2005 Publications

  • The obesity paradox: body mass index and outcomes in patients with heart failure
    Archives of internal …, 2005
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  • Admission glucose and mortality in elderly patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: implications for patients with and without recognized diabetes
    Circulation, 2005
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  • Times to treatment in transfer patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States: National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (NRMI)-3 …
    Circulation, 2005
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  • Sex and racial differences in the management of acute myocardial infarction, 1994 through 2002
    … England Journal of …, 2005
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  • Monitoring clinical changes in patients with heart failure: a comparison of methods
    American heart …, 2005
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  • Thiazolidinediones, metformin, and outcomes in older patients with diabetes and heart failure: an observational study
    Circulation, 2005
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  • Relationship between time of day, day of week, timeliness of reperfusion, and in-hospital mortality for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
    Jama, 2005
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  • ACC/AHA clinical performance measures for adults with chronic heart failure: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association task force on …
    Journal of the American …, 2005
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  • ACCF/ASNC appropriateness criteria for single-photon emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT MPI) a report of the American College …
    Journal of the American …, 2005
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  • Patients with depressive symptoms have lower health status benefits after coronary artery bypass surgery
    Circulation, 2005
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  • Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group on outcomes research in cardiovascular disease
    Circulation, 2005
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  • American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association methodology for the selection and creation of performance measures for quantifying the quality of …
    Journal of the American …, 2005
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  • Anemia and outcomes in patients with heart failure: a study from the National Heart Care Project
    Archives of Internal …, 2005
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  • The impact of socioeconomic status and race on trial participation for older women with breast cancer
    Cancer, 2005
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  • Achieving door-to-balloon times that meet quality guidelines: how do successful hospitals do it?
    Journal of the American …, 2005
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  • The complexity and cost of drug regimens of older patients hospitalized with heart failure in the United States, 1998-2001
    Archives of internal …, 2005
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  • Diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of childhood obesity in pediatric practice
    Archives of pediatrics & …, 2005
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  • Quality improvement efforts and hospital performance: rates of beta-blocker prescription after acute myocardial infarction
    Medical care, 2005
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  • Insulin-sensitizing antihyperglycemic drugs and mortality after acute myocardial infarction: insights from the National Heart Care Project
    Diabetes …, 2005
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  • Race and renal impairment in heart failure: mortality in blacks versus whites
    Circulation, 2005
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  • Adoption of spironolactone therapy for older patients with heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the United States, 1998–2001
    Circulation, 2005
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  • Pharmacologic prophylaxis for postoperative atrial tachyarrhythmia in general thoracic surgery: evidence from randomized clinical trials
    The Journal of thoracic …, 2005
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  • A randomized outpatient trial of a decision-support information technology tool
    Archives of internal …, 2005
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  • Enrolling older persons in cancer trials: the effect of sociodemographic, protocol, and recruitment center characteristics
    Journal of clinical …, 2005
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  • Physician specialty and mortality among elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure
    The American journal of …, 2005
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  • The relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide and health status in patients with heart failure
    Journal of cardiac …, 2005
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  • Relation of anemia at discharge to survival after acute coronary syndromes
    The American journal of …, 2005
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  • Sex, quality of care, and outcomes of elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the National Heart Failure Project
    American heart …, 2005
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  • The impact of clinical trials on the use of hormone replacement therapy: a population-based study
    Journal of general …, 2005
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  • Quality of care and outcomes of older patients with heart failure hospitalized in the United States and Canada
    Archives of internal …, 2005
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  • Performance of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) ST-elevation myocardial infarction risk score in a national cohort of elderly patients
    American heart journal, 2005
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  • Validity of using an electronic medical record for assessing quality of care in an outpatient setting
    Medical care, 2005
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  • Knowledge of cholesterol levels and targets in patients with coronary artery disease
    Preventive …, 2005
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  • Aspirin use in older patients with heart failure and coronary artery disease: national prescription patterns and relationship with outcomes
    Journal of the American …, 2005
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  • Regionalization of care for acute coronary syndromes: more evidence is needed
    JAMA, 2005
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2006 Publications

  • An administrative claims model suitable for profiling hospital performance based on 30-day mortality rates among patients with an acute myocardial infarction
    Circulation, 2006
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  • AHA/ACC guidelines for secondary prevention for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2006 update: endorsed by the National Heart …
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Renal impairment and outcomes in heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of premature discontinuation of thienopyridine therapy after drug-eluting stent placement: results from the PREMIER registry
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Effect of door-to-balloon time on mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Strategies for reducing the door-to-balloon time in acute myocardial infarction
    … England Journal of …, 2006
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  • A taxonomy for disease management: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Disease Management Taxonomy Writing Group
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Impact of medication therapy discontinuation on mortality after myocardial infarction
    Archives of internal …, 2006
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  • Standards for statistical models used for public reporting of health outcomes: an American Heart Association Scientific Statement from the Quality of Care and …
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Risks associated with statin therapy: a systematic overview of randomized clinical trials
    Circulation, 2006
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  • ACC/AHA clinical performance measures for adults with ST-elevation and non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology …
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Underrepresentation of renal disease in randomized controlled trials of cardiovascular disease
    Jama, 2006
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  • Hospital quality for acute myocardial infarction: correlation among process measures and relationship with short-term mortality
    Jama, 2006
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  • Influenza vaccination as secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease: a science advisory from the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Health status identifies heart failure outpatients at risk for hospitalization or death
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Achieving rapid door-to-balloon times: how top hospitals improve complex clinical systems
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Depressive symptoms after acute myocardial infarction: evidence for highest rates in younger women
    Archives of Internal …, 2006
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  • Increase in creatinine and cardiovascular risk in patients with systolic dysfunction after myocardial infarction
    Journal of the …, 2006
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  • Transfers of patient care between house staff on internal medicine wards: a national survey
    Archives of internal …, 2006
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  • Effect of blinded peer review on abstract acceptance
    Jama, 2006
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  • Driving times and distances to hospitals with percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States: implications for prehospital triage of patients with ST-elevation …
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Hospital improvement in time to reperfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction, 1999 to 2002
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • The impact of late career job loss on myocardial infarction and stroke: a 10 year follow up using the health and retirement survey
    Occupational and …, 2006
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  • Relation between Medicare screening reimbursement and stage at diagnosis for older patients with colon cancer
    Jama, 2006
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  • Socioeconomic status, treatment, and outcomes among elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the National Heart Failure Project
    American heart …, 2006
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  • Time course of depression and outcome of myocardial infarction
    Archives of internal …, 2006
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  • The pre-hospital electrocardiogram and time to reperfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction, 2000–2002: findings from the National Registry of Myocardial …
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • The effect of age and chronic illness on life expectancy after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer: implications for screening
    Annals of internal …, 2006
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  • Statins and mortality among elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Serum urea nitrogen, creatinine, and estimators of renal function: mortality in older patients with cardiovascular disease
    Archives of internal …, 2006
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  • Achieving quality in cardiovascular imaging: proceedings from the American College of Cardiology–Duke University Medical Center think tank on quality in …
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • The Prospective Registry Evaluating Myocardial Infarction: Events and Recovery (PREMIER)—evaluating the impact of myocardial infarction on patient outcomes
    American heart …, 2006
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  • Physician board certification and the care and outcomes of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction
    Journal of General …, 2006
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  • National trends in outcomes among elderly patients with heart failure
    The American journal of …, 2006
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  • Difficulty taking medications, depression, and health status in heart failure patients
    Journal of cardiac …, 2006
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  • Social support and change in health-related quality of life 6 months after coronary artery bypass grafting
    Journal of …, 2006
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  • Detection of heart transplant rejection in adults by echocardiographic diastolic indices: a systematic review of the literature
    Journal of the American …, 2006
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  • Relation between hospital specialization with primary percutaneous coronary intervention and clinical outcomes in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction …
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Hydroxymethylglutaryl‐CoA Reductase Inhibitors in Older Persons with Acute Myocardial Infarction: Evidence for an Age–Statin Interaction
    Journal of the …, 2006
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  • Door-to-drug and door-to-balloon times: where can we improve? Time to reperfusion therapy in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)
    American heart …, 2006
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  • The effect of a psychosocial intervention and quality of life after acute myocardial infarction: the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease (ENRICHD) clinical …
    Journal of …, 2006
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  • Trends in acute myocardial infarction in 4 US states between 1992 and 2001: clinical characteristics, quality of care, and outcomes
    Circulation, 2006
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  • Prediction of medical morbidity and mortality after acute myocardial infarction in patients at increased psychosocial risk in the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart …
    American Heart …, 2006
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  • Does random treatment assignment cause harm to research participants?
    PLoS …, 2006
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  • President's page: GAP-D2B: an alliance for quality
    Journal of the American College of …, 2006
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2007 Publications

  • ACC/AHA 2007 guidelines for the management of patients with unstable angina/non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of …
    Journal of the American …, 2007
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  • Acute coronary care in the elderly, part I: non–ST-segment–elevation acute coronary syndromes: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from the American …
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Acute coronary care in the elderly, part II: ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction: a scientific statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart …
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Patterns of weight change preceding hospitalization for heart failure
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Time to treatment in primary percutaneous coronary intervention
    New England Journal of …, 2007
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  • What have we learnt from Vioxx?
    Bmj, 2007
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  • Telemonitoring for patients with chronic heart failure: a systematic review
    Journal of cardiac …, 2007
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  • The prognostic importance of a small acute decrement in kidney function in hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    American journal of …, 2007
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  • Nonvalidation of reported genetic risk factors for acute coronary syndrome in a large-scale replication study
    Jama, 2007
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  • Rescue angioplasty or repeat fibrinolysis after failed fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
    Journal of the American …, 2007
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  • Financial barriers to health care and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction
    Jama, 2007
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  • Adverse effects of combination angiotensin II receptor blockers plus angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors for left ventricular dysfunction: a quantitative review of …
    Archives of Internal …, 2007
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  • Identifying heart failure patients at high risk for near-term cardiovascular events with serial health status assessments
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Socioeconomic disparities in outcomes after acute myocardial infarction
    American heart …, 2007
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  • Impact of race on the professional lives of physicians of African descent
    Annals of Internal …, 2007
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  • Measuring performance for treating heart attacks and heart failure: the case for outcomes measurement
    Health …, 2007
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  • Impact of delay in door-to-needle time on mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
    The American journal of …, 2007
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  • Regional differences in process of care and outcomes for older acute myocardial infarction patients in the United States and Ontario, Canada
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Randomized trial of telemonitoring to improve heart failure outcomes (Tele-HF): study design
    Journal of cardiac …, 2007
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  • Pharmaceutical company payments to physicians: early experiences with disclosure laws in Vermont and Minnesota
    Jama, 2007
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  • Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals and use of coronary revascularization in medicare beneficiaries
    Jama, 2007
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  • Changes in outcomes for internal medicine inpatients after work-hour regulations
    Annals of Internal …, 2007
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  • Quality of care for acute myocardial infarction at urban safety-net hospitals
    Health …, 2007
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  • Summary of evidence regarding hospital strategies to reduce door-to-balloon times for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary …
    Critical pathways in …, 2007
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  • The impact of venous thromboembolism on risk of death or hemorrhage in older cancer patients
    Journal of general internal …, 2007
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  • Acute noncardiac conditions and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Development of systems of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: gaps, barriers, and implications
    Circulation, 2007
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  • “America's Best Hospitals” in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction
    Archives of Internal …, 2007
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  • Does health status differ between men and women in early recovery after myocardial infarction?
    Journal of women's …, 2007
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  • Certificate of need regulation and cardiac catheterization appropriateness after acute myocardial infarction
    Circulation, 2007
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  • Predictors of weight change in overweight patients with myocardial infarction
    American heart …, 2007
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  • Assessing surrogacy of data sources for institutional comparisons
    Health Services and Outcomes …, 2007
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  • Failure to rescue: validation of an algorithm using administrative data
    Medical care, 2007
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  • Cardiac certificate of need regulations and the availability and use of revascularization services
    American heart journal, 2007
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  • Patient satisfaction with treatment after acute myocardial infarction: role of psychosocial factors
    Psychosomatic …, 2007
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2008 Publications

  • 2007 focused update of the ACC/AHA 2004 guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction
    Journal of the American …, 2008
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  • Delayed time to defibrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest
    … England Journal of …, 2008
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  • Prevention of heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Councils on epidemiology and prevention, clinical cardiology, cardiovascular …
    Circulation, 2008
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  • An administrative claims measure suitable for profiling hospital performance on the basis of 30-day all-cause readmission rates among patients with heart failure
    … Quality and Outcomes, 2008
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  • Guest authorship and ghostwriting in publications related to rofecoxib: a case study of industry documents from rofecoxib litigation
    Jama, 2008
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  • Glucometrics in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: defining the optimal outcomes-based measure of risk
    Circulation, 2008
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  • ACC/AHA 2008 Performance Measures for Adults With ST-Elevation and Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Report of the American College of Cardiology …
    Journal of the American …, 2008
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  • Statistical models and patient predictors of readmission for heart failure: a systematic review
    Archives of internal …, 2008
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  • Long-term prognosis of acute kidney injury after acute myocardial infarction
    Archives of internal …, 2008
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  • Consequences of inadequate sign-out for patient care
    Archives of Internal …, 2008
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  • A campaign to improve the timeliness of primary percutaneous coronary intervention: Door-to-Balloon: An Alliance for Quality
    JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2008
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  • Implementation and integration of prehospital ECGs into systems of care for acute coronary syndrome: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association …
    Circulation, 2008
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  • Influence of patients' socioeconomic status on clinical management decisions: a qualitative study
    The Annals of Family …, 2008
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  • Cerebrovascular disease risk in older head and neck cancer patients after radiotherapy
    Journal of clinical …, 2008
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  • Factors associated with longer time from symptom onset to hospital presentation for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction
    Archives of internal …, 2008
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  • The ADVANTAGE seeding trial: a review of internal documents
    Annals of internal …, 2008
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  • Angina at 1 year after myocardial infarction: prevalence and associated findings
    Archives of internal …, 2008
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  • Outcomes research: generating evidence for best practice and policies
    Circulation, 2008
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  • Standards for measures used for public reporting of efficiency in health care: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council on …
    Journal of the American …, 2008
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  • Time-to-reperfusion in patients undergoing interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention in the US: an analysis of 2005 and 2006 data from the …
    Journal of the American …, 2008
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  • Renal impairment predicts long-term mortality risk after acute myocardial infarction
    Journal of the …, 2008
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  • Association of early follow-up after acute myocardial infarction with higher rates of medication use
    Archives of internal …, 2008
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  • Use of ezetimibe in the United States and Canada
    New England Journal …, 2008
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  • Delay in presentation and reperfusion therapy in ST-elevation myocardial infarction
    The American journal of …, 2008
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  • Redefining quality—implications of recent clinical trials
    New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
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  • ACC/AHA 2008 statement on performance measurement and reperfusion therapy: a report of the ACC/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures (Work Group to …
    Journal of the American …, 2008
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  • Regional variation in cardiac catheterization appropriateness and baseline risk after acute myocardial infarction
    Journal of the American …, 2008
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  • Healthcare workplace conversations on race and the perspectives of physicians of African descent
    Journal of General …, 2008
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  • Mental disorders, quality of care, and outcomes among older patients hospitalized with heart failure: an analysis of the national heart failure project
    Archives of general …, 2008
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  • An early invasive strategy versus ischemia-guided management after fibrinolytic therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis of …
    American heart …, 2008
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  • Use of recommended ambulatory care services: is the Veterans Affairs quality gap narrowing?
    Archives of internal …, 2008
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2009 Publications

  • 2009 focused updates: ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (updating the 2004 guideline and 2007 focused …
    Journal of the American …, 2009
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  • Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation from medical imaging procedures
    … England Journal of …, 2009
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  • Reduction in acute myocardial infarction mortality in the United States: risk-standardized mortality rates from 1995-2006
    Jama, 2009
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  • Patterns of hospital performance in acute myocardial infarction and heart failure 30-day mortality and readmission
    … Quality and Outcomes, 2009
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  • Research in action: using positive deviance to improve quality of health care
    Implementation …, 2009
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  • Association of door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients admitted to hospital with ST elevation myocardial infarction: national cohort study
    Bmj, 2009
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  • Trial publication after registration in ClinicalTrials. Gov: a cross-sectional analysis
    PLoS …, 2009
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  • Relationship between spontaneous and iatrogenic hypoglycemia and mortality in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction
    Jama, 2009
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  • Attitudes, training experiences, and professional expectations of US general surgery residents: a national survey
    Jama, 2009
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  • What works in chronic care management: the case of heart failure
    Health …, 2009
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  • National efforts to improve door-to-balloon time: results from the Door-to-Balloon Alliance
    Journal of the American …, 2009
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  • The association of cognitive and somatic depressive symptoms with depression recognition and outcomes after myocardial infarction
    … Quality and Outcomes, 2009
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  • Racial differences in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest
    Jama, 2009
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  • All-cause readmission and repeat revascularization after percutaneous coronary intervention in a cohort of medicare patients
    Journal of the American …, 2009
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  • Race/ethnicity and workplace discrimination: results of a national survey of physicians
    Journal of General …, 2009
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  • Health care workplace discrimination and physician turnover
    Journal of the National …, 2009
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  • Elevated admission glucose and mortality in elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure
    Circulation, 2009
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  • Association of physician certification and outcomes among patients receiving an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
    Jama, 2009
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  • Glucose normalization and outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction
    Archives of internal …, 2009
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  • Hospital variation in time to defibrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest
    Archives of internal …, 2009
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  • What are covering doctors told about their patients? Analysis of sign-out among internal medicine house staff
    BMJ Quality & …, 2009
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  • Pooled analysis of rofecoxib placebo-controlled clinical trial data: lessons for postmarket pharmaceutical safety surveillance
    Archives of Internal …, 2009
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  • Registries and selection bias: the need for accountability
    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009
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  • Factors associated with racial differences in myocardial infarction outcomes
    Annals of internal …, 2009
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  • Door-to-balloon times in hospitals within the get-with-the-guidelines registry after initiation of the door-to-balloon (D2B) Alliance
    The American journal of …, 2009
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  • Tight control of blood glucose in long standing type 2 diabetes
    BMJ, 2009
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  • Medicine in the era of outcomes measurement
    Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009
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  • Association of door-to-balloon time and mortality in patients≥ 65 years with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary …
    The American journal of …, 2009
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  • Predictors of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced common solid cancers
    Journal of cancer …, 2009
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  • The door-to-balloon alliance for quality: who joins national collaborative efforts and why?
    The Joint Commission …, 2009
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  • Mortality and Readmission for Patients With Heart Failure Among US News &World Report's Top Heart Hospitals
    … Quality and Outcomes, 2009
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