Refinement of the HCUP Quality Indicators: Appendix 3 List of Abstracted Articles

APPENDIX 3 List of Abstracted Articles Articles listed in this appendix were abstracted during the preliminary and/or full abstraction stage of the Phase 1 literature review: “Identifying indicators”.

[1]  B. Collopy,et al.  Establishing thresholds for adverse patient outcomes. , 1996, International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care.

[2]  P. Chang,et al.  Effects of implementation of 18 clinical pathways on costs and quality of care among patients undergoing urological surgery. , 1999, The Journal of urology.

[3]  R. Hayward,et al.  Can Early Re-Admission Rates Accurately Detect Poor-Quality Hospitals? , 1995, Medical care.

[4]  R. Hayward,et al.  Validating quality indicators for hospital care. , 1997, The Joint Commission journal on quality improvement.

[5]  P. Szilagyi,et al.  Does quality of care affect rates of hospitalization for childhood asthma? , 1996, Pediatrics.

[6]  J W Thomas,et al.  Accuracy of risk-adjusted mortality rate as a measure of hospital quality of care. , 1999, Medical care.

[7]  R. Hand,et al.  Mortality and length of stay as performance indicators for pneumonia in the elderly. , 1997, Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research.

[8]  E. Klein,et al.  Maintaining quality of care and patient satisfaction with radical prostatectomy in the era of cost containment. , 1996, Urology.

[9]  K. McConnochie,et al.  Socioeconomic variation in discretionary and mandatory hospitalization of infants: an ecologic analysis. , 1997, Pediatrics.

[10]  T. To,et al.  Hospitalization rates of children with gastroenteritis in Ontario. , 1996, Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique.

[11]  G. Rosenthal,et al.  Variations in standardized hospital mortality rates for six common medical diagnoses: implications for profiling hospital quality. , 1998, Medical care.

[12]  A J Rotondi,et al.  Are readmissions to the intensive care unit a useful measure of hospital performance? , 1999, Medical care.

[13]  J. Butler,et al.  Frequency of low-risk hospital admissions for heart failure. , 1998, The American journal of cardiology.

[14]  Anne Gadomski,et al.  Impact of a Medicaid Primary Care Provider and Preventive Care on Pediatric Hospitalization , 1998, Pediatrics.

[15]  S. Conway,et al.  Are all hospital admissions for acute gastroenteritis necessary? , 1994, The Journal of infection.

[16]  T. To,et al.  A cohort study on childhood asthma admissions and readmissions. , 1996, Pediatrics.

[17]  C M Ashton,et al.  The association between the quality of inpatient care and early readmission: a meta-analysis of the evidence. , 1997, Medical care.

[18]  D. Gifford,et al.  Development of a quality of care measurement system for children and adolescents. Methodological considerations and comparisons with a system for adult women. , 1997, Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine.

[19]  D W Bates,et al.  Evaluation of Screening Criteria for Adverse Events in Medical Patients , 1995, Medical care.

[20]  The extraction of quality‐of‐care clinical indicators from State health department administrative databases , 1999, The Medical journal of Australia.

[21]  J. Hall,et al.  The role of wound infection as a clinical indicator after colorectal surgery. , 1997, Journal of quality in clinical practice.

[22]  F. Grover,et al.  Risk adjustment of the postoperative mortality rate for the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical care: results of the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study. , 1997, Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

[23]  S. Payne,et al.  Variations in pediatric pneumonia and bronchitis/asthma admission rates. Is appropriateness a factor? , 1995, Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine.

[24]  E J Elliott,et al.  Pre‐admission management of acute gastroenteritis , 1996, Journal of paediatrics and child health.