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 …
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 …
system that provides care to more than six million veterans annually and as a home to an …
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 …
recommendations for the substantiating the inefficiency of mandated disclosure. Methods …
Regression methods in biostatistics: linear, logistic, survival, and repeated measures models
E Vittinghoff, DV Glidden, SC Shiboski, CE McCulloch - 2005 - Springer
This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor
regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous …
regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous …
Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance
ContextClinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed to improve the quality of
health care for many chronic conditions. Pay-for-performance initiatives assess physician …
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
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 …
to differences in complication rates or failure to rescue rates (ie, case-fatality rates in patients …
Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery
Methods: Using 2005 to 2007 Medicare data, we identified patients undergoing 3 high-risk
cancer operations: gastrectomy, pancreatectomy, and esophagectomy. We first ranked …
cancer operations: gastrectomy, pancreatectomy, and esophagectomy. We first ranked …
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 …
documented. Recently, the elimination of disparities in health care has become the focus of …
Is more information better? The effects of “report cards” on health care providers
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 …
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 …
perioperative safety and variation in outcomes across hospitals. Objective To assess …