Published in Am J Manag Care on January 01, 2010
Monitoring performance for blood pressure management among patients with diabetes mellitus: too much of a good thing? Arch Intern Med (2012) 2.75
A report card on provider report cards: current status of the health care transparency movement. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 1.60
Diabetes performance measures: current status and future directions. Diabetes Care (2011) 1.37
The changing face of chronic illness management in primary care: a qualitative study of underlying influences and unintended outcomes. Ann Fam Med (2012) 0.95
Treating chronically ill people with diabetes mellitus with limited life expectancy: implications for performance measurement. J Am Geriatr Soc (2012) 0.87
The pursuit of preventive care for chronic illness: turning healthy people into chronic patients. Sociol Health Illn (2013) 0.78
Clinical guidelines and performance measures. Am J Manag Care (2010) 0.75
Changing Diagnostic and Treatment Criteria for Chronic Illness: A Critical Consideration of their Impact on Low-Income Hispanic Patients. Hum Organ (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
Meta-analysis: effectiveness of drugs for preventing contrast-induced nephropathy. Ann Intern Med (2008) 4.62
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
Assessing the quality of decision support technologies using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASi). PLoS One (2009) 2.97
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
Impact of a pharmacist-facilitated hospital discharge program: a quasi-experimental study. Arch Intern Med (2009) 2.67
When do patients and their physicians agree on diabetes treatment goals and strategies, and what difference does it make? J Gen Intern Med (2003) 2.51
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
Engagement with automated patient monitoring and self-management support calls: experience with a thousand chronically ill patients. Med Care (2013) 2.39
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
Uninsured adults presenting to US emergency departments: assumptions vs data. JAMA (2008) 2.15
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
Suboptimal statin adherence and discontinuation in primary and secondary prevention populations. J Gen Intern Med (2004) 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 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
Area socioeconomic status and mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the role of hospital volume. Am Heart J (2007) 1.57
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
Impact of patient risk on the hospital volume-outcome relationship in coronary artery bypass grafting. Arch Intern Med (2005) 1.48
Comparing clinical automated, medical record, and hybrid data sources for diabetes quality measures. Jt Comm J Qual Improv (2002) 1.48
Missed opportunities for type 2 diabetes mellitus screening among women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus. Am J Public Health (2006) 1.47
Shifting views on lipid lowering therapy. BMJ (2010) 1.44
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
Associations in breast and colon cancer screening behavior in women. Acad Radiol (2005) 1.32
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
Behavioral associations between prostate and colon cancer screening. J Am Coll Surg (2005) 1.28
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
Improving heart failure self-management support by actively engaging out-of-home caregivers: results of a feasibility study. Congest Heart Fail (2008) 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
Blood pressure trajectories prior to death in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care (2011) 1.07
Quality by any other name?: a comparison of three profiling systems for assessing health care quality. Health Serv Res (2007) 1.07
Using internally developed risk models to assess heterogeneity in treatment effects in clinical trials. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2014) 1.07
The association between three different measures of health status and satisfaction among patients with diabetes. Med Care Res Rev (2003) 1.06
Can breast and cervical cancer screening visits be used to enhance colorectal cancer screening? J Am Coll Radiol (2004) 1.06
Access to clinically-detailed patient information: a fundamental element for improving the efficiency and quality of healthcare. Med Care (2008) 1.05
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
Over and under-utilization of cyclooxygenase-2 selective inhibitors by primary care physicians and specialists: the tortoise and the hare revisited. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.02
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
Physician-level P4P--DOA? Can quality-based payment be resuscitated? Am J Manag Care (2007) 1.01
Can school income and racial/ethnic composition explain the racial/ethnic disparity in adolescent physical activity participation? Pediatrics (2006) 1.00
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
Reliability of clinical guideline development using mail-only versus in-person expert panels. Med Care (2003) 0.94
Treatment and control of blood pressure in patients with diabetes mellitus. Am J Health Syst Pharm (2007) 0.90
How physicians cope with stillbirth or neonatal death: a national survey of obstetricians. Obstet Gynecol (2008) 0.90
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
Counting deaths due to medical errors. JAMA (2002) 0.89
Effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in patients with ischemic heart disease and left ventricular dysfunction. Arch Intern Med (2006) 0.89
Physician practices and readiness for medical home reforms: policy, pitfalls, and possibilities. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.88
Depression self-management assistance using automated telephonic assessments and social support. Am J Manag Care (2013) 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
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
The Michigan Appropriateness Guide for Intravenous Catheters (MAGIC): Results From a Multispecialty Panel Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. Ann Intern Med (2015) 0.86
Pregnancy intention and birth outcomes: does the relationship differ by age or race? J Womens Health (Larchmt) (2007) 0.86
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
What effect does increasing inpatient time have on outpatient-oriented internist satisfaction? J Gen Intern Med (2003) 0.85
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