Objective: To determine whether the quality of care during a hospital stay is associated with
unplanned readmission within 14 days. Design: Case-control study. Setting: 12 Veterans …

Objectives: To determine the incidence of and risk factors for perioperative myocardial
infarction with noncardiac surgery and to test the accuracy of a risk stratification system. Design: …

OBJECTIVE. Our aim was to determine the effect of prior transrectal biopsy on endorectal
MRI and MR spectroscopic imaging findings in patients with organ-confined prostate cancer. …

Purpose We tested whether prospective use of electronic health record-based trigger
algorithms to identify patients at risk of diagnostic delays could prevent delays in diagnostic …

Imperfections of chart review as a data collection method are detailed, with particular emphasis
on the issue of reliability. The authors identify 125 journal articles published between …

Objectives. The authors tested the ability of International Classification of Diseases, 9th
Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes in discharge abstracts to identify medical …

Background Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) accelerates gastric pouch emptying,
enhances postprandial glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and insulin, and lowers glucose …

The use of explicit criteria to evaluate how well processes of care conform to accepted
standards is a key method of quality assessment. Synthesizing four decades of literature, we …

Background A “trigger” algorithm was used to identify delays in follow-up of abnormal chest
imaging results in a large national clinical data warehouse of electronic health record (EHR) …

AJR: 183, August 2004 309 hemorrhagic telangiectasia is a multisystem disease with a variety
of imaging manifestations. Although epistaxis and mucocutaneous telangiectases are the …