John T Chang

• Multimorbidity is Associated With Better Quality of Care Among Vulnerable Elders

  Lillian C Min, Lillian Min et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2007•Referencias: 48

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  BACKGROUND: Older patients with multiple chronic conditions may be at higher risk of receiving poorer overall quality of care compared with those with single or no chronic conditions. Possible reasons include competing guidelines for individual conditions, burden of numerous recommendations, and difficulty implementing treatments for multiple conditions. OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether coexisting combinations of 8 common chronic condit…

• The Effect of a Quality Improvement Initiative on the Quality of Other Aspects of Health Care

  David A Ganz, Neil Wenger et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2007•Referencias: 20

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  PROBLEM: Policymakers and clinicians are concerned that initiatives to improve the quality of care for some conditions may have unintended negative consequences for quality in other conditions. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether a practice redesign intervention that improved care for falls, incontinence, and cognitive impairment by an absolute 15% change also affected quality of care for masked conditions (conditions not targeted by the in…

• Comparison of Administrative Data and Medical Records to Measure the Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients

  Catherine H MacLean, Rachel Louie et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2006•Referencias: 21

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  BACKGROUND: Administrative data are used to determine performance for publicly reported in health plan "report cards," accreditation status, and reimbursement. However, it is unclear how performance based on administrative data and medical records compare. METHODS: We compared applicability, eligibility, and performance on 182 measures of health care quality using medical records and administrative data during a 13-month period for a random sampl…

• Comparison of Administrative Data and Medical Records to Measure the Quality of Medical Care Provided to Vulnerable Older Patients

  Catherine H MacLean, Rachel Louie et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2006•Referencias: 21

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  BACKGROUND: Administrative data are used to determine performance for publicly reported in health plan "report cards," accreditation status, and reimbursement. However, it is unclear how performance based on administrative data and medical records compare. METHODS: We compared applicability, eligibility, and performance on 182 measures of health care quality using medical records and administrative data during a 13-month period for a random sampl…

• Multimorbidity is Associated With Better Quality of Care Among Vulnerable Elders

  Lillian C Min, Lillian Min et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2007•Referencias: 48

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  BACKGROUND: Older patients with multiple chronic conditions may be at higher risk of receiving poorer overall quality of care compared with those with single or no chronic conditions. Possible reasons include competing guidelines for individual conditions, burden of numerous recommendations, and difficulty implementing treatments for multiple conditions. OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether coexisting combinations of 8 common chronic condit…

• The Effect of a Quality Improvement Initiative on the Quality of Other Aspects of Health Care

  David A Ganz, Neil Wenger et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Care•2007•Referencias: 20

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  PROBLEM: Policymakers and clinicians are concerned that initiatives to improve the quality of care for some conditions may have unintended negative consequences for quality in other conditions. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether a practice redesign intervention that improved care for falls, incontinence, and cognitive impairment by an absolute 15% change also affected quality of care for masked conditions (conditions not targeted by the in…

Medicine (3 obras) · Frailty in Older Adults (2 obras) · MEDLINE (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (2 obras) · Quality (philosophy) (2 obras) · Atrial fibrillation (1 obras) · Business (1 obras) · Chronic Disease Management Strategies (1 obras) · Cohort (1 obras)