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  1. Brahmania M, Kuo A, Tapper EB, Volk M, Vittorio JM, Ghabril M, Morgan T, Kanwal F, Parikh ND, Martin P, Mehta S, Winder GS, Im GY, Goldberg D, Lai JC, Duarte-Rojo A, Paredes AH, Patel AA, Sahota A, McElroy LM, Thomas C, Wall AE, Malinis M, Aslam S, Simonetto DA, Ufere NN, Ramakrishnan S, Flynn MM, Ibrahim Y, Asrani SK, Serper M. Quality measures in pre-liver transplant care by the Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2024 Mar 27.
  2. Yano EM, Than C, Brunner J, Canelo IA, Meredith LS, Rubenstein LV, Hamilton AB. Impact of Evidence-Based Quality Improvement on Tailoring VA's Patient-Centered Medical Home Model to Women Veterans' Needs. Journal of general internal medicine. 2024 Feb 29.
  3. Soong C, Horstman MJ. Introducing an addition to the family of quality improvement measures: Equity. [Editorial]. Journal of hospital medicine. 2024 Jan 20.
  4. Bekelman DB, Feser W, Morgan B, Welsh CH, Parsons EC, Paden G, Baron A, Hattler B, McBryde C, Cheng A, Lange AV, Au DH. Nurse and Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease: The ADAPT Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2024 Jan 16; 331(3):212-223.
  5. Sayer NA, Maieritsch KP, Yamokoski CA, Orazem RJ, Clothier BA, Noorbaloochi S. Evaluation of implementation facilitation integrated into a national mentoring programme to improve access to evidence-based psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder within the veterans health administration: a quality improvement report. BMJ open quality. 2024 Jan 12; 13(1).
  6. Carter-Bawa L, Slaven JE, Monahan PO, Brandzel S, Gao H, Wernli KJ, Lafata JE, Rawl SM. Unpacking the relationship between shared decision-making and decisional quality, decision to screen, and screening completion in lung cancer screening. Patient education and counseling. 2024 Jan 11; 122:108143.
  7. Chen VW, Rosen T, Dong Y, Richardson PA, Kramer JR, Petersen LA, Massarweh NN. Case Sampling for Evaluating Hospital Postoperative Morbidity in US Surgical Quality Improvement Programs. JAMA surgery. 2023 Dec 27.
  8. Dash D, Moser A, Feldman S, Saliba D, Bakaev I, Smalbrugge M, Robert B, Karuza J, Heckman G, Katz PR, Costa AP. Focusing on Provider Quality Measurement: Continued Consensus and Feasibility Testing of Practice-Based Quality Measures for Primary Care Providers in Long-Term Care. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2023 Dec 12.
  9. Ong MK, Norris KC. Advancing equity research in the quality of and access to health care in a post-affirmative action era. Health services research. 2023 Dec 1; 58 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):281-283.
  10. Diem SJ, Danan ER. GSM and Quality of Life Measures. Clinical obstetrics and gynecology. 2023 Nov 13.
  11. Bucy TI, Mulcahy JF, Shippee TP, Fashaw-Walters S, Dahal R, Duan Y, Jutkowitz E. Examining Satisfaction and Quality in Home- and Community-Based Service Programs in the United States: A Scoping Review. The Gerontologist. 2023 Oct 17; 63(9):1437-1455.
  12. Maganty A, Kaufman SR, Oerline MK, Faraj K, Caram MEV, Shahinian VB, Hollenbeck BK. Association Between Urologist Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Performance and Quality of Prostate Cancer Care. Urology practice. 2024 Jan 1; 11(1):207-214.
  13. Bocsi GT, Laudadio J, Jain R, Eakin SM, Bhalla A, Rosenberg JA, Maratt JK, Kupfer SS, Leiman DA, Cardona DM. Creation of a Quality Payment Program Measure for Mismatch Repair or Microsatellite Instability Biomarker Testing Status in Colorectal, Endometrial, Gastroesophageal, or Small Bowel Carcinoma. Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine. 2023 Sep 14.
  14. de Jager E, Levine AA, Sidey-Gibbons CJ, Udyavar NR, Liu C, Lamaina M, Maggard Gibbons MA, Ko CY, Burstin HR, Haider AH, Hoyt DB, Schoenfeld AJ, Weissman JS, Britt LD. Development and Validation of a Novel Literature-Based Method to Identify Disparity-Sensitive Surgical Quality Metrics. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2023 Sep 13.
  15. Robinson S, Hogan TP, McMahon N, Etingen B. Contextual Factors and Implementation Determinants for Connected Care Implementation - Interim Findings. A Quality Improvement Project from the eHealth Partnered Evaluation Initiative and the Office of Connected Care. Washington DC: Office of Connected Care; 2023 Sep 1. x p.
  16. Vaughn VM, Gupta A, Petty LA, Malani AN, Osterholzer D, Patel PK, Younas M, Bernstein SJ, Burdick S, Ratz D, Szymczak JE, McLaughlin E, Czilok T, Basu T, Horowitz JK, Flanders SA, Gandhi TN. A Statewide Quality Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria. JAMA internal medicine. 2023 Sep 1; 183(9):933-941.
  17. Royle ML, Connolly EJ, Nowakowski S, Temple JR. Sleep duration, sleep quality, and weapon carrying in a sample of adolescents from Texas. Preventive medicine reports. 2023 Oct 1; 35:102385.
  18. O'Hanlon CE, Walling AM, McClean M, Chu K, Lindvall C, Lee M, Stockdale SE, Leung LB. Depression care quality among patients with solid tumor cancers detected to have depression in Veterans Health Administration primary care clinics. Psychological Services. 2023 Aug 24.
  19. Murphy DR, Zimolzak AJ, Upadhyay DK, Wei L, Jolly P, Offner A, Sittig DF, Korukonda S, Rekha RM, Singh H. Developing electronic clinical quality measures to assess the cancer diagnostic process. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2023 Aug 18; 30(9):1526-1531.
  20. Jayadevappa R, Malkowicz SB, Vapiwala N, Guzzo TJ, Chhatre S. Association between hospital competition and quality of prostate cancer care. BMC health services research. 2023 Aug 5; 23(1):828.
  21. Kosaraju RS, Fonarow GC, Ong MK, Heidenreich PA, Washington DL, Wang X, Ziaeian B. Geographic Variation in the Quality of Heart Failure Care Among U.S. Veterans. JACC. Heart failure. 2023 Nov 1; 11(11):1534-1545.
  22. Inam M, Kianoush S, Sheikh S, Krittanawong C, Zhu D, Rifai MA, Minhas AMK, Samad Z, Khan U, Merchant A, Virani SS. The Association Between Race, Ethnicity and Sleep Quality and Duration: A National Health Interview Survey Study. Current problems in cardiology. 2023 Jul 26; 48(12):102004.
  23. Verma A, Fonarow GC, Hsu JJ, Jackevicius CA, Vaghaiwalla Mody F, Nguyen A, Amidi O, Goldberg S, Vetrivel R, Upparapalli D, Theodoropoulos K, Gregorio S, Chang DS, Bostrom K, Althouse AD, Ziaeian B. DASH-HF Study: A Pragmatic Quality Improvement Randomized Implementation Trial for Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. Circulation. Heart failure. 2023 Sep 1; 16(9):e010278.
  24. Woodward EN, Ball IA, Willging C, Singh RS, Scanlon C, Cluck D, Drummond KL, Landes SJ, Hausmann LRM, Kirchner JE. Increasing consumer engagement: tools to engage service users in quality improvement or implementation efforts. Frontiers in Health Services. 2023 Jul 25; 3:1124290.
  25. Khatana SAM, Groeneveld PW. Extreme Heat and Poor Air Quality: Dual Threats to Cardiovascular Health. Circulation. 2023 Jul 25; 148(4):324-326.
  26. Keller MS, Mavilian C, Altom KL, Erickson KF, Drudi LM, Woo K. Barriers to Implementing the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative End-Stage Kidney Disease Life Plan Guideline. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Jul 5.
  27. Smith EG, Grigorian HL. A System for Rapidly Yet Rigorously Evaluating the Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2023 Jul 1; 43(4):306-312.
  28. Abdo M, Kunisaki KM, Morris A, Stosor V, Chang D, D'Souza G, Crothers K, Abdel-Maksoud M, DiGuiseppi C, Brown TT, Erlandson KM, MaWhinney S. Pulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Aging Men With and Without HIV from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 2023 Jun 28.
  29. Dennis PA, Stechuchak KM, Van Houtven CH, Decosimo K, Coffman CJ, Grubber JM, Lindquist JH, Sperber NR, Hastings SN, Shepherd-Banigan M, Kaufman BG, Smith VA. Informing a home time measure reflective of quality of life: A data driven investigation of time frames and settings of health care utilization. Health services research. 2023 Dec 1; 58(6):1233-1244.
  30. Chuzi S, Lindenauer PK, Faridi K, Priya A, Pekow PS, D'Aunno T, Mazor KM, Stefan MS, Spatz ES, Gilstrap L, Werner RM, Lagu T. Variation in Risk-Standardized Acute Admission Rates Among Patients With Heart Failure in Accountable Care Organizations: Implications for Quality Measurement. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2023 Jul 4; 12(13):e029758.
  31. Wang S, Arizmendi CJ, Blalock DV, Chen D, Lin L, Thissen D, Huang IC, DeWalt DA, Reeve BB. Health-related quality of life profiles in adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2023 Nov 1; 32(11):3171-3183.
  32. Borzecki AM, Conti J, Reisman JI, Vimalananda V, Nagy MW, Paluri R, Linsky AM, McCullough M, Bhasin S, Matsumoto AM, Jasuja GK. Development and Validation of Quality Measures for Testosterone Prescribing. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 2023 Jun 5; 7(7):bvad075.
  33. Newberry SJ, Motala A, Rubenstein LV, Shekelle PG, Larkin J. A Scoping Review of Guidelines and Quality Measures to Screen for Social and Caregiver Support and Cognitive Impairment in Primary Care. Rand health quarterly. 2023 Jun 1; 10(3):1.
  34. Saconi B, Kuna ST, Polomano RC, Compton PA, Keenan BT, Sawyer AM. Chronic pain is common and worsens daytime sleepiness, insomnia, and quality of life in veterans with obstructive sleep apnea. Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. 2023 Jun 1; 19(6):1121-1132.
  35. Hausmann LRM, Lamorte C, Estock JL. Understanding the Context for Incorporating Equity into Quality Improvement Throughout a National Health Care System. Health equity. 2023 May 26; 7(1):312-320.
  36. Sinha S, Mukamel DB, Saliba D, Ladd H, Konetzka RT. New Dimensions of Staffing Patterns in Nursing Homes and Nursing Home Quality: Comparing Staffing Instability to Staffing Turnover. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2023 Aug 1; 24(8):1099-1105.e7.
  37. Desai AP, Madathanapalli A, Tang Q, Orman ES, Lammert C, Patidar KR, Nephew LD, Ghabril M, Monahan PO, Chalasani N. PROMIS Profile-29 is a valid instrument with distinct advantages over legacy instruments for measuring the quality of life in chronic liver disease. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 2023 Dec 1; 78(6):1788-1799.
  38. Larkin T, Martinez V, Scully T, Martinez D, Hayes C, Verduzco-Gutierrez M. Upper Limb Spasticity: The Quality of Online Patient Resources. American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation. 2024 Jan 1; 103(1):18-23.
  39. Swindle T, Baloh J, Landes SJ, Lovelady NN, Vincenzo JL, Hamilton AB, Zielinski MJ, Teeter BS, Gorvine MM, Curran GM. Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) in the pre-implementation phase: key steps and activities. Frontiers in Health Services. 2023 May 24; 3:1155693.
  40. Giannitrapani KF, McCaa MD, Maheta BJ, Raspi IG, Shreve ST, Lorenz KA. Serious illness care quality during COVID-19: Identifying improvement opportunities in narrative reports from a National Bereaved Family Survey. Palliative Medicine. 2023 Jul 1; 37(7):1025-1033.
  41. Wang S, Arizmendi CJ, Chen D, Lin L, Blalock DV, Huang IC, Thissen D, DeWalt DA, Pan W, Reeve BB. Applying latent profile analysis to identify adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions at risk for poor health-related quality of life. Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics. 2023 May 14; 1-14.
  42. Connell NB, Zupanc SN, Lorenz KA, Bhatnagar S, Fereydooni S, Gamboa RC, Ganesh A, Satija A, Singh N, Spruijt O, Giannitrapani KF. Facilitators of palliative care quality improvement team cohesion: Lessons from a seven-site implementation project in India. Health care management review. 2023 Jul 1; 48(3):219-228.
  43. Blegen M, Ko J, Salzman G, Begashaw MM, Ulloa JG, Girgis M, Shekelle P, Maggard-Gibbons M. Comparing Quality of Surgical Care Between the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Non-Veterans Affairs Settings: A Systematic Review. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2023 Aug 1; 237(2):352-361.
  44. Lindner SR, Balasubramanian B, Marino M, McConnell KJ, Kottke TE, Edwards ST, Cykert S, Cohen DJ. Estimating the Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction of a Quality Improvement Initiative in Primary Care: Findings from EvidenceNOW. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM. 2023 May 8; 36(3):462-476.
  45. Ovsepyan H, Chuang E, Brunner J, Hamilton AB, Needleman J, Heilemann M, Canelo I, Yano EM. Improving primary care team functioning through evidence based quality improvement: A comparative case study. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2023 Jun 1; 11(2):100691.
  46. Aslakson RA, Rickerson E, Fahy B, Waterman B, Siden R, Colborn K, Smith S, Verano M, Lira I, Hollahan C, Siddiqi A, Johnson K, Chandrashekaran S, Harris E, Nudotor R, Baker J, Heidari SN, Poultsides G, Conca-Cheng AM, Cook Chapman A, Lessios AS, Holdsworth LM, Gustin J, Ejaz A, Pawlik T, Miller J, Morris AM, Tulsky JA, Lorenz K, Temel JS, Smith TJ, Johnston F. Effect of Perioperative Palliative Care on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Patients Undergoing Surgery for Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open. 2023 May 1; 6(5):e2314660.
  47. C Coleman B, Finch D, Wang R, L Luther S, Heapy A, Brandt C, J Lisi A. Extracting Pain Care Quality Indicators from U.S. Veterans Health Administration Chiropractic Care Using Natural Language Processing. Applied clinical informatics. 2023 May 1; 14(3):600-608.
  48. George EL, Rothenberg KA, Barreto NB, Chen R, Trickey AW, Arya S. Simplifying Hospital Quality Comparisons for Vascular Surgery Using Center-Level Frailty Burden Rather Than Comorbidities. Annals of vascular surgery. 2023 Sep 1; 95:262-270.
  49. Oyekan AA, Lee JY, Hodges JC, Chen SR, Wilson AE, Fourman MS, Clayton EO, Njoku-Austin C, Crasto JA, Wisniewski MK, Bilderback A, Gunn SR, Levin WI, Arnold RM, Hinrichsen KL, Mensah C, Hogan MV, Hall DE. Increasing Quality and Frequency of Goals-of-Care Documentation in the Highest-Risk Surgical Candidates: One-Year Results of the Surgical Pause Program. JB & JS open access. 2023 Apr 24; 8(2).
  50. Steffen KM, Spinella PC, Holdsworth LM, Ford M, Lee GM, Asch SM, Proctor EK, Doctor A. Factors influencing pediatric transfusion: A complex decision impacting quality of care. Transfusion. 2023 Jun 1; 63(6):1151-1160.
  51. Apaydin EA, Paige NM, Begashaw MM, Larkin J, Miake-Lye IM, Shekelle PG. Veterans Health Administration (VA) vs. Non-VA Healthcare Quality: A Systematic Review. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Jul 1; 38(9):2179-2188.
  52. Bravata DM, Purvis T, Ding QP, Waddell KJ, Kilkenny MF. Advances in Stroke: Quality Improvement. Stroke. 2023 Jun 1; 54(6):1665-1669.
  53. Almklov E, Cohen AJ, Russell LE, Mor MK, Fine MJ, Hausmann LRM, Moy E, Washington DL, Jones KT, Long JA, Pittman J. Assessing an electronic self-report method for improving quality of ethnicity and race data in the Veterans Health Administration. JAMIA open. 2023 Jul 1; 6(2):ooad020.
  54. Davila H, Mills WL, Clark V, Hartmann CW, Sullivan JL, Mohr DC, Baughman AW, Berlowitz DR, Pimentel CB. Quality Improvement Efforts in VA Community Living Centers Following Public Reporting of Performance. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 2023 Apr 4; 1-23.
  55. Ghazal LV, Abrahamse P, Ward KC, Morris AM, Hawley ST, Veenstra CM. Financial Toxicity and Its Association With Health-Related Quality of Life Among Partners of Colorectal Cancer Survivors. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Apr 3; 6(4):e235897.
  56. Wheat CL, Wheat CL, Gunnink EJ, Gunnink EJ, Rojas J, Rojas J, Shah A, Shah A, Nelson KM, Nelson KM, Wong ES, Gray KE, Gray KE, Stockdale SE, Stockdale SE, Rosland AM, Rosland AM, Chang ET, Chang ET, Reddy A, Reddy A. Changes in Primary Care Quality Associated With Implementation of the Veterans Health Administration Preventive Health Inventory. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Apr 3; 6(4):e238525.
  57. Shekelle P, Maggard-Gibbons M, Blegen M, Apaydin E, Paige N, Ko J, Ulloa J, Salzman G, Begashaw M, Girgis MD, Larkin J. VA versus Non-VA Quality of Care: A Systematic Review. Evidence-based Synthesis Program Reports. Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC: Health Services Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development; 2023 Apr 1. 1-130 p. Report No.: VA ESP Project #05-226.
  58. Marcin T, Hautz SC, Singh H, Singh H, Zwaan L, Zwaan L, Schwappach D, Schwappach D, Krummrey G, Krummrey G, Schauber SK, Schauber SK, Nendaz M, Nendaz M, Exadaktylos AK, Exadaktylos AK, Müller M, Müller M, Lambrigger C, Lambrigger C, Sauter TC, Sauter TC, Lindner G, Lindner G, Bosbach S, Bosbach S, Griesshammer I, Griesshammer I, Hautz WE, Hautz WE. Effects of a computerised diagnostic decision support tool on diagnostic quality in emergency departments: study protocol of the DDx-BRO multicentre cluster randomised cross-over trial. BMJ open. 2023 Mar 29; 13(3):e072649.
  59. Callaghan-Koru J, Farzin A, Ridout E, Curran G. Integrating Implementation Science with Quality Improvement to Improve Perinatal Outcomes. Clinics in perinatology. 2023 Jun 1; 50(2):343-361.
  60. Han L, Luther SL, Finch DK, Dobscha SK, Skanderson M, Bathulapalli H, Fodeh SJ, Hahm B, Bouayad L, Lee A, Goulet JL, Brandt CA, Kerns RD. Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches and Pain Care Quality in the Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Setting: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis. Journal of integrative and complementary medicine. 2023 Mar 27; 29(6-7):420-429.
  61. Masheb RM, Snow JL, Fenn LM, Antoniadis NE, Raffa SD, Ruser CB, Buta E. Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Weight and Eating Quality of Life (WE-QOL) Scale in US Military Veterans. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Jul 1; 38(9):2076-2081.
  62. Vranas KC, Hooker ER, Golden SE, Nugent S, Slatore CG. Association of Communication Quality With Patient-Centered Outcomes Among Patients With Incidental Pulmonary Nodules. Chest. 2023 Aug 1; 164(2):556-559.
  63. Zupa MF, Alexopoulos AS, Esteve L, Rosland AM. Specialist Perspectives on Delivering High-Quality Telemedicine for Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Survey Study. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 2023 Mar 6; 7(5):bvad039.
  64. Rotenstein LS, Cohen DJ, Marino M, Bates DW, Edwards ST. Association of Clinician Practice Ownership With Ability of Primary Care Practices to Improve Quality Without Increasing Burnout. JAMA health forum. 2023 Mar 3; 4(3):e230299.
  65. Osuagwu C, Khinkar RM, Zheng A, Wien M, Decopain J, Desai S, McElrath E, Hinchey E, Mueller SK, Schnipper JL, Boxer R, Shannon EM. A Public Health Critical Race Praxis Informed Congestive Heart Failure Quality Improvement Initiative on Inpatient General Medicine. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Aug 1; 38(10):2236-2244.
  66. Sherman JD, Singh H. Bringing Environmental Sustainability into the Quality Agenda: Time to Act on Reducing Health Care Pollution and Waste. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2023 Feb 24; 49(6-7):336-339.
  67. Pizzi LT, Prioli KM, Jutkowitz E, Piersol CV, Lyketsos CG, Abersone I, Marx KA, Gitlin LN. Economic Analysis of the Tailored Activity Program: A Nonpharmacological Approach to Improve Quality of Life in People Living With Dementia and their Caregivers. Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society. 2023 Jul 1; 42(7):1433-1444.
  68. Jones AL, Chu K, Rose DE, Gelberg L, Kertesz SG, Gordon AJ, Wells KB, Leung L. Quality of Depression Care for Veterans Affairs Primary Care Patients with Experiences of Homelessness. Journal of general internal medicine. 2023 Aug 1; 38(11):2436-2444.
  69. Gawrieh S, Corey KE, Lake JE, Samala N, Desai AP, Debroy P, Sjoquist JA, Robison M, Tann M, Akisik F, Bhamidipalli SS, Saha CK, Zachary K, Robbins GK, Gupta SK, Chung RT, Chalasani N. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is not associated with impairment in health-related quality of life in virally suppressed persons with human immune deficiency virus. PLoS ONE. 2023 Feb 10; 18(2):e0279685.
  70. Reddy YNV, Mendu ML. Defining Quality While Addressing Equity among Patients with Kidney Failure in the United States. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2023 Mar 1; 18(3):294-296.
  71. Minns A, Dehlendorf C, Peahl AF, Heisler M, Owens LE, van Kainen B, Bonawitz K, Moniz MH. Elevating the patient voice in contraceptive care quality improvement: A qualitative study of patient preferences for peripartum contraceptive care. Contraception. 2023 May 1; 121:109960.
  72. Grabowski DC, Chen A, Saliba D. Paying for Nursing Home Quality: An Elusive But Important Goal. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2023 Feb 1; 71(2):342-348.
  73. Kosar CM, Mor V, Werner RM, Rahman M. Risk of Discharge to Lower-Quality Nursing Homes Among Hospitalized Older Adults With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Feb 1; 6(2):e2255134.
  74. Travers JL, Alexander G, Bergh M, Bonner A, Degenholtz HB, Ersek M, Ferrell B, Grabowski DC, Longobardi I, McMullen T, Mueller C, Rantz M, Saliba D, Sloane P, Stevenson DG. 2022 NASEM Quality of Nursing Home Report: Moving Recommendations to Action. [Editorial]. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2023 Feb 1; 71(2):318-321.
  75. Washington DL, Jackson LB, Kasom DR, Canning MT, Jeong S, López L, Yuan A, Toyama JA, Steers WN. National Veteran Health Equity Report - Black or African American Veteran Chartbook. Focus on Veterans Health Administration Patient Experience and Health Care Quality. Washington DC: Office of Health Equity Veterans Health Administration; 2023 Feb 1. 38 p.
  76. Waliski A, Matthieu MM, Allison MK, Wilson MP, Skaggs EM, Adkins DA, Owen RR. Emergency Departments Treating Veterans for Suicide: Ensuring Quality Care for Veterans Outside of Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Facilities. Journal of emergency nursing. 2023 Mar 1; 49(2):255-265.
  77. Sheth SG, Maratt JK, Newberry C, Hung KW, Henry Z, Leiman DA, Quality Committee of the American Gastroenterological Association. AGA Institute Quality Indicator Development and Uses. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. 2023 Jun 1; 21(6):1399-1402.
  78. Mukamel DB, Saliba D, Ladd H, Konetzka RT. Association of Staffing Instability With Quality of Nursing Home Care. JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jan 3; 6(1):e2250389.
  79. O'Hanlon CE, Giannitrapani KF, Gamboa RC, Walling AM, Lindvall C, Garrido M, Asch SM, Lorenz KA. Integrating Patient and Expert Perspectives to Conceptualize High-Quality Palliative Cancer Care for Symptoms in the US Veterans Health Administration: A Qualitative Study. Inquiry : A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing. 2023 Jan 1; 60:469580231160374.
  80. Kumar B, Mosher H, Farag A, Swee M. How can we champion diversity, equity and inclusion within Lean Six Sigma? Practical suggestions for quality improvement. BMJ quality & safety. 2023 May 1; 32(5):296-300.
  81. Cohen-Mekelburg S, Van T, Yu X, Costa DK, Manojlovich M, Saini S, Gilmartin H, Admon AJ, Resnicow K, Higgins PDR, Siwo G, Zhu J, Waljee AK. Understanding clinician connections to inform efforts to promote high-quality inflammatory bowel disease care. PLoS ONE. 2022 Dec 27; 17(12):e0279441.
  82. Mull HJ, Kabdiyeva A, Ndugga N, Gordon SH, Garrido MM, Pizer SD. What is the role of selection bias in quality comparisons between the Veterans Health Administration and community care? Example of elective hernia surgery. Health services research. 2023 Jun 1; 58(3):654-662.
  83. Jacobs JC, Bowling CB, Brown T, Smith VA, Decosimo K, Wilson SM, Hastings SN, Shepherd-Banigan M, Allen K, Van Houtven C. Racial inequality in functional trajectories between Black and White U.S. veterans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2023 Apr 1; 71(4):1081-1092.
  84. Del Rios M, Nallamothu BK, Chan PS. Data Equity: The Foundation of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Quality Improvement. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2023 Feb 1; 16(2):e009603.
  85. Gustavson AM, Hagedorn HJ, Jesser LE, Kenny ME, Clothier BA, Bounthavong M, Ackland PE, Gordon AJ, Harris AHS. Healthcare quality measures in implementation research: advantages, risks and lessons learned. Health research policy and systems. 2022 Dec 7; 20(1):131.
  86. Hempel S, Bolshakova M, Turner BJ, Dinalo J, Rose D, Motala A, Fu N, Clemesha CG, Rubenstein L, Stockdale S. Evidence-Based Quality Improvement: a Scoping Review of the Literature. Journal of general internal medicine. 2022 Dec 1; 37(16):4257-4267.
  87. Kelley AT, Incze MA, Baylis JD, Calder SG, Weiner SJ, Zickmund SL, Jones AL, Vanneman ME, Conroy MB, Gordon AJ, Bridges JFP. Patient-centered quality measurement for opioid use disorder: Development of a taxonomy to address gaps in research and practice. Substance Abuse. 2022 Dec 1; 43(1):1286-1299.
  88. Bishawi M, Hattler B, Almassi GH, Quin JA, Grover FL, Collins JF, Ebrahimi R, Wolbrom DH, Shroyer AL, Veterans Affairs Randomized On/Off Bypass Follow-up Study (ROOBY-FS) Group. Health-related quality of life impacts upon 5-year survival after coronary artery bypass surgery. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 2022 Dec 1; 37(12):4899-4905.
  89. Nuckols TK, Dworsky M, Conlon C, Robbins M, Benner D, Seabury S, Asch SM. The quality of occupational healthcare for carpal tunnel syndrome, healthcare expenditures, and disability outcomes: A prospective observational study. Muscle & Nerve. 2023 Jan 1; 67(1):52-62.
  90. Hejjaji V, Chakrabarti AK, Nallamothu BK, Iwashyna TJ, Krein SL, Trumpower B, Kennedy M, Chinnakondepalli K, Malik AO, Chan PS. Corrigendum to 'Association Between Hospital Resuscitation Team Leader Credentials and Survival Outcomes for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest' [Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovation Quality Outcomes, 2021, Vol 5, Issue 6, Pages 1021-1028, Article Number: doi: 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2021.06.002]. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes. 2022 Dec 1; 6(6):636.
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  617. Hamilton AB. Fostering organizational change to promote uptake of evidence-based HIV prevention practices: lessons and tools from quality improvement approaches. [Cyberseminar]. Clinical Directors Network Capacity Building Assistance Learning Collaborative. 2018 Mar 16.
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  621. Gawron AJ, Lawrence P, Millar MM, Dominitz JA, Gupta S, Whooley MA, Kaltenbach TR. A Nationwide Survey and Needs Assessment of Colonoscopy Quality Assurance Programs in the VA. Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS. 2018 Mar 6; 35(3):26-32.
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  624. Meyer EC, Frankfurt SB, Kimbrel NA, DeBeer BB, Gulliver SB, Morrisette SB. The influence of mindfulness, self-compassion, psychological flexibility, and posttraumatic stress disorder on disability and quality of life over time in war veterans. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2018 Jul 1; 74(7):1272-1280.
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  629. Frakt AB. How Dental Inequality Hurts Americans. The New York Times. 2018 Feb 19: The Upshot: A3.
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  641. Blonigen DM. Veterans who frequently utilize psychiatric emergency services: Identifying barriers and facilitators to reducing service utilization while maintaining quality of care. VA Emergency Medicine Mental Health Workgroup National Cyberseminar [Cyberseminar]. VA. 2018 Jan 16.
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  646. Gidwani-Marszowski R, Needleman J, Mor V, Faricy-Anderson K, Boothroyd DB, Hsin G, Wagner TH, Lorenz KA, Patel MI, Joyce VR, Murrell SS, Ramchandran K, Asch SM. Quality Of End-Of-Life Care Is Higher In The VA Compared To Care Paid For By Traditional Medicare. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2018 Jan 1; 37(1):95-103.
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  651. Ndumele CD, Schpero WL, Trivedi AN. Medicaid Expansion and Health Plan Quality in Medicaid Managed Care. Health services research. 2018 Aug 1; 53 Suppl 1:2821-2838.
  652. Helfrich CD, Stryczek K. De-implementing inhaled corticosteroids to improve quality and safety for patients with mild-to-moderate COPD: Mixed-methods findings of primary-care providers' perspectives. QUERI Implementation Network Series [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2017 Dec 7.
  653. Cole MB, Wilson IB, Trivedi AN. State Variation in Quality Outcomes and Disparities in Outcomes in Community Health Centers. Medical care. 2017 Dec 1; 55(12):1001-1007.
  654. Nieuwsma JA, King HA, Jackson GL, Bidassie B, Wright LW, Cantrell WC, Bates MJ, Rhodes JE, White BS, Gatewood SJL, Meador KG. Implementing Integrated Mental Health and Chaplain Care in a National Quality Improvement Initiative. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2017 Dec 1; 68(12):1213-1215.
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  660. Bravo AJ, Kelley ML, Swinkels CM, Ulmer CS. Work stressors, depressive symptoms and sleep quality among US Navy members: a parallel process latent growth modelling approach across deployment. Journal of Sleep Research. 2018 Jun 1; 27(3):e12624.
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  662. Sherbourne CD, Aoki W, Belin TR, Bromley E, Chung B, Dixon E, Gilmore JM, Johnson MD, Jones F, Koegel P, Khodyakov D, Landry CM, Lizaola E, Mtume N, Ngo VK, Ong MK, Perlman J, Pulido E, Sauer V, Tang L, Whittington Y, Vidaurri E, Williams P, Lucas-Wright A, Zhang L, Miranda J, Jones L, Wells K. Comparative Effectiveness of Two Models of Depression Services Quality Improvement in Health and Community Sectors. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2017 Dec 1; 68(12):1315-1320.
  663. Waljee AK, Yang Y, Wu GD. AAA IBD 2017: Methodologies to Collect and Analyze Clinical Data to Support Quality Improvement Initiatives Designed to Optimize the Care of Patients With IBD. Gastroenterology. 2017 Dec 1; 153(6):e1-e5.
  664. Lyon ZM, Feyman Y, Johnson GM, Frakt AB. Quality of provider-offered Medicare Advantage plans. BMJ quality & safety. 2018 Mar 1; 27(3):247-250.
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  669. Maratt JK, Menees SB, Piper MS, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Saini SD. Patients Are Willing to Repeat Colonoscopy at a Short Interval When Bowel Preparation Quality Is Suboptimal. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. 2018 May 1; 16(5):776-777.
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  675. Jesus TS, Papadimitriou C, Pinho CS, Hoenig H. Key Characteristics of Rehabilitation Quality Improvement Publications: Scoping Review From 2010 to 2016. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 2018 Jun 1; 99(6):1141-1148.e4.
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  691. Aslakson RA, Dy SM, Wilson RF, Waldfogel J, Zhang A, Isenberg SR, Blair A, Sixon J, Lorenz KA, Robinson KA. Patient- and Caregiver-Reported Assessment Tools for Palliative Care: Summary of the 2017 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Technical Brief. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2017 Dec 1; 54(6):961-972.e16.
  692. Hand Surgery Quality Consortium. Candidate Quality Measures for Hand Surgery. The Journal of hand surgery. 2017 Nov 1; 42(11):859-866.e3.
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  695. Fortney JC, Reger GM, Beatty AL, Reisinger HS, Turvey CL, Ohl M. The Virtual Specialty Care QUERI Program: Improving Access to High-Quality Specialty Care for Rural Veterans. FORUM. 2017 Aug 1; 2017(Summer): 4.
  696. Hartmann CW, Palmer JA, Mills WL, Pimentel CB, Allen RS, Wewiorski NJ, Dillon KR, Snow AL. Adaptation of a nursing home culture change research instrument for frontline staff quality improvement use. Psychological Services. 2017 Aug 1; 14(3):337-346.
  697. Iaccarino JM, Wiener RS. Pulmonary Nodule Guidelines: What Physicians Do When Evidence-Based Guidelines Lack High-Quality Evidence. Chest. 2017 Aug 1; 152(2):232-234.
  698. Katon JG, Lewis L, Hercinovic S, McNab A, Fortney J, Rose SM. Improving Perinatal Mental Health Care for Women Veterans: Description of a Quality Improvement Program. Maternal and child health journal. 2017 Aug 1; 21(8):1598-1605.
  699. Keteyian CK, Nallamothu BK, Ryan AM. The hospital tech laboratory: quality innovation in a new era of value-conscious care. The American journal of managed care. 2017 Aug 1; 23(8):501-504.
  700. Vimalananda VG, DeSotto K, Chen T, Mullakary J, Schlosser J, Archambeault C, Peck J, Cassidy H, Conlin PR, Evans S, McConnell M, Shirley E. A Quality Improvement Program to Reduce Potential Overtreatment of Diabetes Among Veterans at High Risk of Hypoglycemia. Diabetes Spectrum. 2017 Aug 1; 30(3):211-216.
  701. Frakt AB. Which Metrics on Hospital Quality Should Patients Pay Attention To. The New York Times. 2017 Jul 24: The Upshot: The New Health Care.
  702. Thomas-Purcell KB, Tarver WL, Richards C, Primus-Joseph M. Gatekeepers' perceptions of the quality and availability of services for breast and cervical cancer patients in the English-speaking Windward Islands: an exploratory investigation. Cancer Causes & Control : Ccc. 2017 Nov 1; 28(11):1195-1206.
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  704. Thomas RM, Locke ER, Woo DM, Nguyen EHK, Press VG, Layouni TA, Trittschuh EH, Reiber GE, Fan VS. Inhaler Training Delivered by Internet-Based Home Videoconferencing Improves Technique and Quality of Life. Respiratory Care. 2017 Nov 1; 62(11):1412-1422.
  705. Ong MK, Jones L, Aoki W, Belin TR, Bromley E, Chung B, Dixon E, Johnson MD, Jones F, Koegel P, Khodyakov D, Landry CM, Lizaola E, Mtume N, Ngo VK, Perlman J, Pulido E, Sauer V, Sherbourne CD, Tang L, Vidaurri E, Whittington Y, Williams P, Lucas-Wright A, Zhang L, Southard M, Miranda J, Wells K. A Community-Partnered, Participatory, Cluster-Randomized Study of Depression Care Quality Improvement: Three-Year Outcomes. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2017 Dec 1; 68(12):1262-1270.
  706. Perri JL, Nolan BW, Goodney PP, DeMartino RR, Brooke BS, Arya S, Conrad MF, Cronenwett JL. Factors affecting operative time and outcome of carotid endarterectomy in the Vascular Quality Initiative. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 2017 Oct 1; 66(4):1100-1108.
  707. Goldstein KM, Vogt D, Hamilton A, Frayne SM, Gierisch J, Blakeney J, Sadler A, Bean-Mayberry BM, Carney D, DiLeone B, Fox AB, Klap R, Yee E, Romodan Y, Strehlow H, Yosef J, Yano EM. Practice-based research networks add value to evidence-based quality improvement. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2018 Jun 1; 6(2):128-134.
  708. Martindale SL, Farrell-Carnahan LV, Ulmer CS, Kimbrel NA, McDonald SD, Rowland JA, VA Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Registry Workgroup. Sleep quality in returning veterans: The influence of mild traumatic brain injury. Rehabilitation Psychology. 2017 Nov 1; 62(4):563-570.
  709. Kaltenbach TR. Using Data and Information Systems to Measure Colonoscopy Quality. Using Data and Information Systems in Partnered Research [Cyberseminar]. Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development. 2017 Jul 7.
  710. Torres Stone RA, Waring ME, Cutrona SL, Kiefe CI, Allison J, Doubeni CA. The association of dietary quality with colorectal cancer among normal weight, overweight and obese men and women: a prospective longitudinal study in the USA. BMJ open. 2017 Jul 5; 7(6):e015619.
  711. Krouse RS, Wendel CS, Garcia DO, Grant M, Temple LKF, Going SB, Hornbrook MC, Bulkley JE, McMullen CK, Herrinton LJ. Physical activity, bowel function, and quality of life among rectal cancer survivors. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2017 Nov 1; 26(11):3131-3142.
  712. Hepner KA, Paddock SM, Watkins KE, Ounpraseuth ST, Schrader AM, Hudson TJ. Association Between Quality Measures and Perceptions of Care Among Patients With Substance Use Disorders. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2017 Nov 1; 68(11):1150-1156.
  713. Butler JM, Anderson KA, Supiano MA, Weir CR. "It Feels Like a Lot of Extra Work": Resident Attitudes About Quality Improvement and Implications for an Effective Learning Health Care System. Academic Medicine. 2017 Jul 1; 92(7):984-990.
  714. David RA, Brooke BS, Hanson KT, Goodney PP, Genovese EA, Baril DT, Gloviczki P, DeMartino RR. Early extubation is associated with reduced length of stay and improved outcomes after elective aortic surgery in the Vascular Quality Initiative. Journal of vascular surgery : official publication, the Society for Vascular Surgery [and] International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter. 2017 Jul 1; 66(1):79-94.e14.
  715. DeBeer BB, Kimbrel NA, Mendoza C, Davidson D, Meyer EC, La Bash H, Gulliver SB, Morissette SB. Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep Quality, and Suicidal Ideation in Iraq/Afghanistan Era Veterans. The Journal of nervous and mental disease. 2017 Jul 1; 205(7):512-516.
  716. Kilbourne AM, Elwy AR, Sales AE, Atkins D. Accelerating Research Impact in a Learning Health Care System: VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in the Choice Act Era. Medical care. 2017 Jul 1; 55 Suppl 7 Suppl 1:S4-S12.
  717. Nelson K, Sylling PW, Taylor L, Rose D, Mori A, Fihn SD. Clinical Quality and the Patient-Centered Medical Home. JAMA internal medicine. 2017 Jul 1; 177(7):1042-1044.
  718. Rinne ST, Castaneda J, Lindenauer PK, Cleary PD, Paz HL, Gomez JL. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Readmissions and Other Measures of Hospital Quality. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2017 Jul 1; 196(1):47-55.
  719. Stevens M, Hastings SN, Markland AD, Hwang U, Hung W, Vandenberg AE, Bryan W, Cross D, Powers J, McGwin G, Fattouh N, Ho W, Clevenger C, Vaughan CP. Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2017 Jul 1; 65(7):1609-1614.
  720. Teno JM, Price RA, Makaroun LK. Challenges Of Measuring Quality Of Community-Based Programs For Seriously Ill Individuals And Their Families. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2017 Jul 1; 36(7):1227-1233.
  721. Watkins KE, Hudson TJ, Hayes C. Association between Quality Measures and Mortality in Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. Counselor Magazine. 2017 Jul 1;(Jul-Aug):1.
  722. Hanks D, Hecht MI, Auffrey RR, Washington DL. Podcast-4: Live from the Meeting: Measuring Quality of Care for Women Veterans. 2017 Jun 27. 1 (4). Available from: https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/news/podcasts/default.cfm.
  723. Ndumele CD, Schpero WL, Schlesinger MJ, Trivedi AN. Association Between Health Plan Exit From Medicaid Managed Care and Quality of Care, 2006-2014. JAMA. 2017 Jun 27; 317(24):2524-2531.
  724. Rodriguez AJ, Fink HA, Mirigian L, Guañabens N, Eastell R, Akesson K, Bauer DC, Ebeling PR. Pain, Quality of Life, and Safety Outcomes of Kyphoplasty for Vertebral Compression Fractures: Report of a Task Force of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. 2017 Sep 1; 32(9):1935-1944.
  725. Kumbhani DJ, Nallamothu BK. PCI Volume Benchmarks: Still Adequate for Quality Assessment in 2017?. [Editorial]. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2017 Jun 20; 69(24):2925-2928.
  726. Porter AC, Fitzgibbon ML, Fischer M, Chukwudozie IB, Berbaum ML, Schiffer L, Hynes DM. Quality of Life among Participants in a Patient-Centered Medical Home Intervention for Patients with End-stage Renal Disease on Hemodialysis. Insights in Internal Medicine. 2017 Jun 16; 1(2):1-10.
  727. Jang JW, Drumm MR, Efstathiou JA, Paly JJ, Niemierko A, Ancukiewicz M, Talcott JA, Clark JA, Zietman AL. Long-term quality of life after definitive treatment for prostate cancer: patient-reported outcomes in the second posttreatment decade. Cancer medicine. 2017 Jul 1; 6(7):1827-1836.
  728. Rubenstein LZ, Stockdale S, Yano EM. Improving improvement: Evidence-based Quality Improvement as a PACT Accelerator. Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Demonstration Labs; Spotlight on Women's Health [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2017 May 17.
  729. Winchester DE, Schmalfuss C, Helfrich CD, Beyth RJ. A specialty-specific, multimodality educational quality improvement initiative to deimplement rarely appropriate myocardial perfusion imaging. Open heart. 2017 May 16; 4(1):e000589.
  730. Ziemba JB, Matlaga BR, Tessier C. Quality Improvement Education and Participation in Urology Residence Programs: Preliminary Survey Results of Program Directors. [Abstract]. The Journal of urology. 2017 May 15; 197(4s):e1131.
  731. Fonarow GC, Ziaeian B. Holding the Readmission Gates: Incentivizing Quality and Cost-Effective Care for Heart Failure. JACC. Heart failure. 2017 Aug 1; 5(8):589-590.
  732. Chung MJ, Hansen JD, Schulteis RD, Boggan JC, Jones WS, Povsic TJ, Roberts S, Krucoff MW, Rao SV. Understanding operator stent choice in the catheterization laboratory using a pre-procedure survey: Opportunities for quality improvement. Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions. 2017 Dec 1; 18(8):588-591.
  733. Imler TD, Sherman S, Imperiale TF, Xu H, Ouyang F, Beesley C, Hilton C, Coté GA. Provider-specific quality measurement for ERCP using natural language processing. Gastrointestinal endoscopy. 2018 Jan 1; 87(1):164-173.e2.
  734. Adam C, Patiraki E, Lemonidou C, Radwin L, Charalambous A, Charalambous M, Berg A, Sjövall K, Katajisto J, Stolt M, Suhonen R. Quality of nursing care as perceived by cancer patients: A cross-sectional survey in four European countries. Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology. 2017 May 1; 22(3):777-782.
  735. Paddock SM, Hepner KA, Hudson T, Ounpraseuth S, Schrader AM, Sullivan G, Watkins KE. Association Between Process-Based Quality Indicators and Mortality for Patients With Substance Use Disorders. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. 2017 May 1; 78(4):588-596.
  736. Schmidt EM, Gupta S, Bowe T, Ellerbe LS, Phelps TE, Finney JW, Humphreys K, Trafton J, Vanneman ME, Harris AHS. Predictive Validity of Outpatient Follow-up After Detoxification as a Quality Measure. Journal of addiction medicine. 2017 May 1; 11(3):205-210.
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  739. Yano EM, Hamilton AB. Quality improvement (QI) basics: Leveraging evidence and local experience to design and conduct women's health QI projects. [Cyberseminar]. National VA Women's Health Field Leaders' Webinar Series. 2017 Apr 12.
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  741. Brown JC, Harhay MO, Harhay MN. Physical activity, diet quality, and mortality among sarcopenic older adults. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 2017 Apr 1; 29(2):257-263.
  742. Hebert PL, Howell EA, Wong ES, Hernandez SE, Rinne ST, Sulc CA, Neely EL, Liu CF. Methods for Measuring Racial Differences in Hospitals Outcomes Attributable to Disparities in Use of High-Quality Hospital Care. Health services research. 2017 Apr 1; 52(2):826-848.
  743. Salyers MP, Bonfils KA, Luther L, Firmin RL, White DA, Adams EL, Rollins AL. The Relationship Between Professional Burnout and Quality and Safety in Healthcare: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine. 2017 Apr 1; 32(4):475-482.
  744. Sullivan JL, Shwartz M, Stolzmann K, Afable MK, Burgess JF. A Longitudinal Assessment of the Effect of Resident-Centered Care on Quality in Veterans Health Administration Community Living Centers. Health services research. 2018 Jun 1; 53(3):1819-1833.
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  746. Soley-Bori M, Benzer JK, Burgess JF. Longitudinal Analysis of Quality of Diabetes Care and Relational Climate in Primary Care. Health services research. 2018 Apr 1; 53(2):1042-1064.
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  748. Roydhouse JK, Gutman R, Keating NL, Mor V, Wilson IB. Differences between Proxy and Patient Assessments of Cancer Care Experiences and Quality Ratings. Health services research. 2018 Apr 1; 53(2):919-943.
  749. Johnson G, Lyon ZM, Frakt A. Provider-Offered Medicare Advantage Plans: Recent Growth And Care Quality. Health affairs (Project Hope). 2017 Mar 1; 36(3):539-547.
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  751. Vogt D, Smith BN, Fox AB, Amoroso T, Taverna E, Schnurr PP. Consequences of PTSD for the work and family quality of life of female and male U.S. Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 2017 Mar 1; 52(3):341-352.
  752. Walling AM, Beron PJ, Kaprealian T, Kupelian PA, Wenger NS, McCloskey SA, King CR, Steinberg M. Considerations for Quality Improvement in Radiation Oncology Therapy for Patients with Uncomplicated Painful Bone Metastases. Journal of palliative medicine. 2017 May 1; 20(5):478-486.
  753. Blok AC, May CN, Sadasivam RS, Houston TK. Virtual Patient Technology: Engaging Primary Care in Quality Improvement Innovations. JMIR medical education. 2017 Feb 15; 3(1):e3.
  754. Mull HJ, Rivard PE, Legler A, Pizer SD, Hawn MT, Itani KMF, Rosen AK. Comparing definitions of outpatient surgery: Implications for quality measurement. American journal of surgery. 2017 Aug 1; 214(2):186-192.
  755. Ornstein KA, Penrod J, Schnur JB, Smith CB, Teresi JA, Garrido MM, McKendrick K, Siu AL, Meier DE, Morrison RS. The Use of a Brief 5-Item Measure of Family Satisfaction as a Critical Quality Indicator in Advanced Cancer Care: A Multisite Comparison. Journal of palliative medicine. 2017 Jul 1; 20(7):716-721.
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  757. Hawley ST, Janz NK, Griffith KA, Jagsi R, Friese CR, Kurian AW, Hamilton AS, Ward KC, Morrow M, Wallner LP, Katz SJ. Recurrence risk perception and quality of life following treatment of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2017 Feb 1; 161(3):557-565.
  758. Kunitake H, Russell MM, Zheng P, Yothers G, Land SR, Petersen L, Fehrenbacher L, Giguere JK, Wickerham DL, Ko CY, Ganz PA. Quality of life and symptoms in long-term survivors of colorectal cancer: results from NSABP protocol LTS-01. Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice. 2017 Feb 1; 11(1):111-118.
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  762. Yano EM. Using evidence-based quality improvement to tailor PACT to the needs of women Veterans: Briefing before the All Women Veteran Program Managers in VISN 12 (invited talk); 2017 Jan 20;
  763. Jones KK, Zenk SN, Tarlov E, Powell LM, Matthews SA, Horoi I. A step-by-step approach to improve data quality when using commercial business lists to characterize retail food environments. BMC research notes. 2017 Jan 7; 10(1):35.
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  765. Brown WJ, Wilkerson AK, Milanak ME, Tuerk PW, Uhde TW, Cortese BM, Grubaugh AL. An examination of sleep quality in veterans with a dual diagnosis of PTSD and severe mental illness. Psychiatry Research. 2017 Jan 1; 247:15-20.
  766. Govindan S, Chopra V, Iwashyna TJ. Do Clinicians Understand Quality Metric Data? An Evaluation in a Twitter-Derived Sample. Journal of hospital medicine. 2017 Jan 1; 12(1):18-22.
  767. Lorenz KA. Quality of end-of-life care: how far have we come in addressing the needs of multicultural patients? Annals of palliative medicine. 2017 Jan 1; 6(1):3-5.
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  769. McAndrew LM, Held RF, Abbi B, Quigley KS, Helmer DA, Pasupuleti RV. Less engagement in pleasurable activities is associated with poorer quality of life for veterans with comorbid post-deployment conditions. Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association. 2017 Jan 1; 29(1):74-81.
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  772. Walling AM, Ahluwalia SC, Wenger NS, Booth M, Roth CP, Lorenz K, Kanwal F, Dy S, Asch SM, Palliative Care Cirrhosis Quality Expert Panel. Palliative Care Quality Indicators for Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease Due to Cirrhosis. Digestive diseases and sciences. 2017 Jan 1; 62(1):84-92.
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  774. Cao A. Code for UCSF Congestive Heart Failure Quality Assurance. VA Pulse: OMOP; 2016 Dec 13. Available from: https://www.vapulse.net/docs/DOC-63299?sr=search&searchId=545cb2f6-481d-4fd6-8b0f-df1c7593eb38&searchIndex=0.
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  776. Hanchate AD, Stolzmann KL, Rosen AK, Fink AS, Shwartz M, Ash AS, Abdulkerim H, Pugh MJV, Shokeen P, Borzecki A. Does adding clinical data to administrative data improve agreement among hospital quality measures? Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 2017 Sep 1; 5(3):112-118.
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  778. Jabour AM, Dixon BE, Jones JF, Haggstrom DA. Data Quality at the Indiana State Cancer Registry: An Evaluation of Timeliness by Cancer Type and Year. Journal of registry management. 2016 Dec 1; 43(4):168-173.
  779. Kalra A, Glusenkamp N, Anderson K, Kalra RN, Kerkar PG, Kumar G, Maddox TM, Oetgen WJ, Virani SS, PIQIP Investigators. American College of Cardiology (ACC)'s PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP)-Inception, progress and future direction: A report from the PIQIP Investigators. Indian heart journal. 2016 Dec 1; 68 Suppl 3:S1-S4.
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  781. McGlynn EA, Adams JL, Kerr EA. The Quest to Improve Quality: Measurement Is Necessary but Not Sufficient. [Editorial]. JAMA internal medicine. 2016 Dec 1; 176(12):1790-1791.
  782. Nuckols TK, Keeler E, Morton SC, Anderson L, Doyle B, Booth M, Shanman R, Grein J, Shekelle P. Economic Evaluation of Quality Improvement Interventions for Bloodstream Infections Related to Central Catheters: A Systematic Review. JAMA internal medicine. 2016 Dec 1; 176(12):1843-1854.
  783. Pandey A, Golwala H, Xu H, DeVore AD, Matsouaka R, Pencina M, Kumbhani DJ, Hernandez AF, Bhatt DL, Heidenreich PA, Yancy CW, de Lemos JA, Fonarow GC. Association of 30-Day Readmission Metric for Heart Failure Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Quality of Care and Outcomes. JACC. Heart failure. 2016 Dec 1; 4(12):935-946.
  784. Rahman M, Grabowski DC, Mor V, Norton EC. Is a Skilled Nursing Facility's Rehospitalization Rate a Valid Quality Measure? Health services research. 2016 Dec 1; 51(6):2158-2175.
  785. Sheehan OC, Ritchie CS, Fathi R, Garrigues SK, Saliba D, Leff B. Development of Quality Indicators to Address Abuse and Neglect in Home-Based Primary Care and Palliative Care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2016 Dec 1; 64(12):2577-2584.
  786. Watson KS, Blok AC, Buscemi J, Molina Y, Fitzgibbon M, Simon MA, Williams L, Matthews K, Studts JL, Lillie SE, Ostroff JS, Carter-Harris L, Winn RA. Society of Behavioral Medicine supports implementation of high quality lung cancer screening in high-risk populations. Translational behavioral medicine. 2016 Dec 1; 6(4):669-671.
  787. Sleath B, Sayner R, Vitko M, Carpenter DM, Blalock SJ, Muir KW, Giangiacomo AL, Hartnett ME, Robin AL. Glaucoma patient-provider communication about vision quality-of-life. Patient education and counseling. 2017 Apr 1; 100(4):703-709.
  788. Gale RC, Kehoe D, Lit YZ, Asch SM, Kurella Tamura M. Effect of a Dialysis Access Coordinator on Preemptive Access Placement among Veterans: A Quality Improvement Initiative. American Journal of Nephrology. 2016 Nov 15; 45(1):14-21.
  789. Weir CR, Gibson BS. The Information Quality of Mental Status Documentation and Data Processes. Paper presented at: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium; 2016 Nov 12; Chicago, IL.
  790. Weir CR, Gibson BS, Lewis LJ. Mental Status Documentation Information quality and Data Processes. Paper presented at: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium; 2016 Nov 12; Chicago, IL.
  791. Yee C, Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Cost, Quality, and Access under Risk-Based Contracting: The Medicare Advantage Experience. 2016 Nov 2. 1 (3). Available from: https://www.queri.research.va.gov/partnered_evaluation/PeprecBrief3.pdf.
  792. Haun JN, Duffy A, Lind JD, Kisala P, Luther SL. Qualitative inquiry explored health-related quality of life of female veterans with PTSD. Military medicine. 2016 Nov 1; 181(11):e1470-e1475.
  793. Haun JN, Duffy A, Lind JD, Kisala P, Luther SL. Qualitative Inquiry Explores Health-Related Quality of Life of Female Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Military medicine. 2016 Nov 1; 181(11):e1470-e1475.
  794. Jones CD, Cumbler E, Honigman B, Burke RE, Boxer RS, Levy C, Coleman EA, Wald HL. Hospital to Post-Acute Care Facility Transfers: Identifying Targets for Information Exchange Quality Improvement. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2017 Jan 1; 18(1):70-73.
  795. Switzer GE, Bruce J, Kiefer DM, Kobusingye H, Drexler R, Besser RM, Confer DL, Horowitz MM, King RJ, Shaw BE, van Walraven SM, Wiener L, Packman W, Varni JW, Pulsipher MA. Health-Related Quality of Life among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2016 Nov 1; 178:164-170.e1.
  796. Yee C, Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Cost and Quality of Fee-For-Service Purchased Care vs VA Care for Veterans. 2016 Nov 1. 1 (2). Available from: https://www.queri.research.va.gov/partnered_evaluation/PeprecBrief2.pdf.
  797. Luther L, Gearhart T, Fukui S, Morse G, Rollins AL, Salyers MP. Working overtime in community mental health: Associations with clinician burnout and perceived quality of care. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 2017 Jun 1; 40(2):252-259.
  798. Huynh AK, Lee ML, Farmer MM, Rubenstein LV. Application of a nonrandomized stepped wedge design to evaluate an evidence-based quality improvement intervention: a proof of concept using simulated data on patient-centered medical homes. BMC medical research methodology. 2016 Oct 21; 16(1):143.
  799. Leung LB, Vargas-Bustamante A, Martinez AE, Chen X, Rodriguez HP. Disparities in Diabetes Care Quality by English Language Preference in Community Health Centers. Health services research. 2018 Feb 1; 53(1):509-531.
  800. Dismuke CE. One-year data from Technology-based Eye Care Services, a tele-medicine quality improvement initiative at the Atlanta VA Eye Clinic. Paper presented at: American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting; 2016 Oct 15; Chicago, IL.
  801. Switzer GE, Bruce J, Kiefer DM, Kobusingye H, Drexler R, Besser RM, Confer DL, Horowitz MM, King RJ, Shaw BE, Riches M, Hayes-Lattin B, Linenberger M, Bolwell B, Rowley SD, Litzow MR, Pulsipher MA. Health-Related Quality of Life among Older Related Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors (>60 Years) Is Equivalent to That of Younger Related Donors (18 to 60 Years): A Related Donor Safety Study. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation : Journal of The American Society For Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 2017 Jan 1; 23(1):165-171.
  802. Conlon C, Asch S, Hanson M, Avins A, Levitan B, Roth C, Robbins M, Dworsky M, Seabury S, Nuckols T. Assessing the Value of High-Quality Care for Work-Associated Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a Large Integrated Health Care System: Study Design. The Permanente journal. 2016 Oct 3; 20(4):87-95.
  803. Chang E, Ruder T, Setodji C, Saliba D, Hanson M, Zingmond DS, Wenger NS, Ganz DA. Differences in Nursing Home Quality Between Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Patients. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2016 Oct 1; 17(10):960.e9-960.e14.
  804. Clarke CA, Asch SM, Baker L, Bilimoria K, Dudley RA, Fong N, Holliday-Hanson ML, Hopkins DS, Imholz EM, Malin J, Moy L, O'Sullivan M, Parker JP, Saigal CS, Spurlock B, Teleki S, Zingmond D, Lang L. Public Reporting of Hospital-Level Cancer Surgical Volumes in California: An Opportunity to Inform Decision Making and Improve Quality. Journal of oncology practice / American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2016 Oct 1; 12(10):e944-e948.
  805. Hecht MI, Hanks D, Kilbourne AM. Short Video-01: VA HSR&D Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI): Goals, Programs, Impacts. 2016 Oct 1. 7 (1). Available from: https://youtu.be/Kk2orizTB9o or at https://www.queri.research.va.gov/#.
  806. Hsu JC, Maddox TM, Marcus GM. Overtreatment of Low-Risk Patients With Atrial Fibrillation-The Quality Coin Has 2 Sides-Reply. JAMA cardiology. 2016 Oct 1; 1(7):849.
  807. Painter JM, Gray K, McGinn MM, Mostoufi S, Hoerster KD. The relationships of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptoms with health-related quality of life and the role of social support among Veterans. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2016 Oct 1; 25(10):2657-2667.
  808. Parrish AB, Sanaiha Y, Petrie BA, Russell MM, Chen F. Examining the Quality of Rectal Cancer Operative Reports in Teaching Institutions: Is There an Opportunity for Resident Education? The American surgeon. 2016 Oct 1; 82(10):1023-1027.
  809. Saban KL, Griffin JM, Urban A, Janusek MA, Pape TL, Collins E. Perceived health, caregiver burden, and quality of life in women partners providing care to Veterans with traumatic brain injury. Journal of rehabilitation research and development. 2016 Oct 1; 53(6):681-692.
  810. Walling AM, Tisnado D, Ettner SL, Asch SM, Dy SM, Pantoja P, Lee M, Ahluwalia SC, Schreibeis-Baum H, Malin JL, Lorenz KA. Palliative Care Specialist Consultation Is Associated With Supportive Care Quality in Advanced Cancer. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2016 Oct 1; 52(4):507-514.
  811. Watkins KE, Paddock SM, Hudson TJ, Ounpraseuth S, Schrader AM, Hepner KA, Sullivan G. Association Between Quality Measures and Mortality in Individuals With Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. Journal of substance abuse treatment. 2016 Oct 1; 69:1-8.
  812. Williams JS, Walker RJ, Smalls BL, Hill R, Egede LE. Patient-Centered Care, Glycemic Control, Diabetes Self-Care, and Quality of Life in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2016 Oct 1; 18(10):644-649.
  813. Hughes-Halbert CA. Health-related quality of life in Black cancer patients with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). Poster session presented at: American Association for Cancer Research Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved Annual Conference; 2016 Sep 25; Fort Lauderdale, FL.
  814. Dismuke CE. Remote Eye Care Screening for Rural Veterans with Technology-based Eye Care Services (TECS): A Quality Improvement Project. Poster session presented at: VA Rural Health State of the Science Conference; 2016 Sep 23; Washington, DC.
  815. Egede LE. Quality of Diabetes Care Among Recent Immigrants to the United States. Poster session presented at: Diabetes Annual Fall Symposium for Primary Health Care Professionals; 2016 Sep 22; Charleston, SC.
  816. Egede LE. Relationship Between the Affordable Care Act and Insurance, Access, and Cost on the Quality of Care in Patients with Diabetes. Poster session presented at: Diabetes Annual Fall Symposium for Primary Health Care Professionals; 2016 Sep 22; Charleston, SC.
  817. Egede LE. Rural-Urban Differences in Quality of Care Indicators among Adults with Diabetes. Poster session presented at: Diabetes Annual Fall Symposium for Primary Health Care Professionals; 2016 Sep 22; Charleston, SC.
  818. Egede LE. Sex Differences in Quality of Care Indicators Among Adults with Diabetes. Poster session presented at: Diabetes Annual Fall Symposium for Primary Health Care Professionals; 2016 Sep 22; Charleston, SC.
  819. Garvin JH. Automated Heart Failure Quality Measurement. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2016 Sep 18; Orlando, FL.
  820. Rodriguez AJ, Fink HA, Mirigian L, Guanabens N, Eastell R, Akesson K, Bauer D, Ebeling PR. Pain, quality of life and safety outcomes of kyphoplasty for vertebral compression fractures. Presented at: American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting; 2016 Sep 18; Atlanta, GA.
  821. Schweizer ML. Using Meta-Analyses to Inform Interventions and Quality Improvement. HSR&D Career Development Awardee Series [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D Cyberseminars. 2016 Sep 13.
  822. Luther SL. Pain Care Quality and Integrated and Complementary Health Approaches. Spotlight on Pain Management [Cyberseminar]. Health Services Research and Development. 2016 Sep 6.
  823. Althoff KN, Smit M, Reiss P, Justice AC. HIV and ageing: improving quantity and quality of life. Current opinion in HIV and AIDS. 2016 Sep 1; 11(5):527-536.
  824. Bayliss EA, McQuillan DB, Ellis JL, Maciejewski ML, Zeng C, Barton MB, Boyd CM, Fortin M, Ling SM, Tai-Seale M, Ralston JD, Ritchie CS, Zulman DM. Using Electronic Health Record Data to Measure Care Quality for Individuals with Multiple Chronic Medical Conditions. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2016 Sep 1; 64(9):1839-44.
  825. Imperiale TF, Rex DK. A new quality indicator of colonoscopy: caveat emptor. Gastrointestinal endoscopy. 2016 Sep 1; 84(3):507-11.
  826. Samuels MH, Kaimal R, Waring A, Fink HA, Yaffe K, Hoffman AR, Orwoll E, Bauer D. Thyroid Function Variations Within the Reference Range Do Not Affect Quality of Life, Mood, or Cognitive Function in Community-Dwelling Older Men. Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association. 2016 Sep 1; 26(9):1185-94.
  827. Siegel JA, Chren MM, Weinstock MA, Department of Veterans Affairs Keratinocyte Carcinoma Chemoprevention Trial Group. Correlates of skin-related quality of life (QoL) in those with multiple keratinocyte carcinomas (KCs): A cross-sectional study. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2016 Sep 1; 75(3):639-642.
  828. Edmonds SW, Cram P, Lou Y, Jones MP, Roblin DW, Saag KG, Wright NC, Wolinsky FD, PAADRN Investigators. Effects of a DXA result letter on satisfaction, quality of life, and osteoporosis knowledge: a randomized controlled trial. BMC musculoskeletal disorders. 2016 Aug 26; 17(1):369.
  829. Acosta J, Chinman MJ, Ebener P, Phillips A, Xenakis L, Malone PS. A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Restorative Practices: An Illustration to Spur High-Quality Research and Evaluation. Journal of educational and psychological consultation : the official journal of the Association for Educational and Psychological Consultants. 2016 Aug 24; 26(4):413-430.
  830. Hartmann CW, Snow AL. We're All in This Together: Multiple Stakeholder Insights on Integrating Quality Improvement in a Large System. Paper presented at: Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2016 Aug 18; New Orleans, LA.
  831. Tucker P, Flink B, Varley P, Hall DE. Utilization and Standardization of a RAI-Frailty Screening Across Multi-Disciplinary Surgical Clinics: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Presented at: VA Quality Scholars Annual Symposium; 2016 Aug 3; Houston, TX.
  832. Fathi R, Sheehan OC, Garrigues SK, Saliba D, Leff B, Ritchie CS. Development of an Interdisciplinary Team Communication Framework and Quality Metrics for Home-Based Medical Care Practices. Journal of The American Medical Directors Association. 2016 Aug 1; 17(8):725-729.e10.
  833. Fischer SM, Bekelman D, Bailey FA. Family Assessment of Quality of Care in the Last Month of Life. JAMA internal medicine. 2016 Aug 1; 176(8):1102-4.
  834. Martindale SL, Morissette SB, Kimbrel NA, Meyer EC, Kruse MI, Gulliver SB, Dolan SL. Neuropsychological functioning, coping, and quality of life among returning war veterans. Rehabilitation Psychology. 2016 Aug 1; 61(3):231-9.
  835. Oppezzo MA, Michalek AK, Delucchi K, Baiocchi MT, Barnett PG, Prochaska JJ. Health-related quality of life among veterans in addictions treatment: identifying behavioral targets for future intervention. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2016 Aug 1; 25(8):1949-57.
  836. Saini SD, Hofer TP, Kerr EA. Measuring Quality of Care in the Era of Veterans' Choice. HSR&D FORUM. 2016 Aug 1.
  837. Wachterman MW, Pilver C, Smith D, Ersek M, Lipsitz SR, Keating NL. Quality of End-of-Life Care Provided to Patients With Different Serious Illnesses. JAMA internal medicine. 2016 Aug 1; 176(8):1095-102.
  838. Schmidt EM, Gupta S, Bowe T, Ellerbe LS, Phelps TE, Finney JW, Asch SM, Humphreys K, Trafton J, Vanneman M, Harris AHS. Predictive validity of a quality measure for intensive substance use disorder treatment. Substance Abuse. 2017 Jul 1; 38(3):317-323.
  839. Yano EM, Darling JE, Hamilton AB, Canelo I, Chuang E, Meredith LS, Rubenstein LV. Cluster randomized trial of a multilevel evidence-based quality improvement approach to tailoring VA Patient Aligned Care Teams to the needs of women Veterans. Implementation science : IS. 2016 Jul 19; 11(1):101.
  840. Herrel LA, Kaufman SR, Yan P, Miller DC, Schroeck FR, Skolarus TA, Shahinian VB, Hollenbeck BK. Health Care Integration and Quality among Men with Prostate Cancer. The Journal of urology. 2017 Jan 1; 197(1):55-60.
  841. Kalra A, Pokharel Y, Glusenkamp N, Wei J, Kerkar PG, Oetgen WJ, Virani SS, PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP) Investigators. Gender disparities in cardiovascular care access and delivery in India: Insights from the American College of Cardiology's PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP). International Journal of Cardiology. 2016 Jul 15; 215:248-51.
  842. Goldstein K, Vogt D, Hamilton A, Frayne S, Gierisch JM, Blakeney J, Sadler A, Bean-Mayberry BM, Carney D, DiLeone B, Fox-Galalis A, Klap R, Yee E, Romodan Y, Strehlow H, Yosef J, Yano EM. Practice-Based Research Networks Add Value to Evidence-Based Quality Improvement. Presented at: North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting; 2016 Jul 11; Bethesda, MD.
  843. Schmid AA, Willis LA, Miller KK, Van Puymbroeck M, Williams LS. Yoga Improves Multiple Quality of Life Domains for People with Chronic Stroke. Jacobs Journal of Yoga and Natural Medicine. 2016 Jul 11; 1(1):1.
  844. Campbell EA, Crowley MJ, Powers BJ, Sanders LL, Olsen MK, Danus S, McNeill DB, Zaas AK. Diabetes Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of a Resident Clinic Practice Partnership System. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2017 Jan 1; 32(1):66-72.
  845. Porter AC, Lash JP, Xie D, Pan Q, DeLuca J, Kanthety R, Kusek JW, Lora CM, Nessel L, Ricardo AC, Wright Nunes J, Fischer MJ, CRIC Study Investigators. Predictors and Outcomes of Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with CKD. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2016 Jul 7; 11(7):1154-62.
  846. Arnold SV, Inzucchi SE, McGuire DK, Mehta SN, Goyal A, Sperling LS, Maddox TM, Einhorn D, Wong ND, Ratner RE, Hammar N, Fenici P, Sheehan JJ, Wong JL, Kosiborod M. Evaluating the Quality of Comprehensive Cardiometabolic Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in the U.S.: The Diabetes Collaborative Registry. Diabetes Care. 2016 Jul 1; 39(7):e99-e101.
  847. Day TE, Gellad ZF. The Value of Negative Results in Quality Improvement: A Simulation Perspective. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2016 Jul 1; 31(4):376-8.
  848. Gilmartin HM, Sousa KH. Testing the Quality Health Outcomes Model Applied to Infection Prevention in Hospitals. Quality management in health care. 2016 Jul 1; 25(3):149-61.
  849. Kerr EA, Hofer TP. Deintensification of Routine Medical Services: The Next Frontier for Improving Care Quality. JAMA internal medicine. 2016 Jul 1; 176(7):978-80.
  850. Watts BV, McKinney K, Williams LC, Cully JA, Gilman SC, Brannen JL. Current Training in Quality and Safety: The Current Landscape in the Department of Veterans Affairs. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2016 Jul 1; 31(4):382.
  851. Williams JS, Egede LE. The Association Between Multimorbidity and Quality of Life, Health Status and Functional Disability. The American journal of the medical sciences. 2016 Jul 1; 352(1):45-52.
  852. Herrold AA, Pape TL, Jordan N. Relationship Between Alcohol Craving and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Veterans With Co-Occurring Conditions. Poster session presented at: Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Scientific Meeting; 2016 Jun 28; New Orleans, LA.
  853. McGlynn EA, Kerr EA. Measuring and Improving Quality--Reply. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2016 Jun 28; 315(24):2733-4.
  854. 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.
  855. Heidenreich PA, Solis P, Mark Estes NA, 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. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2016 Jul 1; 9(4):443-88.
  856. Nelson KM. Quality of Clinical Care Is High Among Veterans with Mental Illness Following the Implementation of a Patient Centered Medical Home. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 27; Boston, MA.
  857. Singh H. An Emerging Frontier for Health Services Research and Quality Improvement - Panelist for Diagnostic Safety. Presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 27; Boston, MA.
  858. Singh H. Prevalence and Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Audit and Feedback Strategies for Improving Clinical Quality in Primary Care Settings. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 27; Boston, MA.
  859. Balbale SN, Locatelli (House) SM, LaVela SL. Through Their Eyes: Lessons Learned Using Participatory Methods in Health Care Quality Improvement Projects. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  860. Bergman AA, Stockdale S, Zuchowski JL, Yano EM, Rubenstein LV, Hamilton AB. What Are the Most Impactful Elements of Evidence-Based Quality Improvement in a Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation Trial? Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  861. Burgess DJ, Bokhour BG, Cunningham BA, Gordon HS, Jones DM, Pope C, Saha S, Gollust SE. Communicating about healthcare inequality: The role of providers' prior beliefs on their receptivity to different narrative frames. Presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  862. Chanfreau-Coffiner C, Darling J, Canelo I, Yano E. Patient Predictors of High Quality Patient-Provider Communication: Implications for Caring for Complex Chronic Conditions. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  863. Hysong SJ, SoRelle R, Tran TT, Hughes AM. Prevalence and Effectiveness of Evidence-Based Audit and Feedback Strategies for Improving Clinical Quality in Primary Care Settings. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  864. Jackson GL. Lean Management and Implementation Science Issues in Quality. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  865. Nelson KM. Elements Of The Patient Centered Medical Home Associated With Clinical Quality: Evidence For Access, Continuity And Care Coordination. Paper presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  866. Pimentel C, Snow L, Palmer JA, Allen RS, Wewiorski NJ, Hopkins S, Hartmann CW. Facilitation As an Effective Implementation Strategy for Quality Improvement Efforts in Nursing Homes. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  867. Stockdale S, Zuchowski J, Yano E, Fickel J, Altman L, Sapir N, Rubenstein L, Hamilton A. Fostering Evidence-Based Quality Improvement for Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Establishing Quality Councils to Support Primary Care Transformation. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2016 Jun 26; Boston, MA.
  868. Balbale SN, Locatelli (House) SM, LaVela SL. Through Their Eyes: Lessons Learned Using Participatory Methods in Health Care Quality Improvement Projects. Paper presented at: National Research Service Award Trainees Annual Conference; 2016 Jun 25; Boston, MA.
  869. Charalambous A, Radwin L, Berg A, Sjovall K, Patiraki E, Lemonidou C, Katajisto J, Suhonen R. An international study of hospitalized cancer patients' health status, nursing care quality, perceived individuality in care and trust in nurses: A path analysis. International journal of nursing studies. 2016 Sep 1; 61:176-86.
  870. Petersen LA. Data Transparency: Necessary but not Necessarily Sufficient for Changing Quality in Health Care. Paper presented at: University of Pennsylvania Invited Presentation; 2016 Jun 23; Philadelphia, PA.
  871. Branch-Elliman W, Stanislawski M, Strymish J, Barón AE, Gupta K, Varosy PD, Gold HS, Ho PM. Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories: A Potential Target for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Quality Improvement? Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2016 Sep 1; 37(9):1005-11.
  872. Meredith L, Stockdale S, Yoon J. Impact of PACT Implementation through Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQIPACT) on Primary Health Care Professional Emotional Exhaustion, Satisfaction, and Patient Utilization. Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Demonstration Labs [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D. 2016 Jun 15.
  873. Wilk AS, Kerr EA, Hofer TP, Holleman RG, Klamerus ML, Rose DE, Yano EM. Re-examining facility-level effects on diabetes care quality for Veterans. Presented at: American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference; 2016 Jun 12; Philadelphia, PA.
  874. Bravata DM. Quality of Care for Veterans with Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and Minor Stroke: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement. SQUINT Cyberseminar [Cyberseminar]. PRIS-M QUERI. 2016 Jun 7.
  875. Ross JS, Williams L, Damush TM, Matthias M. Physician and other healthcare personnel responses to hospital stroke quality of care performance feedback: a qualitative study. BMJ quality & safety. 2016 Jun 1; 25(6):441-7.
  876. Schapira MM, Shea JA, Duey KA, Kleiman C, Werner RM. The Nursing Home Compare Report Card: Perceptions of Residents and Caregivers Regarding Quality Ratings and Nursing Home Choice. Health services research. 2016 Jun 1; 51 Suppl 2:1212-28.
  877. Thomason SS, Powell-Cope G, Peterson MJ, Guihan M, Wallen ES, Olney CM, Bates-Jensen B. A Multisite Quality Improvement Project to Standardize the Assessment of Pressure Ulcer Healing in Veterans with Spinal Cord Injuries/Disorders. Advances in Skin and Wound Care. 2016 Jun 1; 29(6):269-76.
  878. Werner RM, Konetzka RT, Polsky D. Changes in Consumer Demand Following Public Reporting of Summary Quality Ratings: An Evaluation in Nursing Homes. Health services research. 2016 Jun 1; 51 Suppl 2:1291-309.
  879. Gellad ZF. Quality Metrics in GI: Embrace and Expand. Presented at: Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference; 2016 May 24; San Diego, CA.
  880. Gellad ZF. Updates on the Current Measures Used to Define Quality in GI & Hepatology. Paper presented at: Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference; 2016 May 24; San Diego, CA.
  881. Kanwal F. Successful Implementation of Quality Measurement for Hepatology. Poster session presented at: Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference; 2016 May 24; San Diego, CA.
  882. Adler J, Govani SM, Dong S, Waljee AK, Higgins PD, Dombkowski KJ. Perianal Crohn's Disease is Associated with Low Ultraviolet Light Exposure in a National Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality Improvement Collaborative. Paper presented at: Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference; 2016 May 23; San Diego, CA.
  883. Gellad ZF. How Gastroenterology Practices Large & Small are Adapting to the New Era of Quality Measurement. Presented at: Digestive Disease Week Combined Clinical Annual Symposia; 2016 May 23; San Diego, CA.
  884. Kanwal F. Quality Measures of Today and Tomorrow: How Are Measures Developed, and What is Coming Next? Poster session presented at: Digestive Disease Week Annual Conference; 2016 May 21; San Diego, CA.
  885. Schapira MM, Huo H, Werner RM. The Relationship Between Patient Experience, Care Quality, and No Show Rates in the Outpatient Primary Care Setting. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2016 May 14; Hollywood, FL.
  886. Hall DE, Feske U, Hanusa BH, Ling BS, Gao S, Switzer GE, Dobalian A, Fine MJ, Arnold RM. Prioritizing Initiatives for Institutional Review Board (IRB) quality Improvement. AJOB empirical bioethics. 2016 May 13; doi: 10.1080/23294515.2016.1186757.
  887. Navathe AS, Troxel AB, Caldarella K, Hodlofski AT, Emanuel EJ, Volpp KG. The Relationship Between Primary Care Spending, Patient Risk, Quality, and Total Cost of Care. Poster session presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2016 May 12; Hollywood, FL.
  888. Nelson KM. Elements of the patient centered medical home associated with clinical quality: evidence for access, continuity and care coordination. Paper presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2016 May 11; Hollywood, FL.
  889. Tcheung Le, Cordasco KM, Danz M, Bell-Lewis L, Washington DL. Methods for Measuring Primary Care Providers’ Quality of Care for Urinary Incontinence. Poster session presented at: Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting; 2016 May 11; Hollywood, FL.
  890. Anger JT, Alas A, Litwin MS, Chu SD, Bresee C, Roth CP, Rashid R, Shekelle P, Wenger NS. The Quality of Care Provided to Women with Urinary Incontinence in 2 Clinical Settings. The Journal of urology. 2016 Oct 1; 196(4):1196-200.
  891. Lam CA, Sherbourne CD, Lee ML, Metzger M, Post EP, Rubenstein LV, Farmer Coste MM. Age Related Differences in Quality of Depression Care Among Older Veterans. Poster session presented at: VA Geriatrics and Extended Care Data Analysis Center National Meeting; 2016 May 6; Los Angeles, CA.
  892. Dolezal BA, Boland DM, Waite JG, Martin JL, Cooper CB. Correlation of Aerobic Performance with Sleep Quality in Apparently Healthy Men and Women. Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 2016 May 1; 48(5 Suppl 1):104.
  893. Gordon A, Lo-Ciganic WH, Cochran G, Gellad WF, Cathers T, Donohue JM. Treatment Quality for Buprenorphine Care: The Pot at the End of the Rainbow. Journal of Addictive Medicine. 2016 May 1; 10(3):210-1.
  894. Harris AH, Weisner CM, Chalk M, Capoccia V, Chen C, Thomas CP. Specifying and Pilot Testing Quality Measures for the American Society of Addiction Medicine's Standards of Care. Journal of addiction medicine. 2016 May 1; 10(3):148-55.
  895. Kalra A, Glusenkamp N, Oetgen WJ, Virani SS. Contemporary data on cardiovascular diseases in Indians: American College of Cardiology's PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program. [Letter to the Editor]. Indian heart journal. 2016 May 1; 68(3):434-5.
  896. Mularski RA, Hansen L, Rosenkranz SJ, Leo MC, Nagy P, Asch SM. Medical Record Quality Assessments of Palliative Care for Intensive Care Unit Patients. Do They Match the Perspectives of Nurses and Families? Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2016 May 1; 13(5):690-8.
  897. Rex DK, Imperiale TF. New Quality Measure Will Disincentivize Endoscopic Resection of Most Important Colorectal Lesions. Gastroenterology. 2016 May 1; 150(5):1249.
  898. Schure MB, Borson S, Nguyen HQ, Trittschuh EH, Thielke SM, Pike KC, Adams SG, Fan VS. Associations of cognition with physical functioning and health-related quality of life among COPD patients. Respiratory medicine. 2016 May 1; 114:46-52.
  899. Volk ML, Kanwal F. Quality of Care in the Cirrhotic Patient. Clinical and translational gastroenterology. 2016 Apr 21; 7:e166.
  900. Alamgir H, Turner CA, Wong NJ, Cooper SP, Betancourt JA, Henry J, Senchak AJ, Hammill TL, Packer MD. The impact of hearing impairment and noise-induced hearing injury on quality of life in the active-duty military population: challenges to the study of this issue. Mil Med Res. 2016 Apr 12; 3:11.
  901. Kalra A, Pokharel Y, Glusenkamp N, Wei J, Thakran V, Kerkar PG, Oetgen W, Virani S. Gender Disparities in Cardiovascular Care Access and Delivery in India: Insights From the American College of Cardiology’s PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP). Poster session presented at: American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session; 2016 Apr 3; Chicago, IL.
  902. Makarov DV, Holmes-Rovner M, Rovner DR, Averch T, Barry MJ, Chrouser K, Gee WF, Goodrich K, Haynes M, Krahn M, Saigal C, Sox HC, Stacey D, Tessier C, Waterhouse RL, Fagerlin A. Shared Decision Making and Prostate Cancer Screening [White paper] American Urological Association and Society for Medical Decision Making Quality Improvement Summit Proceedings. [Abstract]. Urology Practice. 2016 Apr 2; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urpr.2017.11.005.
  903. Babich LP, Charns MP, McIntosh N, Lerner B, Burgess JF, Stolzmann KL, VanDeusen Lukas C. Building Systemwide Improvement Capability: Does an Organization's Strategy for Quality Improvement Matter? Quality management in health care. 2016 Apr 1; 25(2):92-101.
  904. Etingen B, Miskevics S, LaVela SL. Assessing the Associations of Patient-Reported Perceptions of Patient-Centered Care as Supplemental Measures of Health Care Quality in VA. Journal of general internal medicine. 2016 Apr 1; 31 Suppl 1:10-20.
  905. Farmer MM, Rubenstein LV, Sherbourne CD, Huynh A, Chu K, Lam CA, Fickel JJ, Lee ML, Metzger ME, Verchinina L, Post EP, Chaney EF. Depression Quality of Care: Measuring Quality over Time Using VA Electronic Medical Record Data. Journal of general internal medicine. 2016 Apr 1; 31 Suppl 1:36-45.
  906. Finney JW, Humphreys K, Kivlahan DR, Harris AH. Excellent Patient Care Processes in Poor Hospitals? Why Hospital-Level and Patient-Level Care Quality-Outcome Relationships Can Differ. Journal of general internal medicine. 2016 Apr 1; 31 Suppl 1:74-7.
  907. Giacomino BD, Cram P, Vaughan-Sarrazin M, Zhou Y, Girotra S. Association of Hospital Prices for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting With Hospital Quality and Reimbursement. The American journal of cardiology. 2016 Apr 1; 117(7):1101-6.
  908. Scales CD, Moin T, Fink A, Berry SH, Afsar-Manesh N, Mangione CM, Kerfoot BP. A randomized, controlled trial of team-based competition to increase learner participation in quality-improvement education. International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. 2016 Apr 1; 28(2):227-32.
  909. Williams L, Daggett V, Slaven JE, Yu Z, Sager D, Myers J, Plue L, Woodward-Hagg H, Damush TM. A cluster-randomised quality improvement study to improve two inpatient stroke quality indicators. BMJ quality & safety. 2016 Apr 1; 25(4):257-64.
  910. Trivedi AN, Wilson IB, Charlton ME, Kizer KW. Agreement Between HEDIS Performance Assessments in the VA and Medicare Advantage: Is Quality in the Eye of the Beholder? Inquiry : A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing. 2016 Mar 31; 53:doi: 10.1177/0046958016638804.
  911. Saini SD, Adams MA, Brill JV, Gupta N, Naveed M, Rosenberg JA, Gellad ZF. Colorectal Cancer Screening Quality Measures: Beyond Colonoscopy. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. 2016 May 1; 14(5):644-7.
  912. Abrams TE. Capsule commentary on Rosenthal et al., A Difference-in-Difference Analysis of Changes in Quality, Utilization and Cost Following the Colorado Multi-Payer Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot. Journal of general internal medicine. 2016 Mar 1; 31(3):323.
  913. Achuko O, Walker RJ, Campbell JA, Dawson AZ, Egede LE. Pathways Between Discrimination and Quality of Life in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics. 2016 Mar 1; 18(3):151-8.
  914. Dawes AJ, Cryer HG. Measuring the Quality of Care for Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury--Reply. [Letter to the Editor]. JAMA surgery. 2016 Mar 1; 151(3):295.
  915. Korom-Djakovic D, Canamucio A, Lempa M, Yano EM, Long JA. Organization Complexity and Primary Care Providers' Perceptions of Quality Improvement Culture Within the Veterans Health Administration. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality. 2016 Mar 1; 31(2):139-46.
  916. Pokharel Y, Wei J, Hira RS, Kalra A, Shore S, Kerkar PG, Kumar G, Risch S, Vicera V, Oetgen WJ, Deswal A, Turakhia MP, Glusenkamp N, Virani SS. Guideline-Directed Medication Use in Patients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction in India: American College of Cardiology's PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program. Clinical Cardiology. 2016 Mar 1; 39(3):145-9.
  917. Profit J, Gould JB, Bennett M, Goldstein BA, Draper D, Phibbs CS, Lee HC. The Association of Level of Care With NICU Quality. Pediatrics. 2016 Mar 1; 137(3):e20144210.
  918. Salami A, Valero-Elizondo J, Ogunmoroti O, Spatz ES, Rana JS, Virani S, Blankstein R, Blaha MJ, Post J, Arrieta A, Veledar E, Nasir K. Interplay of Health-Related Quality of Life, Cardiovascular Disease and Healthcare Costs: 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Poster session presented at: American Heart Association Epidemiology - Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Annual Scientific Sessions; 2016 Mar 1; Phoenix, AZ.
  919. Egede LE. The Association of Cumulative Discrimination on Quality of Care, Patient-Centered Care and Dissatisfaction with Care in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes. Paper presented at: Medical University of South Carolina Department of Medicine Annual Research Day; 2016 Feb 26; Charleston, SC.
  920. Backhus LM, Zeliadt SB, Reinke L, Rue T, Au DH. One Size Does Not Fit All: Differences in Quality Of Life And Survivorship Among Lung, Colon, Breast And Prostate Cancer Patients. Nursing and Palliative Care. 2016 Feb 22; 1(2):28-32.
  921. Switzer GE. Health Related Quality of Life Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors. Presented at: American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Tandem Meetings; 2016 Feb 21; Honolulu, HI.
  922. Jackson GL, Oddone EZ. Is My Project Quality Improvement or Research? Paper presented at: VA Durham Medical Center Greenville Community Clinic and Health Care Center Provider Annual Meeting; 2016 Feb 19; Greenville, NC.
  923. Chen CK, Bailey RW. Episodic memories of relationship quality, procedural knowledge of attachment scripts, and the experience of daughters caring for a parent with dementia. Dementia (London, England). 2018 Jan 1; 17(1):61-77.
  924. Kaira A, Pokharel Y, Glusenkamp N, Wei J, Thakran V, Kerkar PG, Oetgen W, Virani S. Gender Disparities in Cardiovascular Care Access and Delivery in India: Insights from American College of Cardiology’s PINNACLE India Quality Improvement Program (PIQIP). Poster session presented at: Cardiological Society of India Annual Conference; 2016 Feb 12; Chennai, India.
  925. Belmont E, Singh H, Adelman J, Alexander G, Castro E, Classen D, Dimitropoulos L, Freeman L, Ghandi T, Gelzer A, Grace E, Haynes K, Langford LH, Hrlopcsak G, Jones J, Khunlertkit N, Marella W, Mendelsohn D, Russell J, Schneider E, Segal M, Zimmer KP. Identification and Prioritization of Health IT Patient Safety Measures: Final Report from the National Quality Forum Health IT Safety Committee. Washington, DC: National Quality Forum; 2016 Feb 11. 98 p.
  926. Liu C. Organizational Cost of Quality Improvement for Depression Care. QUERI Implementation Network Series [Cyberseminar]. HSR&D Cyberseminars. 2016 Feb 4.
  927. Axon RN, Cole L, Moonan A, Foster R, Cawley P, Long L, Turley CB. Evolution and Initial Experience of a Statewide Care Transitions Quality Improvement Collaborative: Preventing Avoidable Readmissions Together. Population health management. 2016 Feb 1; 19(1):4-10.
  928. Dy SM, Herr K, Bernacki RE, Kamal AH, Walling AM, Ersek M, Norton SA. Methodological Research Priorities in Palliative Care and Hospice Quality Measurement. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2016 Feb 1; 51(2):155-62.
  929. Harris AH. The primitive state of quality measures in addiction treatment and their application. Addiction (Abingdon, England). 2016 Feb 1; 111(2):195-6.
  930. Katon JG, Gray KE, Gerber MR, Harrington LB, Woods NF, Weitlauf JC, Bean-Mayberry B, Goldstein KM, Hunt JR, Katon WJ, Haskell SG, McCutcheon SJ, Gass ML, Gibson CJ, Zephyrin LC. Vasomotor Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Veteran and Non-Veteran Postmenopausal Women. The Gerontologist. 2016 Feb 1; 56 Suppl 1:S40-53.
  931. Patel KV, Cochrane BB, Turk DC, Bastian LA, Haskell SG, Woods NF, Zaslavsky O, Wallace RB, Kerns RD. Association of Pain With Physical Function, Depressive Symptoms, Fatigue, and Sleep Quality Among Veteran and non-Veteran Postmenopausal Women. The Gerontologist. 2016 Feb 1; 56 Suppl 1:S91-101.
  932. Puttkammer N, Baseman JG, Devine EB, Valles JS, Hyppolite N, Garilus F, Honoré JG, Matheson AI, Zeliadt S, Yuhas K, Sherr K, Cadet JR, Zamor G, Pierre E, Barnhart S. An assessment of data quality in a multi-site electronic medical record system in Haiti. International journal of medical informatics. 2016 Feb 1; 86:104-16.
  933. Sacks GD, Lawson EH, Dawes AJ, Weiss RE, Russell MM, Brook RH, Zingmond DS, Ko CY. Variation in Hospital Use of Postacute Care After Surgery and the Association With Care Quality. Medical care. 2016 Feb 1; 54(2):172-9.
  934. Yoon J, Chow A, Rubenstein LV. Impact of Medical Home Implementation Through Evidence-based Quality Improvement on Utilization and Costs. Medical care. 2016 Feb 1; 54(2):118-25.
  935. Sehdev A, Sherer E, Hui S, Wu J, Haggstrom DA. The Quality of CT Surveillance in Resected Colorectal Cancer Survivors at the Veterans Health Administration Facilities. Poster session presented at: Gastrointestinal Cancers Annual Symposium; 2016 Jan 21; San Francisco, CA.
  936. Uchendu U, Hausmann LR. Focus On Health Equity and Action: Findings From the VISN4 Hypertension Racial Disparities Quality Improvement Project. [Cyberseminar]. 2016 Jan 21.
  937. Korthuis PT, McGinnis KA, Kraemer KL, Gordon AJ, Skanderson M, Justice AC, Crystal S, Goetz MB, Gibert CL, Rimland D, Fiellin LE, Gaither JR, Wang K, Asch SM, McInnes DK, Ohl ME, Bryant K, Tate JP, Duggal M, Fiellin DA, Veterans Aging Cohort Study. Quality of HIV Care and Mortality Rates in HIV-Infected Patients. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2016 Jan 15; 62(2):233-9.
  938. Rudolph JL, Fonda JR, Hunt PR, McGlinchey RE, Milberg WP, Reynolds MW, Yonan C. Association of Pseudobulbar Affect symptoms with quality of life and healthcare costs in Veterans with traumatic brain injury. Journal of affective disorders. 2016 Jan 15; 190(0):150-5.
  939. McGlynn EA, Kerr EA. Creating Safe Harbors for Quality Measurement Innovation and Improvement. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2016 Jan 12; 315(2):129-30.
  940. Driscoll MA, Kerns RD. Integrated, Team-Based Chronic Pain Management: Bridges from Theory and Research to High Quality Patient Care. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 2016 Jan 1; 904:131-47.
  941. Fox AB, Hamilton AB, Frayne SM, Wiltsey-Stirman S, Bean-Mayberry B, Carney D, Di Leone BA, Gierisch JM, Goldstein KM, Romodan Y, Sadler AG, Yano EM, Yee EF, Vogt D. Effectiveness of an Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Approach to Cultural Competence Training: The Veterans Affairs' "Caring for Women Veterans" Program. The Journal of Continuing Education in The Health Professions. 2016 Jan 1; 36(2):96-103.
  942. Henderson KL. Research to Practice: Quality of medication treatment for mental disorders in VA. South Central MIRECC Communique. [Newsletter] Little Rock, AR: South Central MIRECC; 2016 Jan 1. 18 (1). Available from: http://www.mirecc.va.gov/VISN16/docs/CommuniqueVol18No1Jan2016.pdf.
  943. Hochman M, Briggs-Malonson M, Wilkes E, Bergman J, Daskivich LP, Moin T, Brook I, Ryan GW, Brook RH, Mangione CM. Fostering a Commitment to Quality: Best Practices in Safety-net Hospitals. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved. 2016 Jan 1; 27(1):293-307.
  944. Matthieu MM, Hart N, Larkin-Perkins BR, Pitcock JA, Henderson KL, Swensen AB, Kirchner JE. Stakeholder council: how to involve Veterans and partners in improving the quality of mental health services research in VA. Military Behavioral Health. 2016 Jan 1; 4(1):18-24.
  945. Moss JM, Bryan WE, Wilkerson LM, Jackson GL, Owenby RK, Van Houtven C, Stevens MB, Powers JS, Vaughan CP, Hung WW, Hwang U, Markland AD, McGwin G, Hastings SN. Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Specialists on the Design and Implementation of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Inappropriate Medications in a Veterans Affairs Emergency Department. Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy. 2016 Jan 1; 22(1):74-80.
  946. Weir CR. Ensuring the Quality of Evidence: Using the Best Design to Answer Health IT Questions. [Book Review]. Studies in health technology and informatics. 2016 Jan 1; 222:90-101.
  947. Yong C, Azarbal F, Abnousi F, Heidenreich PA, Schmitt S, Fan J, Than CT, Ullal AJ, Yang F, Phibbs CS, Frayne SM, Ho PM, Shore S, Mahaffey KW, Turakhia MP. Racial Differences in Quality of Anticoagulation Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation (from the TREAT-AF Study). The American journal of cardiology. 2016 Jan 1; 117(1):61-8.
  948. Ruggiero KJ, Bunnell BE, Andrews Iii AR, Davidson TM, Hanson RF, Danielson CK, Saunders BE, Soltis K, Yarian C, Chu B, Adams ZW. Development and Pilot Evaluation of a Tablet-Based Application to Improve Quality of Care in Child Mental Health Treatment. JMIR research protocols. 2015 Dec 30; 4(4):e143.
  949. Benzer JK, Mohr DC, Evans L, Young G, Meterko MM, Moore SC, Nealon Seibert M, Osatuke K, Stolzmann KL, White B, Charns MP. Team Process Variation Across Diabetes Quality of Care Trajectories. Medical care research and review : MCRR. 2016 Oct 1; 73(5):565-89.
  950. Connor K, Cheng E, Siebens HC, Lee ML, Mittman BS, Ganz DA, Vickrey B. Study protocol of "CHAPS": a randomized controlled trial protocol of Care Coordination for Health Promotion and Activities in Parkinson's Disease to improve the quality of care for individuals with Parkinson's disease. BMC neurology. 2015 Dec 15; 15:258.
  951. Balbale SN, Locatelli SM, LaVela SL. Through Their Eyes: Lessons Learned Using Participatory Methods in Health Care Quality Improvement Projects. Qualitative Health Research. 2016 Aug 1; 26(10):1382-92.
  952. Cohen AN, Slade E, Hamilton AB, Young AS. Cost of an effective quality improvement intervention in specialty mental health. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2015 Dec 14; Washington, DC.
  953. Jackson GL, King HA, Nieuwsma J, White BS, Bates MJ, Bidassie B, Wright L, Cantrell WC, Rhodes JE, O'Mara S, Sperber NR, Meador KG. Use of Quality Improvement Learning Collaboratives with Improvement Coaching and Facilitation in Different Organizations: A Joint Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Collaborative. Poster session presented at: National Institutes of Health / AcademyHealth Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation; 2015 Dec 14; Washington, DC.
  954. Li J, Snow AL, Wilson N, Stanley MA, Morgan RO, Sansgiry S, Kunik ME. The Quality of Pain Treatment in Community-Dwelling Persons with Dementia. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra. 2015 Dec 5; 5(3):459-70.
  955. Desai NR, Parzynski CS, Krumholz HM, Minges KE, Messenger JC, Nallamothu BK, Curtis JP. Patterns of Institutional Review of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Appropriateness and the Effect on Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes. JAMA internal medicine. 2015 Dec 1; 175(12):1988-90.
  956. Hall DE, Hanusa BH, Ling BS, Stone RA, Switzer GE, Fine MJ, Arnold RM. Using the IRB Researcher Assessment Tool to Guide Quality Improvement. Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE. 2015 Dec 1; 10(5):460-9.
  957. Hanlon JT, Semla TP, Schmader KE. Alternative Medications for Medications in the Use of High-Risk Medications in the Elderly and Potentially Harmful Drug-Disease Interactions in the Elderly Quality Measures. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2015 Dec 1; 63(12):e8-e18.
  958. Hempel S, Shekelle PG, Liu JL, Sherwood Danz M, Foy R, Lim YW, Motala A, Rubenstein LV. Development of the Quality Improvement Minimum Quality Criteria Set (QI-MQCS): a tool for critical appraisal of quality improvement intervention publications. BMJ quality & safety. 2015 Dec 1; 24(12):796-804.
  959. Jones SM, LaCroix AZ, Li W, Zaslavsky O, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Weitlauf J, Brenes GA, Nassir R, Ockene JK, Caire-Juvera G, Danhauer SC. Depression and quality of life before and after breast cancer diagnosis in older women from the Women's Health Initiative. Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice. 2015 Dec 1; 9(4):620-9.
  960. Massarweh NN. Defining quality in surgical care--finding a clear path forward. The Journal of surgical research. 2015 Dec 1; 199(2):306-7.
  961. Tuerk PW. The VA as a Laboratory for Dissemination Science: Promoting High Quality & Equitable Mental Health Care (and being able to replicate it). Paper presented at: VA VISN 16 Research Conference; 2015 Nov 16; Ridgeland, MS.
  962. Hughes-Halbert CA. Health-related quality of life in Black cancer patients with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). Poster session presented at: American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium; 2015 Nov 14; San Francisco, CA.
  963. Katon JG. Vasomotor symptoms, depression, obesity and health related quality of life among Veteran and non-Veteran postmenopausal women. Paper presented at: Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Annual Meeting; 2015 Nov 13; New Orleans, LA.
  964. Maciejewski ML, Bayliss E, Ellis J, McQuillan D, Zeng C. Developing a Data-Based Measure of Care Quality for Multiple Chronic Conditions. Paper presented at: North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting; 2015 Nov 9; Ottawa, Canada.
  965. Switzer GE. Health-related Quality of Life among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors. Presented at: National Marrow Donor Program Council Annual Meeting; 2015 Nov 7; Minneapolis, MN.
  966. Kok LS, Khan HT. Requesting Access to VA Data for Research and Quality Improvement. VIReC Database and Methods [Cyberseminar]. VA Information Resource Center. 2015 Nov 2.
  967. Gordon AJ, Lo-Ciganic WH, Cochran G, Gellad WF, Cathers T, Kelley D, Donohue JM. Patterns and Quality of Buprenorphine Opioid Agonist Treatment in a Large Medicaid Program. Journal of addiction medicine. 2015 Nov 1; 9(6):470-7.
  968. Harris AH, Rubinsky AD, Hoggatt KJ. Possible Alternatives to Diagnosis-Based Denominators for Addiction Treatment Quality Measures. Journal of substance abuse treatment. 2015 Nov 1; 58:62-6.
  969. Holmes-Rovner M, Montgomery JS, Rovner DR, Scherer LD, Whitfield J, Kahn VC, Merkle EC, Ubel PA, Fagerlin A. Informed Decision Making: Assessment of the Quality of Physician Communication about Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. Medical Decision Making. 2015 Nov 1; 35(8):999-1009.
  970. Kramer RD, Cooke CR, Liu V, Miller RR, Iwashyna TJ. Variation in the Contents of Sepsis Bundles and Quality Measures. A Systematic Review. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2015 Nov 1; 12(11):1676-84.
  971. Rubenstein JH, Lieberman D, Fennerty B, Gellad ZF. Measuring the quality of Barrett's esophagus management with measures that are high quality. [Editorial]. Gastroenterology. 2015 Nov 1; 149(6):1298-301.
  972. Harris AH, Gupta S, Bowe T, Ellerbe LS, Phelps TE, Rubinsky AD, Finney JW, Asch SM, Humphreys K, Trafton J. Predictive validity of two process-of-care quality measures for residential substance use disorder treatment. Addiction science & clinical practice. 2015 Oct 31; 10(1):22.
  973. LeBlanc TW, Wolf S, Davis DM, Samsa G, Locke SC, Steinhauser KE. Symptom burden, quality of life, and distress in acute myeloid leukemia patients receiving induction chemotherapy: A prospective electronic patient-reported outcomes study. Poster session presented at: American Society of Clinical Oncology Palliative Care In Oncology Annual Symposium; 2015 Oct 24; Boston, MA.
  974. Hall DE, Ling BS, Feske U, Gao S, Stone RA, Zhang S, Zickmund SL, Arnold RM, Lidz C. Describing the Quality of Review at 10 Institutional Review Boards in the Veterans Health Administration. Paper presented at: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting; 2015 Oct 22; Houston, TX.
  975. Harrington RA, Heidenreich PA. Team-Based Care and Quality: A Move Toward Evidence-Based Policy. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2015 Oct 20; 66(16):1813-5.
  976. Virani SS, Maddox TM, Chan PS, Tang F, Akeroyd JM, Risch SA, Oetgen WJ, Deswal A, Bozkurt B, Ballantyne CM, Petersen LA. Provider Type and Quality of Outpatient Cardiovascular Disease Care: Insights From the NCDR PINNACLE Registry. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2015 Oct 20; 66(16):1803-12.
  977. Allen LA, Fonarow GC, Liang L, Schulte PJ, Masoudi FA, Rumsfeld JS, Ho PM, Eapen ZJ, Hernandez AF, Heidenreich PA, Bhatt DL, Peterson ED, Krumholz HM, American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) Investigators. Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures. Circulation. 2015 Oct 6; 132(14):1347-53.
  978. Singh H. Diagnostic Errors: Improving Understanding and Advancing Quality and Safety. Paper presented at: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Annual Conference; 2015 Oct 4; Arlington, VA.
  979. Dillahunt-Aspillaga CJ, Lind JD, Haun JN, Antinori N, Luther SL. Health-related quality of life and employment concerns among Veterans with PTSD: A qualitative exploration. Poster session presented at: American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Meeting; 2015 Oct 1; Dallas, TX.
  980. Higgins PC, Garrido MM, Prigerson HG. Factors Predicting Bereaved Caregiver Perception of Quality of Care in the Final Week of Life: Implications for Health Care Providers. Journal of palliative medicine. 2015 Oct 1; 18(10):849-57.
  981. Trafton JA, Oliver J, Pollack S, Klocek J, Lemke S, De Volder K, Suneja A, McCarthy J, Hoff R, Kivlahan D, Katz I, Francis J, Wright S, Carroll D, Schohn M. Outcomes Oriented Quality Measure Report: Customizable intranet-based report of outcomes-oriented mental health quality measures designed around the Yes National Quality Forum framework for mental health outcomes assessment. 2015 Oct 1. Available from: https://securereports3.vssc.med.va.gov/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%2fMentalHealth%2fMHOutcomes%2fOutcomes.
  982. Whited JD. Quality of life: a research gap in teledermatology. International Journal of Dermatology. 2015 Oct 1; 54(10):1124-8.
  983. Matza AR, Sloan CA, Kauth MR. Quality LGBT health education: A review of key reports and webinars. In: Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons; 2015. Chapter 22. 127-144 p.
  984. Chinman MJ. Getting To Outcomes®: Enhancing Quality of Interventions Promoting Healthy Sexuality (EQUIPS) [presentation to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA]. 2015 Sep 25.
  985. Katon J, Gray K, Gerber M, Harrington L, Woods N, Weitlauf J, Bean-Mayberry B, Goldstein K, Hunt J, Katon W, Haskell S, McCutchen S, Gibson CJ, Zephyrin L. Vasomotor Symptoms and Quality of Life Among Veteran and Non-Veteran Postmenopausal Women. The Gerontologist. 2015 Sep 23; 1-15.
  986. Johnson SL, Bartels CM, Palta M, Thorpe CT, Weiss JM, Smith MA. Biological and steroid use in relationship to quality measures in older patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a US Medicare cohort study. BMJ open. 2015 Sep 7; 5(9):e008597.
  987. Abrams TE, Lund BC, Alexander B, Bernardy NC, Friedman MJ. Geographical diffusion of prazosin across Veterans Health Administration: Examination of regional variation in daily dosing and quality indicators among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of rehabilitation research and development. 2015 Sep 1; 52(5):619-27.
  988. Bourke L, Boorjian SA, Briganti A, Klotz L, Mucci L, Resnick MJ, Rosario DJ, Skolarus TA, Penson DF. Survivorship and improving quality of life in men with prostate cancer. European Urology. 2015 Sep 1; 68(3):374-83.
  989. Goplerud E, Broyles LM, Robinson E. Keys to implementing and abstracting the substance use measure set [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting (IPFQR) Program Webinar]. [Cyberseminar]. 2015 Sep 1.
  990. Matthieu MM, Hart N, Larkin-Perkins B, Pitcock JA, Henderson KL, Swensen AB, Kirchner JE. Stakeholder Council: How to Involve Veterans and Partners in Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services Research in VA. Military Behavioral Health. 2015 Sep 1; doi: 10.1080/21635781.2015.1093975.
  991. Partin MR, Powell AA, Burgess DJ, Haggstrom DA, Gravely AA, Halek K, Bangerter A, Shaukat A, Nelson DB. Adding Postal Follow-Up to a Web-Based Survey of Primary Care and Gastroenterology Clinic Physician Chiefs Improved Response Rates but not Response Quality or Representativeness. Evaluation & the health professions. 2015 Sep 1; 38(3):382-403.
  992. Prigerson HG, Bao Y, Shah MA, Paulk ME, LeBlanc TW, Schneider BJ, Garrido MM, Reid MC, Berlin DA, Adelson KB, Neugut AI, Maciejewski PK. Chemotherapy Use, Performance Status, and Quality of Life at the End of Life. JAMA oncology. 2015 Sep 1; 1(6):778-84.
  993. Sacks GD, Lawson EH, Dawes AJ, Russell MM, Maggard-Gibbons M, Zingmond DS, Ko CY. Relationship Between Hospital Performance on a Patient Satisfaction Survey and Surgical Quality. JAMA surgery. 2015 Sep 1; 150(9):858-64.
  994. Shieh L, Go M, Gessner D, Chen JH, Hopkins J, Maggio P. Improving and sustaining a reduction in iatrogenic pneumothorax through a multifaceted quality-improvement approach. Journal of hospital medicine. 2015 Sep 1; 10(9):599-607.
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