Published in JAMA on October 17, 1990
An overview of nosocomial infections, including the role of the microbiology laboratory. Clin Microbiol Rev (1993) 8.03
Medicare and Medicaid: conflicting incentives for long-term care. Milbank Q (2007) 2.30
Discharging patients earlier from Winnipeg hospitals: does it adversely affect quality of care? CMAJ (1995) 1.81
Adequacy of hospital discharge summaries in documenting tests with pending results and outpatient follow-up providers. J Gen Intern Med (2009) 1.75
Association of communication between hospital-based physicians and primary care providers with patient outcomes. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.72
Pending studies at hospital discharge: a pre-post analysis of an electronic medical record tool to improve communication at hospital discharge. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 1.68
The optimal outcomes of post-hospital care under medicare. Health Serv Res (2000) 1.46
Medicare's prospective payment system: A critical appraisal. Health Care Financ Rev (1992) 1.41
Hospital Readmission From Post-Acute Care Facilities: Risk Factors, Timing, and Outcomes. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2015) 1.40
Impact of hospital discharge planning on meeting patient needs after returning home. Health Serv Res (1992) 1.38
Medicare prospective payment and the volume and intensity of skilled nursing facility services. J Health Econ (2011) 1.29
Is use of mechanical ventilation a reasonable proxy indicator for coma among Medicare patients hospitalized for acute stroke? Health Serv Res (1998) 1.15
Do hospital length of stay and staffing ratio affect elderly patients' risk of readmission? A nation-wide study of Norwegian hospitals. Health Serv Res (2002) 1.14
Post-hospital home health care for Medicare patients. Health Care Financ Rev (1994) 1.03
Acceptance of recommendations by inpatient pharmacy case managers: unintended consequences of hospitalist and specialist care. Pharmacotherapy (2013) 1.02
Improving hospital discharge planning for elderly patients. Health Care Financ Rev (1997) 1.01
The prospective payment system and quality. No skeletons in the closet. JAMA (1990) 0.99
Preliminary report of a palliative care and case management project in an emergency department for chronically ill elderly patients. J Urban Health (2008) 0.98
Patient and Hospitalization Characteristics Associated With Increased Postacute Care Facility Discharges From US Hospitals. Med Care (2015) 0.96
Relationship of physician ratings of severity of illness and difficulty of clinical management to length of stay. Health Serv Res (1993) 0.91
Profiling quality of care: Is there a role for peer review? BMC Health Serv Res (2004) 0.87
Effects of selected cost-containment efforts: 1971-1993. Health Care Financ Rev (1993) 0.85
Trends in postacute care and staffing in US nursing homes, 2001-2010. J Am Med Dir Assoc (2013) 0.85
Vital Signs Are Still Vital: Instability on Discharge and the Risk of Post-Discharge Adverse Outcomes. J Gen Intern Med (2016) 0.84
Association of discharge home with home health care and 30-day readmission after pancreatectomy. J Am Coll Surg (2014) 0.83
Hospital readmission among elderly patients. Eur J Health Econ (2012) 0.83
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
Underutilization of cardiovascular medications: effect of a continuity-of-care program. Am J Health Syst Pharm (2013) 0.81
Are PRO discharge screens associated with postdischarge adverse outcomes? Health Serv Res (1995) 0.79
Quality and innovations for caring hospitalized older persons in the unites States. Aging Dis (2013) 0.78
Ethics, EBM, and hospital management. J Med Ethics (2004) 0.78
Change of initial and ICU treatment over time in trauma patients. An analysis from the TraumaRegister DGU®. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2016) 0.77
Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission. BMC Psychiatry (2015) 0.76
Optimizing Patients' Vital Interests Post-Discharge. J Gen Intern Med (2016) 0.75
Heart Failure Among Older Adults in Skilled Nursing Facilities: More of a Dilemma Than Many Now Realize. Curr Geriatr Rep (2015) 0.75
A Comparison of Free-Standing versus Co-Located Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals. PLoS One (2015) 0.75
A role for social workers in improving care setting transitions: a case study. Soc Work Health Care (2015) 0.75
Utilization management as a cost-containment strategy. Health Care Financ Rev (1992) 0.75
Long-term impact of medicare payment reductions on patient outcomes. Health Serv Res (2014) 0.75
The effects of state psychiatric hospital waitlist policies on length of stay and time to readmission. Adm Policy Ment Health (2015) 0.75
Postoperative monitoring with a mobile application after ambulatory lumbar discectomy: an effective tool for spine surgeons. Eur Spine J (2016) 0.75
Effects of payment reform in more versus less competitive markets. J Health Econ (2016) 0.75
Identification of appropriate and potentially avoidable emergency department referrals in a tertiary cancer care center. Support Care Cancer (2017) 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
Impact of disseminating quality improvement programs for depression in managed primary care: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2000) 9.58
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
The SQUIRE (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence) guidelines for quality improvement reporting: explanation and elaboration. Qual Saf Health Care (2008) 4.59
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
Cost-effectiveness of practice-initiated quality improvement for depression: results of a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2001) 3.08
Regular source of ambulatory care and medical care utilization by patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department. JAMA (1994) 3.05
Who is at risk of nondetection of mental health problems in primary care? J Gen Intern Med (2000) 3.03
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
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