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Realist review - a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions
2005 Standout
Does inappropriate use explain geographic variations in the use of health care services? A study of three procedures.
1987
Practice Guidelines, a New Reality in Medicine
1992
Effects of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program on Physician Practice
1987
The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials
2001 Standout
Measuring the clinical consistency of panelists' appropriateness ratings: the case of coronary artery bypass surgery
1997
Methods for Assessing Condition-Specific and Generic Functional Status Outcomes After Total Knee Replacement
1992
Assessing Strategics For Quality Improvement
1997
Multidimensionality of Health Status in an Elderly Population
1989
Assessing the Impact of Continuous Quality Improvement on Clinical Practice: What It Will Take to Accelerate Progress
1998
Assessing changes over time in temporal lobectomy: outcome by scoring seizure frequency
1997
Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines?
1999 Standout
Quality of Life and Satisfaction with Outcome among Prostate-Cancer Survivors
2008 Standout
Written case simulations: Do they predict physicians' behavior?
1990
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): III. Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient Groups
1994 Standout
Comparisons of the Costs and Quality of Norms for the SF-36 Health Survey Collected by Mail Versus Telephone Interview: Results From a National Survey
1994
Efficacy of spinal manipulation and mobilization for low back pain and neck pain: a systematic review and best evidence synthesis
2004
Health insurance and subjective health status: data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure survey.
1993
Spinal Manipulation
2001
Development and validation of the expanded prostate cancer index composite (EPIC) for comprehensive assessment of health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer
2000 Standout
Doctor performance and public accountability
2003
Meta-analyses to evaluate analgesic interventions: A systematic qualitative review of their methodology
1996
Scoping studies: advancing the methodology
2010 Standout
The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States
2003 Standout
A Randomized Trial of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the Care of Hospitalized Patients
1995
Differences in the Use of Procedures between Women and Men Hospitalized for Coronary Heart Disease
1991
The Impact of Psychologic Factors on Measurement of Functional Status
1990
Pediatric Asthma Care in US Emergency Departments
1995
The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure<SUBTITLE>The JNC 7 Report</SUBTITLE>
2003 Standout
Acupuncture for Back Pain
1998
International quality of life assessment (IQOLA) project
1992
Which chronic conditions are associated with better or poorer quality of life?
2000
Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy
1997 Standout
Epilepsy brain surgery: a pittsburgh perspective
1994
Comparison of the Quality of Ambulatory Care for Fee-for-Service and Prepaid Patients
1991
Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life
2003 Standout
Gender Differences in 1-Year Survival and Quality of Life Among Patients Admitted With Congestive Heart Failure
1998
The Timing of Surgical Intervention for Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
1999
Prevention of heart failure
2002
Randomized controlled trials in industrial low back pain relating to return to work. Part 1. Acute interventions
1995
Sexual function and bother after radical prostatectomy or radiation for prostate cancer: multivariate quality-of-life analysis from CaPSURE
1999
The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization
1999 Standout
Barriers to the Use of Health Status Measures in Clinical Investigation, Patient Care, and Policy Research
1989
Urinary and Sexual Function After Radical Prostatectomy for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer
2000
Classification of Surgical Complications
2004 Standout
Developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.
1995
The efficacy of back schools: A review of randomized clinical trials
1994
The SF‐36 in an Australian sample: validating a new, generic health status measure
1995
Effect of Hospitalwide Change in Clindamycin Dosing Schedule on Clinical Outcome
1989
Selecting the language of the publications included in a meta-analysis: Is there a tower of babel bias?
1995
The capsure database: a methodology for clinical practice and research in prostate cancer
1996
The Validity and Relative Precision of MOS Short-, and Long- Form Health Status Scales and Dartmouth COOP Charts
1992
2009 Focused Update Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2005 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure in Adults
2009 Standout
Inequality in Quality
2000
Measuring Underuse of Necessary Care Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries Using Inpatient and Outpatient Claims
2000
Differences Between Primary Care Physicians and Cardiologists in Management of Congestive Heart Failure: Relation to Practice Guidelines 11This work was supported in part by unrestricted grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Princeton, New Jersey; Burroughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Merck & Co., West Point, Pennsylvania; and the Department of Veterans Affairs Research Service.22All editorial decisions for this article, including selection of referees, were made by a Guest Editor. This policy applies to all articles with authors from the University of California in San Francisco.
1997
Organizational Characteristics of Intensive Care Units Related to Outcomes of Abdominal Aortic Surgery
1999 Standout
Large language models in medicine
2023 Standout
Assessment of Quality-of-Life Outcomes
1996 Standout
Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain
1996
Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map?
2006 Standout
Physician referrals to physical therapists for the treatment of spine disorders
2005
A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Surgery for Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy
2001 Standout
Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?
1996 Standout
Remission in Schizophrenia: Proposed Criteria and Rationale for Consensus
2005 Standout
Implementing guidelines in general practice care.
1992
Health‐related quality of life and seizure control in temporal lobe epilepsy
1997
Anesthesiology
1997 Standout
Advances in methods for assessing the impact of epilepsy and antiepileptic drug therapy on patients' health-related quality of life
1995
A Critical Review of Reviews on the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain
2001
Physicians' Experience with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome as a Factor in Patients' Survival
1996
Pragmatic application of a clinical prediction rule in primary care to identify patients with low back pain with a good prognosis following a brief spinal manipulation intervention
2005
Choosing and Evaluating Clinical Performance Measures
1998
Efficacy of Manual Therapy
1992
Variations in Pediatric Pneumonia and Bronchitis/Asthma Admission Rates
1995
Declining Morbidity and Mortality among Patients with Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
1998 Standout
Sexual, psychological and dyadic qualities of the prostate cancer ‘couple’
2005
Racial Differences in the Use of Invasive Cardiovascular Procedures in the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical System
1993
Health Outcomes After Prostatectomy or Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Results From the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study
2000
CORRELATES OF DISSATISFACTION WITH TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER DIAGNOSED THROUGH SCREENING
1999
Are Guidelines Following Guidelines?
1999
Patient satisfaction with treatment decisions for clinically localized prostate carcinoma. Results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study
2003
Is Health Care Ready for Six Sigma Quality?
1998
Successes and Failures in the Implementation of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Clinical Practice
2001
Improving Preventive Care by Prompting Physicians
2000
SEVERITY OF ILLNESS: CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENTS
1987 Standout
The Reproducibility of a Method to Identify the Overuse and Underuse of Medical Procedures
1998
The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
1993 Standout
Ongoing Assessment of Health Status in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
1992
Assessing the Predictive Validity of the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method Criteria for Performing Carotid Endarterectomy
1998
Reducing Lengths of Stay in the Coronary Care Unit With a Practice Guideline for Patients With Congestive Heart Failure Insights From a Controlled Clinical Trial
1994
SF-36 Health Survey Update
2000 Standout
Effect of clinical guidelines on medical practice: a systematic review of rigorous evaluations
1993 Standout
Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing
2014 StandoutNobel
Outcome Assessment in Epilepsy: Comparative Responsiveness of Quality of Life and Psychosocial Instruments
1997
How Can and Do Australian Doctors Promote Physical Activity?
1997
The Efficacy of Traction for Back and Neck Pain: A Systematic, Blinded Review of Randomized Clinical Trial Methods
1995
Underuse of Coronary Revascularization Procedures in Patients Considered Appropriate Candidates for Revascularization
2001
The heart's content: The association between positive psychological well-being and cardiovascular health.
2012
Osteopathic manipulative treatment for low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
2005
Does Medicare Save Lives?*
2009 StandoutNobel
The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for Reporting Observational Studies
2007 Standout
Increased Competition and the Quality of Health Care
1998
Surgery for Seizures
1996 Standout
Safety of Spinal Manipulation in the Treatment of Lumbar Disk Herniations: A Systematic Review and Risk Assessment
2004
Variations in complication rates and opportunities for improvement in quality of care for patients having abdominal aortic surgery
2001
Quality of Medical Care Delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries
2000
Improving the Quality of Health Care in the United Kingdom and the United States: A Framework for Change
2001 Standout
Effect Sizes for Interpreting Changes in Health Status
1989 Standout
The adoption of preventive care practice guidelines by primary care physicians
1995
A Randomized Clinical Trial of Manipulative Therapy and Interferential Therapy for Acute Low Back Pain
2004
Classifying general medicine readmissions
1996
Clinical guidelines: Potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines
1999 Standout
Medical Practice Guidelines: Current Activities and Future Directions
1990
The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure.
1993 Standout
Benefit of Carotid Endarterectomy in Patients with Symptomatic Moderate or Severe Stenosis
1998 Standout
Prescription of activity for low back pain: What works?
1999
Vocational outcome of intervention for low-back pain
1997
The Urgent Need to Improve Health Care Quality<SUBTITLE>Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality</SUBTITLE>
1998 Standout
The PHQ-9
2001 Standout
Couples' Experiences With Prostate Cancer: Focus Group Research
2002
From best evidence to best practice: effective implementation of change in patients' care
2003 Standout
A Randomized Trial of Medical Care With and Without Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Care With and Without Physical Modalities for Patients With Low Back Pain: 6-Month Follow-Up Outcomes From the UCLA Low Back Pain Study
2002
Improving the Quality of Medical Care
2001
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
1997 Standout
The Medical Outcomes Study. An application of methods for monitoring the results of medical care
1989
The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration
2009 Standout
Efficacy of spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain of less than three months' duration
2003
The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
2011 Standout
Variation among Hospitals in Coronary-Angiography Practices and Outcomes after Myocardial Infarction in a Large Health Maintenance Organization
1996
The Outcomes and Costs of Care for Acute Low Back Pain among Patients Seen by Primary Care Practitioners, Chiropractors, and Orthopedic Surgeons
1995 Standout
The SF36 health survey questionnaire: an outcome measure suitable for routine use within the NHS?
1993
Improving Drug Prescribing in Primary Care: A Critical Analysis of the Experimental Literature
2005
ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult
2005 Standout
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
2019 StandoutScience
Concurrent Quality Assurance in Hospital Care
1978
Health Status Measures: An Overview and Guide for Selection
1987
Spinal manipulation in the treatment of low back pain: a review of the literature with particular emphasis on randomized controlled clinical trials
1998
Physical and Psychosocial Function in Rheumatoid Arthritis
1982
Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation Treatment for Back Pain? A Systematic Review of Randomised Clinical Trials
2003
Practice Guidelines: A New Reality in Medicine
1990
A New Approach for Measuring Quality of Care for Women With Hypertension
2001
The Medical Appropriateness of Tympanostomy Tubes Proposed for Children Younger Than 16 Years in the United States
1994
Principles of Educational Outreach ('Academic Detailing') to Improve Clinical Decision Making
1990 Standout
Chronic disease in a general adult population. Findings from the Rand Health Insurance Experiment.
1986
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: a practice guideline developed by explicit methods for the American Society of Hematology [see comments]
1996 Standout
Shaping the Water-Harvesting Behavior of Metal–Organic Frameworks Aided by Fine-Tuned GPT Models
2023 StandoutNobel
Temporal Lobectomy for Refractory Epilepsy
1996
An instrument to measure patient satisfaction with healthcare in an observational database: results of a validation study using data from CaPSURE.
2000
Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Low Back Pain
2003
Efficacy and Cost-Containment in Hospital Pharmacotherapy: State of the Art and Future Directions
1984
Health Insurance and Mortality
1993
Assessment of function in routine clinical practice: Description of the coop chart method and preliminary findings
1987
Health Related Quality of Life Patterns in Patients Treated With Interstitial Prostate Brachytherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer—Data From CaPSURE
2003
International recommendations for national patient safety incident reporting systems: an expert Delphi consensus-building process
2016
QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER TREATMENT FOR LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER: DIFFERENCES BASED ON TREATMENT MODALITY
2001
Systems to rate the strength of scientific evidence.
2002
Practice Guidelines for blood component therapy: A report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Blood Component Therapy.
1996
Smearing Estimate: A Nonparametric Retransformation Method
1983 Standout
Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice: A Time and Motion Study in 4 Specialties
2016 Standout
Nonpharmacologic Therapies for Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Review of the Evidence for an American Pain Society/American College of Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline
2007 Standout
The Impact of Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy on Continence and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: A Prospective Assessment Using Validated Self-Administered Outcome Instruments
2004
Measurement of Health Status
1985
An economic evaluation of surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy
1995
Quality-of-Care Appraisal in Primary Care: A Quantitative Method
1975
Changes in Quality of Care for Five Diseases Measured by Implicit Review, 1981 to 1986
1990
Effect of the Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis Study on Carotid Endarterectomy in Florida
1998
The SF-36 Health Survey: Development and Use in Mental Health Research and the IQOLA Project
1994
Mortality in the Uninsured Compared With That in Persons With Public and Private Health Insurance
1994
Chiropractic: A Profession at the Crossroads of Mainstream and Alternative Medicine
2002
Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities
2003 StandoutNobel
Effects of Cost Sharing on Seeking Care for Serious and Minor Symptoms
1986
COMPARISON OF HEALTH OUTCOMES AT A HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANISATION WITH THOSE OF FEE-FOR-SERVICE CARE
1986
Psychosocial Status in Chronic Illness
1984
Payment Restrictions for Prescription Drugs under Medicaid
1987
Evaluating the Relevance, Generalization, and Applicability of Research
2006
Health-Related Quality-of-Life Effects of Radical Prostatectomy and Primary Radiotherapy for Screen-Detected or Clinically Diagnosed Localized Prostate Cancer
2001
Comprehensive Comparison of Health-Related Quality of Life After Contemporary Therapies for Localized Prostate Cancer
2002
The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.
1992 Standout
Improving the quality and economy of in‐hospital prescribing: getting more for less
1988
Pitfalls in measuring the health status of Mexican Americans: comparative validity of the English and Spanish Sickness Impact Profile.
1984
Managed Care Plan Performance Since 1980
1994
Assessment of Ambulatory Care: Application of the Tracer Methodology
1976
Effectiveness of massage therapy for subacute low-back pain: a randomized controlled trial.
2000
The Status of Health Assessment 1994
1995
A Review of the Evidence for the Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost of Acupuncture, Massage Therapy, and Spinal Manipulation for Back Pain
2003
What Information Do Consumers Want and How Will They Use It?
1995
Self-audit: its effect on quality of care.
1985
Quality-of-Life Outcomes After Primary Androgen Deprivation Therapy: Results From the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study
2001
Comprehensive Discharge Planning for the Hospitalized Elderly
1994
The Effects of Antihypertensive Therapy on the Quality of Life
1986
Time Course and Predictors of Symptoms After Primary Prostate Cancer Therapy
2003
Scales for measuring general health perceptions.
1976
US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations
1995
Does spinal manipulation have specific treatment effects?
2000
Protocol-Based Computer Reminders, the Quality of Care and the Non-Perfectability of Man
1976 Standout
The Relationship Between Methodological Quality and Conclusions in Reviews of Spinal Manipulation
1995
Developing a reliable, valid, and feasible plan for quality-of-care measurement for cancer: how should we measure?
2002
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
1997 StandoutScience
Advances in the Measurement of Functional Status: Construction of Aggregate Indexes
1981 Standout
QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES AFTER BRACHYTHERAPY FOR EARLY STAGE PROSTATE CANCER
2000
Use of a Computer to Detect and Respond to Clinical Events: Its Effect on Clinician Behavior
1976
The Quality of Medical Care
1978 Science
The structure of self-reported health in chronic disease patients.
1990
Five‐Year Outcome After Epilepsy Surgery in Nonmonitored and Monitored Surgical Candidates
1996
Carotid Endarterectomy and Prevention of Cerebral Ischemia in Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis
1991
Long-Term Outcomes Among Localized Prostate Cancer Survivors: Health-Related Quality-of-Life Changes After Radical Prostatectomy, External Radiation, and Brachytherapy
2005
Continuing Medical Education
1980
The Challenge of Education and Learning in the Developing World
2013 StandoutScienceNobel
Quality of Care for Elderly Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure
1997
Dramatic changes in the performance of endarterectomy for diseases of the extracranial arteries of the head.
1988
A Clinical Prediction Rule To Identify Patients with Low Back Pain Most Likely To Benefit from Spinal Manipulation: A Validation Study
2004
The Movement for Improved Quality in Health Care
1999
The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
1977 Standout
Measuring Quality of Care With Explicit Process Criteria Before and After Implementation of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System
1990
The Appropriateness of Hysterectomy
1993 Standout
Works of Robert H. Brook being referenced
Use of medical care in the Rand Health Insurance Experiment. Diagnosis- and service-specific analyses in a randomized controlled trial.
1986
Effect of medical care review on the use of injections: a study of the New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization.
1976
Evaluation of the new mexico peer review system, 1971 to 1973.
1976
The appropriateness of using a medical procedure. Is information in the medical record valid?
1987
Educating physicians and treating patients in the ambulatory setting. Where are we going and how will we know when we arrive?
1987
Appropriateness of the use of cardiovascular procedures: a method and results of this application.
1993
Regional differences in appropriateness of cholecystectomy in a prepaid health insurance system.
1993
Failure of Physicians To Recognize Functional Disability in Ambulatory Patients
1991
Group judgments of appropriateness: the effect of panel composition.
1992
Keeping Quality On The Policy Agenda
2001
A Fair Approach to Comparing Quality of Care
1991
Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain
1992
Outcome assessment for epilepsy surgery: The impact of measuring health‐related quality of life
1995
Outcomes in 248 patients who had diagnostic evaluations for epilepsy surgery
1995
Understanding Changes in Health Status
1997
The Public Release of Performance Data
2000
Measuring the Necessity of Medical Procedures
1994
Underuse and overuse of diagnostic testing for coronary artery disease in patients presenting with new-onset chest pain
1999
The Cost Effectiveness of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donations
1995 Standout
Determinants of Emergency Department Use: Are Race and Ethnicity Important?
1996
Measuring the Quality of Outpatient Treatment for Schizophrenia
1998
Underuse of Coronary Revascularization Procedures: Application of a Clinical Method
1997
HMO vs fee-for-service care of older persons with acute myocardial infarction.
1992
Autonomic imbalance, hypertension, and cardiovascular risk
2000
Predicting the Appropriate Use of Carotid Endarterectomy, Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and Coronary Angiography
1990
Measuring the Clinical Appropriateness of the Use of a Procedure Can We Do It?
1988
The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index
1998
Carotid Endarterectomy for Elderly Patients: Predicting Complications
1990
How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?
1998
Variations by Specialty in Physician Ratings of the Appropriateness and Necessity of Indications for Procedures
1996
Defining and measuring quality of care: a perspective from US researchers
2000
The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy
1988
A community-based study of the use of chiropractic services.
1991
Effects of cost sharing in health insurance on disability days
1991
Phase II of the AHCPR-Sponsored Heart Failure Guideline: Translating Practice Recommendations into Review Criteria
1996
Quality of Life of Epilepsy Surgery Patients as Compared with Outpatients with Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart Disease, and/or Depressive Symptoms
1994
Hospital Inpatient Mortality
1987
A Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument for Patients Evaluated for Epilepsy Surgery
1992
Audit of coronary angiography and bypass surgery
1990
Appropriateness of acute medical care for the elderly: an analysis of the literature
1990
Relation between Surgeons' Practice Volumes and Geographic Variation in the Rate of Carotid Endarterectomy
1989
Effect of physician specialty on use of necessary coronary angiography
1995
The Impact of Cost Sharing on Emergency Department Use
1985
Practice Guidelines and Practicing Medicine
1989
Physician ratings of appropriate indications for six medical and surgical procedures.
1986
A Method for the Detailed Assessment of the Appropriateness of Medical Technologies
1986
Effectiveness of Patient Care in an Emergency Room
1970
Quality of Ambulatory Care
1990
The functional status questionnaire
1986
QUALITY OF CARE ASSESSMENT; A COMPARISON OF FIVE METHODS OF PEER REVIEW
1974
Appropriateness of referral of coronary angiography patients in Sweden
1999
Quality Measures for Prenatal Care: A Comparison of Care in Six Health Care Plans
1994
Measuring Components of Childrenʼs Health Status
1979
Studies of Process-Outcome Correlations in Medical Care Evaluations
1979
The practices of general and subspecialty internists in counseling about smoking and exercise.
1986
Quality-of-Care Assessment: Choosing a Method for Peer Review
1973
Some Interim Results from a Controlled Trial of Cost Sharing in Health Insurance
1981
How to help your patients function better.
1985
Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction and Their Implications for Patient Care, Health Systems, and Health Policy.
2014
The Meaning of Health
1977
General health status measures and outcome measurement: A commentary on measuring functional status
1987
Quality of Care in Episodes of Respiratory Illness Among Medicaid Patients in New Mexico
1980
Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population
1986
Termination from Medi-Cal — Does It Affect Health?
1984
Overview of adult health measures fielded in Rand's health insurance study.
1979
Does Free Care Improve Adults' Health?
1983
Quality of ambulatory care. Epidemiology and comparison by insurance status and income.
1990
Use of carotid endarterectomy in five California Veterans Administration medical centers.
1986
Benefits and Costs of Screening and Treatment for Early Breast Cancer
1995
Sufficiency of clinical literature on the appropriate uses of six medical and surgical procedures.
1987
Efficacy, Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality
1985
Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use.
1984 Standout
The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults: Results from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
1984
Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations.
1981
How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?
2005
The appropriateness of intention to treat decisions for invasive therapy in coronary artery disease in The Netherlands.
1997
Differences among hospitals in Medicare patient mortality.
1989
Managed Care Is Not the Problem, Quality Is
1997
Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Men Treated for Localized Prostate Cancer
1995
Assessing the quality of medical care using outcome measures: an overview of the method.
1977
Termination of Medi-Cal Benefits
1986
Relation between hospital experience and in-hospital mortality for patients with AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: experience from 3,126 cases in New York City in 1987.
1992
Effect of Medical Care Review on the Use of Injections
1976
The Appropriateness of Hysterectomy
1994
Dying to Know: Public Release of Information About Quality of Health Care
1999
Health System Reform and Quality
1996
Assuring the quality of health care for older persons. An expert panel's priorities.
1987
Development of outcome criteria and standards to assess the quality of care for patients with osteoarthrosis
1978
Derivation of clinical indications for carotid endarterectomy by an expert panel.
1987
Consumer acceptance of prepaid and fee-for-service medical care: results from a randomized controlled trial.
1986
Inappropriate Use of Hospitals in a Randomized Trial of Health Insurance Plans
1986