Published in JAMA on October 17, 1990
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Medicare's prospective payment system: A critical appraisal. Health Care Financ Rev (1992) 1.41
Discrepancies between explicit and implicit review: physician and nurse assessments of complications and quality. Health Serv Res (2002) 1.18
Is use of mechanical ventilation a reasonable proxy indicator for coma among Medicare patients hospitalized for acute stroke? Health Serv Res (1998) 1.15
Weak associations between hospital mortality rates for individual diagnoses: implications for profiling hospital quality. Am J Public Health (1997) 1.07
The effect of alternative case-mix adjustments on mortality differences between municipal and voluntary hospitals in New York City. Health Serv Res (1994) 1.00
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Case-mix adjusted hospital mortality is a poor proxy for preventable mortality: a modelling study. BMJ Qual Saf (2012) 0.90
Hospital financing reform and case-mix measurement: an international review. Health Care Financ Rev (1992) 0.88
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Quality of care and investment in property, plant, and equipment in hospitals. Health Serv Res (1994) 0.82
Did the 1997 balanced budget act reduce use of physical and occupational therapy services? Arch Phys Med Rehabil (2008) 0.81
A new implicit review instrument for measuring quality of care delivered to pediatric patients in the emergency department. BMC Emerg Med (2007) 0.76
Economics and the health care system: changing physicians' practices. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc (1994) 0.75
Utilization management as a cost-containment strategy. Health Care Financ Rev (1992) 0.75
Effects of payment reform in more versus less competitive markets. J Health Econ (2016) 0.75
Functional status and well-being of patients with chronic conditions. Results from the Medical Outcomes Study. JAMA (1989) 11.97
Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use. Am J Public Health (1984) 11.53
Comparison of methods for the scoring and statistical analysis of SF-36 health profile and summary measures: summary of results from the Medical Outcomes Study. Med Care (1995) 10.36
A controlled trial of the effect of a prepaid group practice on use of services. N Engl J Med (1984) 9.61
The public release of performance data: what do we expect to gain? A review of the evidence. JAMA (2000) 9.57
The Primary Care Assessment Survey: tests of data quality and measurement performance. Med Care (1998) 8.88
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
Linking primary care performance to outcomes of care. J Fam Pract (1998) 6.83
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
Characteristics of physicians with participatory decision-making styles. Ann Intern Med (1996) 6.23
Patients' ratings of outpatient visits in different practice settings. Results from the Medical Outcomes Study. JAMA (1993) 6.09
Physicians' characteristics influence patients' adherence to medical treatment: results from the Medical Outcomes Study. Health Psychol (1993) 5.13
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
Epidemiology of sepsis syndrome in 8 academic medical centers. JAMA (1997) 4.49
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
Patients who leave a public hospital emergency department without being seen by a physician. Causes and consequences. JAMA (1991) 3.92
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
Primary care performance in fee-for-service and prepaid health care systems. Results from the Medical Outcomes Study. JAMA (1994) 3.52
Adjusted hospital death rates: a potential screen for quality of medical care. Am J Public Health (1987) 3.52
Switching doctors: predictors of voluntary disenrollment from a primary physician's practice. J Fam Pract (2001) 3.41
Does inappropriate use explain small-area variations in the use of health care services? JAMA (1990) 3.38
The Work Limitations Questionnaire. Med Care (2001) 3.31
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
Narratives of birth and the postpartum: analysis of the focus group responses of new mothers. Birth (1993) 3.16
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
Epidemiology of do-not-resuscitate orders. Disparity by age, diagnosis, gender, race, and functional impairment. Arch Intern Med (1995) 2.89
Implementation of clinical guidelines using a computer charting system. Effect on the initial care of health care workers exposed to body fluids. JAMA (1997) 2.83
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
Prevention of premature birth by screening and treatment for common genital tract infections: results of a prospective controlled evaluation. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1995) 2.69
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
Management strategies for Helicobacter pylori-seropositive patients with dyspepsia: clinical and economic consequences. Ann Intern Med (1997) 2.60
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
Structural and functional aspects of RNA pseudoknots. Biochemistry (1992) 2.57
Information content and clarity of radiologists' reports for chest radiography. Acad Radiol (1996) 2.56
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
Interpreting hospital mortality data. The role of clinical risk adjustment. JAMA (1989) 2.53
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
Arm edema in breast cancer patients. J Natl Cancer Inst (2001) 2.35