Published in Ann Intern Med on April 19, 2016
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Preoperative medical testing in Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery. N Engl J Med (2015) 2.41
The association between quality of care and the intensity of diabetes disease management programs. Ann Intern Med (2006) 2.32
Pay-for-performance research: how to learn what clinicians and policy makers need to know. JAMA (2005) 2.18
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Extreme makeover: Transformation of the veterans health care system. Annu Rev Public Health (2009) 1.90
Association between hospital-reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and inpatient mortality. JAMA (2009) 1.74
Aligning quality and payment for heart failure care: defining the challenges. J Card Fail (2003) 1.71
Comparative effectiveness of multivessel coronary bypass surgery and multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med (2013) 1.69
Measuring hospital quality using pediatric readmission and revisit rates. Pediatrics (2013) 1.68
Major abdominal surgery in nursing home residents: a national study. Ann Surg (2011) 1.64
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The relationship between commercial website ratings and traditional hospital performance measures in the USA. BMJ Qual Saf (2012) 1.60
A behavioral model of clinician responses to incentives to improve quality. Health Policy (2006) 1.59
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Patient-centered care: what is the best measuring stick? Arch Intern Med (2009) 1.55
Public reporting of provider performance: can its impact be made greater? Annu Rev Public Health (2006) 1.49
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Multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting versus percutaneous coronary intervention in ESRD. J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 1.42
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Functional status after colon cancer surgery in elderly nursing home residents. J Am Geriatr Soc (2012) 1.39
Development and validation of an index to predict activity of daily living dependence in community-dwelling elders. Med Care (2006) 1.35
Patient decision aids for prostate cancer treatment: a systematic review of the literature. CA Cancer J Clin (2009) 1.26
Elderly patients' preferences and experiences with providers in managing their drug costs. J Am Geriatr Soc (2007) 1.21
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An official American Thoracic Society policy statement: pay-for-performance in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2010) 1.20
Mortality probability model III and simplified acute physiology score II: assessing their value in predicting length of stay and comparison to APACHE IV. Chest (2009) 1.18
Quality of care in hospitals with a high percent of Medicaid patients. Med Care (2007) 1.18
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Exercise counseling practices among nephrologists caring for patients on dialysis. Am J Kidney Dis (2003) 1.15
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Antenatal steroid administration for premature neonates in California. Obstet Gynecol (2011) 1.11
Medicare's decision to withhold payment for hospital errors: the devil is in the det. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf (2008) 1.09
Impact of surgeon and surgical center characteristics on choice of permanent vascular access. Kidney Int (2003) 1.05
Quality of colon cancer outcomes in hospitals with a high percentage of Medicaid patients. J Am Coll Surg (2008) 1.05
Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of a cluster randomized controlled trial of pay for performance for hypertension treatment: study protocol. Implement Sci (2011) 1.04
Regional variation in the incidence of dialysis-requiring AKI in the United States. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2013) 1.02
Why physicians favor use of percutaneous coronary intervention to medical therapy: a focus group study. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.01
Small numbers limit the use of the inpatient pediatric quality indicators for hospital comparison. Acad Pediatr (2010) 1.00
Identifying widely covered drugs and drug coverage variation among Medicare part D formularies. JAMA (2007) 0.99
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Public reporting and pay-for-performance: safety-net hospital executives' concerns and policy suggestions. Inquiry (2007) 0.97
Can additional patient experience items improve the reliability of and add new domains to the CAHPS hospital survey? Health Serv Res (2008) 0.96
Quality of care in systemic lupus erythematosus: application of quality measures to understand gaps in care. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 0.93
Employers' efforts to measure and improve hospital quality: determinants of success. Health Aff (Millwood) (2003) 0.93
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Making the 'pay' matter in pay-for-performance: implications for payment strategies. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 0.89
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Correlates of depression among people with diabetes: The Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) study. Prim Care Diabetes (2010) 0.87
United States rural hospital quality in the Hospital Compare database-accounting for hospital characteristics. Health Policy (2008) 0.86
The relationship between health plan advertising and market incentives: evidence of risk-selective behavior. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 0.86
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Evaluating telemedicine in the ICU. JAMA (2009) 0.85
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Performance measurement, public reporting, and pay-for-performance. Urol Clin North Am (2009) 0.85
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Clinician perspectives on barriers to and opportunities for skin-to-skin contact for premature infants in neonatal intensive care units. Breastfeed Med (2011) 0.83
Assessing risk-adjustment approaches under non-random selection. Inquiry (2004) 0.83
The impact of statistical choices on neonatal intensive care unit quality ratings based on nosocomial infection rates. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2011) 0.83
Proton beam therapy and treatment for localized prostate cancer: if you build it, they will come. Arch Intern Med (2012) 0.82
Children and Young Adults Who Received Tracheostomies or Were Initiated on Long-Term Ventilation in PICUs. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2016) 0.82
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Comparative effectiveness of coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention for multivessel coronary disease in a community-based population with chronic kidney disease. Am Heart J (2013) 0.81
Sources of traffic and visitors' preferences regarding online public reports of quality: web analytics and online survey results. J Med Internet Res (2015) 0.81
Factors associated with failure to screen newborns for retinopathy of prematurity. J Pediatr (2012) 0.81
Repeat revascularization is a faulty end point for clinical trials. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes (2012) 0.80
Adequacy of lymph node examination in colorectal surgery: contribution of the hospital versus the surgeon. Med Care (2013) 0.80
Calculations of Financial Incentives for Providers in a Pay-for-Performance Program: Manual Review Versus Data From Structured Fields in Electronic Health Records. Med Care (2015) 0.80
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Cross-sectional analysis of hospitalist prevalence and quality of care in California. J Hosp Med (2010) 0.79
Perspectives on promoting breastmilk feedings for premature infants during a quality improvement project. Breastfeed Med (2012) 0.79
Dialysis facility profit status and compliance with a black box warning. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 0.79
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Health information technology and physicians' knowledge of drug costs. Am J Manag Care (2010) 0.78
Managing the unmanageable: the nature and impact of drug risk in physician groups. J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 0.77
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