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