How good is the quality of health care in the United States?

Identifying predictors of high quality care in English general practice: observational study. BMJ (2001) 9.34

Systematic review of studies of quality of clinical care in general practice in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Qual Health Care (2001) 8.83

The effects of on-screen, point of care computer reminders on processes and outcomes of care. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2009) 4.22

Impact of National Clinical Guideline recommendations for revascularization of persistently occluded infarct-related arteries on clinical practice in the United States. Arch Intern Med (2011) 3.73

Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2011) 3.68

Patient-physician connectedness and quality of primary care. Ann Intern Med (2009) 3.01

Implementation research is needed to achieve international health goals. PLoS Med (2006) 2.85

Implementing clinical governance in English primary care groups/trusts: reconciling quality improvement and quality assurance. Qual Saf Health Care (2002) 2.61

Does affiliation of physician groups with one another produce higher quality primary care? J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.93

Quality of care for gout in the US needs improvement. Arthritis Rheum (2007) 1.93

Applying psychological theories to evidence-based clinical practice: identifying factors predictive of managing upper respiratory tract infections without antibiotics. Implement Sci (2007) 1.88

Public release of performance data and quality improvement: internal responses to external data by US health care providers. Qual Health Care (2001) 1.73

Translating scientific discoveries into public health action: how can schools of public health move us forward? Public Health Rep (2006) 1.73

For and against: Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience: Against. BMJ (2002) 1.66

Is this "my" patient? Development and validation of a predictive model to link patients to primary care providers. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.66

Assessing the quality of care of multiple conditions in general practice: practical and methodological problems. Qual Saf Health Care (2003) 1.59

A systematic review of health care efficiency measures. Health Serv Res (2009) 1.52

Interventions aimed at increasing research use in nursing: a systematic review. Implement Sci (2007) 1.51

Clinical effort against secondhand smoke exposure: development of framework and intervention. Pediatrics (2008) 1.51

Is further intervention required to translate caries prevention and management recommendations into practice? Br Dent J (2015) 1.43

A communitywide intervention to improve outcomes and reduce disability among injured workers in Washington State. Milbank Q (2004) 1.41

Clinical decision support provided within physician order entry systems: a systematic review of features effective for changing clinician behavior. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (2003) 1.40

Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). Implement Sci (2011) 1.39

The NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Greater Manchester: combining empirical, theoretical and experiential evidence to design and evaluate a large-scale implementation strategy. Implement Sci (2011) 1.39

Only One Third of Tehran's Physicians are Familiar with 'Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines'. Int J Prev Med (2013) 1.22

The translation research in a dental setting (TRiaDS) programme protocol. Implement Sci (2010) 1.19

FIRE (Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence): a study protocol. Implement Sci (2012) 1.18

Coding for quality measurement: the relationship between hospital structural characteristics and coding accuracy from the perspective of quality measurement. Perspect Health Inf Manag (2007) 1.18

Improving the care for people with acute low-back pain by allied health professionals (the ALIGN trial): A cluster randomised trial protocol. Implement Sci (2010) 1.13

Applying social network analysis to understand the knowledge sharing behaviour of practitioners in a clinical online discussion forum. J Med Internet Res (2012) 1.04

The relationship between characteristics of context and research utilization in a pediatric setting. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.03

Limits of evidence-based surgery. World J Surg (2005) 1.03

Instrument development, data collection, and characteristics of practices, staff, and measures in the Improving Quality of Care in Diabetes (iQuaD) Study. Implement Sci (2011) 1.01

Factors influencing healthcare service quality. Int J Health Policy Manag (2014) 1.00

Diagnostic imaging and biopsy use among elderly medicare beneficiaries with hepatocellular carcinoma. J Oncol Pract (2011) 0.98

Online assessment of patients' views on hospital performances using Rasch model's KIDMAP diagram. BMC Health Serv Res (2009) 0.97

Quality of US primary care delivered by resident and staff physicians. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 0.95

Opening the black box: cognitive strategies in family practice. Ann Fam Med (2005) 0.95

Effectiveness of organisational infrastructures to promote evidence-based nursing practice. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2012) 0.94

Taking stock of current societal, political and academic stakeholders in the Canadian healthcare knowledge translation agenda. Implement Sci (2007) 0.94

Improving the delivery of care for patients with diabetes through understanding optimised team work and organisation in primary care. Implement Sci (2009) 0.94

Sports and exercise-related tendinopathies: a review of selected topical issues by participants of the second International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium (ISTS) Vancouver 2012. Br J Sports Med (2013) 0.93

Identifying the domains of context important to implementation science: a study protocol. Implement Sci (2015) 0.93

Self-reported attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice among Canadian doctors of chiropractic: a national survey. J Can Chiropr Assoc (2015) 0.92

Patient satisfaction, treatment experience, and disability outcomes in a population-based cohort of injured workers in Washington State: implications for quality improvement. Health Serv Res (2004) 0.92

Knowledge-to-action processes in SHRTN collaborative communities of practice: a study protocol. Implement Sci (2011) 0.91

Health workforce governance: Processes, tools and actors towards a competent workforce for integrated health services delivery. Health Policy (2015) 0.91

The patient safety story. BMJ (2005) 0.91

Effects of an evidence service on community-based AIDS service organizations' use of research evidence: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Implement Sci (2011) 0.91

Strategies to promote uptake and use of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment knowledge: an integrative review. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.91

Can't do it, won't do it! Developing a theoretically framed intervention to encourage better decontamination practice in Scottish dental practices. Implement Sci (2009) 0.90

A conceptual framework for quality of care. Mater Sociomed (2012) 0.90

The Clinical Practice Guideline Initiative: A joint collaboration designed to improve the quality of care delivered by doctors of chiropractic. J Can Chiropr Assoc (2013) 0.90

Necessary but Not Sufficient… Comment on "Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View From the Resource-Based View of the Firm". Int J Health Policy Manag (2015) 0.87

Do physician outcome judgments and judgment biases contribute to inappropriate use of treatments? Study protocol. Implement Sci (2007) 0.87

Setting standards at the forefront of delivery system reform: aligning care coordination quality measures for multiple chronic conditions. J Healthc Qual (2013) 0.86

Community capacity to acquire, assess, adapt, and apply research evidence: a survey of Ontario's HIV/AIDS sector. Implement Sci (2011) 0.85

Presenting evidence to patients online: what do web users think of consumer summaries of cochrane musculoskeletal reviews? J Med Internet Res (2011) 0.85

A knowledge synthesis of patient and public involvement in clinical practice guidelines: study protocol. Implement Sci (2009) 0.84

From evidence to action. NeuroRx (2004) 0.84

Direct costs of dengue hospitalization in Brazil: public and private health care systems and use of WHO guidelines. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2014) 0.82

Knowledge Transfer within the Canadian Chiropractic Community. Part 1: Understanding Evidence-Practice Gaps. J Can Chiropr Assoc (2013) 0.82

Guideline-based management of male infertility: Why do we need it? Indian J Urol (2011) 0.81

The BLISS cluster randomised controlled trial of the effect of 'active dissemination of information' on standards of care for premature babies in England (BEADI) study protocol [ISRCTN89683698]. Implement Sci (2007) 0.81

The Knowledge Broker's "Fit" in the World of Knowledge Translation. Physiother Can (2014) 0.80

Primary Care Pathway for Childhood Asthma: Protocol for a Randomized Cluster-Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc (2016) 0.79

Using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to understand adherence to multiple evidence-based indicators in primary care: a qualitative study. Implement Sci (2016) 0.78

The quality of care delivered to Parkinson's disease patients in the U.S. Pacific Northwest Veterans Health System. BMC Neurol (2006) 0.78

Sustainability of healthcare innovations (SUSHI): long term effects of two implemented surgical care programmes (protocol). BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.78

Are high-quality cardiac surgeons less likely to operate on high-risk patients compared to low-quality surgeons? Evidence from New York State. Health Serv Res (2008) 0.78

Cross-disciplinary research in cancer: an opportunity to narrow the knowledge-practice gap. Curr Oncol (2013) 0.77

Consensus recommendations for advancing breast cancer: risk identification and screening in ethnically diverse younger women. J Cancer (2011) 0.77

"Evidence-based dentistry in oral surgery: could we do better?". Open Dent J (2010) 0.77

Applying a novel combination of techniques to develop a predictive model for diabetes complications. PLoS One (2015) 0.76

The effect of professional-led guideline workshops on clinical practice for the management of patent ductus arteriosus in preterm neonates in Japan: a controlled before-and-after study. Implement Sci (2015) 0.75

Technical efficiency and organ transplant performance: a mixed-method approach. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.75

Back surgery: Modern medical pitfall. J Chiropr Med (2002) 0.75

Case study of American Healthways' diabetes disease management program. Health Care Financ Rev (2005) 0.75

Evidence - based medicine/practice in sports physical therapy. Int J Sports Phys Ther (2012) 0.75

Selection of key recommendations for quality indicators describing good quality outbreak response. BMC Infect Dis (2015) 0.75

Improving Nursing Home Care through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data (INFORM): Protocol for a cluster-randomized trial. Trials (2017) 0.75

Creating an interest in research and development as a means of reducing the gap between theory and practice in primary care: an interventional study based on strategic communication. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2014) 0.75

Managerial leadership for research use in nursing and allied health care professions: a narrative synthesis protocol. Syst Rev (2014) 0.75

Patient acceptance and perceived utility of pre-consultation prevention summaries and reminders in general practice: pilot study. BMC Fam Pract (2011) 0.75

Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans' Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care. Milbank Q (2017) 0.75

Achieving Value in Primary Care: The Primary Care Value Model. Ann Fam Med (2016) 0.75

Measuring quality in diabetes care: an expert-based statistical approach. Springerplus (2013) 0.75

Is there any ideal of 'high quality care' opposing 'low quality care'? A deconstructionist reading. Health Care Anal (2006) 0.75

The contribution of systematic reviews to the practice of pediatric nephrology. Pediatr Nephrol (2012) 0.75

Health information on the Internet: accessibility, quality, and readability in English and Spanish. JAMA (2001) 15.23

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

The public release of performance data: what do we expect to gain? A review of the evidence. JAMA (2000) 9.57

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

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

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

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

Defining and measuring quality of care: a perspective from US researchers. Int J Qual Health Care (2000) 2.73

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

Impact of sociodemographic case mix on the HEDIS measures of health plan quality. Med Care (2000) 2.57

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

Changes in sickness at admission following the introduction of the prospective payment system. JAMA (1990) 2.33

Efficacy, effectiveness, variations, and quality. Boundary-crossing research. Med Care (1985) 2.32

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

Six challenges in measuring the quality of health care. Health Aff (Millwood) (1997) 2.04

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

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

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

Development of a quality of care measurement system for children and adolescents. Methodological considerations and comparisons with a system for adult women. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (1997) 1.78

Evaluating the quality of cancer care: development of cancer quality indicators for a global quality assessment tool. Cancer (2000) 1.77

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

The impact of cost sharing on emergency department use. N Engl J Med (1985) 1.61