Published in BMJ on February 15, 2003
The future of singlehanded general practices. BMJ (2005) 2.66
Practice size and quality attainment under the new GMS contract: a cross-sectional analysis. Br J Gen Pract (2006) 1.95
Diabetes prevalence, process of care and outcomes in relation to practice size, caseload and deprivation: national cross-sectional study in primary care. J R Soc Med (2007) 1.82
Practice size, caseload, deprivation and quality of care of patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke in primary care: national cross-sectional study. BMC Health Serv Res (2007) 1.75
Performance of small general practices under the UK's Quality and Outcomes Framework. Br J Gen Pract (2010) 1.29
Cardiovascular risk management in patients with coronary heart disease in primary care: variation across countries and practices. An observational study based on quality indicators. BMC Fam Pract (2012) 1.03
Does practice size matter? Review of effects on quality of care in primary care. Br J Gen Pract (2013) 1.02
Single-handed or group practice, quality of care and patient satisfaction. Br J Gen Pract (2006) 0.82
Practice size, financial sharing and quality of care. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.75
Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality. N Engl J Med (1979) 11.10
Identifying predictors of high quality care in English general practice: observational study. BMJ (2001) 9.34
Characteristics of practices, general practitioners and patients related to levels of patients' satisfaction with consultations. Br J Gen Pract (1996) 4.88
Identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in general practice: cross sectional study of paper and computerised medical records. BMJ (2000) 2.90
Real-time DNA sequencing from single polymerase molecules. Science (2008) 29.53
Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes. JAMA (2002) 14.21
Closing the loop: physician communication with diabetic patients who have low health literacy. Arch Intern Med (2003) 8.76
Lyme borreliosis. Lancet (2011) 4.81
Progression-free survival is a surrogate for survival in advanced colorectal cancer. J Clin Oncol (2007) 4.60
Emergency department visits for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: insights into preventable hospitalizations. Med Care (2003) 3.54
HIV testing within at-risk populations in the United States and the reasons for seeking or avoiding HIV testing. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2002) 3.43
Referral of children to specialists in the United States and the United kingdom. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2003) 3.24
Food insecurity is associated with diabetes mellitus: results from the National Health Examination and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2002. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 3.01
Effect of awareness of language law on language access in the health care setting. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 2.82
Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment of the complex regional pain syndrome: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2010) 2.55
Health-related quality of life and estimates of utility in chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int (2005) 2.54
The epidemiology of the comorbidity of epilepsy in the general population. Epilepsia (2004) 2.51
Comparison of specialty referral rates in the United Kingdom and the United States: retrospective cohort analysis. BMJ (2002) 2.42
Ethnic disparities in diabetes management and pay-for-performance in the UK: the Wandsworth Prospective Diabetes Study. PLoS Med (2007) 2.30
Case-mix and variation in specialist referrals in general practice. Br J Gen Pract (2005) 2.29
A comparison of outcomes resulting from generalist vs specialist care for a single discrete medical condition: a systematic review and methodologic critique. Arch Intern Med (2007) 2.24
Medicare's policy not to pay for treating hospital-acquired conditions: the impact. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 2.20
Sociodemographic variations in the contribution of secondary drug prevention to stroke survival at middle and older ages: cohort study. BMJ (2009) 1.73
Prevalence and management of coronary heart disease in primary care: population-based cross-sectional study using a disease register. J Public Health Med (2003) 1.65
Chronic kidney disease in the urban poor. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2010) 1.61
New physicians, the Affordable Care Act, and the changing practice of medicine. JAMA (2012) 1.50
Impact of a pay-for-performance incentive on support for smoking cessation and on smoking prevalence among people with diabetes. CMAJ (2007) 1.46
Ethnic disparities in blood pressure management in patients with hypertension after the introduction of pay for performance. Ann Fam Med (2008) 1.43
Ethnic disparities in coronary heart disease management and pay for performance in the UK. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.40
Health Care Expenditures After Initiating Long-term Services and Supports in the Community Versus in a Nursing Facility. Med Care (2016) 1.39
Ticagrelor compared with clopidogrel by geographic region in the Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes (PLATO) trial. Circulation (2011) 1.33
Proportion of physicians in large group practices continued to grow in 2009-11. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.27
Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Europe: transmission dynamics in multi-host systems, influence of molecular processes and effects of climate change. FEMS Microbiol Rev (2011) 1.19
Validation of race/ethnicity and transmission mode in the US HIV/AIDS reporting system. Am J Public Health (2003) 1.18
Detection and identification of pathogens and host DNA in unfed host-seeking Ixodes ricinus L. (Acari: Ixodidae). J Med Entomol (2003) 1.17
Health care report cards: implications for vulnerable patient groups and the organizations providing them care. J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 1.16
Impact of Medicare Part D on seniors' out-of-pocket expenditures on medications. Arch Intern Med (2010) 1.16
Are preventable hospitalizations sensitive to changes in access to primary care? The case of the Oregon Health Plan. Med Care (2007) 1.14
Cardiovascular risk and diabetes. Are the methods of risk prediction satisfactory? Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil (2004) 1.14
Effect of managed care on preventable hospitalization rates in California. Med Care (2002) 1.14
Individual- and trial-level surrogacy in colorectal cancer. Stat Methods Med Res (2008) 1.12
Blood-meal analysis for the identification of reservoir hosts of tick-borne pathogens in Ireland. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2005) 1.12
Prevalence of conventional and lupus-specific risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A case-control study. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 1.09
Access to Spanish-speaking physicians in California: supply, insurance, or both. J Am Board Fam Pract (2004) 1.08
Prophylactic breast irradiation with a single dose of electron beam radiotherapy (10 Gy) significantly reduces the incidence of bicalutamide-induced gynecomastia. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys (2004) 1.08
Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB) surgery reduces risk-stratified morbidity and mortality: a United Kingdom Multi-Center Comparative Analysis of Early Clinical Outcome. Circulation (2003) 1.07
Medical student, physician, and public perceptions of health care disparities. Fam Med (2004) 1.05
Cardiac surgery risk modeling for mortality: a review of current practice and suggestions for improvement. Ann Thorac Surg (2004) 1.05
Variation in coronary artery bypass grafting, angioplasty, cataract surgery, and hip replacement rates among primary care groups in London: association with population and practice characteristics. J Public Health Med (2002) 1.04
The contribution of Medicaid managed care to the increasing undercount of Medicaid beneficiaries in the Current Population Survey. Med Care (2006) 1.04
Improving the quality of care with performance indicators. BMJ (2007) 0.98
Accuracy of Medicaid payer coding in hospital patient discharge data: implications for Medicaid policy evaluation. Med Care (2005) 0.97
Health plan competition for Medicaid enrollees based on performance does not improve quality of care. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 0.94
Protecting finances and improving access to care with Medicaid. N Engl J Med (2013) 0.91
The distribution and evolutionary history of the PRP8 intein. BMC Evol Biol (2006) 0.91
Quality of anticoagulation control: do race and language matter? J Health Care Poor Underserved (2008) 0.91
Active buildings: modelling physical activity and movement in office buildings. An observational study protocol. BMJ Open (2013) 0.89
The evolution of health services research. Health Serv Res (2013) 0.88
Unhealthy competition: consequences of health plan choice in California Medicaid. Am J Public Health (2010) 0.85
DNA replication licensing factors and aneuploidy are linked to tumor cell cycle state and clinical outcome in penile carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res (2009) 0.85
Is there a personal doctor in the house? Ann Intern Med (2009) 0.85
Cardiac procedures among American Indians and Alaska Natives compared to non-Hispanic whites hospitalized with ischemic heart disease in California. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 0.84
Payment rates for personal care assistants and the use of long-term services and supports among those dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Health Serv Res (2014) 0.84
Acute myocardial infarction length of stay and hospital mortality are not associated with language preference. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 0.84
The influence of care management tools on physician practice change across organizational settings. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf (2007) 0.83
Defining primary care sensitive conditions: a necessity for effective primary care delivery? J R Soc Med (2012) 0.83
Managing heart failure in primary care: first steps in implementing the National Service Framework. J Public Health (Oxf) (2004) 0.83
Racial and ethnic differences in receipt of primary care services between medicaid fee-for-service and managed care plans. J Ambul Care Manage (2007) 0.83
A prospective validation of the IOTA logistic regression models (LR1 and LR2) in comparison to subjective pattern recognition for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Int J Gynecol Cancer (2013) 0.83
Important determinants of self-efficacy in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. J Rheumatol (2004) 0.82
Workload implications of identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in primary care: population-based study. J Public Health Med (2003) 0.81
Advancing the university mission through partnerships with state Medicaid programs. Acad Med (2013) 0.80
Homelessness and CKD: a cohort study. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 0.80
Universal health coverage in the United Kingdom. J Ambul Care Manage (2003) 0.80
Serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels in chronic fatigue syndrome: a retrospective survey. Int J Vitam Nutr Res (2009) 0.79
Linking a comprehensive payment model to comprehensive care of frail elderly patients: a dual approach. JAMA (2010) 0.79
County residency and access to care for low- and moderate-income Californians. Policy Brief UCLA Cent Health Policy Res (2004) 0.78
Small steps or a giant leap for the uninsured? JAMA (2003) 0.78
Optimizing randomized phase II trials assessing tumor progression. Contemp Clin Trials (2006) 0.78
Quality research in healthcare: are researchers getting enough statistical support? BMC Health Serv Res (2006) 0.78
Is the efficacy of hormonal therapy affected by lymph node status? data from the bicalutamide (Casodex) Early Prostate Cancer program. Urology (2004) 0.77
How are primary care groups approaching clinical governance? A review of clinical governance plans from primary care groups in London. J Public Health Med (2002) 0.77
Town and Gown Differences Among the 100 Largest Medical Groups in the United States. Acad Med (2016) 0.76
Design and analysis of non-inferiority mortality trials in oncology. Stat Med (2004) 0.75
No man is an island: disentangling multilevel effects in health services research. BMJ Qual Saf (2013) 0.75
Response to an editorial in the January 2005 issue of Medical Care. Med Care (2005) 0.75
Lyme borreliosis. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 0.75
Sodium and chloride channelopathies with myositis: coincidence or connection? Muscle Nerve (2011) 0.75
Letter in response to the Hynote article. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2012) 0.75
Skepticism about intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in long-standing complex regional pain syndrome. Ann Intern Med (2010) 0.75
Measles outbreak in Surrey. BMJ (2006) 0.75
Health care lobbying: time to make patients the special interest. Am J Med (2004) 0.75
It's academic: public policy activities among faculty members in a department of medicine. Acad Med (2013) 0.75
Low-dose intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for complex regional pain syndrome (LIPS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2014) 0.75
Harvesting the lessons of state health policy. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.75
Primary care in the United States. Commentary: what can primary care in the United States learn from the United Kingdom? BMJ (2003) 0.75