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Publikováno v:
Medical Care. 55:856-863
Background Anticoagulants and hypoglycemic agents are 2 of the most challenging drug classes for medical management in the hospital resulting in many adverse drug events (ADEs). Objective Estimating the marginal cost (MC) of ADEs associated with anti
Autor:
Kathryn Schreiber, Fred R. Buckhold, Amy M. Kilbourne, Susan Hassell, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Angela G. Brega, Isomi M Miake-Lye, David A. Ganz, Susanne Hempel, Mary Patricia Nowalk, William D. Spector
Publikováno v:
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 34(6)
A burgeoning number of toolkits dedicated to improving health care exist but development guidance is lacking. The authors convened a panel of health care stakeholders, including developers, purchasers, users, funders, and disseminators of toolkits. T
Publikováno v:
Medical Care. 54:845-851
Patients who develop hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) are more likely to die, have longer hospital stays, and are at greater risk of infections. Patients undergoing surgery are prone to developing pressure ulcers (PUs).To estimate the hospit
Publikováno v:
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. 15:182-203
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are universally recognized as the preferred way to infer treatment effects because RCTs typically minimize validity challenges while maximizing estimation efficiency. In practice, simple RCTs—where individual stu
Autor:
Rebecca V. Fink, Lauren E.W. Olsho, Christianna S. Williams, Rhona Limcangco, William D. Spector, William Rhodes, Donna Hurd
Publikováno v:
Medical Care. 52:258-266
Pressure ulcers present serious health and economic consequences for nursing home residents. The Agency for Healthcare ResearchQuality, in partnership with the New York State Department of Health, implemented the pressure ulcer module of On-Time Qual
Autor:
Clare Davidson, William D. Spector, Sai Loganathan, Lauren Bishop, R. Tamara Konetzka, Laurie Imhof, Linda Bergofsky
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 20:816-821.e2
Background Pressure ulcers pose an important quality-of-care challenge in nursing homes, with serious consequences for residents' health. We assessed the scalability of the On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention (On-Time) intervention strategy, developed
Publikováno v:
Medical Care. 51:673-681
Hospitalizations of long-stay nursing home (NH) residents are common. The high estimates of potentially avoidable hospitalizations in NHs suggest that efforts to reduce avoidable hospitalizations may be effective in lowering health care expenditures
Autor:
Irena Pesis-Katz, Peter J. Veazie, Dana B. Mukamel, Helena Temkin-Greener, Charles E. Phelps, William D. Spector
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Public Health. 103:e31-e37
Objectives. We investigated how quality of care affects choosing a nursing home. Methods. We examined nursing home choice in California, Ohio, New York, and Texas in 2001, a period before the federal Nursing Home Compare report card was published. Th
Autor:
Charlene Harrington, David L. Weimer, Yue Li, Dana B. Mukamel, Lauren Bailey, William D. Spector
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, vol 14, iss 2
Objectives To determine what factors contribute to successful appeals of nursing home deficiencies in the Informal Dispute Resolution (IDR) process. Design We merged Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' data about IDRs with Online Survey, Cert
Publikováno v:
Medical Care. 50:863-869
BACKGROUND:: Policymakers are exploring ways to reduce readmission rates. Much attention has been given to readmissions for conditions such as heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, and pneumonia, but little attention has been given to readmissi