Priscilla Chew

Biographic Data

ID5536965
NAMEPriscilla Chew
GIVEN NAMESPriscilla
FAMILY NAMEChew
SIGNATURECHEW P
AFFILIATIONSEdith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX0

  • Comparison of In-Hospital Versus 30-Day Mortality Assessments for Selected Medical Conditions

    Ann M Borzecki, Cindy L Christiansen et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010References: 8

    BACKGROUND: In-hospital mortality measures such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs) are easily derived using hospital discharge abstracts and publicly available software. However, hospital assessments based on a 30-day postadmission interval might be more accurate given potential differences in facility discharge practices. OBJECTIVES: To compare in-hospital and 30-day mortality rates for 6…

  • Trends in the Inpatient Quality Indicators

    Ann M Borzecki, Cindy L Christiansen et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2010References: 25

    BACKGROUND: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs), which include in-hospital mortality and utilization rates, have received little attention in the Veterans Health Administration (VA), despite extensive private sector use for quality improvement. OBJECTIVES: We examined the following: the feasibility of applying the IQIs to VA data; temporal trends in national VA IQI rates; temporal and regional IQI tr…