Published in JAMA on August 28, 1991
Primary care and public emergency department overcrowding. Am J Public Health (1993) 3.82
Too sick to wait. JAMA (1991) 2.27
A population follow-up study of patients who left an emergency department without being seen by a medical officer. Emerg Med J (2007) 2.04
Insurance or a regular physician: which is the most powerful predictor of health care? Am J Public Health (1998) 1.97
Can a senior house officer's time be used more effectively? Emerg Med J (2004) 1.59
A framework to assess patient-reported adverse outcomes arising during hospitalization. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 1.40
Using lean-based systems engineering to increase capacity in the emergency department. West J Emerg Med (2014) 1.23
Medicaid physician payment reform: using the Medicare Fee Schedule for Medicaid payments. Am J Public Health (1994) 1.16
Hospital determinants of emergency department left without being seen rates. Ann Emerg Med (2011) 1.07
Alcohol and drug use among patients presenting to an inner-city emergency department: a latent class analysis. Addict Behav (2010) 0.98
Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale: implementation in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia. BMC Emerg Med (2011) 0.95
Occupancy rates and emergency department work index scores correlate with leaving without being seen. West J Emerg Med (2010) 0.93
Forecasting emergency department crowding: a prospective, real-time evaluation. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2009) 0.91
Developing health education materials for inner-city low literacy parents. Public Health Rep (1994) 0.89
Factors associated with short-term bounce-back admissions after emergency department discharge. Ann Emerg Med (2013) 0.89
How long are patients willing to wait in the emergency department before leaving without being seen? West J Emerg Med (2012) 0.88
Impact of health care system interventions on emergency department utilization and overcrowding in Singapore. Int J Emerg Med (2008) 0.88
Does overcrowding and health insurance type impact patient outcomes in emergency departments? Health Econ Rev (2013) 0.86
Missing the boat: odds for the patients who leave ED without being seen. BMC Emerg Med (2013) 0.86
Emergency department patients with psychiatric complaints return at higher rates than controls. West J Emerg Med (2009) 0.85
The impact of inpatient boarding on ED efficiency: a discrete-event simulation study. J Med Syst (2009) 0.81
Language affects length of stay in emergency departments in Queensland public hospitals. World J Emerg Med (2013) 0.81
Subjective reasons why immigrant patients attend the emergency department. BMC Emerg Med (2015) 0.80
The validity of the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale in predicting resource utilization and the need for immediate life-saving interventions in elderly emergency department patients. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med (2011) 0.80
Missed opportunities: evolution of patients leaving without being seen or against medical advice during a six-year period in a Swiss tertiary hospital emergency department. Biomed Res Int (2014) 0.79
Who leaves the emergency department without being seen? A public hospital experience in Georgetown, Guyana. BMC Emerg Med (2013) 0.79
Early quick acuity score provides more complete data on emergency department walkouts. PLoS One (2014) 0.78
Predictors of admission after emergency department discharge in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc (2014) 0.77
Improving on-time performance in health care organizations: a case study. Health Care Manag Sci (1999) 0.76
Patients leaving emergency departments without being seen by a physician. JAMA (1992) 0.75
Emergency department waiting room: many requests, many insured and many primary care physician referrals. Int J Emerg Med (2013) 0.75
Patients leaving emergency departments without being seen by a physician. JAMA (1992) 0.75
Crowdinforming during public health emergencies: a commentary. Online J Public Health Inform (2011) 0.75
Is emergency department crowding associated with increased "bounceback" admissions? Med Care (2013) 0.75
Barriers to discharge in an acute care medical teaching unit: a qualitative analysis of health providers' perceptions. J Multidiscip Healthc (2015) 0.75
Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use. Am J Public Health (1984) 11.53
The public release of performance data: what do we expect to gain? A review of the evidence. JAMA (2000) 9.57
The medical appropriateness of tympanostomy tubes proposed for children younger than 16 years in the United States. JAMA (1994) 7.56
Variations in the use of medical and surgical services by the Medicare population. N Engl J Med (1986) 7.26
A method for the detailed assessment of the appropriateness of medical technologies. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1986) 7.26
Does inappropriate use explain geographic variations in the use of health care services? A study of three procedures. JAMA (1987) 7.04
Hospital inpatient mortality. Is it a predictor of quality? N Engl J Med (1987) 6.88
Quality-of-care assessment: choosing a method for peer review. N Engl J Med (1973) 6.82
Some interim results from a controlled trial of cost sharing in health insurance. N Engl J Med (1981) 6.76
Spinal manipulation for low-back pain. Ann Intern Med (1992) 6.69
Quality of health care. Part 2: measuring quality of care. N Engl J Med (1996) 6.46
Does free care improve adults' health? Results from a randomized controlled trial. N Engl J Med (1983) 5.10
Effects of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program on physician practice. JAMA (1987) 4.96
Termination from Medi-Cal--does it affect health? N Engl J Med (1984) 4.76
Quality-of-life outcomes in men treated for localized prostate cancer. JAMA (1995) 4.69
How good is the quality of health care in the United States? Milbank Q (1998) 4.61
Hospital characteristics and quality of care. JAMA (1992) 4.56
Physician ratings of appropriate indications for six medical and surgical procedures. Am J Public Health (1986) 4.42
The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index: development, reliability, and validity of a health-related quality of life measure. Med Care (1998) 4.34
Comparison of health outcomes at a health maintenance organisation with those of fee-for-service care. Lancet (1986) 4.22
The relationship between perceived parental expectations and pediatrician antimicrobial prescribing behavior. Pediatrics (1999) 4.09
Variations in cataract extraction rates in Medicare prepaid and fee-for-service settings. JAMA (1997) 4.02
Congruence between decisions to initiate chiropractic spinal manipulation for low back pain and appropriateness criteria in North America. Ann Intern Med (1998) 4.01
Explaining variations in hospital death rates. Randomness, severity of illness, quality of care. JAMA (1990) 3.90
Measuring underuse of necessary care among elderly Medicare beneficiaries using inpatient and outpatient claims. JAMA (2000) 3.89
Health care for black and poor hospitalized Medicare patients. JAMA (1994) 3.74
The appropriateness of carotid endarterectomy. N Engl J Med (1988) 3.66
Adjusted hospital death rates: a potential screen for quality of medical care. Am J Public Health (1987) 3.52
Does inappropriate use explain small-area variations in the use of health care services? JAMA (1990) 3.38
Failure of physicians to recognize functional disability in ambulatory patients. Ann Intern Med (1991) 3.25
Overview of adult health measures fielded in Rand's health insurance study. Med Care (1979) 3.20
Audit of coronary angiography and bypass surgery. Lancet (1990) 3.17
Termination of Medi-Cal benefits. A follow-up study one year later. N Engl J Med (1986) 3.16
Regular source of ambulatory care and medical care utilization by patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department. JAMA (1994) 3.05
The appropriateness of performing coronary artery bypass surgery. JAMA (1988) 2.92
Use of medical care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Diagnosis- and service-specific analyses in a randomized controlled trial. Med Care (1986) 2.70
Prospective payment system and impairment at discharge. The 'quicker-and-sicker' story revisited. JAMA (1990) 2.66
Inappropriate use of hospitals in a randomized trial of health insurance plans. N Engl J Med (1986) 2.65
Managed care and capitation in California: how do physicians at financial risk control their own utilization? Ann Intern Med (1995) 2.64
Physician ratings of appropriate indications for three procedures: theoretical indications vs indications used in practice. Am J Public Health (1989) 2.63
Benefits and costs of screening and treatment for early breast cancer. Development of a basic benefit package. JAMA (1995) 2.62
Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations. Am J Public Health (1981) 2.60
Can health care quality indicators be transferred between countries? Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 2.58
Group judgments of appropriateness: the effect of panel composition. Qual Assur Health Care (1992) 2.56
Appropriateness and diagnostic yield of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in an open-access endoscopy unit. Endoscopy (1996) 2.55
Physician and patient satisfaction as factors related to the organization of internal medicine group practices. Med Care (1985) 2.47
Measuring quality of care with explicit process criteria before and after implementation of the DRG-based prospective payment system. JAMA (1990) 2.47
Changing physician payment for Medicare patients. Projected effects on the quality of care. West J Med (1986) 2.46
Persuasive communication and medical technology assessment. Arch Intern Med (1985) 2.41
Format and conduct of consensus development conferences. Multi-nation comparison. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1990) 2.36
Watching the doctor-watchers. How well do peer review organization methods detect hospital care quality problems? JAMA (1992) 2.34
Changes in sickness at admission following the introduction of the prospective payment system. JAMA (1990) 2.33
Efficacy, effectiveness, variations, and quality. Boundary-crossing research. Med Care (1985) 2.32
The Functional Status Questionnaire: reliability and validity when used in primary care. J Gen Intern Med (1986) 2.30
Quality of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. JAMA (2000) 2.30
Quality assurance today and tomorrow: forecast for the future. Ann Intern Med (1976) 2.28
Improving patient function: a randomized trial of functional disability screening. Ann Intern Med (1989) 2.28
Appropriateness: the next frontier. BMJ (1994) 2.27
An assessment of the adequacy of self-care by adult asthmatics. J Community Health (1980) 2.25
Comparing outcomes of care before and after implementation of the DRG-based prospective payment system. JAMA (1990) 2.24
Preventable deaths: who, how often, and why? Ann Intern Med (1988) 2.21
How free care reduced hypertension in the health insurance experiment. JAMA (1985) 2.16
Advances in the measurement of functional status: construction of aggregate indexes. Med Care (1981) 2.02
Consumer acceptance of prepaid and fee-for-service medical care: results from a randomized controlled trial. Health Serv Res (1986) 2.00
Member ratings of health care provided by 48 physician groups. Arch Intern Med (1998) 1.98
Variations by specialty in physician ratings of the appropriateness and necessity of indications for procedures. Med Care (1996) 1.98
The condition of the literature on differences in hospital mortality. Med Care (1989) 1.98
Measuring the necessity of medical procedures. Med Care (1994) 1.96
The appropriateness of hysterectomy. A comparison of care in seven health plans. Health Maintenance Organization Quality of Care Consortium. JAMA (1993) 1.92
The appropriateness of chiropractic spinal manipulation for low back pain: a pilot study. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (1995) 1.90
Effectiveness of inpatient follow-up care. N Engl J Med (1971) 1.89
A health-related quality of life instrument for patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery. Med Care (1992) 1.84
Effect of physician specialty on use of necessary coronary angiography. J Am Coll Cardiol (1995) 1.83
Effects of being overweight. Am J Public Health (1983) 1.83
Outcome assessment for epilepsy surgery: the impact of measuring health-related quality of life. Ann Neurol (1995) 1.82
Effectiveness of patient care in an emergency room. N Engl J Med (1970) 1.81
Public disclosure of performance data: learning from the US experience. Qual Health Care (2000) 1.79
The appropriateness of use of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in New York State. JAMA (1993) 1.78
Underuse of cardiac procedures: do women, ethnic minorities, and the uninsured fail to receive needed revascularization? Ann Intern Med (1999) 1.76
The health care resource allocation debate. Defining our terms. JAMA (1991) 1.75
Determinants of emergency department use: are race and ethnicity important? Ann Emerg Med (1996) 1.75
Underuse of coronary revascularization procedures: application of a clinical method. J Am Coll Cardiol (1997) 1.75
Foreign medical graduates and their impact on the quality of medical care in the United States. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1975) 1.72
Changes in quality of care for five diseases measured by implicit review, 1981 to 1986. JAMA (1990) 1.70
Differences among hospitals in Medicare patient mortality. Health Serv Res (1989) 1.69
Primary care physicians' satisfaction with quality of care in California capitated medical groups. JAMA (1997) 1.68
Performance of panel-based criteria to evaluate the appropriateness of colonoscopy: a prospective study. Gastrointest Endosc (1998) 1.64
The impact of cost sharing on emergency department use. N Engl J Med (1985) 1.61
How coronary angiography is used. Clinical determinants of appropriateness. JAMA (1987) 1.58
Measuring components of children's health status. Med Care (1979) 1.56
Measuring the clinical appropriateness of the use of a procedure. Can we do it? Med Care (1988) 1.53
Who is the primary physician? N Engl J Med (1983) 1.53
Quality of care in episodes of respiratory illness among Medicaid patients in New Mexico. Ann Intern Med (1980) 1.52
Underuse and overuse of diagnostic testing for coronary artery disease in patients presenting with new-onset chest pain. Am J Med (1999) 1.51
Reliability of panel-based guidelines for colonoscopy: an international comparison. Gastrointest Endosc (1998) 1.51
The practices of general and subspecialty internists in counseling about smoking and exercise. Am J Public Health (1986) 1.49
Safely directing patients to appropriate levels of care: guideline-driven triage in the emergency service. Ann Emerg Med (2000) 1.48