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
2004
The association between emergency department crowding and time to antibiotic administration
Hwang U, Graff L, Radford M, Krumholz H. The association between emergency department crowding and time to antibiotic administration. Annals Of Emergency Medicine 2004, 44: s6-s7. DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.07.022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPneumonia severity indexCAP patientsED lengthEmergency departmentED censusED crowdingAntibiotic administrationMean ageCAP casesSignificant associationRetrospective observational cohort studyPatients' mean ageHospital discharge diagnosisMedium-sized community hospitalObservational cohort studyPneumocystis carinii pneumoniaMean ED lengthNational quality measuresNational Hospital Quality MeasuresEmergency department (ED) crowdingNational performance measuresHospital quality measuresNation's emergency departmentsStay criteriaCohort study