Objective To examine, in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the relation between
surgical volume and outcome in eight commonly performed operations of intermediate …

Background: Medical complications of ischemic stroke can increase length of hospital stay
(LOS). Stroke clinical pathways aim to reduce costs by decreasing LOS through …

OBJECTIVE: To develop and test a new outcome measure, Conditional Length of Stay
(CLOS), to assess hospital performance when deaths are rare and complication data are not …

Psychiatric nurses administered structured interviews to 80 clients in a county mental health
clinic. Clients were asked to describe their use of medical and psychiatric outpatient care …

OBJECTIVE: To determine how often hospital administrative databases capture the
occurrence of two common geriatric syndromes, pressure ulcers and incontinence. DESIGN …

Background. Decreasing hospital lengths of stay (LOS) hamper efforts to detect and to
definitively treat complications of care. Patients leave before some complications are …

Background: Algorithms describe clinical choices to treat a specific disorder. To many,
algorithms serve as important tools helping practitioners make informed choices about how …

Background. Little data exist supporting the association of quality of care and nonfatal
adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients, yet those outcomes are routinely scrutinized in …

Outcomes research using analysis of preexisting data is a relatively new field with the
potential to improve the quality and effectiveness of medical care, and may provide a useful …

A system to predict which patients will suffer medical complications or poor financial
outcomes during a hospitalization would be very useful to providers of medical care. To …