Chronic illness management: what is the role of primary care?

AA Rothman, EH Wagner - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003 - acpjournals.org
An estimated 99 million Americans live with a chronic illness. Meeting the needs of this
population is one of the major challenges facing the US health care system today and in the …

Moving from discovery to system-wide change: the role of research in a learning health care system: experience from three decades of health systems research in the …

D Atkins, AM Kilbourne, D Shulkin - Annual review of public …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The Veterans Health Administration is unique, functioning as an integrated health care
system that provides care to more than six million veterans annually and as a home to an …

[图书][B] Regression methods in biostatistics: linear, logistic, survival, and repeated measures models

E Vittinghoff, DV Glidden, SC Shiboski, CE McCulloch - 2012 - books.google.com
This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor
regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous …

The failure of mandated disclosure

O Ben-Shahar, CE Schneider - Russian Journal of Economics and …, 2017 - cyberleninka.ru
Objective: to elaborate the conceptual theoretical-legal provisions and scientific
recommendations for the substantiating the inefficiency of mandated disclosure. Methods …

Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance

CM Boyd, J Darer, C Boult, LP Fried, L Boult, AW Wu - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextClinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed to improve the quality of
health care for many chronic conditions. Pay-for-performance initiatives assess physician …

Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients

AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick - Annals of surgery, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: We sought to determine whether hospital variations in surgical mortality were due
to differences in complication rates or failure to rescue rates (ie, case-fatality rates in patients …

Inequality in quality: addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health care

K Fiscella, P Franks, MR Gold, CM Clancy - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health care quality have been extensively
documented. Recently, the elimination of disparities in health care has become the focus of …

Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery

AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick - Medical care, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Methods: Using 2005 to 2007 Medicare data, we identified patients undergoing 3 high-risk
cancer operations: gastrectomy, pancreatectomy, and esophagectomy. We first ranked …

Is more information better? The effects of “report cards” on health care providers

D Dranove, D Kessler, M McClellan… - Journal of political …, 2003 - journals.uchicago.edu
Health care report cards—public disclosure of patient health outcomes at the level of the
individual physician or hospital or both—may address important informational asymmetries …

Hospital complication rates with bariatric surgery in Michigan

NJO Birkmeyer, JB Dimick, D Share, A Hawasli… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context Despite the growing popularity of bariatric surgery, there remain concerns about
perioperative safety and variation in outcomes across hospitals. Objective To assess …