Published in Ann Intern Med on March 03, 2015
The Roles of Cost and Quality Information in Medicare Advantage Plan Enrollment Decisions: an Observational Study. J Gen Intern Med (2015) 1.02
Impact of Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan Star Ratings on Enrollment before and after Implementation of Quality-Related Bonus Payments in 2012. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
The Role of Geography in the Assessment of Quality: Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
The impact of the affordable care Act (ACA) on favorable risk selection and Beneficiaries' health status in Medicare advantage: a preliminary assessment. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Tight glycemic control in diabetic coronary artery bypass graft patients improves perioperative outcomes and decreases recurrent ischemic events. Circulation (2004) 4.34
Use of angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of dementia in a predominantly male population: prospective cohort analysis. BMJ (2010) 3.98
Agreement between administrative data and patients' self-reports of race/ethnicity. Am J Public Health (2003) 3.02
Racial differences in the prevalence of atrial fibrillation among males. J Natl Med Assoc (2008) 2.58
Self-reported vs administrative race/ethnicity data and study results. Am J Public Health (2002) 2.32
Cognitive behavioral therapy and aerobic exercise for Gulf War veterans' illnesses: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2003) 2.26
Hospital-based palliative care consultation: effects on hospital cost. J Palliat Med (2010) 2.19
Downregulation of miR-21 inhibits EGFR pathway and suppresses the growth of human glioblastoma cells independent of PTEN status. Lab Invest (2010) 2.17
Benefits and harms of doxycycline treatment for Gulf War veterans' illnesses: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Ann Intern Med (2004) 2.12
Comorbidity assessments based on patient report: results from the Veterans Health Study. J Ambul Care Manage (2004) 2.08
Risk of heart failure with human immunodeficiency virus in the absence of prior diagnosis of coronary heart disease. Arch Intern Med (2011) 2.08
VHA enrollees' health care coverage and use of care. Med Care Res Rev (2003) 2.07
Levels and variation in overuse of fecal occult blood testing in the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 2.06
Long-term posttraumatic stress symptoms vary inversely with early opiate dosing in children recovering from serious burns: effects durable at 4 years. J Trauma Acute Care Surg (2014) 2.03
Cost of readmission: can the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) experience inform national payment policy? Med Care (2013) 2.02
Transmission of MDR and XDR tuberculosis in Shanghai, China. PLoS One (2009) 1.93
Concordance between respondent self-reports and medical records for chronic conditions: experience from the Veterans Health Study. J Ambul Care Manage (2005) 1.92
Retention in care of persons newly diagnosed with HIV: outcomes of the Outreach Initiative. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2007) 1.81
Is a rising cesarean delivery rate inevitable? Trends in industrialized countries, 1987 to 2007. Birth (2011) 1.72
Simvastatin is associated with a reduced incidence of dementia and Parkinson's disease. BMC Med (2007) 1.72
Comparing the health status of VA and non-VA ambulatory patients: the veterans' health and medical outcomes studies. J Ambul Care Manage (2004) 1.70
Morphological clustering and analysis of continuous intracranial pressure. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng (2008) 1.67
Differences in health-related quality of life in rural and urban veterans. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.66
Treatment options for Graves disease: a cost-effectiveness analysis. J Am Coll Surg (2009) 1.66
Underreporting high-risk prescribing among Medicare Advantage plans: a cross-sectional analysis. Ann Intern Med (2013) 1.65
Factors associated with engaging socially marginalized HIV-positive persons in primary care. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2007) 1.64
Evolution of information-driven HIV/AIDS policies in China. Int J Epidemiol (2010) 1.61
Updated U.S. population standard for the Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (VR-12). Qual Life Res (2008) 1.60
Construction of genetic linkage maps and comparative genome analysis of catfish using gene-associated markers. Genetics (2009) 1.55
Incentive implementation in physician practices: A qualitative study of practice executive perspectives on pay for performance. Med Care Res Rev (2006) 1.55
Persistence and change in pediatric symptom checklist scores over 10 to 18 months. Acad Pediatr (2009) 1.54
Quality assessment parameters for EST-derived SNPs from catfish. BMC Genomics (2008) 1.54
Job characteristics and job satisfaction among physicians involved with research in the veterans health administration. Acad Med (2011) 1.54
Reliance on Veterans Affairs outpatient care by Medicare-eligible veterans. Med Care (2011) 1.54
A comparative study of different references for EEG default mode network: the use of the infinity reference. Clin Neurophysiol (2010) 1.52
Cross-priming amplification for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum specimens. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.47
Phospholipid flippases: building asymmetric membranes and transport vesicles. Biochim Biophys Acta (2011) 1.46
The impact of epilepsy on health status among younger and older adults. Epilepsia (2005) 1.43
Relationship between breast cancer and levels of serum thyroid hormones and antibodies: a meta-analysis. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev (2014) 1.42
Nurse practitioner and physician assistant scope of practice in 118 acute care hospitals. J Hosp Med (2014) 1.41
An algorithm for extracting intracranial pressure latency relative to electrocardiogram R wave. Physiol Meas (2008) 1.39
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials towards the breakthrough of organoelectronics. Adv Mater (2014) 1.38
MicroRNA-21 inhibitor sensitizes human glioblastoma cells U251 (PTEN-mutant) and LN229 (PTEN-wild type) to taxol. BMC Cancer (2010) 1.38
Characterization of common carp transcriptome: sequencing, de novo assembly, annotation and comparative genomics. PLoS One (2012) 1.36
The challenges of multimorbidity from the patient perspective. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.35
Biomaterial coatings by stepwise deposition of silk fibroin. Langmuir (2005) 1.34
Level of prenatal cocaine exposure and scores on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development: modifying effects of caregiver, early intervention, and birth weight. Pediatrics (2002) 1.32
A re-conceptualization of access for 21st century healthcare. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 1.31
Assembly of 500,000 inter-specific catfish expressed sequence tags and large scale gene-associated marker development for whole genome association studies. Genome Biol (2010) 1.29
miR-365, a novel negative regulator of interleukin-6 gene expression, is cooperatively regulated by Sp1 and NF-kappaB. J Biol Chem (2011) 1.29
Type and pattern of illicit drug use and access to health care services for HIV-infected people. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2007) 1.28
Efficiency of single-nucleotide polymorphism haplotype estimation from pooled DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.27
Molecular and genetic evidence for the key role of AtCaM3 in heat-shock signal transduction in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol (2009) 1.27
Anxiogenic effects of cocaine withdrawal in zebrafish. Physiol Behav (2007) 1.27
Homocysteine and coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of MTHFR case-control studies, avoiding publication bias. PLoS Med (2012) 1.27
Methylation and silencing of miRNA-124 by EVI1 and self-renewal exhaustion of hematopoietic stem cells in murine myelodysplastic syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.25
Factors associated with health-related quality of life in chronic spinal cord injury. Am J Phys Med Rehabil (2007) 1.25
The association of adherence to osteoporosis therapies with fracture, all-cause medical costs, and all-cause hospitalizations: a retrospective claims analysis of female health plan enrollees with osteoporosis. J Manag Care Pharm (2011) 1.24
Bone mesenchymal stem cells transplanted into rabbit intervertebral discs can increase proteoglycans. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2005) 1.23
Deriving SF-12v2 physical and mental health summary scores: a comparison of different scoring algorithms. Qual Life Res (2010) 1.22
Weight, blood pressure, and dietary benefits after 12 months of a Web-based Nutrition Education Program (DASH for health): longitudinal observational study. J Med Internet Res (2008) 1.22
Mutations in the Z-band protein myopalladin gene and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Cardiovasc Res (2007) 1.21
Conceptual issues in the design and implementation of pay-for-quality programs. Am J Med Qual (2005) 1.21
Association of psychiatric illness and obesity, physical inactivity, and smoking among a national sample of veterans. Psychosomatics (2011) 1.20
Forecasting ICP elevation based on prescient changes of intracranial pressure waveform morphology. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng (2010) 1.20
Towards the ictalurid catfish transcriptome: generation and analysis of 31,215 catfish ESTs. BMC Genomics (2007) 1.19
The health status of elderly veteran enrollees in the Veterans Health Administration. J Am Geriatr Soc (2004) 1.19
Clinical factors associated with prescription drug use disorder in urban primary care patients with chronic pain. J Pain (2010) 1.19
An all-metallic logic gate based on current-driven domain wall motion. Nat Nanotechnol (2008) 1.19
Effects of aggressive versus moderate glycemic control on clinical outcomes in diabetic coronary artery bypass graft patients. Ann Surg (2011) 1.18
The relationship between Medicare's process of care quality measures and mortality. Inquiry (2009) 1.17
Effects of paying physicians based on their relative performance for quality. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.17
Regression analysis for peak designation in pulsatile pressure signals. Med Biol Eng Comput (2009) 1.16
Lymphotoxin-alpha gene and risk of myocardial infarction in 6,928 cases and 2,712 controls in the ISIS case-control study. PLoS Genet (2006) 1.16
Disparities in health-related internet use by US veterans: results from a national survey. Inform Prim Care (2010) 1.16
Missed appointment rates in primary care: the importance of site of care. J Health Care Poor Underserved (2005) 1.15
Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers as biocompatible carriers of quinolone antimicrobials: an in vitro study. Eur J Med Chem (2007) 1.15
Prenatal cocaine exposure and children's language functioning at 6 and 9.5 years: moderating effects of child age, birthweight, and gender. J Pediatr Psychol (2005) 1.15
Systemic cytokines, clinical and physiological changes in patients hospitalized for exacerbation of COPD. Chest (2007) 1.15
Downregulation of Dicer enhances tumor cell proliferation and invasion. Int J Oncol (2010) 1.15
Crystal structure of enterovirus 71 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase complexed with its protein primer VPg: implication for a trans mechanism of VPg uridylylation. J Virol (2013) 1.14
Choosing models for health care cost analyses: issues of nonlinearity and endogeneity. Health Serv Res (2012) 1.13
Association of psychiatric illness and all-cause mortality in the National Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. Psychosom Med (2010) 1.12
Evaluation of polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers as drug carriers of anti-bacterial drugs using sulfamethoxazole (SMZ) as a model drug. Eur J Med Chem (2006) 1.12
Risk-adjusted mortality as an indicator of outcomes: comparison of the Medicare Advantage Program with the Veterans' Health Administration. Med Care (2006) 1.11
Program design and evaluation strategies for the Special Projects of National Significance Outreach Initiative. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2007) 1.11
Rural and urban disparities in health-related quality of life among veterans with psychiatric disorders. Psychiatr Serv (2006) 1.11
Health status among 28,000 women veterans. The VA Women's Health Program Evaluation Project. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.11
Recent Increases in the U.S. Maternal Mortality Rate: Disentangling Trends From Measurement Issues. Obstet Gynecol (2016) 1.10
Enterovirus 71 VPg uridylation uses a two-molecular mechanism of 3D polymerase. J Virol (2012) 1.10
Co-delivery of as-miR-21 and 5-FU by poly(amidoamine) dendrimer attenuates human glioma cell growth in vitro. J Biomater Sci Polym Ed (2010) 1.10
Multilevel interventions: measurement and measures. J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr (2012) 1.10
Comparative analysis of catfish BAC end sequences with the zebrafish genome. BMC Genomics (2009) 1.09
Selection of mutations to detect multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Shanghai, China. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2009) 1.08
[Evaluation of effect of community-based HIV/AIDS interventions among men who have sex with men in eighteen cities, China]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi (2009) 1.08
Patients' self-report of diseases in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey based on comparisons with linked survey and medical data from the Veterans Health Administration. J Ambul Care Manage (2008) 1.08
Comparison of immune responses to the O-specific polysaccharide and lipopolysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladeshi adult patients with cholera. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2012) 1.07
[Polychaete community in mangrove and salt marsh in Zhangjiang River Estuary, Fujian Province of East China]. Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao (2012) 1.07
Comprehensive health status assessment of centenarians: results from the 1999 large health survey of veteran enrollees. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2005) 1.06