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Deshotels MR, Virani SS, Ballantyne CM. Lipid Monitoring After Initiation of Lipid-Lowering Therapies: Return of Performance Measures? Current Cardiology Reports. 2021 Jul 16; 23(9):116.
Heidenreich PA, Estes NAM, Fonarow GC, Jurgens CY, Kittleson MM, Marine JE, McManus DD, McNamara RL. 2020 Update to the 2016 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2021 Jan 1; 14(1):e000100.
Heidenreich PA, Estes NAM, Fonarow GC, Jurgens CY, Kittleson MM, Marine JE, McManus DD, McNamara RL. 2020 Update to the 2016 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2021 Jan 26; 77(3):326-341.
Govindan S, Wallace B, Iwashyna TJ, Chopra V. Do Experts Understand Performance Measures? A Mixed-Methods Study of Infection Preventionists. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2018 Jan 1; 39(1):71-76.
Peterson K, Anderson J, Bourne D, Boundy E, Helfand M. Evidence Brief: Use of Performance Measures as Criteria for Selecting Community Cardiac and Orthopedic Surgical Providers for the Veterans Choice Program. VA ESP Project #09-199. Health Service Research and Development; 2017 Jun 1. 34 p.
Meystre SM, Kim Y, Gobbel GT, Matheny ME, Redd A, Bray BE, Garvin JH. Congestive heart failure information extraction framework for automated treatment performance measures assessment. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2017 Apr 1; 24(e1):e40-e46.
Heidenreich PA, Solis P, Estes NAM, Fonarow GC, Jurgens CY, Marine JE, McManus DD, McNamara RL. 2016 ACC/AHA Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults With Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2016 Aug 2; 68(5):525-568.
Hysong SJ, Amspoker AB, Petersen LA. A Novel Method for Assessing Task Complexity in Outpatient Clinical-Performance Measures. Journal of general internal medicine. 2016 Apr 1; 31 Suppl 1:28-35.
Frakt AB. Validating and applying VA substance use disorder and mental health performance measures through operations-partnered investigation. HERC Health Economics Seminar [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2016 Mar 16.
Robinson CH, Harrod M, Kerr EA, Forman JH, Tremblay AS, Rosland A. Challenges to Meeting Access and Continuity Performance Measures in a Large Hospital-Based Primary Care Clinic Implementing the Patient-Centered Medical Home. Poster session presented at: VA HSR&D / QUERI National Meeting; 2015 Jul 8; Philadelphia, PA.
Forman JH, Robinson CH. Striving Toward Team-Based continuity: Coverage Arrangements in VHA Academic Primary Care Clinics and Implications for PCMH Urgent Access and Continuity Performance Measures. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2015 Jun 14; Minneapolis, MN.
Kerr EA. Next Generation of Performance Measures. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2015 Jun 14; Minneapolis, MN.
Petersen LA. Moving Toward Meaningful and Effective Incentives and Performance Measures in VHA. Presented at: VA National Leadership Council Meeting; 2014 Aug 26; Washington, DC.
Asch SM, Bosworth H. "Measuring Value." State of the Art (SOTA) Conference: Next Generation Performance Measures Plenary Session. [Cyberseminar]. 2014 May 6.
Shekelle PG. Quality indicators and performance measures: methods for development need more standardization. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 2013 Dec 1; 66(12):1338-9.
Goldstein MK. Knowing and Doing: Automating Performance Measures and Clinical Decision Support. [Cyberseminar]. 2013 Jul 16.
Williams EC, Achtmeyer CE, Rittmueller SE, Bradley KA. Local implementation of preventative alcohol care after national performance measures: results from key-informant interviews at five VA clinics. Poster session presented at: Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Scientific Meeting; 2013 Jun 26; Orlando, FL.
Finney JW. Are misinterpreted, hospital-level relationships between process performance measures and outcomes undermining evidence-based patient care? [Cyberseminar]. 2013 May 22.
Bandeali SJ, Mahboob M, Mitanegi S, Waleed TK, Wilson J, Maddox TM, Chan P, Gosch KL, Virani SS. Coronary Artery Disease Performance Measures and Statin Use Between Patients with Recent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Patients with Recent Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG): An Analysis from the NCDR. Poster session presented at: American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Annual Scientific Sessions; 2013 May 16; Baltimore, MD.
Goldstein MK. Performance measures in geriatrics: Challenges and Opportunities. Presented at: Stanford School of Medicine Geriatric Multidisciplinary Care Conference; 2013 Feb 9; Stanford, CA.
Nallamothu BK. Performance Measures In PCI and STEMI. Paper presented at: Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Annual Scientific Conference; 2012 Oct 25; Miami, FL.
Finney JW. Relationships between health care process performance measures and outcomes outcomes for patients and hospitals: Understanding the ecological fallacy. Presented at: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group Measures Forum; 2012 Sep 20; Bethesda, MD.
Hysong SJ, Khan MJ, Amspoker AB, Petersen LA. All clinical performance measures are not created equal: The role of interaction among clinical personnel on measured performance. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2012 Jun 25; Boston, MA.
Walter LC. Unintended Consequences of Performance Measures in Older Adults. Paper presented at: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds; 2011 Sep 22; New York, NY.
Finney JW, Humphreys K, Kivlahan DR, Harris AH. Why health care process performance measures can have different relationships to outcomes for patients and hospitals: understanding the ecological fallacy. American journal of public health. 2011 Sep 1; 101(9):1635-42.
Kerr EA. Developing More Clinically Meaningful Performance Measures: What we can learn and where do we have to go? Paper presented at: VA Northwest Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults Colloquium; 2011 Jun 15; Seattle, WA.
Soban LM. What Nursing Performance Measures Do Not Tell Us: Insights from Nursing Leaders and Frontline Nurses. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2011 Jun 12; Seattle, WA.
Feil DG, Rajan M, Soroka O, Miller DR, Pogach LM. Increased Risk of Hypoglycemia in Older Patients with Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: do HEDIS Performance Measures Risk Safety? Paper presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2011 Feb 17; National Harbor, MD.
Kerr EA. Performance Measures for Hypertension: Are We Overtreating? Paper presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2011 Feb 17; Washington, DC.
Ghali JK, Massie BM, Mann DL, Rich MW. Heart failure guidelines, performance measures, and the practice of medicine: mind the gap. Journal of cardiac failure. 2011 Jan 1; 17(1):90.e1-4.
Ghali JK, Massie BM, Mann DL, Rich MW. Heart failure guidelines, performance measures, and the practice of medicine: mind the gap. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2010 Dec 14; 56(25):2077-80.
Partin MR, Powell AA, Nugent SM, Ordin DL. Dynamic Analyses of Waiting Time to Colonoscopy Following a Positive FOBT Revealed Significant Improvements Not Captured by Dichotomous Performance Measures at 21 VA Medical Facilities. Poster session presented at: VA HSR&D Field-Based Quality Improvement in Parallel Circuits Meeting on VA System Redesign, Operational Systems Engineering, and Implementation Research; 2010 Jul 14; Indianapolis, IN.
Partin MR, Powell AA, Nugent SM, Ordin DL. Dynamic Analyses of Waiting Time to Colonoscopy Following a Positive FOBT Revealed Significant Improvements Not Captured by Dichotomous Performance Measures at 21 VA Medical Facilities. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2010 Jun 28; Boston, MA.
Hawn MT. Surgical care improvement: should performance measures have performance measures. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2010 Jun 23; 303(24):2527-8.
Kerr EA, Pogach LM, Krein SL, Hofer TP. Developing more meaningful performance measures for VA: a partnership between OQP and QUERI. Poster session presented at: VA “One Team toward One Dream” National Quality, Patient Safety and Systems Redesign Conference; 2010 Jun 20; San Francisco, CA.
Pogach L. Cultural competency training and performance measures to reduce racial disparities in health care quality. Annals of internal medicine. 2010 May 18; 152(10):685-6; author reply 686-7.
Gellad ZF, Yancy WS, Fisher DA. Low Adherence to Fecal Occult Blood Testing Over Time: Why Cross-sectional Performance Measures May Overestimate Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates. Paper presented at: Digestive Disease Week Annual Meeting; 2010 May 15; New Orleans, LA.
Hysong SJ, Khan MK. Does Linking Performance Measures to Hospital Budgets Improve their Outpatient Clinical Performance? Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2009 Jun 28; Chicago, IL.
Petersen LA, Simpson K, Urech T, Woodard L, Hysong S, Dudley RA. Do financial incentives to health care providers generate greater interest in adhering to performance measures than audit and feedback alone? Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2009 Jun 28; Chicago, IL.
Petersen LA, Woodard LD, Henderson LM, Urech TH, Pietz K. Will hypertension performance measures used for pay-for-performance programs penalize those who care for medically complex patients? Circulation. 2009 Jun 16; 119(23):2978-85.
Petersen LA, Simpson K, Urech T, Woodard L, Hysong S, Dudley RA. Do financial incentives to health care providers generate greater interest in adhering to performance measures than audit and feedback alone? Poster session presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2009 May 13; Miami, FL.
Petersen LA, Simpson K, Urech T, Woodard L, Hysong S, Dudley RA. Do financial incentives to health care providers generate greater interest in adhering to performance measures than audit and feedback alone. Journal of general internal medicine. 2009 Apr 1; 24(S1):S58-S59.
Aron D, Pogach L. Transparency standards for diabetes performance measures. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2009 Jan 14; 301(2):210-2.
McCarthy JF, Rubenstein L. Care Management and Re-Designing Practices: Implications of USP and National Performance Measures. Paper presented at: VA TIDES Depression Care Manager and Primary Care-Mental Health Integration Annual Conference; 2008 Nov 19; Los Angeles, CA.
Walter LC. Unintended Consequences of Performance Measures in Older Adult. Paper presented at: McGill University Division of Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds Assembly; 2008 May 6; Montréal, Canada.
Golden WE, Hermann RC, Jewell M, Brewster C. Development of evidence-based performance measures for bipolar disorder: overview of methodology. Journal of psychiatric practice. 2008 May 1; 14 Suppl 2:18-30.
Jewell MA, Golden, Keck, Harshaw, Shillington, Williams JW. The Standards for Bipolar Excellence (Stable) Project: A Bipolar Disorder Quality Improvement Initiative to Develop and Validate Evidence-Based Performance Measures for Endorsement by the National Quality Forum. Paper presented at: International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Annual Meeting; 2008 May 1; Toronto, Canada.
Kent DM, Hermann. Benchmarks and determinants of adherence to stroke performance measures. Stroke; A Journal of Cerebral Circulation. 2008 May 1; 39(5):1619-20.
Petersen A, Woodard, Henderson M, Urech H, Pietz. Will Performance Measures used for Pay-For-Performance Programs Penalize Those Who Care for Medically Complex Patients? Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2008 Apr 10; Denver, CO.
Doebbeling BN. Performance Measures and TRIP in VA Chronic Disease Care and Management. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2008 Apr 9; Pittsburgh, PA.
Werner RM, Bradlow ET, Asch DA. Hospital performance measures and quality of care. Ldi Issue Brief [Electronic Resource]. 2008 Apr 1; 13(5):1-4.
West AN, Weeks WB, Bagian JP. Rare adverse medical events in VA inpatient care: reliability limits to using patient safety indicators as performance measures. Health services research. 2008 Feb 1; 43(1 Pt 1):249-66.
Petersen LA. Development and Implementation of Performance Measures in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical System: a research perspective. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2007 Jun 1; Orlando, FL.
Petersen LA, Woodard LD, Henderson L, Urech T. Clinical inertia or appropriate care plan? Effect of using a follow-up interval on performance measures for hypertension with co-existing conditions. Presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2007 Apr 26; Toronto, Canada.
Hayward RA. All-or-nothing treatment targets make bad performance measures. The American journal of managed care. 2007 Mar 1; 13(3):126-8.
West N, Weeks B, Bagian P. AHRQ's patient safety indicators in nine years of VA inpatient data: Low reliability limits their use as performance measures. Poster session presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2007 Feb 22; Arlington, VA.
Petersen LA, Woodard LD, Henderson L, Urech T. Clinical inertia or appropriate care plan? Effect of using a follow-up interval on performance measures for hypertension with co-existing conditions. Presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2007 Feb 21; Arlington, VA.
Ross JS, Siu AL. The importance of population-based performance measures. [Editorial]. Health services research. 2007 Feb 1; 42(1 Pt 1):1-6.
Werner RM, Bradlow ET. Relationship between Medicare's hospital compare performance measures and mortality rates. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2006 Dec 13; 296(22):2694-702.
Downs R. VA/DOD dyslipidemia guideline & VA lipid performance measures. Paper presented at: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Federal Pharmacy Annual Forum; 2006 Dec 1; Anaheim, CA.
Walter LC. Working with Performance Measures to Provide Quality Care. Paper presented at: VA Quality Improvement Symposium; 2006 Mar 17; Palo Alto, CA.
Vijan S. Are we overvaluing performance measures? Effective clinical practice : ECP. 2001 Sep 1; 3(5):247-9.
Gross PA, Asch S, Kitahata MM, Freedberg KA, Barr D, Melnick DA, Bozzette SA. Performance measures for guidelines on preventing opportunistic infections in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2000 Apr 1; 30 Suppl 1:S85-93.
Chapko MK, Hedeen A, Maciejewski M, Fortney J, Borowsky SJ. CBOC performance evaluation: program implications and future performance measures. Management Decision and Research Center, HSR&D, Department of Veterans Affairs; 2000 Mar 1. Report No.: 1.
Perrin E, Koshel J. Assessment of performance measures for public health, substance abuse, and mental health. Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants, National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 1997 Oct 15.
Tappen RM, Roach KE, Buchner D, Barry C, Edelstein J. Reliability of physical performance measures in nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 1997 Jan 1; 52(1):M52-5.