Association of perceived medical errors with resident distress and empathy: a prospective longitudinal study

CP West, MM Huschka, PJ Novotny, JA Sloan… - Jama, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
ContextMedical errors are associated with feelings of distress in physicians, but little is
known about the magnitude and direction of these associations. ObjectiveTo assess the …

Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization

C Zhan, MR Miller - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
ContextAlthough medical injuries are recognized as a major hazard in the health care
system, little is known about their impact. ObjectiveTo assess excess length of stay, charges …

Hospital costs associated with surgical complications: a report from the private-sector National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

JB Dimick, SL Chen, PA Taheri… - Journal of the …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Background The National Surgical Quality Improvement Project (NSQIP) has reduced
morbidity rates in Veterans Affairs Hospitals. As the NSQIP methods move to private-sector …

Hospital and payer costs associated with surgical complications

MA Healy, AJ Mullard, DA Campbell, JB Dimick - JAMA surgery, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Increased costs of surgical complications have been borne mostly by third-party
payers. However, numerous policy changes aimed at incentivizing high-quality care shift …

Risk factors for prolonged length of stay after major elective surgery

TC Collins, J Daley, WH Henderson, SF Khuri - Annals of surgery, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Objective Length of stay (LOS) is an important outcome as a marker of resource
consumption. Determining which factors increase LOS may provide information on reducing …

Association of postoperative complications with hospital costs and length of stay in a tertiary care center

NA Khan, H Quan, JM Bugar, JB Lemaire… - Journal of general …, 2006 - Springer
BACKGROUND: Postoperative complications are a significant source of morbidity and
mortality. There are limited studies, however, assessing the impact of common postoperative …

Identification of in-hospital complications from claims data: is it valid?

AG Lawthers, EP McCarthy, RB Davis, LE Peterson… - Medical care, 2000 - journals.lww.com
Objectives. This study examined the validity of the Complications Screening Program (CSP)
by testing whether (1) ICD-9-CM codes used to identify a complication are coded completely …

Three decades of research on computer applications in health care: medical informatics support at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

JM Fitzmaurice, K Adams… - Journal of the American …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and its predecessor organizations—
collectively referred to here as AHRQ—have a productive history of funding research and …

Hepatic resection in the United States: indications, outcomes, and hospital procedural volumes from a nationally representative database

JB Dimick, JA Cowan, JA Knol… - Archives of …, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Background Hepatic resection has become common in the United States for both primary
and secondary hepatic tumors. Hypothesis Variation in outcomes after hepatic resection is …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence regarding patient compliance with incentive spirometry interventions after cardiac, thoracic and abdominal surgeries: A systematic literature review

ALT Narayanan, SRGS Hamid… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BaCkGROUnD: Evidence regarding the effectiveness of incentive spirometry (ISy) on
postoperative pulmonary outcomes after thoracic, cardiac and abdominal surgery remains …