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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia The Wrong Quality Measure for Benchmarking

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M Klompas, R Platt - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians
Legislators, payers, and quality-of-care advocates across the United States are
considering requiring hospitals to report ventilator-asso- ciated pneumonia
rates as a way to benchmark and reward quality of care. Accurate diagnosis ...
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[CITATION] American College of Physicians Ethics PaHRC: Pay-forperformance principles that promote …


L Snyder, RL Neubauer - Ann Intern Med, 2007
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Critical care professionalism in the age of pay-for-performance: From ICUs to outpatient …


PE Morris - American Journal of Critical Care, 2007 - AACN
In this, my first editorial as physician coeditor of the American Journal of
Critical Care (AJCC), I wish to express my very deep and sincere appreciation to
several people who have gone to extraordinary lengths to help me along the ...
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Nonfinancial incentives for quality: A policy statement from the American Heart Association

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V Bufalino, ED Peterson, HM Krumholz, GL … - Circulation, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
The American Heart Association (AHA) and its division, the American Stroke
Association, are dedicated to improving the quality of care available to
patients who have or are at risk of acquiring cardiovascular diseases, ...
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Measuring the quality of primary PCI for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Time …


FA Masoudi - JAMA, 2007 - Am Med Assoc
Reperfusion therapy with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment
elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has understandably received considerable
attention in quality measurement and improvement initiatives. STEMI is a ...
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Are physician reimbursement strategies associated with processes of care and patient …


SL Ettner, TJ Thompson, MR Stevens, CM … - Health Services Research, 2006 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
Address correspondence to Susan L. Ettner, Ph.D., Division of General Internal
Medicine & Health Services Research, UCLA Department of Medicine, 911 Broxton
Plaza, Room 106, Los Angeles, CA. Theodore J. Thompson, MS, is with the ...
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Pay for performance: Learning about quality

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CM Bell, W Levinson - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2007 - Can Med Assoc
Measurement is a key first step toward improving quality. In the last decade,
there have been movements in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia to
systematically mea sure quality-of-care indicators. Some of these programs, ...
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Risk of misleading ventilator-associated pneumonia rates with use of standard clinical and …


M Klompas, M Kulldorff, R Platt - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008 - UChicago Press
Featured in LiveScience (logo) "Surviving Salmonella: What You Can Do" March 31,
2009 Reptile‐Associated Salmonellosis in Preschool‐Aged Children in
Michigan, January 2001–June 2003 Eden V. Wells, Matthew Boulton, William ...
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Implementing pay-for-performance in the neonatal intensive care unit


J Profit, JAF Zupancic, JB Gould, LA Petersen - Pediatrics, 2007 - Am Acad Pediatrics
Pay-for-performance initiatives in medicine are proliferating rapidly. Neonatal
intensive care is a likely target for these efforts because of the high cost,
available databases, and relative strength of evidence for at least some ...
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Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and …

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V Guru, JV Tu, E Etchells, GM Anderson, CD … - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
From the Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto (VG, JVT, GMA, CDN,
PCA, SEF); Divisions of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (VG, SEF) and General
Internal Medicine (JVT, EE, CDN), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the ...
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