Background Patients with immune-mediated conditions such as IBD and RA are at risk for
vaccine-preventable infections. Despite guideline recommendations, prior studies have …

Background Preventive health measures reduce treatment and disease-related
complications including infections, osteoporosis, and malignancies in patients with …

Objective Quality Improvement initiatives aim to improve care in Inflammatory Bowel
Disease (IBD). These address a range of aspects of care including adherence to published …

Background & Aims Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care and outcomes exhibit
substantial variability, suggesting quality gaps. We aimed to identify interventions to narrow …

Background Low rates of compliance with quality measures for inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD) have been reported for US gastroenterologists. Aims We assessed the influence of …

In the US, suboptimal care quality for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) is reflected by high rates of emergency department visits and hospital readmissions …

Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic condition with wide variation in
treatment and resource utilization because of many different disease presentations and …

In the US, where the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions, many
patients with this disease are treated by primary care physicians in community based …

Since inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic disorders with typical remission and
relapses and no cure, maintaining high quality of provided healthcare to patients with IBD …

Background Quality improvement (QI) identifies practical methods to improve patient care;
however, it is not always widely known which QI methods are successful. We sought to …