2018
Defining Multiple Chronic Conditions for Quality Measurement
Drye EE, Altaf FK, Lipska KJ, Spatz ES, Montague JA, Bao H, Parzynski CS, Ross JS, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM, Lin Z. Defining Multiple Chronic Conditions for Quality Measurement. Medical Care 2018, 56: 193-201. PMID: 29271820, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000853.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultiple chronic conditionsChronic conditionsMedicare feeService beneficiariesMedicare Chronic Conditions WarehouseMCC cohortBroad cohortChronic Conditions WarehouseRisk-standardized ratesNational quality measuresUnplanned admissionsFinal cohortTotal admissionsAdmission riskAccountable care organizationsAdmission ratesOutcome measuresAdmissionCohortCohort conditionCare organizationsPatientsStakeholder inputNarrow cohortBeneficiaries
2016
Risk-standardized Acute Admission Rates Among Patients With Diabetes and Heart Failure as a Measure of Quality of Accountable Care Organizations
Spatz ES, Lipska KJ, Dai Y, Bao H, Lin Z, Parzynski CS, Altaf FK, Joyce EK, Montague JA, Ross JS, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM, Drye EE. Risk-standardized Acute Admission Rates Among Patients With Diabetes and Heart Failure as a Measure of Quality of Accountable Care Organizations. Medical Care 2016, 54: 528-537. PMID: 26918404, PMCID: PMC5356461, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000518.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart failure measuresAccountable care organizationsAcute admission ratesHeart failureAdmission ratesNational ratesUnplanned hospital admissionsHeart failure cohortRisk-adjustment variablesPopulation-based measuresCare organizationsOutcome measure developmentIntraclass correlation coefficientHospital admissionDiabetes measuresFailure cohortChronic conditionsMedicare feeDiabetesService beneficiariesPatientsMeet criteriaMeasures of qualitySocioeconomic statusPerformance categories
2012
Appropriate And Inappropriate Imaging Rates For Prostate Cancer Go Hand In Hand By Region, As If Set By Thermostat
Makarov DV, Desai R, Yu JB, Sharma R, Abraham N, Albertsen PC, Krumholz HM, Penson DF, Gross CP. Appropriate And Inappropriate Imaging Rates For Prostate Cancer Go Hand In Hand By Region, As If Set By Thermostat. Health Affairs 2012, 31: 730-740. PMID: 22492890, DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0336.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInappropriate imagingAppropriate imagingProstate cancerHigh-risk prostate cancerHigh rateHigh-risk patientsHealth care utilizationProstate cancer patientsCross-sectional studyOverall imaging rateHealth care costsLower ratesCare utilizationCancer patientsAppropriate treatmentAdvanced imagingCare costsPatientsHealth care organizationsCare organizationsCancerCost containmentImagingImaging rateRegional variation
2001
Physician characteristics and the initiation of beta-adrenergic blocking agent therapy after acute myocardial infarction in a managed care population.
Fehrenbach SN, Budnitz DS, Gazmararian JA, Krumholz HM. Physician characteristics and the initiation of beta-adrenergic blocking agent therapy after acute myocardial infarction in a managed care population. The American Journal Of Managed Care 2001, 7: 717-23. PMID: 11464429.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBeta-adrenergic blocking agentsAcute myocardial infarctionBeta-adrenergic blocking agent therapyRegion of hospitalizationFamily practice physiciansPhysician characteristicsBlocking agentMyocardial infarctionHospital dischargeAgent therapyPractice physiciansPercent of patientsRetrospective administrative data analysisPatient agePatient characteristicsMedication claimsStudy cohortCare populationCardiac treatmentAdministrative data analysisInfarctionMultivariate modelPhysiciansHospitalizationCare organizations
1999
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and the Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Krumholz H. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and the Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes. Contemporary Cardiology 1999, 601-610. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59259-731-4_25.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAcute coronary syndromeCoronary heart diseaseHealth care resourcesCost-effectiveness analysisHealth care systemHealth care expendituresCoronary syndromeCardiac eventsPharmacologic interventionsHeart diseaseEfficacious therapyCardiovascular diseaseCare resourcesNew interventionsCare expendituresCare systemHealth benefitsInterventionCare organizationsDiseaseTreatmentStandard practicePatientsHospitalSyndrome