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Autor:
Shu-Chiung Chou, Christine Newman, R. Heather Palmer, Anne C. Beal, Sudhakar Ezhuthachan, Marcia A. Testa
Publikováno v:
Pediatrics. 117:1618-1625
OBJECTIVES. Race is a predictor of health outcomes and risk for some clinical conditions, for example, mother's race predicts risk for hyperbilirubinemia in newborns, with blacks at lowest risk. Little is known about the correlation of race as record
Autor:
Susanne Salem-Schatz, Laura E. Peterson, Roinell Westbury, Chris Newman, R. Heather Palmer, Sudhakar Ezhuthachan, Richard C Luttrell, Mark S. Clanton
Publikováno v:
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety. 30:593-601
Article-at-a-Glance Background Monitoring newborns within the first week is critical to assess the adequacy of feeding and weight gain and to identify instances of hyperbilirubinemia. As systems of maternal and newborn care have become increasingly f
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Public Health. 94:1352-1357
Objectives. We compared complication rates after surgical abortions performed by physician assistants with rates after abortions performed by physicians. Methods. A 2-year prospective cohort study of women undergoing surgically induced abortion was c
Autor:
Sudhakar Ezhuthachan, Christine Newman, M. Jeffrey Maisels, Shu-Chiung Chou, R. Heather Palmer, Brenna Pradell-Boyd, Marcia A. Testa
Publikováno v:
Pediatrics. 112:1264-1273
Background. Accreditors hold hospitals accountable for harm from serious newborn hyperbilirubinemia, yet standards for evaluating performance in prevention are lacking.Objective. We confirmed prognostic variables for newborn hyperbilirubinemia and de
Autor:
Christine Newman, Paul E. Plsek, Mark S. Clanton, Susanne Salem-Schatz, R. Heather Palmer, Jeffrey Maisels, Sudhakar Ezhuthachan
Publikováno v:
Pediatrics. 112:1388-1393
Arecent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report describes a chasm in health care quality that we must cross for patients to receive better care in the 21st century. The report calls for a “systems approach,” drawing on the rapid evolution of knowledge
Autor:
Jeffrey Chan, R. Heather Palmer, Greta Lagodmos, Molly T. Finnerty, Terri Teller, Britt J. Myrhol, Richard C. Hermann, Scott E. Provost
Publikováno v:
Schizophrenia Bulletin. 28:95-104
The development of process measures for the assessment and improvement of care for schizophrenia is at an early stage. As part of a national inventory of mental health quality measures, we identified 42 process measures developed to assess the qualit
Autor:
Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Paul J. Hauptman, Thomas G. DiSalvo, Barbara J. McNeil, R. Heather Palmer, Edward Guadagnoli
Publikováno v:
The American Journal of Medicine. 111:297-303
Purpose: There are no clinical performance measures for cardiovascular diseases that span the continuum of hospital through postdischarge ambulatory care. We tested the feasibility of developing and implementing such measures for patients with acute
Autor:
R. Heather Palmer, Marlene R. Miller
Publikováno v:
Ambulatory Pediatrics. 1:39-52
Objective.—To review the major building blocks in measurement of quality for child health care, with recommendations for future research. Methods.—We describe a framework of building blocks for quality measurement and discuss how an investigator'
Autor:
R. Heather Palmer
Publikováno v:
International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 10:477-483
Purpose. To analyze the challenge of using health outcomes data to compare plans, networks and providers. Analysis. Different questions require different designs for collecting and interpreting health outcomes data. When evaluating effectiveness of t
Autor:
R. Heather Palmer
Publikováno v:
Total Quality Management. 8:305-312
Using clinical performance measures to drive quality improvement requires two steps: first, measuring performance to identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement; then, after intervening to improve quality, remeasuring performance to track w