Lisa Gale Suter, MD

Research Organizations

Internal Medicine: Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE) | Rheumatology

Faculty Research

Office of Cooperative Research

Research Summary

Formally trained as a health services researcher through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, I work with CORE to develop national hospital-level quality measures to help improve healthcare quality, focusing on orthopedic and patient-reported outcome-based performance measures. I am also interested in quality measurement in musculoskeletal and inflammatory diseases.

Selected Publications

• Medical Device Innovation — Is “Better” Good Enough?

  Suter LG, Paltiel AD, Rome BN, Golovaty I, Gerlovin H, Solomon DH, Katz JN, Losina E. “Medical Device Innovation — Is “Better” Good Enough?” New England Journal of Medicine 2011;365(16):1464-1466. PMCID: PMC3570242

• The Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Suter LG, Fraenkel L., Braithwaite R. S. “The Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis” Archives of Internal Medicine 2011;171(7):657-667.

• Medical Decision Making in Patients with Knee Pain, Meniscal Tear and Osteoarthritis Arthritis & Rheumatism

  Suter, LG, Fraenkel, L, Losina, E, Katz, JN, Gomoll, AH, Paltiel, AD. "Medical Decision Making in Patients with Knee Pain, Meniscal Tear and Osteoarthritis Arthritis & Rheumatism." Arthritis Care and Research, 2009, 61(11):1531-38. PMCID: PMC2804854

• What Factors Account for Referral Delays for Patients with Suspected Rheumatoid Arthritis?

  Suter LG, Fraenkel L, Holmboe ES. What Factors Account for Referral Delays for Patients with Suspected Rheumatoid Arthritis? Arthritis & Rheumatism 2006;55(2):300-305.

• Disparities in total knee replacement: Population losses in quality-adjusted life years due to differential offer, acceptance, and complication rates for Black Americans.

  Kerman HM, Smith SR, Smith KC, Collins JE, Suter LG, Katz JN, Losina E. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2018 Jan 24. doi: 10.1002/acr.23484. [Epub ahead of print]

• American College of Rheumatology White Paper on Performance Outcome Measures in Rheumatology.

  Suter LG, Smith SR, Katz JN, Englund M, Hunter DJ, Frobell R, Losina E. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2017 Feb;69(2):201-208. doi: 10.1002/acr.22940. Epub 2016 Dec 31.

• Association of Changing Hospital Readmission Rates With Mortality Rates After Hospital Discharge.

  Dharmarajan K, Wang Y, Lin Z, Normand ST, Ross JS, Horwitz LI, Desai NR, Suter LG, Drye EE, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM. JAMA. 2017 Jul 18;318(3):270-278. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.8444.

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