Published in Med Care on December 01, 2010
Health disparities in endocrine disorders: biological, clinical, and nonclinical factors--an Endocrine Society scientific statement. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2012) 2.78
Adequacy of diabetes care for older U.S. rural adults: a cross-sectional population based study using 2009 BRFSS data. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.99
Insurance, racial/ethnic, SES-related disparities in quality of care among US adults with diabetes. J Immigr Minor Health (2014) 0.95
Local population characteristics and hemoglobin A1c testing rates among diabetic medicare beneficiaries. PLoS One (2014) 0.85
Racial disparities in the use of chiropractic care under Medicare. Altern Ther Health Med (2012) 0.80
Disparities in quality of care among publicly insured adults with schizophrenia in four large U.S. states, 2002-2008. Health Serv Res (2014) 0.78
Improving Patient Outcomes in Gynecology: The Role of Large Data Registries and Big Data Analytics. J Minim Invasive Gynecol (2015) 0.77
ACOs Serving High Proportions Of Racial And Ethnic Minorities Lag In Quality Performance. Health Aff (Millwood) (2017) 0.75
Recognizing Differences in Hospital Quality Performance for Pediatric Inpatient Care. Pediatrics (2015) 0.75
Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. J Natl Med Assoc (2002) 15.61
Primary care physicians who treat blacks and whites. N Engl J Med (2004) 12.23
The unreliability of individual physician "report cards" for assessing the costs and quality of care of a chronic disease. JAMA (1999) 9.97
Effects of race and income on mortality and use of services among Medicare beneficiaries. N Engl J Med (1996) 9.46
Creating accountable care organizations: the extended hospital medical staff. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 7.02
Care patterns in Medicare and their implications for pay for performance. N Engl J Med (2007) 6.74
Who is at greatest risk for receiving poor-quality health care? N Engl J Med (2006) 6.69
Trends in the quality of care and racial disparities in Medicare managed care. N Engl J Med (2005) 6.29
Racial trends in the use of major procedures among the elderly. N Engl J Med (2005) 5.35
Who you are and where you live: how race and geography affect the treatment of medicare beneficiaries. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 4.25
Relationship between number of medical conditions and quality of care. N Engl J Med (2007) 3.78
Disparities in HbA1c levels between African-American and non-Hispanic white adults with diabetes: a meta-analysis. Diabetes Care (2006) 3.67
Fostering accountable health care: moving forward in medicare. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 3.52
Hospital-level racial disparities in acute myocardial infarction treatment and outcomes. Med Care (2005) 3.17
Chronic conditions and risk of in-hospital death. Health Serv Res (1994) 3.00
Assigning ambulatory patients and their physicians to hospitals: a method for obtaining population-based provider performance measurements. Health Serv Res (2007) 2.99
Racial disparities in diabetes care processes, outcomes, and treatment intensity. Med Care (2003) 2.88
Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in hospitals that disproportionately treat black patients. Circulation (2005) 2.72
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
Geographic variation in health care and the problem of measuring racial disparities. Perspect Biol Med (2005) 2.53
Relationship between quality of care and racial disparities in Medicare health plans. JAMA (2006) 2.49
The inverse relationship between mortality rates and performance in the Hospital Quality Alliance measures. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 2.45
Technology diffusion, hospital variation, and racial disparities among elderly Medicare beneficiaries: 1989-2000. Med Care (2005) 2.26
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit partnership: improving diabetes-related outcomes among African American and Latino adults. Am J Public Health (2005) 2.11
Accuracy and Bias of Race/Ethnicity Codes in the Medicare Enrollment Database. Health Care Financ Rev (2004) 1.75
Process of care performance measures and long-term outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. Med Care (2010) 1.62
Separate and unequal: clinics where minority and nonminority patients receive primary care. Arch Intern Med (2009) 1.60
Do hospitals provide lower-quality care to minorities than to whites? Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 1.47
A decade of research on disparities in Medicare utilization: lessons for the health and health care of vulnerable men. Am J Public Health (2003) 1.45
Reducing disparities for African Americans with diabetes: progress made by the REACH 2010 Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition. Public Health Rep (2004) 1.33
Association of Health Plans' Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) performance with outcomes of enrollees with diabetes. Med Care (2010) 1.31
Performance measures for pneumonia: are they valuable, and are process measures adequate? Curr Opin Infect Dis (2007) 0.99
Improving health behaviors in an African American community: the Charlotte Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health project. Am J Public Health (2008) 0.98
Geography and the debate over Medicare reform. Health Aff (Millwood) (2003) 9.85
Regional variations in diagnostic practices. N Engl J Med (2010) 7.44
Medicare spending, the physician workforce, and beneficiaries' quality of care. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 5.99
United States' trends and regional variations in lumbar spine surgery: 1992-2003. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (2006) 5.64
National costs of the medical liability system. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 5.50
Are regional variations in end-of-life care intensity explained by patient preferences?: A Study of the US Medicare Population. Med Care (2007) 5.42
Racial trends in the use of major procedures among the elderly. N Engl J Med (2005) 5.35
The relation between the availability of neonatal intensive care and neonatal mortality. N Engl J Med (2002) 5.18
A national strategy to put accountable care into practice. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 4.99
Is technological change in medicine always worth it? The case of acute myocardial infarction. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 4.80
Malpractice risk according to physician specialty. N Engl J Med (2011) 4.60
Spending differences associated with the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration. JAMA (2012) 4.32
Discretionary decision making by primary care physicians and the cost of U.S. Health care. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 4.30
Who you are and where you live: how race and geography affect the treatment of medicare beneficiaries. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 4.25
Toward a 21st-century health care system: recommendations for health care reform. Ann Intern Med (2009) 3.85
Primary care and accountable care--two essential elements of delivery-system reform. N Engl J Med (2009) 3.61
Regional variations in health care intensity and physician perceptions of quality of care. Ann Intern Med (2006) 3.30
Sources of regional variation in Medicare Part D drug spending. N Engl J Med (2012) 3.17
Hospital-level racial disparities in acute myocardial infarction treatment and outcomes. Med Care (2005) 3.17
Detection of prostate cancer via biopsy in the Medicare-SEER population during the PSA era. J Natl Cancer Inst (2007) 3.07
Large variations in Medicare payments for surgery highlight savings potential from bundled payment programs. Health Aff (Millwood) (2011) 3.05
Trends in the earnings of male and female health care professionals in the United States, 1987 to 2010. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 2.97
Getting past denial--the high cost of health care in the United States. N Engl J Med (2009) 2.88
Evaluating the efficiency of california providers in caring for patients with chronic illnesses. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 2.72
Mortality after acute myocardial infarction in hospitals that disproportionately treat black patients. Circulation (2005) 2.72
Racial and ethnic differences in preferences for end-of-life treatment. J Gen Intern Med (2009) 2.58
Geographic variation in health care and the problem of measuring racial disparities. Perspect Biol Med (2005) 2.53
Association of hospital spending intensity with mortality and readmission rates in Ontario hospitals. JAMA (2012) 2.47
Prices don't drive regional Medicare spending variations. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 2.44
Use of Medicare claims data to monitor provider-specific performance among patients with severe chronic illness. Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 2.33
Continuity of care and the risk of preventable hospitalization in older adults. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 2.27
On average, physicians spend nearly 11 percent of their 40-year careers with an open, unresolved malpractice claim. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 2.26
Regional variation in carotid artery stenting and endarterectomy in the Medicare population. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2009) 2.21
Churning: the association between health care transitions and feeding tube insertion for nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment. J Palliat Med (2009) 2.18
Variation in the tendency of primary care physicians to intervene. Arch Intern Med (2005) 2.17
Variations in hospital resource use for Medicare and privately insured populations in California. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 2.10
Relationship of primary care physicians' patient caseload with measurement of quality and cost performance. JAMA (2009) 2.09
Variation in prostate-specific antigen screening in men aged 80 and older in fee-for-service Medicare. J Am Geriatr Soc (2010) 2.08
Ensuring the fiscal sustainability of health care reform. N Engl J Med (2009) 2.08
Malpractice liability costs and the practice of medicine in the Medicare program. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 2.08
The elusive connection between health care spending and quality. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 2.07
Superior relative efficacy of live attenuated influenza vaccine compared with inactivated influenza vaccine in young children with recurrent respiratory tract infections. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2006) 1.98
Medical care--is more always better? N Engl J Med (2003) 1.98
How the center for Medicare and Medicaid innovation should test accountable care organizations. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 1.97
Regional intensity of vascular care and lower extremity amputation rates. J Vasc Surg (2013) 1.95
Comparison of the efficacy and safety of live attenuated cold-adapted influenza vaccine, trivalent, with trivalent inactivated influenza virus vaccine in children and adolescents with asthma. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2006) 1.94
How much do patients' preferences contribute to resource use? Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 1.88
Medical care inconsistent with patients' treatment goals: association with 1-year Medicare resource use and survival. J Am Geriatr Soc (2002) 1.86
Medicare upcoding and hospital ownership. J Health Econ (2004) 1.84
Survival after hepatic resection of colorectal cancer metastases: a national experience. Cancer (2009) 1.81
Accountable Care Organizations in the United States: market and demographic factors associated with formation. Health Serv Res (2013) 1.80
Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 1.78
Hospital quality and intensity of spending: is there an association? Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 1.77
Massachusetts' health care reform and emergency department utilization. N Engl J Med (2011) 1.72
Is spending more always wasteful? The appropriateness of care and outcomes among colorectal cancer patients. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 1.70
The promise and peril of accountable care for vulnerable populations: a framework for overcoming obstacles. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 1.67
Bereaved family member perceptions of quality of end-of-life care in U.S. regions with high and low usage of intensive care unit care. J Am Geriatr Soc (2005) 1.62
Causes of late mortality after endovascular and open surgical repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms. J Vasc Surg (2010) 1.62
Barriers to care among American Indians in public health care programs. Med Care (2006) 1.62
Association between income and the hippocampus. PLoS One (2011) 1.58
U.S. trends in CABG hospital volume: the effect of adding cardiac surgery programs. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 1.57
Further exploration of the relationship between insulin glargine and incident cancer: a retrospective cohort study of older Medicare patients. Diabetes Care (2011) 1.52
Inpatient transfers to the intensive care unit: delays are associated with increased mortality and morbidity. J Gen Intern Med (2003) 1.51
A taxonomy of accountable care organizations for policy and practice. Health Serv Res (2014) 1.46
Characterization, quantification, and bioactivities of anthocyanins in Cornus species. J Agric Food Chem (2002) 1.46
Higher health care quality and bigger savings found at large multispecialty medical groups. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 1.45
Insights from transformations under way at four Brookings-Dartmouth accountable care organization pilot sites. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 1.41
Mortality in Medicare patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention with or without antecedent stress testing. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2013) 1.41
Point-of-purchase price and education intervention to reduce consumption of sugary soft drinks. Am J Public Health (2010) 1.35
Safety, efficacy, and effectiveness of cold-adapted influenza vaccine-trivalent against community-acquired, culture-confirmed influenza in young children attending day care. Pediatrics (2006) 1.34
State spending on dual eligibles under age 65 shows variations, evidence of cost shifting from Medicaid to Medicare. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 1.31
Looking back, moving forward. N Engl J Med (2010) 1.30
Geographic correlation between large-firm commercial spending and Medicare spending. Am J Manag Care (2010) 1.30
Crossroads in quality. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 1.26
Physician workforce crisis? Wrong diagnosis, wrong prescription. N Engl J Med (2008) 1.25
Variation in the use of lower extremity vascular procedures for critical limb ischemia. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2011) 1.20
Innovation in the safety net: integrating community health centers through accountable care. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 1.18
Interpretations of integration in early accountable care organizations. Milbank Q (2012) 1.15
Inpatient care intensity and patients' ratings of their hospital experiences. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 1.13
Cancer care in the United States: identifying end-of-life cohorts. J Palliat Med (2009) 1.13
Differences in neonatal mortality among whites and Asian American subgroups: evidence from California. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2007) 1.11
The dartmouth atlas applied to kaiser permanente: analysis of variation in care at the end of life. Perm J (2008) 1.11
Cooper's analysis is incorrect. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 1.08
The sources of the SGR "hole". N Engl J Med (2011) 1.08
Changes in the use of carotid revascularization among the medicare population. Arch Surg (2008) 1.07
The cost of health care--highlights from a discussion about economics and reform. N Engl J Med (2009) 1.04
Outcomes of medical malpractice litigation against US physicians. Arch Intern Med (2012) 1.03
Would having more primary care doctors cut health spending growth? Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 1.03
Extending the P4P agenda, part 2: how Medicare can reduce waste and improve the care of the chronically ill. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 1.02
Do race-specific models explain disparities in treatments after acute myocardial infarction? Am Heart J (2007) 1.01
Regional variation in the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for primary prevention: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2010) 1.01
Creating accountable care organizations. N Engl J Med (2010) 0.99
Geographic variations in availability and use of chiropractic under medicare. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (2012) 0.97