Published in N Engl J Med on May 29, 2003
Web-based care management in patients with poorly controlled diabetes. Diabetes Care (2005) 3.94
The break-even point: when medical advances are less important than improving the fidelity with which they are delivered. Ann Fam Med (2005) 3.84
Self reported receipt of care consistent with 32 quality indicators: national population survey of adults aged 50 or more in England. BMJ (2008) 2.80
Overview of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI). J Am Med Inform Assoc (2004) 2.78
Unintended consequences of health information technology: evidence from veterans affairs colorectal cancer oncology watch intervention. J Clin Oncol (2012) 2.67
Impact of age and comorbidity on colorectal cancer screening among older veterans. Ann Intern Med (2009) 2.24
Relationship of hemoglobin A1C and mortality in heart failure patients with diabetes. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 2.08
Advanced access scheduling outcomes: a systematic review. Arch Intern Med (2011) 2.06
Measuring pain as the 5th vital sign does not improve quality of pain management. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 2.04
Patients' preferences for technical versus interpersonal quality when selecting a primary care physician. Health Serv Res (2005) 2.01
Survival of older patients with cancer in the Veterans Health Administration versus fee-for-service Medicare. J Clin Oncol (2012) 2.00
Shared medical appointments based on the chronic care model: a quality improvement project to address the challenges of patients with diabetes with high cardiovascular risk. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 1.91
Metformin use and mortality in ambulatory patients with diabetes and heart failure. Circ Heart Fail (2010) 1.82
The Veterans Health Administration: an American success story? Milbank Q (2007) 1.79
Developing quality indicators for older adults: transfer from the USA to the UK is feasible. Qual Saf Health Care (2004) 1.72
Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2012) 1.72
Not of one mind: mental models of clinical practice guidelines in the Veterans Health Administration. Health Serv Res (2005) 1.67
To use or not to use. What influences why women veterans choose VA health care. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.65
Geographic variation in cancer-related imaging: Veterans Affairs health care system versus Medicare. Ann Intern Med (2014) 1.62
Making performance indicators work: experiences of US Veterans Health Administration. BMJ (2007) 1.62
Health services research. BMJ (2003) 1.60
Quality monitoring of physicians: linking patients' experiences of care to clinical quality and outcomes. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.59
Changes in veterans' use of outpatient care from 1992 to 2000. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.52
Sins of omission: getting too little medical care may be the greatest threat to patient safety. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.48
A system-wide intervention to improve HIV testing in the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.46
Information technology as a tool to improve the quality of American Indian health care. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.45
Quality of nonmetastatic colorectal cancer care in the Department of Veterans Affairs. J Clin Oncol (2010) 1.43
Quality of HIV Care and Mortality Rates in HIV-Infected Patients. Clin Infect Dis (2015) 1.42
Unintended consequences of implementing a national performance measurement system into local practice. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 1.41
Clinical concerns about clinical performance measurement. Ann Fam Med (2007) 1.40
Integration of women veterans into VA quality improvement research efforts: what researchers need to know. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 1.37
Implementation of electronic medical records: theory-informed qualitative study. Can Fam Physician (2011) 1.36
Comparing VA and Non-VA Quality of Care: A Systematic Review. J Gen Intern Med (2016) 1.36
Implementation and spread of interventions into the multilevel context of routine practice and policy: implications for the cancer care continuum. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr (2012) 1.36
Primary care practice organization influences colorectal cancer screening performance. Health Serv Res (2007) 1.33
Care following acute myocardial infarction in the Veterans Administration Medical Centers: a comparison with Medicare. Health Serv Res (2004) 1.31
Clinical practice guideline implementation strategy patterns in Veterans Affairs primary care clinics. Health Serv Res (2007) 1.30
The effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation in the acute postoperative phase of care after transtibial or transfemoral amputation: study of an integrated health care delivery system. Arch Phys Med Rehabil (2008) 1.24
Veterans using and uninsured veterans not using Veterans Affairs (VA) health care. Public Health Rep (2007) 1.24
Presence and correlates of racial disparities in adherence to colorectal cancer screening guidelines. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 1.23
Quality of ambulatory care for women and men in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.21
Unmet need for mental health care in schizophrenia: an overview of literature and new data from a first-admission study. Schizophr Bull (2009) 1.20
A four-phase model of the evolution of clinical decision support architectures. Int J Med Inform (2008) 1.20
Measuring performance directly using the veterans health administration electronic medical record: a comparison with external peer review. Med Care (2007) 1.15
Is thirty-day hospital mortality really lower for black veterans compared with white veterans? Health Serv Res (2007) 1.14
Development of a brief survey on colon cancer screening knowledge and attitudes among veterans. Prev Chronic Dis (2005) 1.13
The evolution of changes in primary care delivery underlying the Veterans Health Administration's quality transformation. Am J Public Health (2007) 1.08
A state-of-the-art conference on implementing evidence in health care. Reasons and recommendations. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.06
Performance measurement and equity. BMJ (2007) 1.03
HIV testing of at risk patients in a large integrated health care system. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.03
Improving quality of care through improved audit and feedback. Implement Sci (2012) 1.02
Health care for patients with serious mental illness: family medicine's role. J Am Board Fam Med (2009) 1.02
The double edged sword of performance measurement. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.02
Improved cardiovascular risk prediction using nonparametric regression and electronic health record data. Med Care (2013) 1.02
Factors related to attrition from VA healthcare use: findings from the National Survey of Women Veterans. J Gen Intern Med (2013) 1.01
The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR): a programme protocol. Implement Sci (2009) 1.01
Brand-name prescription drug use among Veterans Affairs and Medicare Part D patients with diabetes: a national cohort comparison. Ann Intern Med (2013) 1.01
Integrating funds for health and social care: an evidence review. J Health Serv Res Policy (2015) 1.00
Use of preventive care by elderly male veterans receiving care through the Veterans Health Administration, Medicare fee-for-service, and Medicare HMO plans. Am J Public Health (2007) 1.00
Practice tips. Chart audits in my practice. Can Fam Physician (2006) 1.00
Are there gender differences in diabetes care among elderly Medicare enrolled veterans? J Gen Intern Med (2006) 0.99
The effect of specialist care within the first year on subsequent outcomes in 24,232 adults with new-onset diabetes mellitus: population-based cohort study. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 0.99
Paying for performance in population health: lessons from health care settings. Prev Chronic Dis (2010) 0.98
Making health system performance measurement useful to policy makers: aligning strategies, measurement and local health system accountability in ontario. Healthc Policy (2010) 0.98
Reasons for not prescribing guideline-recommended medications to adults with heart failure. Med Care (2013) 0.98
Money can't buy you satisfaction. BMJ (2005) 0.97
The impact of diabetes process and outcome quality measures on overall survival in patients with co-morbid colorectal cancer. J Cancer Surviv (2010) 0.96
How Financial and Reputational Incentives Can Be Used to Improve Medical Care. Health Serv Res (2015) 0.96
Characteristics of primary care office visits to nurse practitioners, physician assistants and physicians in United States Veterans Health Administration facilities, 2005 to 2010: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis. Hum Resour Health (2012) 0.96
Women veterans' healthcare delivery preferences and use by military service era: findings from the National Survey of Women Veterans. J Gen Intern Med (2013) 0.96
Assessing quality of diabetes care by measuring longitudinal changes in hemoglobin A1c in the Veterans Health Administration. Health Serv Res (2005) 0.96
Examining potential colorectal cancer care disparities in the Veterans Affairs health care system. J Clin Oncol (2013) 0.95
Improving the quality of clinical pharmacy services: a process to identify and capture high-value "quality actions". Can J Hosp Pharm (2011) 0.95
Performance measures, vaccinations, and pneumonia rates among high-risk patients in Veterans Administration health care. Am J Public Health (2007) 0.94
Hospitals' internal accountability. Healthc Policy (2014) 0.94
Barriers to and strategies for effective blood pressure control. Vasc Health Risk Manag (2005) 0.94
Declining mortality following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2009) 0.93
Factors affecting the use of patient survey data for quality improvement in the Veterans Health Administration. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 0.93
Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems. BMC Cancer (2008) 0.93
When quality indicators undermine quality: bias in a quality indicator of follow-up for alcohol misuse. Psychiatr Serv (2013) 0.93
Comparison of health outcomes for male seniors in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Advantage plans. Health Serv Res (2009) 0.92
Overuse and systems of care: a systematic review. Med Care (2013) 0.92
Effectiveness of smoking-cessation interventions for urban hospital patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2012) 0.91
Dual Medicare and Veteran Health Administration use and ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 0.91
Unhealthy alcohol and illicit drug use are associated with decreased quality of HIV care. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2012) 0.90
The relationship between measured performance and satisfaction with care among clinically complex patients. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 0.90
Deficiencies in the quality of diabetes care: comparing specialist with generalist care misses the point. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 0.90
New York's statistical model accurately predicts mortality risk for veterans who obtain private sector CABG. Health Serv Res (2005) 0.89
Quality of medical care for persons with serious mental illness: A comprehensive review. Schizophr Res (2015) 0.89
Adoption and use of stand-alone electronic prescribing in a health plan-sponsored initiative. Am J Manag Care (2010) 0.87
Advanced medical imaging protocol workflow-a flexible electronic solution to optimize process efficiency, care quality and patient safety in the National VA Enterprise. J Digit Imaging (2013) 0.87
Racial/ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factors among women veterans. J Gen Intern Med (2013) 0.86
The association of hospital characteristics and quality improvement activities in inpatient medical services. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 0.86
Trends in Timing of Dialysis Initiation within Versus Outside the Department of Veterans Affairs. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2015) 0.86
Quality of care for veterans with chronic diseases: performance on quality indicators, medication use and adherence, and health care utilization. Popul Health Manag (2010) 0.86
Delivery of gender-sensitive comprehensive primary care to women veterans: implications for VA Patient Aligned Care Teams. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 0.86
Effect of switching to a high-deductible health plan on use of chronic medications. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.85
A simple strategy for implementing standard reference terminologies in a distributed healthcare delivery system with minimal impact to existing applications. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (2006) 0.84
Management perspectives on research contributions to practice through collaboration in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration: QUERI Series. Implement Sci (2009) 0.84
Routine outcomes monitoring to support improving care for schizophrenia: report from the VA Mental Health QUERI. Community Ment Health J (2010) 0.84
Targeted versus universal decolonization to prevent ICU infection. N Engl J Med (2013) 13.05
Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals. JAMA (2008) 4.99
Hospital use and survival among Veterans Affairs beneficiaries. N Engl J Med (2003) 4.13
Pay-for-performance: will the latest payment trend improve care? JAMA (2007) 4.01
Frequency of stress testing to document ischemia prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention. JAMA (2008) 3.62
Temporal changes in incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI. J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 3.23
Effects of individual physician-level and practice-level financial incentives on hypertension care: a randomized trial. JAMA (2013) 2.77
Cost-effectiveness of genotype-guided and dual antiplatelet therapies in acute coronary syndrome. Ann Intern Med (2014) 2.69
Effect of pay-for-performance incentives on quality of care in small practices with electronic health records: a randomized trial. JAMA (2013) 2.68
A Cost Analysis of the American Board of Internal Medicine's Maintenance-of-Certification Program. Ann Intern Med (2015) 2.68
Preoperative medical testing in Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery. N Engl J Med (2015) 2.41
The association between quality of care and the intensity of diabetes disease management programs. Ann Intern Med (2006) 2.32
Quality of preventive medical care for patients with mental disorders. Med Care (2002) 2.25
Pay-for-performance research: how to learn what clinicians and policy makers need to know. JAMA (2005) 2.18
Cardiologists' use of percutaneous coronary interventions for stable coronary artery disease. Arch Intern Med (2007) 2.02
Chronic conditions among children admitted to U.S. pediatric intensive care units: their prevalence and impact on risk for mortality and prolonged length of stay*. Crit Care Med (2012) 1.97
Race/ethnicity and economic differences in cost-related medication underuse among insured adults with diabetes: the Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes Study. Diabetes Care (2007) 1.95
Extreme makeover: Transformation of the veterans health care system. Annu Rev Public Health (2009) 1.90
The volume-outcome conundrum. N Engl J Med (2003) 1.87
Association between hospital-reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and inpatient mortality. JAMA (2009) 1.74
Aligning quality and payment for heart failure care: defining the challenges. J Card Fail (2003) 1.71
Measuring hospital quality using pediatric readmission and revisit rates. Pediatrics (2013) 1.68
Differences in health-related quality of life in rural and urban veterans. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.66
Major abdominal surgery in nursing home residents: a national study. Ann Surg (2011) 1.64
Paying for performance: Medicare should lead. Health Aff (Millwood) (2003) 1.63
The effect of race and ethnicity on outcomes among patients in the intensive care unit: a comprehensive study involving socioeconomic status and resuscitation preferences. Crit Care Med (2011) 1.61
The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in the USA. BMJ Qual Saf (2012) 1.60
A behavioral model of clinician responses to incentives to improve quality. Health Policy (2006) 1.59
Effect of the implementation of an enterprise-wide Electronic Health Record on productivity in the Veterans Health Administration. Health Econ Policy Law (2006) 1.58
Variation in ICU risk-adjusted mortality: impact of methods of assessment and potential confounders. Chest (2008) 1.58
Mental disorders and quality of diabetes care in the veterans health administration. Am J Psychiatry (2002) 1.57
Patient-centered care: what is the best measuring stick? Arch Intern Med (2009) 1.55
Advancing evidence-based care for diabetes: lessons from the Veterans Health Administration. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 1.53
Public reporting of provider performance: can its impact be made greater? Annu Rev Public Health (2006) 1.49
A systematic approach to the identification and classification of near-miss events on labor and delivery in a large, national health care system. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2012) 1.47
Frequency, risk factors, and outcomes of early unplanned readmissions to PICUs. Crit Care Med (2013) 1.43
Relationship between discharge practices and intensive care unit in-hospital mortality performance: evidence of a discharge bias. Med Care (2009) 1.43
Association of obstetric intervention with temporal patterns of childbirth. Obstet Gynecol (2014) 1.39
Functional status after colon cancer surgery in elderly nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc (2012) 1.39
Agreement between self-reports and medical records was only fair in a cross-sectional study of performance of annual eye examinations among adults with diabetes in managed care. Med Care (2007) 1.39
Development and validation of an index to predict activity of daily living dependence in community-dwelling elders. Med Care (2006) 1.35
Fractures in access to and assessment of trauma systems. J Am Coll Surg (2003) 1.29
Improving performance through knowledge translation in the Veterans Health Administration. J Contin Educ Health Prof (2006) 1.28
Patient decision aids for prostate cancer treatment: a systematic review of the literature. CA Cancer J Clin (2009) 1.26
Elderly patients' preferences and experiences with providers in managing their drug costs. J Am Geriatr Soc (2007) 1.21
Medicare's new hospital value-based purchasing program is likely to have only a small impact on hospital payments. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 1.21
Quality of ambulatory care for women and men in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.21
An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: pay-for-performance in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2010) 1.20
Performance measurement of nursing care: state of the science and the current consensus. Med Care Res Rev (2007) 1.19
Mortality probability model III and simplified acute physiology score II: assessing their value in predicting length of stay and comparison to APACHE IV. Chest (2009) 1.18
Quality of care in hospitals with a high percent of Medicaid patients. Med Care (2007) 1.18
Overestimating outcome rates: statistical estimation when reliability is suboptimal. Health Serv Res (2007) 1.15
Exercise counseling practices among nephrologists caring for patients on dialysis. Am J Kidney Dis (2003) 1.15
Revisit rates and associated costs after an emergency department encounter: a multistate analysis. Ann Intern Med (2015) 1.13
Antenatal steroid administration for premature neonates in California. Obstet Gynecol (2011) 1.11
Duplicate federal payments for dual enrollees in Medicare Advantage plans and the Veterans Affairs health care system. JAMA (2012) 1.10
Medicare's decision to withhold payment for hospital errors: the devil is in the det. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf (2008) 1.09
Ten strategies to lower costs, improve quality, and engage patients: the view from leading health system CEOs. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.07
Impact of surgeon and surgical center characteristics on choice of permanent vascular access. Kidney Int (2003) 1.05
Quality of colon cancer outcomes in hospitals with a high percentage of Medicaid patients. J Am Coll Surg (2008) 1.05
Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of a cluster randomized controlled trial of pay for performance for hypertension treatment: study protocol. Implement Sci (2011) 1.04
Data-driven process and operational improvement in the emergency department: the ED Dashboard and Reporting Application. J Healthc Manag (2012) 1.03
Regional variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI in the United States. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2013) 1.02
The double edged sword of performance measurement. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.02
Why physicians favor use of percutaneous coronary intervention to medical therapy: a focus group study. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.01
Small numbers limit the use of the inpatient pediatric quality indicators for hospital comparison. Acad Pediatr (2010) 1.00
Reinventing Veterans Health Administration: focus on primary care. J Healthc Manag (2005) 0.99
Identifying widely covered drugs and drug coverage variation among Medicare part D formularies. JAMA (2007) 0.99
Pay-for-performance in pediatrics: proceed with caution. Pediatrics (2007) 0.98
Do hospitals that serve a high percentage of Medicaid patients perform well on evidence-based guidelines for colon cancer care? J Health Care Poor Underserved (2013) 0.97
Mental disorders and quality of care among postacute myocardial infarction outpatients. J Nerv Ment Dis (2002) 0.97
Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestions. Inquiry (2007) 0.97
Improved outcomes, fewer cesarean deliveries, and reduced litigation: results of a new paradigm in patient safety. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2008) 0.97
Can additional patient experience items improve the reliability of and add new domains to the CAHPS hospital survey? Health Serv Res (2008) 0.96
Improving the outcomes of metabolic conditions: managing momentum to overcome clinical inertia. Ann Intern Med (2006) 0.95
Performance measures, vaccinations, and pneumonia rates among high-risk patients in Veterans Administration health care. Am J Public Health (2007) 0.94
Quality of care in systemic lupus erythematosus: application of quality measures to understand gaps in care. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 0.93
Employers' efforts to measure and improve hospital quality: determinants of success. Health Aff (Millwood) (2003) 0.93
What's behind the health expenditure trends? Annu Rev Public Health (2001) 0.91
Receipt of nutrition and exercise counseling among medical outpatients with psychiatric and substance use disorders. J Gen Intern Med (2002) 0.91
Reduction of severe hyperbilirubinemia after institution of predischarge bilirubin screening. Pediatrics (2010) 0.91
National Hepatitis C Surveillance Day in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Mil Med (2002) 0.90
Making the 'pay' matter in pay-for-performance: implications for payment strategies. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 0.89
Characteristics of insured patients with persistent gaps in diabetes care services: the Translating Research into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Med Care (2010) 0.89
Transformation of the US Veterans Health Administration. Health Econ Policy Law (2006) 0.89
Cost savings of universal decolonization to prevent intensive care unit infection: implications of the REDUCE MRSA trial. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2014) 0.89
Faster by a power of 10: a PLAN for accelerating national adoption of evidence-based practices. Am J Manag Care (2015) 0.88
Correlates of depression among people with diabetes: The Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Prim Care Diabetes (2010) 0.87
Reinventing Veterans Health Administration: focus on primary care. Healthc Q (2006) 0.87
Small practices' experience with EHR, quality measurement, and incentives. Am J Manag Care (2013) 0.86
United States rural hospital quality in the Hospital Compare database-accounting for hospital characteristics. Health Policy (2008) 0.86
Self-reported performance improvement strategies of highly successful Veterans Health Administration facilities. Am J Med Qual (2007) 0.86
The relationship between health plan advertising and market incentives: evidence of risk-selective behavior. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 0.86
Evaluating telemedicine in the ICU. JAMA (2009) 0.85
Performance measurement, public reporting, and pay-for-performance. Urol Clin North Am (2009) 0.85
Impact of changes in clinical practice guidelines on assessment of quality of care. Med Care (2010) 0.85
Multi-institutional profile of adults admitted to pediatric intensive care units. JAMA Pediatr (2013) 0.84
Predictors of early postdischarge mortality in critically ill patients: a retrospective cohort study from the California Intensive Care Outcomes project. J Crit Care (2010) 0.84
Serial murder by healthcare professionals. J Forensic Sci (2006) 0.84