2012
Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction.
Bradley EH, Curry LA, Spatz ES, Herrin J, Cherlin EJ, Curtis JP, Thompson JW, Ting HH, Wang Y, Krumholz HM. Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction. Annals Of Internal Medicine 2012, 156: 618-26. PMID: 22547471, PMCID: PMC3386642, DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-9-201205010-00003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk-standardized mortality ratesAcute myocardial infarctionLower risk-standardized mortality ratesMyocardial infarctionNurse championsMortality rateHospital strategiesHospital risk-standardized mortality ratesHospital-level factorsIntensive care unitAcute care hospitalsCardiac catheterization laboratoryCross-sectional surveyUnited Health FoundationCare hospitalCare unitCross-sectional designAMI casesAMI volumeCatheterization laboratoryHospital cliniciansHospitalMultivariate analysisPatientsHealth Foundation
2010
What Is the Experience of National Quality Campaigns? Views from the Field
Bradley EH, Nembhard IM, Yuan CT, Stern AF, Curtis JP, Nallamothu BK, Brush JE, Krumholz HM. What Is the Experience of National Quality Campaigns? Views from the Field. Health Services Research 2010, 45: 1651-1669. PMID: 20698898, PMCID: PMC3026952, DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01151.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsHealth ServicesHospitalsHumansInterviews as TopicMyocardial InfarctionOrganizational CultureQuality ImprovementUnited StatesConceptsNational Quality CampaignStrategic goalsHospital SurveyAlliance dataHospital's strategic goalsQuality campaignDepth interviewsContextual factorsOrganizational cultureHeart attack careStrategy adoptionKey characteristicsD2B AlliancePractical implementation toolsBalloon (D2B) AllianceInternal environmentCampaign influenceHospital improvementHospital useHospital practiceAdministrative staffPeer hospitalsCurrent performanceHospitalAlliance