Published in JAMA on October 22, 2008
US emergency department performance on wait time and length of visit. Ann Emerg Med (2009) 1.59
The Affordable Care Act reduces emergency department use by young adults: evidence from three States. Health Aff (Millwood) (2014) 1.49
Does providing care for uninsured patients decrease emergency room visits and hospitalizations? J Prim Care Community Health (2013) 1.46
A comprehensive assessment of health care utilization among homeless adults under a system of universal health insurance. Am J Public Health (2013) 1.12
Population-level effects of uninterrupted health insurance on services use among HIV-positive unstably housed adults. AIDS Care (2011) 1.09
Percentage of US emergency department patients seen within the recommended triage time: 1997 to 2006. Arch Intern Med (2009) 1.07
Effectiveness of organizational interventions to reduce emergency department utilization: a systematic review. PLoS One (2012) 1.06
Impact of insurance and hospital ownership on hospital length of stay among patients with ambulatory care-sensitive conditions. Ann Fam Med (2011) 1.00
Bottlenecks in the emergency department: the psychiatric clinicians' perspective. Gen Hosp Psychiatry (2012) 0.97
Emergency department services use among immigrant and non-immigrant groups in the United States. J Immigr Minor Health (2014) 0.96
Factors affecting the likelihood of presentation to the emergency department of trauma patients after discharge. Ann Emerg Med (2011) 0.88
Older adults who persistently present to the emergency department with severe, non-severe, and indeterminate episode patterns. BMC Geriatr (2011) 0.86
Differences in health care access and utilization between adolescents and young adults with asthma. Pediatrics (2013) 0.85
High-intensity emergency department visits increased in California, 2002-09. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 0.85
Nitric oxide and its metabolites in the critical phase of illness: rapid biomarkers in the making. Open Biochem J (2013) 0.80
Impact of health insurance status changes on healthcare utilisation patterns: a longitudinal cohort study in South Korea. BMJ Open (2016) 0.80
Use of the emergency department for less-urgent care among type 2 diabetics under a disease management program. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 0.78
A leadership development program for surgeons: First-year participant evaluation. Surgery (2016) 0.78
The emergency department as a potential intervention recruitment venue among vulnerable rural residents. J Prim Care Community Health (2011) 0.77
Travel distance and sociodemographic correlates of potentially avoidable emergency department visits in California, 2006-2010: an observational study. Int J Equity Health (2015) 0.77
Google Flu Trends Spatial Variability Validated Against Emergency Department Influenza-Related Visits. J Med Internet Res (2016) 0.76
Boarder Patrol: A Reform Policy for America's Paralyzed Emergency Departments. West J Emerg Med (2009) 0.75
Need for intervention in families presenting to the emergency department with multiple children as patients. West J Emerg Med (2013) 0.75
Uninsured patients and emergency department use in the United States. JAMA (2009) 0.75
Framework for classifying compliance and medical immediacy among low-acuity presentations at an urban trauma center. Int J Emerg Med (2015) 0.75
Policy Measures and Reimbursement for Emergency Medical Imaging in the Era of Payment Reform: Proceedings From a Panel Discussion of the 2015 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference. Acad Emerg Med (2015) 0.75
Comparison of quality of care for patients in the Veterans Health Administration and patients in a national sample. Ann Intern Med (2004) 6.86
Duration of resuscitation efforts and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest: an observational study. Lancet (2012) 6.60
Limitations of applying summary results of clinical trials to individual patients: the need for risk stratification. JAMA (2007) 5.60
The relative importance of physician communication, participatory decision making, and patient understanding in diabetes self-management. J Gen Intern Med (2002) 4.79
A randomized trial of rectal indomethacin to prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis. N Engl J Med (2012) 4.51
Treatment of hypertension in type 2 diabetes mellitus: blood pressure goals, choice of agents, and setting priorities in diabetes care. Ann Intern Med (2003) 3.81
Adherence to colorectal cancer screening: a randomized clinical trial of competing strategies. Arch Intern Med (2012) 3.79
Lessons from the mammography wars. N Engl J Med (2010) 3.68
Assessing and reporting heterogeneity in treatment effects in clinical trials: a proposal. Trials (2010) 3.45
Are bad outcomes from questionable clinical decisions preventable medical errors? A case of cascade iatrogenesis. Ann Intern Med (2002) 3.07
Mechanisms for racial and ethnic disparities in glycemic control in middle-aged and older Americans in the health and retirement study. Arch Intern Med (2007) 3.05
Racial disparities in diabetes care processes, outcomes, and treatment intensity. Med Care (2003) 2.88
Patients, privacy and trust: patients' willingness to allow researchers to access their medical records. Soc Sci Med (2006) 2.86
Building a better quality measure: are some patients with 'poor quality' actually getting good care? Med Care (2003) 2.85
Accepting critically ill transfer patients: adverse effect on a referral center's outcome and benchmark measures. Ann Intern Med (2003) 2.75
Pharmacologic lipid-lowering therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus: background paper for the American College of Physicians. Ann Intern Med (2004) 2.73
Whom should we profile? Examining diabetes care practice variation among primary care providers, provider groups, and health care facilities. Health Serv Res (2002) 2.68
Beyond the randomized clinical trial: the role of effectiveness studies in evaluating cardiovascular therapies. Circulation (2008) 2.45
Case management for patients with poorly controlled diabetes: a randomized trial. Am J Med (2004) 2.41
Brief report: the burden of diabetes therapy: implications for the design of effective patient-centered treatment regimens. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 2.32
Predictors of physician career satisfaction, work-life balance, and burnout. Obstet Gynecol (2007) 2.25
An IV for the RCT: using instrumental variables to adjust for treatment contamination in randomised controlled trials. BMJ (2010) 2.22
Does money make bioethics go 'round? Am J Bioeth (2008) 2.09
Variation in the net benefit of aggressive cardiovascular risk factor control across the US population of patients with diabetes mellitus. Arch Intern Med (2010) 2.06
Enhanced prediction of mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention by consideration of general and neurological indicators. JACC Cardiovasc Interv (2011) 2.01
Progression risk, urinary protein excretion, and treatment effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in nondiabetic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol (2007) 2.00
Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation. Gastroenterology (2008) 1.95
Examining the contextual effects of neighborhood on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation (2011) 1.94
Examining the evidence: a systematic review of the inclusion and analysis of older adults in randomized controlled trials. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 1.92
How well do patients' assessments of their diabetes self-management correlate with actual glycemic control and receipt of recommended diabetes services? Diabetes Care (2003) 1.81
Does physician communication influence older patients' diabetes self-management and glycemic control? Results from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2007) 1.80
Performance measurement in search of a path. N Engl J Med (2007) 1.78
The impact of diabetes on workforce participation: results from a national household sample. Health Serv Res (2004) 1.70
Specialty care and the patient-centered medical home. Med Care (2011) 1.68
Incremental benefit and cost-effectiveness of high-dose statin therapy in high-risk patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation (2007) 1.68
Proactive case management of high-risk patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by a clinical pharmacist: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Manag Care (2005) 1.64
What causes pregnancy loss? Preexisting mental illness as an independent risk factor. Gen Hosp Psychiatry (2007) 1.63
All-or-nothing treatment targets make bad performance measures. Am J Manag Care (2007) 1.61
Marriage and cohabitation outcomes after pregnancy loss. Pediatrics (2010) 1.61
New diabetes HEDIS blood pressure quality measure: potential for overtreatment. Am J Manag Care (2010) 1.60
Emergency medicine: competencies for youth violence prevention and control. Acad Emerg Med (2002) 1.58
Rates and correlates of violent behaviors among adolescents treated in an urban emergency department. J Adolesc Health (2009) 1.54
When there is too much to do: how practicing physicians prioritize among recommended interventions. J Gen Intern Med (2004) 1.53
Open-access electronic case report journals: the rationale for case report guidelines. J Clin Epidemiol (2013) 1.51
"The air got to it:" exploring a belief about surgery for lung cancer. J Natl Med Assoc (2009) 1.49
Comparing clinical automated, medical record, and hybrid data sources for diabetes quality measures. Jt Comm J Qual Improv (2002) 1.48
Shifting views on lipid lowering therapy. BMJ (2010) 1.44
Small area variations in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: does the neighborhood matter? Ann Intern Med (2010) 1.40
Brief report: Stony Brook Guidelines on the ethics of the care of people with autism and their families. J Autism Dev Disord (2013) 1.39
Effect of flexible sigmoidoscopy-based screening on incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PLoS Med (2012) 1.38
Interhospital transfers among Medicare beneficiaries admitted for acute myocardial infarction at nonrevascularization hospitals. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2010) 1.31
Patient-centered performance management: enhancing value for patients and health care systems. JAMA (2013) 1.29
CKD progression and mortality among older patients with diabetes. Am J Kidney Dis (2005) 1.24
Prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance in nondiabetic U.S. adults. Diabetes Care (2010) 1.23
The rheumatoid hand: a predictable disease with unpredictable surgical practice patterns. Arthritis Rheum (2002) 1.20
Informal caregiving for diabetes and diabetic complications among elderly americans. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci (2002) 1.13
Rates of maternal depression in pediatric emergency department and relationship to child service utilization. Gen Hosp Psychiatry (2004) 1.12
Individual and population benefits of daily aspirin therapy: a proposal for personalizing national guidelines. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2011) 1.11
The relative merits of population-based and targeted prevention strategies. Milbank Q (2008) 1.10
Improving eye care for veterans with diabetes: an example of using the QUERI steps to move from evidence to implementation: QUERI Series. Implement Sci (2008) 1.09
Physical activity and mortality across cardiovascular disease risk groups. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2004) 1.07
Using internally developed risk models to assess heterogeneity in treatment effects in clinical trials. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2014) 1.07
Quality by any other name?: a comparison of three profiling systems for assessing health care quality. Health Serv Res (2007) 1.07
The association between three different measures of health status and satisfaction among patients with diabetes. Med Care Res Rev (2003) 1.06
Workplace violence in emergency medicine: current knowledge and future directions. J Emerg Med (2012) 1.05
Access to clinically-detailed patient information: a fundamental element for improving the efficiency and quality of healthcare. Med Care (2008) 1.05
Epidemiology of psychiatric-related visits to emergency departments in a multicenter collaborative research pediatric network. Pediatr Emerg Care (2009) 1.04
Prematurity and low birth weight as potential mediators of higher stillbirth risk in mixed black/white race couples. J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2010) 1.02
Improved cardiovascular risk prediction using nonparametric regression and electronic health record data. Med Care (2013) 1.02
Physician-level P4P--DOA? Can quality-based payment be resuscitated? Am J Manag Care (2007) 1.01
Performance measurement in chronic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 1.01
Competing risk and heterogeneity of treatment effect in clinical trials. Trials (2008) 1.01
Relationship between alcohol use and violent behavior among urban African American youths from adolescence to emerging adulthood: a longitudinal study. Am J Public Health (2009) 1.00
Can school income and racial/ethnic composition explain the racial/ethnic disparity in adolescent physical activity participation? Pediatrics (2006) 1.00
Ethical challenges for accountable care organizations: a structured review. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 0.97
Does rectal indomethacin eliminate the need for prophylactic pancreatic stent placement in patients undergoing high-risk ERCP? Post hoc efficacy and cost-benefit analyses using prospective clinical trial data. Am J Gastroenterol (2013) 0.96
Diminishing efficacy of combination therapy, response-heterogeneity, and treatment intolerance limit the attainability of tight risk factor control in patients with diabetes. Health Serv Res (2010) 0.95
Physician perceptions of upper extremity reconstruction for the person with tetraplegia. J Hand Surg Am (2005) 0.94
How physicians cope with stillbirth or neonatal death: a national survey of obstetricians. Obstet Gynecol (2008) 0.90
Dating aggression and risk behaviors among teenage girls seeking gynecologic care. Acad Emerg Med (2009) 0.89
Counting deaths due to medical errors. JAMA (2002) 0.89
Fall-associated difficulty with activities of daily living in functionally independent individuals aged 65 to 69 in the United States: a cohort study. J Am Geriatr Soc (2013) 0.89
Effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in patients with ischemic heart disease and left ventricular dysfunction. Arch Intern Med (2006) 0.89
Influence of Medicaid managed care enrollment on emergency department utilization by children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2004) 0.88
Prevalence and correlates of handgun access among adolescents seeking care in an urban emergency department. Accid Anal Prev (2010) 0.88
Physician practices and readiness for medical home reforms: policy, pitfalls, and possibilities. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.88
Profiling quality of care: Is there a role for peer review? BMC Health Serv Res (2004) 0.87
Tissue plasminogen activator was cost-effective compared to streptokinase in only selected patients with acute myocardial infarction. J Clin Epidemiol (2004) 0.87
Evaluation of an emergency department-based enrollment program for uninsured children. Ann Emerg Med (2005) 0.87
Influence of study sponsorship on head and neck cancer randomized trial results. Head Neck (2012) 0.87
Improving the reliability of physician "report cards". Med Care (2013) 0.86
Pregnancy intention and birth outcomes: does the relationship differ by age or race? J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2007) 0.86
Alcohol interventions for trauma patients are not just for adults: justification for brief interventions for the injured adolescent at a pediatric trauma center. J Trauma (2010) 0.86
Screening adolescents in the emergency department for weapon carriage. Acad Emerg Med (2010) 0.86
What effect does increasing inpatient time have on outpatient-oriented internist satisfaction? J Gen Intern Med (2003) 0.85
Providing clinicians with a patient's 10-year cardiovascular risk improves their statin prescribing: a true experiment using clinical vignettes. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2013) 0.85
Knowledge translation consensus conference: research methods. Acad Emerg Med (2007) 0.84
The effect of pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid eligibility expansion in New York State on access to specialty surgical care. Med Care (2014) 0.84
Predictors of violence following Emergency Department visit for cocaine-related chest pain. Drug Alcohol Depend (2008) 0.83