- ►annals.org [PDF] PK Lindenauer, R Behal, CK Murray, W Nsa, … - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Background: The establishment of minimum volume thresholds has been proposed as
a means of improving outcomes for patients with various medical and surgical
conditions. ... Objective: To determine whether volume is associated with ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
D Aujesky, MK Mor, M Geng, MJ Fine, B … - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2008 - canadianmedicaljournal.ca Results: The median annual hospital volume for pulmonary embolism was 20
patients (interquartile range 10–42). Overall in-hospital mortality was 6.0%,
whereas 30-day mortality was 9.3%. In multivariable analysis, ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
- Free from Publisher A Turchin, M Shubina, ML Pendergrass - Diabetes care, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—In multivariable analysis, absolute diabetes volume was linked to
decreased odds of A1C testing (4% less for each additional patient seen; P =
0.05), and relative diabetes volume (fraction of the total patients seen ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
AJ Epstein, SS Rathore, HM Krumholz, KGM … - BMC health services research, 2005 - biomedcentral.com We conducted a retrospective analysis of a national hospital discharge database
to evaluate in-hospital mortality among patients who underwent PCI (n =
2,500,796) or CABG (n = 1,496,937) between 1998 and 2001. We calculated the ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - Cached - All 7 versions
MM Ward - Arthritis Care & Research - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to
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D Aujesky, JA Long, MJ Fine, SA Ibrahim - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2007 - Elsevier We retrospectively studied 168 patients hospitalized for VTE in two Veterans
Affairs hospitals during fiscal years 2000–2002. Patient characteristics,
information about processes of care, and medical outcomes at 90 days after ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 13 versions
- Free from Publisher A Turchin, IS Kohane, ML Pendergrass - Diabetes care, 2005 - Am Diabetes Assoc Disease surveillance can be significantly hampered by the difficulty in
identifying the target population (6). A number of approaches have been used to
identify patients with diabetes, including death certificates (7,8), ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
AC Tsai, M Votruba, JFP Bridges, RD Cebul - Health Services Research, 2006 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Address correspondence to Alexander C. Tsai, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine WG-57,
10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945. Mark Votruba, Ph.D., ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
L Durairaj, JC Torner, EA Chrischilles, MS … - Chest, 2005 - chestjournal.org.p.angrylapdog.com * From the Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (Dr. Durairaj),
Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of
Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health (Drs. ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
LI Solberg, KI Engebretson, JM Sperl-Hillen, … - American Journal of Medical Quality, 2006 - ajm.sagepub.com The objective of this study was to demonstrate a method to accurately identify
patients with specific conditions from claims data for care improvement or
performance measurement. In an iterative process of trial case definitions ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
