Scoliosis Research Society And National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Databases. 
  • Reply to the letter to the editor 'Integration between oncology and palliative care: does one size fit all?' by Verna et al. 
  • Representativeness of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Registry: comparison of patient and hospital characteristics among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with ischemic stroke. 
  • Rescuing clinical trials in the United States and beyond: a call for action. 
  • Research and Operations: Joining Forces to Improve Care for Veterans. 
  • Research versus quality improvement: distinct or a distinction without a difference? A case study comparison of two studies. 
  • Resident education in the era of patient safety: a nationwide analysis of outcomes and complications in resident-assisted oncologic surgery. 
  • Responses to a Pre-PCI Screening Questionnaire Influence Stent Type Used During PCI 
  • Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Twenty-First Century. 
  • Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness: A National Informatics-Enabled Registry for Quality Improvement. 
  • Risks and benefits of anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation: insights from the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) registry. 
  • Robotic-Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Colectomy Results in Increased Operative Time Without Improved Perioperative Outcomes. 
  • Roles of Academic and Public Health Systems in Advancing Population Health--Reply. 
  • Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Have Fewer Follow-up Visits and Greater Emergency Department Use Postdischarge. 
  • SCAI expert consensus statement: 2016 best practices in the cardiac catheterization laboratory: (Endorsed by the cardiological society of india, and sociedad Latino Americana de Cardiologia intervencionista; Affirmation of value by the Canadian Association of interventional cardiology-Association canadienne de cardiologie d'intervention). 
  • SCAI: Enhancing patient care through quality. 
  • SMFM Special Report: Putting the "M" back in MFM: Addressing education about disparities in maternal outcomes and care. 
  • Safety and postoperative adverse events in management of acute mastoiditis in children - 30 Day NSQIP outcomes. 
  • Safety of tracheal intubation in the presence of cardiac disease in paediatric ICUs. 
  • Science of Improvement Versus Science of Implementation: Integrating Both Into Clinical Inquiry. 
  • Screening for critical congenital heart disease in newborns using pulse oximetry: evaluation of nurses' knowledge and adherence. 
  • Screening with MRI for Accurate and Rapid Stroke Treatment: SMART. 
  • Sharing the care of mechanical circulatory support: collaborative efforts of patients/caregivers, shared-care sites, and left ventricular assist device implanting centers. 
  • Short-term Complication Rates Following Anterior Urethroplasty: An Analysis of National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Data. 
  • 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. 
  • Simultaneous diaphragm and liver resection: a propensity-matched analysis of postoperative morbidity. 
  • Social cytopathology: Building a stronger cytopathology community through social media. 
  • Solutions for filling gaps in accountable care measure sets. 
  • Splenectomy as a Destination: Improving Quality of Care Among Asplenic Veterans Through a Travel Clinic. 
  • Stakeholders' perspectives on community-based participatory research to enhance mental health services. 
  • Standardization of health care provider competencies for intrathecal access procedures. 
  • Standardized patient identification and specimen labeling: a retrospective analysis on improving patient safety. 
  • Structured Documentation of Home Ventilator Settings in Children: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Supporting teams to optimize function and independence in Veterans: a multi-study program and mixed methods protocol. 
  • Surgical site infection rates: open versus hand-assisted colorectal resections. 
  • Sustained sex-based treatment differences in acute coronary syndrome care: Insights from the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines Coronary Artery Disease Registry. 
  • Synthesizing lessons learned from get with the guidelines: the value of disease-based registries in improving quality and outcomes. 
  • Systematic Changes to Help Parentsof Medically Complex Infants Manage Medical Expenses. 
  • Tailoring your heart failure project for success in rural areas. 
  • Take heart: a one-on-one peer-based strategy to improve acute coronary syndrome patient care. 
  • Targeted versus standard feedback: results from a randomized quality improvement trial. 
  • Teaching quality essentials: the effectiveness of a team-based quality improvement curriculum in a tertiary health care institution. 
  • Team Huddle Implementation in a General Pediatric Clinic. 
  • Technical performance score is associated with outcomes after the Norwood procedure. 
  • Telephone follow-up for pediatric ambulatory surgery: parent and provider satisfaction. 
  • The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Surgical Risk Calculator Has a Role in Predicting Discharge to Post-Acute Care in Total Joint Arthroplasty. 
  • The Association Between Hospital Finances and Complications After Complex Abdominal Surgery: Deficiencies in the Current Health Care Reimbursement System and Implications for the Future. 
  • The China Acute Myocardial Infarction (CAMI) Registry: A national long-term registry-research-education integrated platform for exploring acute myocardial infarction in China. 
  • The DEDUCE Guided Query tool: providing simplified access to clinical data for research and quality improvement. 
  • The Immunology Quality Assessment Proficiency Testing Program for CD3⁺4⁺ and CD3⁺8⁺ lymphocyte subsets: a ten year review via longitudinal mixed effects modeling. 
  • The NCDR ACTION Registry-GWTG: transforming contemporary acute myocardial infarction clinical care. 
  • The National Cardiovascular Data Registry Voluntary Public Reporting Program: An Interim Report From the NCDR Public Reporting Advisory Group. 
  • The Quality Improvement Environment: Results of the 2016 AAHPM/HPNA Membership Needs Assessment Survey. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database: 2016 Update on Outcomes and Quality. 
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database 2016 Annual Report. 
  • The Value of Negative Results in Quality Improvement: A Simulation Perspective. 
  • The accuracy and completeness for receipt of colorectal cancer care using Veterans Health Administration administrative data. 
  • The anatomy of radiation oncology residency training. 
  • The changing face of general internal medicine and lessons learned from geriatric medicine. 
  • The cost effectiveness of a quality improvement program to reduce maternal and fetal mortality in a regional referral hospital in Accra, Ghana. 
  • The global health and economic burden of hospitalizations for heart failure: lessons learned from hospitalized heart failure registries. 
  • The highest utilizers of care: individualized care plans to coordinate care, improve healthcare service utilization, and reduce costs at an academic tertiary care center. 
  • The impact of a palliative care program in a rural Appalachian community hospital: a quality improvement process. 
  • The impact of vascular resection on early postoperative outcomes after pancreaticoduodenectomy: an analysis of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • The implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based protocol to treat diabetic ketoacidosis: a quality improvement study. 
  • The introduction of a midwife-led obstetric triage system into a regional referral hospital in Ghana. 
  • The last mile: translational research to improve CKD outcomes. 
  • Timely Reperfusion in Stroke and Myocardial Infarction Is Not Correlated: An Opportunity for Better Coordination of Acute Care. 
  • Tool for evaluating research implementation challenges: a sense-making protocol for addressing implementation challenges in complex research settings. 
  • Tools for improving the quality of data capture for clinical inquiry. 
  • Toward development of a comprehensive external quality assurance program for polyfunctional intracellular cytokine staining assays. 
  • Trainee participation is associated with adverse outcomes in emergency general surgery: an analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. 
  • Trans-national scale-up of services in global health. 
  • Transformation of Care: Integrating the Registered Nurse Care Coordinator into the Patient-Centered Medical Home. 
  • Transforming Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Tertiary Hospitals in Ghana: An Integrated Approach for Systems Change. 
  • Translating tuberculosis research into practice: collaboration between academic researchers and public health departments in North Carolina. 
  • Traveling to a High-volume Center is Associated With Improved Survival for Patients With Esophageal Cancer. 
  • Treatment pathways and quality improvement for patients with acute myocardial infarction at a tertiary care center. 
  • Trends in 30-Day Readmission Rates for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings From the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Trends in outcomes among older patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Trends in smoking cessation counseling: experience from American Heart Association-get with the guidelines. 
  • Understanding errors in diagnostic radiology: proposal of a classification scheme and application to emergency radiology. 
  • Update on the American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Program: a report of the American College of Cardiology's Educational Quality Review Board. 
  • Use of Strategies to Improve Door-to-Needle Times With Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischemic Stroke in Clinical Practice: Findings from Target: Stroke. 
  • Use of a Digital Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers - Revised with Follow-up to Improve Quality of Screening for Autism. 
  • Use of an electronic patient-reported outcome measurement system to improve distress management in oncology. 
  • Using Clinical Decision Support to Improve Referral Rates in Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis: A Quality Improvement Initiative. 
  • Using Electronic Health Record Data to Measure Care Quality for Individuals with Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions. 
  • Using Health System Data for Improvement Science: Getting Started. 
  • Using SQUIRE 2.0 to Guide Your Quality Improvement Work. 
  • Utilization of a Preemptive, Multimodal Analgesic Regimen in Adult Ambulatory Septoplasty Patients: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • VISION: a regional performance improvement initiative for HIV health care providers. 
  • Validation of ICDPIC software injury severity scores using a large regional trauma registry. 
  • Value-based insurance design: quality improvement but no cost savings. 
  • Veterans Affairs Geriatric Scholars Program: Enhancing Existing Primary Care Clinician Skills in Caring for Older Veterans. 
  • Walking the walk…or achieving quality is harder than it seems. 
  • Which Complications Matter Most? Prioritizing Quality Improvement in Emergency General Surgery. 
  • [Development of the role of an Advanced Practice Nurse in the long-term care of elderly people in Switzerland]. 
  • [Dialogues on the work process in oral health in Brazil: an analysis based on the PMAQ-AB survey]. 
  • mStroke: "Mobile Stroke"-Improving Acute Stroke Care with Smartphone Technology. 
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  • Allori, Alexander C, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery
  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Andolsek, Kathryn Marijoan, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine
  • Boggan, Joel, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Cary, Michael Paul, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Dupre, Matthew E., Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
  • Goldstein, Benjamin Alan, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Griffith, Brian Carey, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Knechtle, Stuart Johnston, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • Limkakeng Jr., Alexander Tan, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Emergency Medicine
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • McLean, Heather Seabury, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
  • 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
  • Sease, Lorraine Stone, Assistant Professor in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Family Medicine
  • Sterrett, Emily, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Taicher, Brad Matthew, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics
  • Weinhold, Kent James, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Experimental Surgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Zafar, Syed Yousuf, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Oncology