Domain | Citation | Type of Measure |
Adverse Events | Bates, et al., 1995. Evaluation of screening
criteria for adverse events in medical patients, Med Care, 33,
5, 452-62;
Dartnell, et al., 1996.
Hospitalisation for adverse events related to drug therapy:
incidence, avoidability and costs, Med J Aust, 164, 11,
659-62;
Garcia-Martin, et al., 1997. Proportion
of hospital deaths associated with adverse events, J Clin
Epidemiol, 50, 12, 1319-26; | Adverse Events |
Ambulatory Surgery | Owings and Kozak, 1998. Ambulatory and inpatient
procedures in the United States, 1996, Vital Health Stat 13,
139, 1-119;
Pokras, et al., 1997. Ambulatory and
inpatient procedures in the United States, 1994, Vital Health
Stat 13, 132, 1-113;
Russell, et al., 1996. Acute
day hospitalization as an alternative to inpatient treatment,
Can J Psychiatry, 41, 10, 629-37; | Utilization |
Avoidable Hospitalizations | Billings, et al., 1996. Recent findings on
preventable hospitalizations [see comments], Health Aff
(Millwood), 15, 3, 239-49;
Blustein, et al.,
1998. Preventable hospitalizations and socioeconomic status,
Health Aff (Millwood), 17, 2, 177-89;
Culler, et
al., 1998. Factors related to potentially preventable
hospitalizations among the elderly, Med Care, 36, 6,
804-17;
Fleming, 1995. Primary care, avoidable
hospitalization, and outcomes of care: a literature review and
methodological approach, Med Care Res Rev, 52, 1,
88-108;
Josephson and Karcz, 1997. The impact of
physician economic incentives on admission rates of patients
with ambulatory sensitive conditions: an analysis comparing two
managed care structures and indemnity insurance, Am J Manag
Care, 3, 1, 49-56;
Pappas, et al., 1997.
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations: inequalities in rates
between US socioeconomic groups, Am J Public Health, 87, 5,
811-6;
Parchman and Culler, 1994. Primary care
physicians and avoidable hospitalizations [see comments], J Fam
Pract, 39, 2, 123-8;
Schreiber and Zielinski,
1997. The meaning of ambulatory care sensitive admissions: urban
and rural perspectives, J Rural Health, 13, 4, 276-84; | Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions |
Benchmarking | Kiefe, et al., 1998. Identifying achievable
benchmarks of care: concepts and methodology, Int J Qual Health
Care, 10, 5, 443-7;
Lagoe, 1998. Special report:
mining admissions data. Benchmark admissions identify areas for
improvement, Healthc Benchmarks, 5, 6, 81-90; | Benchmarking |
Cardiovascular | Arom, et al., 1996. Patient characteristics,
safety, and benefits of same-day admission for coronary artery
bypass grafting, Ann Thorac Surg, 61, 4, 1136-9; discussion
1139-40;
Burns, et al., 1997. Outcomes for older
men and women with congestive heart failure, J Am Geriatr Soc,
45, 3, 276-80;
Butler, et al., 1998. Frequency of
low-risk hospital admissions for heart failure, Am J Cardiol,
81, 1, 41-4;
Caputo, et al., 1997. Effect of
continuous quality improvement analysis on the delivery of
primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute
myocardial infarction, Am J Cardiol, 79, 9,
1159-64
Chin, et al., 1998. Differences among
geriatricians, general internists, and cardiologists in the care
of patients with heart failure: a cautionary tale of quality
assessment, J Am Geriatr Soc, 46, 11, 1349-54; | Utilization |
Cesarean Delivery | Aron, et al., 1998. Impact of risk-adjusting
cesarean delivery rates when reporting hospital performance,
Jama, 279, 24, 1968-72;
Bailit, et al., 1999.
Risk adjustment for interhospital comparison of primary cesarean
rates, Obstet Gynecol, 93, 6, 1025-30;
Brumfield,
et al., 1998. 72-hour discharge after cesarean delivery: results
in a selected Medicaid population, J Matern Fetal Med, 7, 2,
72-5;
Keeler, et al., 1997. Adjusting cesarean
delivery rates for case mix, Health Serv Res, 32, 4,
511-28;
Kazandjian and Lied, 1998. Cesarean
section rates: effects of participation in a performance
measurement project, Jt Comm J Qual Improv, 24, 4, 187-96; | Utilization |
Complications | Iezzoni, et al., 1994. Using administrative data to
screen hospitals for high complication rates, Inquiry, 31, 1,
40-55;
Iezzoni, et al., 1994. Identifying
complications of care using administrative data, Med Care, 32,
7, 700-15;
Kuykendall, et al., 1995. Identifying
complications and low provider adherence to normative practices
using administrative data, Health Serv Res, 30, 4,
531-54;
Silber and Rosenbaum, 1997. A spurious
correlation between hospital mortality and complication rates:
the importance of severity adjustment, Med Care, 35, 10 Suppl,
OS77-92; | Complications |
-ectomy | Bradbury, et al., 1997. Toward a systems quality
paradigm: relating health outcomes, resource expenditures, and
appropriateness of cholecystectomy patients, Health
Serv Manage Res, 10, 4, 231-44;
Chang, et al.,
1998. Improvement of medical care quality after implementation
of a clinical path monitoring program for transurethral
prostatectomy patients, Eur Urol, 33, 6,
523-8; Eggleston, et al., A retrospective analysis of
6,387 cholecystectomies, Med Prog Technol, 21, 2,
85-90;
Gillum, 1995. Epidemiology of carotid
endarterectomy and cerebral arteriography in
the United States, Stroke, 26, 9, 1724-8;
Klein,
et al., 1996. Maintaining quality of care and patient
satisfaction with radical prostatectomy in the era
of cost containment, Urology, 48, 2,
269-76;
Kraiss, et al., 1995. Short-stay carotid
endarterectomy is safe and cost-effective, Am J
Surg, 169, 5, 512-5;
Pitt,1995. Laparoscopic
cholecystectomy. The Maryland experience, Surg
Endosc, 9, 11, 1224-5; | Utilization |
Geographic Variation | Alexander, et al., 1999. Do market-level hospital
and physician resources affect small area variation in hospital
use?, Med Care Res Rev, 56, 1, 94-117;
Ashton, et
al., 1999. Geographic variations in utilization rates in
Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics [see comments], N Engl J
Med, 340, 1, 32-9;
Hendryx and Rohland, 1994. A
small area analysis of psychiatric hospitalizations to general
hospitals. Effects of community mental health centers [see
comments], Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 16, 5,
313-8;
Morris and Munasinghe, 1994. Geographic
variability in hospital admission rates for respiratory disease
among the elderly in the United States, Chest, 106, 4, 1172-81; | Utilization |
High Volume | Begg, et al., 1998. Impact of hospital volume on
operative mortality for major cancer surgery [see comments],
Jama, 280, 20, 1747-51;
Birkmeyer, et al., 1999.
Effect of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality with
pancreaticoduodenectomy, Surgery, 125, 3,
250-6;
Choti, et al., 1998. Should hepatic
resections be performed at high-volume referral centers?, J
Gastrointest Surg, 2, 1, 11-20;
Gordon, et al.,
1999. Complex gastrointestinal surgery: impact of provider
experience on clinical and economic outcomes, J Am Coll Surg,
189, 1, 46-56;
Hamilton and Ho, 1998. Does
practice make perfect? Examining the relationship between
hospital surgical volume and outcomes for hip fracture patients
in Quebec, Med Care, 36, 6, 892-903;
Kreder, et
al., 1998. Are complication rates for elective primary total hip
arthroplasty in Ontario related to surgeon and hospital volumes?
A preliminary investigation, Can J Surg, 41, 6,
431-7;
Lavernia and Guzman, 1995. Relationship of
surgical volume to short-term mortality, morbidity, and hospital
charges in arthroplasty, J Arthroplasty, 10, 2,
133-40;
Manheim, et al., 1998. Hospital vascular
surgery volume and procedure mortality rates in California,
1982-1994, J Vasc Surg, 28, 1, 45-56; discussion
56-8;
Norton, et al., 1998. The effect of
hospital volume on the in-hospital complication rate in knee
replacement patients [see comments], Health Serv Res, 33, 5 Pt
1, 1191-210;
Phibbs, et al., 1996. The effects of
patient volume and level of care at the hospital of birth on
neonatal mortality, Jama, 276, 13,
1054-9;
Phillips, et al., 1995. The association
of hospital volumes of percutaneous transluminal coronary
angioplasty with adverse outcomes, length of stay, and charges
in California, Med Care, 33, 5, 502-14;
Phillips
and Luft, 1997. The policy implications of using hospital and
physician volumes as "indicators" of quality of care in a
changing health care environment, Int J Qual Health Care, 9, 5,
341-8;
Solomon, et al., 1996. Relationship
between the volume of craniotomies for cerebral aneurysm
performed at New York state hospitals and in-hospital mortality,
Stroke, 27, 1, 13-7;
Thiemann, et al., 1999. The
association between hospital volume and survival after acute
myocardial infarction in elderly patients [see comments], N Engl
J Med, 340, 21, 1640-8; | Volume-Outcome |
Hip fracture | Beringer, et al., 1996. Audit of surgical delay in
relationship to outcome after proximal femoral fracture, Ulster
Med J, 65, 1, 32-8;
Pocock, et al., 1999. The
potential effect on hip fracture incidence of mass screening for
osteoporosis [see comments], Med J Aust, 170, 10, 486-8; | Utilization |
Hospital Stratification | Ansari, et al., 1996. Establishing thresholds for
adverse patient outcomes, Int J Qual Health Care, 8, 3,
223-30;
Boscarino, 1996. Patients' perception of
quality hospital care and hospital occupancy: are there biases
associated with assessing quality care based on patients'
perceptions?, Int J Qual Health Care, 8, 5, 467-77; | Structure |
ICU readmissions | Cooper, et al., 1999. Are readmissions to the
intensive care unit a useful measure of hospital performance?,
Med Care, 37, 4, 399-408;
Darchy, et al., 1999.
Iatrogenic diseases as a reason for admission to the intensive
care unit: incidence, causes, and consequences, Arch Intern Med,
159, 1, 71-8;
Dexter, et al., 1996. Surgical ICU
underutilization does not significantly discourage discharge,
Health Serv Manage Res, 9, 4, 238-42; | Utilization |
Length of stay | Chen and Naylor, 1994. Variation in hospital length
of stay for acute myocardial infarction in Ontario, Canada, Med
Care, 32, 5, 420-35;
Edward-Chandran, et al.,
1996. Reduction of length of stay in an acute care psychiatric
unit [published erratum appears in Can J Psychiatry 1996
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Gross, et al., 1997. Severity adjustment
for length of stay: is it always necessary?, Clin Perform Qual
Health Care, 5, 4, 169-72;
Kogan, et al., 1998.
Length of stay for specialized pediatric urologic care, Arch
Pediatr Adolesc Med, 152, 11,
1126-31;
Liebergall, et al., 1999. Preadmission
screening of patients scheduled for hip and knee replacement:
impact on length of stay, Clin Perform Qual Health Care, 7, 1,
17-22;
Philbin and Roerden, 1997. Longer hospital
length of stay is not related to better clinical outcomes in
congestive heart failure, Am J Manag Care, 3, 9,
1285-91;
Philbin, et al., 1997. The relationship
between hospital length of stay and rate of death in heart
failure, Heart Lung, 26, 3, 177-86;
Riegel, et
al., 1996. Effectiveness of a program of early hospital
discharge of cardiac surgery patients [see comments] [published
erratum appears in J Cardiovasc Nurs 1997 Apr;11(3):1], J
Cardiovasc Nurs, 11, 1, 63-75;
Silber, et al.,
1999. Conditional Length of Stay, Health Serv Res, 34, 1 Pt 2,
349-63; Thomas, et al., Is patient length of stay related
to quality of care?, Hosp Health Serv Adm, 42, 4, 489-507; | Utilization |
Mortality | Hinchey, et al., 1998. Is in-hospital stroke
mortality an accurate measure of quality of care? [see
comments], Neurology, 50, 3, 619-25;
Iezzoni, et
al., 1994. Chronic conditions and risk of in-hospital death,
Health Serv Res, 29, 4, 435-60;
Khuri, et al.,
1997. Risk adjustment of the postoperative mortality rate for
the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical care:
results of the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study, J
Am Coll Surg, 185, 4, 315-27;
Rosenthal, et al.,
1998. Variations in standardized hospital mortality rates for
six common medical diagnoses: implications for profiling
hospital quality, Med Care, 36, 7, 955-64;
Thomas
and Hofer, 1998. Research evidence on the validity of
risk-adjusted mortality rate as a measure of hospital quality of
care [published erratum appears in Med Care Res Rev 1999
Mar;56(1):118], Med Care Res Rev, 55, 4,
371-404;
Thomas and Hofer, 1999. Accuracy of
risk-adjusted mortality rate as a measure of hospital quality of
care, Med Care, 37, 1, 83-92; | In-hospital Mortality |
Neonatal Early Discharge | Behram, et al., 1998. Implementation of early
discharges after uncomplicated vaginal deliveries: maternal and
infant complications [see comments], South Med J, 91, 6,
541-5;
Bragg, et al., 1997. The effect of early
discharge after vaginal delivery on neonatal readmission rates,
Obstet Gynecol, 89, 6, 930-3;
Britton, et al.,
1994. Early discharge of the term newborn: a continued dilemma,
Pediatrics, 94, 3, 291-5;
Britton, 1998.
Postpartum early hospital discharge and follow-up practices in
Canada and the United States, Birth, 25, 3,
161-8;
Cruz, et al., 1997. Early hospital
discharge of preterm very low birth weight infants, J Perinatol,
17, 1, 29-32;
Grullon and Grimes, 1997. The
safety of early postpartum discharge: a review and critique,
Obstet Gynecol, 90, 5, 860-5;
Kotagal, et al.,
1997. Use of hospital-based services in the first three months
of life: impact of an early discharge program, J Pediatr,130, 2,
250-6;
Lee, et al., 1995. Association between
duration of neonatal hospital stay and readmission rate [see
comments], J Pediatr, 127, 5, 758-66;
Liu, et
al., 1997. The safety of newborn early discharge. The Washington
State experience [see comments] [published erratum appears in
JAMA 1997 Dec 17;278(23):2067], Jama, 278, 4,
293-8;
Margolis, 1995. A critical review of
studies of newborn discharge timing, Clin Pediatr (Phila), 34,
12, 626-34;
Welsh and Ludwig-Beymer, 1998.
Shortened lengths of stay: ensuring continuity of care for
mothers and babies, Lippincotts Prim Care Pract, 2, 3, 284-91; | Length of Stay |
Nursing | Blecke and Decker, 1997. ANA quality indicators:
meaningful measurement, Mich Nurse, 70, 9,
9-10;
Canavan, 1996. ANA/C pioneers project to
develop quality indicators, Am Nurse, 28, 6,
19;
Lynn and Moore, 1997. Relationship between
traditional quality indicators and perceptions of care, Semin
Nurse Manag, 5, 4, 187-93; | Utilization |
Patient Satisfaction | Cleary and Edgman-Levitan, 1997. Health care
quality. Incorporating consumer perspectives, Jama, 278, 19,
1608-12;
Scholte op Reimer, et al., 1996.
Patients' satisfaction with care after stroke: relation with
characteristics of patients and care, Qual Health Care, 5, 3,
144-50; | Satisfaction |
Pediatric - Admissions | Bertolino and Gessner, 1999. Pediatric admissions
by family physicians and pediatricians in a semirural
environment: implications for residency training, J Am Board Fam
Pract, 12, 2, 128-32;
Chabra, et al., 1997.
Hospital use by pediatric patients: implications for change, Am
J Prev Med, 13, 6 Suppl, 30-7;
Dugdale, 1996.
Patterns of disease among children: a simple and versatile
measure of child health in communities, J Paediatr Child Health,
32, 5, 400-4;
Gadomski, et al., 1998. Impact of a
Medicaid primary care provider and preventive care on pediatric
hospitalization, Pediatrics, 101, 3, E1;
Goodman,
et al., 1994. Why are children hospitalized? The role of
non-clinical factors in pediatric hospitalizations, Pediatrics,
93, 6 Pt 1, 896-902;
Mangione-Smith and McGlynn,
1998. Assessing the quality of healthcare provided to children,
Health Serv Res, 33, 4 Pt 2, 1059-90;
Schuster,
et al., 1997. Development of a quality of care measurement
system for children and adolescents. Methodological
considerations and comparisons with a system for adult women
[see comments], Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 151, 11,
1085-92;
Schwartz, et al., 1999. Administrative
data for quality improvement, Pediatrics, 103, 1 Suppl E,
291-301; | Utilization |
Pediatric - Asthma | Ali and Osberg, 1997. Differences in follow-up
visits between African American and white Medicaid children
hospitalized with asthma, J Health Care Poor Underserved, 8, 1,
83-98;
Goodman, et al., 1998. Trends in pediatric
asthma hospitalization rates: regional and socioeconomic
differences, Pediatrics, 101, 2, 208-13;
Homer,
et al., 1996. Does quality of care affect rates of
hospitalization for childhood asthma?, Pediatrics, 98, 1,
18-23;
McConnochie, et al., 1997. Socioeconomic
variation in asthma hospitalization: excess utilization or
greater need?, Pediatrics, 103, 6, e75;
Payne, et
al., 1995. Variations in pediatric pneumonia and
bronchitis/asthma admission rates. Is appropriateness a factor?,
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 149, 2, 162-9;
To, et
al., 1996. A cohort study on childhood asthma admissions and
readmissions, Pediatrics, 98, 2 Pt 1, 191-5; | Ambulatory Care Sensitive |
Pediatric - Diagnostic Clusters | McConnochie, et al., 1997. Avoidable morbidity in
infants. A classification based on diagnoses in administrative
databases, Med Care, 35, 3, 237-54;
McConnochie,
et al., 1998. Diagnostic clusters in infants as child health
outcomes. Variation among socioeconomic areas in one community,
Eval Health Prof, 21, 3, 332-61; | Complication |
Pediatric -Gastroenteritis | Ardern and Lennon, 1997. Rotavirus gastroenteritis:
is vaccine prevention near at hand?, N Z Med J, 110, 1055,
407-9;
Conway and Newport, 1994. Are all hospital
admissions for acute gastroenteritis necessary?, J Infect, 29,
1, 5-8;
Elliott, et al., 1996. Pre-admission
management of acute gastroenteritis [see comments], J Paediatr
Child Health, 32, 1, 18-21;
To, et al., 1996.
Hospitalization rates of children with gastroenteritis in
Ontario, Can J Public Health, 87, 1, 62-5; | Ambulatory Care Sensitive |
Pediatrics-Tonsillectomy | Lalakea, et al., 1999. Safety of pediatric
short-stay tonsillectomy, Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, 125,
7, 749-52; | Utilization |
Perforated Ulcer | Kong, et al., 1998. Prevalence and cost of
hospitalization for gastrointestinal complications related to
peptic ulcers with bleeding or perforation: comparison of two
national databases, Am J Manag Care, 4, 3, 399-409; | Complication |
Pneumonia | Hand, et al., 1997. Mortality and length of stay as
performance indicators for pneumonia in the elderly, J Investig
Med, 45, 4, 183-90;
Meehan, et al., 1997. Quality
of care, process, and outcomes in elderly patients with
pneumonia [see comments], Jama, 278, 23,
2080-4;
Minogue, et al., 1998. Patients
hospitalized after initial outpatient treatment for community-
acquired pneumonia, Ann Emerg Med, 31, 3,
376-80;
Murphy, et al., 1999. A multihospital
effort to reduce inpatient lengths of stay for pneumonia, J Nurs
Care Qual, 13, 5, 11-23; | Mortality Length-of-stay Ambulatory Care Sensitive
Condition |
Psychiatric | Ettner and Hermann, 1998. Inpatient psychiatric
treatment of elderly Medicare beneficiaries, Psychiatr Serv, 49,
9, 1173-9;
Fortney, et al., 1996. Variation among
VA hospitals in length of stay for treatment of depression,
Psychiatr Serv, 47, 6, 608-13;
Johnstone and
Zolese, 1999. Systematic review of the effectiveness of planned
short hospital stays for mental health care, Bmj, 318, 7195,
1387-90;
Kelly, et al., 1998. Factors in delays
in discharge from acute-care psychiatry, Can J Psychiatry, 43,
5, 496-501; | Length-of-stay |
Psychiatric - Dual Diagnosis | Ames and Tuckwell, 1994. Psychiatric disorders
among elderly patients in a general hospital, Med J Aust, 160,
11, 671-5;
Appleby, et al., 1997. The impact of
substance use screening on a public psychiatric inpatient
population, Psychiatr Serv, 48, 10,
1311-6;
Barrett, et al., 1998. Implementing and
evaluating outcome indicators of performance for mental health
agencies, J Healthc Qual, 20, 3, 6-13; quiz
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Blixen, et al., 1997. Dual diagnosis in
elders discharged from a psychiatric hospital, Int J Geriatr
Psychiatry, 12, 3, 307-13;
Bradley and Zarkin,
1997. An inpatient profile of patients with a substance abuse
diagnosis in Maryland, J Subst Abuse Treat, 14, 2,
155-62;
Chung, et al., 1995. Racial differences
in treatment of psychiatric inpatients, Psychiatr Serv, 46, 6,
586-91;
Cohen, et al., 1994. Rates and correlates
of suicide attempts in first-admission psychotic patients, Acta
Psychiatr Scand, 90,3, 167-71;
Gerke, et al.,
1997. Alcohol-related diseases in general hospital patients,
Alcohol Alcohol, 32, 2, 179-84;
Koenig, 1998.
Depression in hospitalized older patients with congestive heart
failure, Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 20, 1,
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Koenig and Kuchibhatla, 1999. Use of
health services by medically ill depressed elderly patients
after hospital discharge, Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 7, 1,
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Piazza, 1996. Dual diagnosis and
adolescent psychiatric inpatients, Subst Use Misuse, 31, 2,
215-23; | Screening |
Psychiatric - Mortality | Amaddeo, et al., 1995. Mortality among patients
with psychiatric illness. A ten-year case register study in an
area with a community-based system of care, Br J Psychiatry,
166, 6, 783-8;
Ganesvaran and Shah, 1997.
Psychiatric in-patient suicide rates: a 21-year study, Med Sci
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Rossler, et al., 1995. Excess
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Readmissions | Ashton, et al., 1995. The association between the
quality of inpatient care and early readmission: a meta-analysis
of the evidence, Med Care, 35, 10,
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Beggs, et al., 1996. Factors related to
rehospitalization within thirty days of discharge after coronary
artery bypass grafting, Best Pract Benchmarking Healthc, 1, 4,
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Camberg, et al., 1997. Discharge
destination and repeat hospitalizations, Med Care, 35, 8,
756-67;
Hofer and Hayward, 1995. Can early
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Med Care, 33, 3, 234-45; | Utilization |
Rehabilitation | Cohen, et al., 1997. The development of an outcomes
management system for acute medical rehabilitation, Am J Med
Qual, 12, 1, 28-32; | Rehabilitation |
Reporting of Quality Indicators | Aiken and Sloane, 1998. Advances in hospital
outcomes research, J Health Serv Res Policy, 3, 4,
249-50;
Appleby, 1998. Data briefing. Performance
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Appleby, 1998. Data briefing. Performance
framework, Health Serv J, 108, 5590,
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Bradley, et al., 1998. Monitoring clinical
quality in Medicaid managed care, Conn Med, 62, 4,
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Chassin, 1998. Is health care ready for
Six Sigma quality?, Milbank Q, 76, 4, 565-91,
510;
Epstein, 1998. Rolling down the runway: the
challenges ahead for quality report cards, Jama, 279, 21,
1691-6;
Eddy, 1998. Performance measurement:
problems and solutions [see comments], Health Aff (Millwood),
17, 4, 7-25;
Iezzoni, 1997. Assessing quality
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Kazandjian, et al., 1996. Do performance
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Severity Adjustment | Asenjo, et al., 1994. Relationship between
severity, costs and claims of hospitalized patients using the
Severity of Illness Index, Eur J Epidemiol, 10, 5,
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Daley, et al., 1997. Risk adjustment of
the postoperative morbidity rate for the comparative assessment
of the quality of surgical care: results of the National
Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study, J Am Coll Surg, 185, 4,
328-40;
DesHarnais, et al., 1997. Risk-adjusted
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mortality, complications, and readmissions, Qual Manag Health
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DesHarnais, et al., 1997. How
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Goldfield, et al., 1999.
The prospective risk adjustment system, J Ambulatory Care
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Grana, et al., 1997.
Measuring the quality of inpatient health care, Qual Manag
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Iezzoni, 1997. The risks
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Ingber, 1998. The current state of risk
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21, 4, 1-28;
Krumholz, et al., 1999. Comparing
AMI mortality among hospitals in patients 65 years of age and
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Polanczyk, et al., 1998. A new
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with congestive heart failure, Med Care, 36, 10, 1489-99; | Risk-Adjustment |
Spine Surgery | Davis, 1994. Increasing rates of cervical and
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10, 1117-23; discussion 1123-4; | Utilization |
Trauma | Amatangelo, et al., 1997. Analysis of patients
discharged from receiving hospitals within 24 hours of air
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Ary, et al., 1996. The increasing burden of
pediatric firearm injuries on the emergency department, Pediatr
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Ashbaugh, et al., 1995.
The Ohio Bicycle Injury Study, Clin Pediatr (Phila), 34, 5,
256-60; Baker, et al., Demographic factors in a
population-based survey of hospitalized, work- related, ocular
injury, Am J Ophthalmol, 122, 2, 213-9;
Barillo,
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operation or maintenance, Accid Anal Prev, 27, 6, 829-33; | Utilization |
Urological Surgery | Chang, et al., 1999. Effects of implementation of
18 clinical pathways on costs and quality of care among patients
undergoing urological surgery, J Urol, 161, 6, 1858-62; | Utilization |
Validation of Quality Indicators | Boscarino and Chang, 1997. Commentary: inaccurate
data on the quality of care may do more harm than good--an
alternative approach is required, Am J Med Qual, 12, 4,
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Huff, 1997. Comprehensive reliability
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components, J Clin Epidemiol, 50, 12,
1395-404;
Mayer-Oakes and Barnes, 1997.
Developing indicators for the Medicare Quality Indicator System
(MQIS): challenges and lessons learned, Jt Comm J Qual Improv,
23, 7, 381-90;
McGlynn, 1998. Choosing and
evaluating clinical performance measures, Jt Comm J Qual Improv,
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McGlynn and Asch, 1998. Developing
a clinical performance measure, Am J Prev Med, 14, 3 Suppl,
14-21;
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