Published in JAMA on October 12, 2005
Ethnic disparities in diabetes management and pay-for-performance in the UK: the Wandsworth Prospective Diabetes Study. PLoS Med (2007) 2.30
Pay for performance: the train has left the station, but where is it taking us? MedGenMed (2006) 2.02
Job satisfaction and motivation of health workers in public and private sectors: cross-sectional analysis from two Indian states. Hum Resour Health (2010) 1.62
CMS changes in reimbursement for HAIs: setting a research agenda. Med Care (2010) 1.54
The effect of performance-based financial incentives on improving patient care experiences: a statewide evaluation. J Gen Intern Med (2009) 1.18
Effects of paying physicians based on their relative performance for quality. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.17
Exposure to Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach treatment procedures as a mediator of the relationship between adolescent substance abuse treatment retention and outcome. J Subst Abuse Treat (2008) 1.17
Steering patients to safer hospitals? The effect of a tiered hospital network on hospital admissions. Health Serv Res (2008) 1.07
Patient outcomes and evidence-based medicine in a preferred provider organization setting: a six-year evaluation of a physician pay-for-performance program. Health Serv Res (2007) 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
The Joint Commission Children's Asthma Care quality measures and asthma readmissions. Pediatrics (2012) 0.94
Health reforms as examples of multilevel interventions in cancer care. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr (2012) 0.94
A pediatric-focused review of the performance incentive literature. Curr Opin Pediatr (2007) 0.86
Chronic care improvement in primary care: evaluation of an integrated pay-for-performance and practice-based care coordination program among elderly patients with diabetes. Health Serv Res (2010) 0.82
Measuring Success in Health Care Value-Based Purchasing Programs: Findings from an Environmental Scan, Literature Review, and Expert Panel Discussions. Rand Health Q (2014) 0.81
Lessons from healthcare providers' attitudes toward pay-for-performance: what should purchasers consider in designing and implementing a successful program? J Prev Med Public Health (2012) 0.81
Payment for performance (P4P): any future in Italy? BMC Public Health (2011) 0.79
The impact of expressions of treatment efficacy and out-of-pocket expenses on patient and physician interest in osteoporosis treatment: implications for pay-for-performance programs. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 0.77
Aligning provider incentives to improve primary healthcare delivery in the United States. OA Fam Med (2013) 0.75
Gastroenterologists' experience with the 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: a demonstration project. Gastrointest Endosc (2009) 0.75
Payer leverage and hospital compliance with a benchmark: a population-based observational study. BMC Health Serv Res (2007) 0.75
Quality Metrics Currently Used in Academic Radiology Departments: Results of the QUALMET Survey. Br J Radiol (2017) 0.75
Early experience with pay-for-performance: from concept to practice. JAMA (2005) 8.98
Effect of the transformation of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System on the quality of care. N Engl J Med (2003) 8.74
Comparison of change in quality of care between safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals. JAMA (2008) 4.99
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
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
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
Major abdominal surgery in nursing home residents: a national study. Ann Surg (2011) 1.64
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
Variation in ICU risk-adjusted mortality: impact of methods of assessment and potential confounders. Chest (2008) 1.58
Patient-centered care: what is the best measuring stick? Arch Intern Med (2009) 1.55
Public reporting of provider performance: can its impact be made greater? Annu Rev Public Health (2006) 1.49
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
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
Functional status after colon cancer surgery in elderly nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc (2012) 1.39
Development and validation of an index to predict activity of daily living dependence in community-dwelling elders. Med Care (2006) 1.35
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
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
Quality of care in hospitals with a high percent of Medicaid patients. Med Care (2007) 1.18
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
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
Medicare's decision to withhold payment for hospital errors: the devil is in the det. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf (2008) 1.09
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
Regional variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI in the United States. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2013) 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
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
Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestions. Inquiry (2007) 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
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
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
Correlates of depression among people with diabetes: The Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Prim Care Diabetes (2010) 0.87
Small practices' experience with EHR, quality measurement, and incentives. Am J Manag Care (2013) 0.86
The relationship between health plan advertising and market incentives: evidence of risk-selective behavior. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 0.86
United States rural hospital quality in the Hospital Compare database-accounting for hospital characteristics. Health Policy (2008) 0.86
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
Evaluating telemedicine in the ICU. JAMA (2009) 0.85
Multi-institutional profile of adults admitted to pediatric intensive care units. JAMA Pediatr (2013) 0.84
Patients' willingness to discuss trade-offs to lower their out-of-pocket drug costs. Arch Intern Med (2010) 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
Clinician perspectives on barriers to and opportunities for skin-to-skin contact for premature infants in neonatal intensive care units. Breastfeed Med (2011) 0.83
Assessing risk-adjustment approaches under non-random selection. Inquiry (2004) 0.83
The impact of statistical choices on neonatal intensive care unit quality ratings based on nosocomial infection rates. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2011) 0.83
Proton beam therapy and treatment for localized prostate cancer: if you build it, they will come. Arch Intern Med (2012) 0.82
Children and Young Adults Who Received Tracheostomies or Were Initiated on Long-Term Ventilation in PICUs. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2016) 0.82
Medicare immunosuppressant coverage and access to kidney transplantation: a retrospective national cohort study. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.82
Breastfeeding rates differ significantly by method used: a cause for concern for public health measurement. Breastfeed Med (2010) 0.82
Sources of traffic and visitors' preferences regarding online public reports of quality: web analytics and online survey results. J Med Internet Res (2015) 0.81
Factors associated with failure to screen newborns for retinopathy of prematurity. J Pediatr (2012) 0.81
Adequacy of lymph node examination in colorectal surgery: contribution of the hospital versus the surgeon. Med Care (2013) 0.80
Thirty-day hospital readmissions in systemic lupus erythematosus: predictors and hospital- and state-level variation. Arthritis Rheumatol (2014) 0.80
Calculations of Financial Incentives for Providers in a Pay-for-Performance Program: Manual Review Versus Data From Structured Fields in Electronic Health Records. Med Care (2015) 0.80
Perspectives on promoting breastmilk feedings for premature infants during a quality improvement project. Breastfeed Med (2012) 0.79
Cross-sectional analysis of hospitalist prevalence and quality of care in California. J Hosp Med (2010) 0.79
Risk adjustment for health care financing in chronic disease: what are we missing by failing to account for disease severity? Med Care (2013) 0.79
Dialysis facility profit status and compliance with a black box warning. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 0.79
Health information technology and physicians' knowledge of drug costs. Am J Manag Care (2010) 0.78
Managing the unmanageable: the nature and impact of drug risk in physician groups. J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 0.77
Volume as a surrogate for percutaneous coronary intervention quality: is this the right measuring stick? Am Heart J (2003) 0.76
Preoperative Testing in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery. N Engl J Med (2015) 0.75
Prediction of hospital acute myocardial infarction and heart failure 30-day mortality rates using publicly reported performance measures. J Healthc Qual (2011) 0.75
Cost Analysis of the American Board of Internal Medicine's Maintenance-of-Certification Program. Ann Intern Med (2016) 0.75
Using health-system-wide data to understand hepatitis B virus prophylaxis and reactivation outcomes in patients receiving rituximab. Medicine (Baltimore) (2017) 0.75
Measuring quality in modern managed care. Health Serv Res (2003) 0.75
Trends in Utilization and Cost of Cervical Spine Surgery Using the National Inpatient Sample Database, 2001-2013. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (2017) 0.75
Repeated Critical Illness and Unplanned Readmissions Within 1 Year to PICUs. Crit Care Med (2017) 0.75
Independent medical review of health plan coverage denials: early trends. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 0.75
Elderly patients' knowledge of drug benefit caps and communication with providers about exceeding caps. J Am Geriatr Soc (2009) 0.75