Published in Med Care on May 01, 1985
The health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuels in developing countries: knowledge, gaps, and data needs. Environ Health Perspect (2002) 2.68
Appropriateness: the next frontier. BMJ (1994) 2.27
Outcome measures for primary health care: what are the research priorities? Br J Gen Pract (1992) 1.57
Implementing practice guidelines. CMAJ (1993) 1.46
Choosing quality of care measures based on the expected impact of improved care on health. Health Serv Res (1992) 1.17
Pelvic floor muscle training and adjunctive therapies for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: a systematic review. BMC Womens Health (2006) 1.10
Controversies in ulcerative colitis: a survey comparing decision making of experts versus community gastroenterologists. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol (2008) 1.08
Identifying best practices in dialysis care: results of cognitive interviews and a national survey of dialysis providers. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 1.04
Medicare capitation and quality of care for the frail elderly. Health Care Financ Rev (1986) 0.93
Is there "cherry picking" in the ESRD Program? Perceptions from a Dialysis Provider Survey. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2009) 0.93
Comparable effectiveness of caudal vs. trans-foraminal epidural steroid injections. Iowa Orthop J (2009) 0.87
Practice variation in late-preterm deliveries: a physician survey. J Perinatol (2012) 0.83
Common misconceptions about 5-aminosalicylates and thiopurines in inflammatory bowel disease. World J Gastroenterol (2011) 0.83
Design and analysis of health products and services: An example at a specialized COPD unit. Open Respir Med J (2008) 0.82
A quasi-experimental epidemiological model for evaluating public health programmes: efficacy of a Chagas disease control programme in Brazil. Bull World Health Organ (1994) 0.81
Temporal Artery versus Bladder Thermometry during Adult Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Monitoring: An Observational Study. BMC Anesthesiol (2010) 0.80
Regional variation in late preterm births in North Carolina. Matern Child Health J (2013) 0.78
Health education: evidence of effectiveness. Arch Dis Child (1997) 0.78
Quality assurance for a program of comprehensive care for older persons. Health Care Financ Rev (1993) 0.75
The timing of introduction of pharmaceutical innovations in seven European countries. J Eval Clin Pract (2014) 0.75
Case-mix measurement and assessing quality of hospital care. Health Care Financ Rev (1987) 0.75
Methods of assessing medical treatments. BMJ (1994) 0.75
Vitamin A prophylaxis. Arch Dis Child (1997) 0.75
Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use. Am J Public Health (1984) 11.53
The public release of performance data: what do we expect to gain? A review of the evidence. JAMA (2000) 9.57
Current methods of the US Preventive Services Task Force: a review of the process. Am J Prev Med (2001) 7.94
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
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
Community-based participatory research: assessing the evidence. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ) (2004) 6.13
Perinatal depression: prevalence, screening accuracy, and screening outcomes. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ) (2005) 6.10
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
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
Adjusted hospital death rates: a potential screen for quality of medical care. Am J Public Health (1987) 3.52
Does inappropriate use explain small-area variations in the use of health care services? JAMA (1990) 3.38
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
Termination of Medi-Cal benefits. A follow-up study one year later. N Engl J Med (1986) 3.16
Literacy and health outcomes. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ) (2004) 3.15
Regular source of ambulatory care and medical care utilization by patients presenting to a public hospital emergency department. JAMA (1994) 3.05
Outcome measurement: concepts and questions. Inquiry (1988) 2.95
The appropriateness of performing coronary artery bypass surgery. JAMA (1988) 2.92
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
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
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
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
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
Watching the doctor-watchers. How well do peer review organization methods detect hospital care quality problems? JAMA (1992) 2.34
Systems to rate the strength of scientific evidence. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ) (2002) 2.33
Changes in sickness at admission following the introduction of the prospective payment system. JAMA (1990) 2.33
The Functional Status Questionnaire: reliability and validity when used in primary care. J Gen Intern Med (1986) 2.30
Quality of care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. JAMA (2000) 2.30
Quality assurance today and tomorrow: forecast for the future. Ann Intern Med (1976) 2.28
Improving patient function: a randomized trial of functional disability screening. Ann Intern Med (1989) 2.28
Appropriateness: the next frontier. BMJ (1994) 2.27
An assessment of the adequacy of self-care by adult asthmatics. J Community Health (1980) 2.25
Comparing outcomes of care before and after implementation of the DRG-based prospective payment system. JAMA (1990) 2.24
Preventable deaths: who, how often, and why? Ann Intern Med (1988) 2.21
How free care reduced hypertension in the health insurance experiment. JAMA (1985) 2.16
Advances in the measurement of functional status: construction of aggregate indexes. Med Care (1981) 2.02
Consumer acceptance of prepaid and fee-for-service medical care: results from a randomized controlled trial. Health Serv Res (1986) 2.00
Pharmacological treatment of alcohol dependence: a review of the evidence. JAMA (1999) 1.99
Member ratings of health care provided by 48 physician groups. Arch Intern Med (1998) 1.98
Variations by specialty in physician ratings of the appropriateness and necessity of indications for procedures. Med Care (1996) 1.98
The condition of the literature on differences in hospital mortality. Med Care (1989) 1.98
Measuring the necessity of medical procedures. Med Care (1994) 1.96
The appropriateness of hysterectomy. A comparison of care in seven health plans. Health Maintenance Organization Quality of Care Consortium. JAMA (1993) 1.92
The appropriateness of chiropractic spinal manipulation for low back pain: a pilot study. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (1995) 1.90
Effectiveness of inpatient follow-up care. N Engl J Med (1971) 1.89
Using computers to identify complications after surgery. Am J Public Health (1985) 1.84
A health-related quality of life instrument for patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery. Med Care (1992) 1.84
Effect of physician specialty on use of necessary coronary angiography. J Am Coll Cardiol (1995) 1.83
Effects of being overweight. Am J Public Health (1983) 1.83
Outcome assessment for epilepsy surgery: the impact of measuring health-related quality of life. Ann Neurol (1995) 1.82
Effectiveness of patient care in an emergency room. N Engl J Med (1970) 1.81
Public disclosure of performance data: learning from the US experience. Qual Health Care (2000) 1.79
The appropriateness of use of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in New York State. JAMA (1993) 1.78
Underuse of cardiac procedures: do women, ethnic minorities, and the uninsured fail to receive needed revascularization? Ann Intern Med (1999) 1.76
The health care resource allocation debate. Defining our terms. JAMA (1991) 1.75
Determinants of emergency department use: are race and ethnicity important? Ann Emerg Med (1996) 1.75
Underuse of coronary revascularization procedures: application of a clinical method. J Am Coll Cardiol (1997) 1.75
Foreign medical graduates and their impact on the quality of medical care in the United States. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1975) 1.72
Changes in quality of care for five diseases measured by implicit review, 1981 to 1986. JAMA (1990) 1.70
Differences among hospitals in Medicare patient mortality. Health Serv Res (1989) 1.69
Primary care physicians' satisfaction with quality of care in California capitated medical groups. JAMA (1997) 1.68
Performance of panel-based criteria to evaluate the appropriateness of colonoscopy: a prospective study. Gastrointest Endosc (1998) 1.64