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A Brief, Multifaceted, Generic Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure Control and Reduce Disparities Had Little Effect

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

A conceptual model for culture change evaluation in nursing homes

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

A new pressure ulcer conceptual framework ⬇️

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Adherence to pressure ulcer prevention guidelines: implications for nursing home quality

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Angioedema incidence in US veterans initiating angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

Anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation: impact of mental illness

scientific article published in November 2015

Antihypertensive medications and sexual function in women: baseline data from the SBP intervention trial (SPRINT).

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Approximate models for aggregate data when individual-level data sets are very large or unavailable

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Are all pressure ulcers the result of deep tissue injury? A review of the literature.

scientific article published on October 2007

Are pressure ulcers preventable? A survey of experts

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

Are we improving the quality of nursing home care: the case of pressure ulcers

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Assessing potentially inappropriate prescribing in the elderly Veterans Affairs population using the HEDIS 2006 quality measure.

scientific article published on September 2006

Association between mental health conditions and rehospitalization, mortality, and functional outcomes in patients with stroke following inpatient rehabilitation.

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Association of skeletal muscle relaxers and antihistamines on mortality, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits in elderly patients: a nationwide retrospective cohort study

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Barriers to hypertension control

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Blood Pressure, Sexual Activity, and Dysfunction in Women With Hypertension: Baseline Findings From the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT).

scientific article published on September 2016

Blood pressure and survival in the oldest old.

scientific article published in March 2007

Brief provider communication skills training fails to impact patient hypertension outcomes

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Can administrative data identify active diagnoses for long-term care resident assessment?

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Can we use automated data to assess quality of hypertension care?

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Characterizing Frailty Status in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Choice of initial antiepileptic drug for older veterans: possible pharmacokinetic drug interactions with existing medications.

scientific article published on March 2010

Choices in the use of ICD-9 codes to identify stroke risk factors can affect the apparent population-level risk factor prevalence and distribution of CHADS2 scores

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Clinical inertia and the 2017 ACA/AHA guideline

scientific article published on 08 September 2018

Clinical practice guidelines in the nursing home

scientific article published on 01 November 2001

Clinical trial of a home safety toolkit for Alzheimer's disease

scientific article published on 29 September 2013

Comparing methods of measuring treatment intensification in hypertension care

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Comparison of health outcomes for male seniors in the Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Advantage plans

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Comprehensive health status assessment of centenarians: results from the 1999 large health survey of veteran enrollees

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Comprehensive programs for preventing pressure ulcers: a review of the literature.

scientific article published on April 2012

Conceptual issues in the design and implementation of pay-for-quality programs

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Cost effectiveness of venous thromboembolism pharmacological prophylaxis in total hip and knee replacement: a systematic review.

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Cost-Effectiveness of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control

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Dental Care in an Equal Access System Valuing Equity: Are There Racial Disparities?

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Deriving a risk-adjustment model for pressure ulcer development using the Minimum Data Set.

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Developing a pressure ulcer risk factor minimum data set and risk assessment framework ⬇️

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Developing a quality measure for clinical inertia in diabetes care

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Developing the Supporting Choice Observational Tool (SCOT): A Formative Assessment Tool to Assist Nursing Home Staff in Realizing Resident Choice.

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Development of a New Tool for Systematic Observation of Nursing Home Resident and Staff Engagement and Relationship.

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Diagnostic cost groups (DCGs) and concurrent utilization among patients with substance abuse disorders

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Differential adoption of pharmacotherapy recommendations for type 2 diabetes by generalists and specialists.

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Differential associations of beta-blockers with hemorrhagic events for chronic heart failure patients on warfarin

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Disparities in diabetes care: impact of mental illness.

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Do age and comorbidity affect intensity of pharmacological therapy for poorly controlled diabetes mellitus?

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Do-not-resuscitate orders at a chronic care hospital

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Control on Gait Speed and Mobility Limitation in Adults 75 Years or Older: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

Effect of Intensive Blood-Pressure Treatment on Patient-Reported Outcomes.

scientific article published on August 2017

Effect of pressure ulcers on the survival of long-term care residents

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Effects of daily adherence to antihypertensive medication on blood pressure control

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Effects of paying physicians based on their relative performance for quality

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Electronic consultations (e-consults) to improve access to specialty care: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Evaluating and improving pressure ulcer care: the VA experience with administrative data.

scientific article published on August 1997

Evaluating diagnosis-based case-mix measures: how well do they apply to the VA population?

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Evaluating pressure ulcer occurrence in long-term care: pitfalls in interpreting administrative data.

scientific article published on March 1996

Evaluating racial/ethnic variations in outpatient epilepsy care

scientific article published on 09 February 2013

Evaluation of a risk-adjustment model for pressure ulcer development using the Minimum Data Set.

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Explaining racial disparities in anticoagulation control: results from a study of patients at the Veterans Administration

scientific article published on 18 March 2014

Exposure to High-Risk Medications is Associated With Worse Outcomes in Older Veterans With Chronic Pain

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Exposure to potentially harmful drug-disease interactions in older community-dwelling veterans based on the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set quality measure: who is at risk?

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Functional status outcomes for assessment of quality in long-term care

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Gaps in monitoring during oral anticoagulation: insights into care transitions, monitoring barriers, and medication nonadherence

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Geriatric syndromes as outcome measures of hospital care: can administrative data be used?

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Health care reorganization and quality of care: unintended effects on pressure ulcer prevention.

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Health-related quality of life of nursing home residents: differences in patient and provider perceptions

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Hemoglobin Level and Hospital Mortality Among ICU Patients With Cardiac Disease Who Received Transfusions

scientific article published on December 2015

How do providers assess antihypertensive medication adherence in medical encounters?

scientific article published in June 2006

Hypertension Management in Patients With Diabetes: The need for more aggressive therapy

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Hypertension Treatment and Concern About Falling: Baseline Data from the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial.

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Hypertension control in the elderly: too much of a good thing?

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

Hypertension control: how well are we doing?

scientific article published in December 2003

Hypertension in Adults Across Age Groups

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Hypertension treatment and falls: should we be concerned?

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Hypertensive patients' race, health beliefs, process of care, and medication adherence.

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INR targets and site-level anticoagulation control: results from the Veterans AffaiRs Study to Improve Anticoagulation (VARIA).

scientific article published in April 2012

Identifying hypertension-related comorbidities from administrative data: what's the optimal approach?

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Identifying major hemorrhage with automated data: results of the Veterans Affairs study to improve anticoagulation (VARIA).

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Identifying the risks of anticoagulation in patients with substance abuse

scientific article published on 26 April 2013

Impact of Comorbidities on Stroke Rehabilitation Outcomes: Does the Method Matter?

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Implementing best practices in pressure ulcer care: the role of continuous quality improvement.

scientific article published on March 2007

Inadequate Management of Blood Pressure in a Hypertensive Population

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Incentive Implementation in Physician Practices: A Qualitative Study of Practice Executive Perspectives on Pay for Performance

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Intensifying therapy for hypertension despite suboptimal adherence

scientific article published on 06 July 2009

Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in Adults Aged ≥75 Years: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article (publication date: 28 June 2016)

Internal medicine interns' and residents' pressure ulcer prevention and assessment attitudes and abilities: results of an exploratory study .

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Longitudinal Pressure Ulcer Rates After Adoption of Culture Change in Veterans Health Administration Nursing Homes

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Low Self-Reported Function Predicts Adverse Postoperative Course in Veterans Affairs Beneficiaries Undergoing Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement.

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Management of hypertension and diabetes: treatment goals, drug choices, current practice, and strategies for improving care.

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Measuring quality of oral anticoagulation care: extending quality measurement to a new field.

scientific article published on March 2009

Measuring the quality of depression care in a large integrated health system

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Mental illness and intensification of diabetes medications: an observational cohort study

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Monitoring depression care: in search of an accurate quality indicator

scientific article published on June 2004

Mortality Associated with an Influenza Outbreak on a Dementia Care Unit ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

National utilization of antihypertensive medications from 2000 to 2006 in the Veterans Health Administration: focus on thiazide diuretics.

scientific article published in October 2008

New-onset epilepsy risk factors in older veterans.

scientific article published in February 2009

No racial differences in mortality found among Veterans Health Administration out-patients.

scientific article published in May 2004

Nursing home assessment of cognitive impairment: development and testing of a brief instrument of mental status.

scientific article published in November 2008

Nursing home employee perceptions of culture change

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Outcomes of Hypertension Care

scientific article published on 01 July 1997

Outcomes of anticoagulation therapy in patients with mental health conditions

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Overview of significant changes in the Minimum Data Set for nursing homes version 3.0.

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Patient characteristics associated with oral anticoagulation control: results of the Veterans AffaiRs Study to Improve Anticoagulation (VARIA).

scientific article published on October 2010

Patient factors associated with transfusion practices in Veterans Affairs intensive care units: implications for further research.

scientific article published on 3 March 2011

Patient safety in geriatrics: a call for action.

scientific article published on September 2003

Person-centered care practices and quality in Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes: is there a relationship?

scientific article published in February 2013

Pharmacoepidemiology in community-dwelling elderly taking antiepileptic drugs

scientific article published on January 2007

Physician attitudes toward pay-for-quality programs: perspectives from the front line.

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Physician-related barriers to the effective management of uncontrolled hypertension

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Potential underuse, overuse, and inappropriate use of antidepressants in older veteran nursing home residents

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Potentially inappropriate prescribing for the elderly: effects of geriatric care at the patient and health care system level

scientific article published on February 2008

Potentially inappropriate prescribing in elderly veterans: are we using the wrong drug, wrong dose, or wrong duration?

scientific article published in August 2005

Predicting outcomes among patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure receiving anticoagulation with warfarin

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Prescribing antiepileptics for the elderly: differences between guideline recommendations and clinical practice

scientific article published on January 2006

Pressure ulcers

scientific article published on 01 April 1991

Pressure-related deep tissue injury under intact skin and the current pressure ulcer staging systems.

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Problems in Assessing Diabetes Control in an Ambulatory Setting

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Profiling Outcomes of Ambulatory Care

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Profiling nursing homes using Bayesian hierarchical modeling

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Profiling resource use: do different outcomes affect assessments of provider efficiency?

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Prompt Repeat Testing After Out-of-Range INR Values

scientific article published on 19 April 2011

Provider and Site-Level Determinants of Testosterone Prescribing in the Veterans Healthcare System.

scientific article published on September 2017

Provider attitudes toward pay-for-performance programs: development and validation of a measurement instrument

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Purchasing or providing nursing home care: can quality of care data provide guidance.

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Quality improvement implementation in the nursing home

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Racial differences in the prevalence of atrial fibrillation among males

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Racial variations in dental procedures: the case of root canal therapy versus tooth extraction.

scientific article published on November 2003

Reducing Random Variation in Reported Rates of Pressure Ulcer Development ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Reexamining the recommended follow-up interval after obtaining an in-range international normalized ratio value: results from the Veterans Affairs study to improve anticoagulation

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Relevance of current guidelines for organizing an anticoagulation clinic.

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Remembering Gene Stollerman, MD.

scientific article published in December 2014

Resident Choice: A Nursing Home Staff Perspective on Tensions and Resolutions.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Risk adjustment for measuring health outcomes: an application in VA long-term care

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

Risk adjustment in rehabilitation quality improvement

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Risk factors for pressure sores. A comparison of cross-sectional and cohort-derived data

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Risk of venous thromboembolism after total hip and knee replacement in older adults with comorbidity and co-occurring comorbidities in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (2003-2006).

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Risk-adjusted mortality rates as a potential outcome indicator for outpatient quality assessments.

scientific article published in March 2002

Risk-adjusted percent time in therapeutic range as a quality indicator for outpatient oral anticoagulation: results of the Veterans Affairs Study to Improve Anticoagulation (VARIA).

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

Safety and tolerability of galantamine SA in dementia patients transitioned from donepezil.

scientific article published on February 2011

Self-Reported vs Administrative Race/Ethnicity Data and Study Results

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Sex differences in inappropriate prescribing among elderly veterans.

scientific article published in June 2007

Shrinkage estimators for a composite measure of quality conceptualized as a formative construct.

scientific article published on 20 June 2012

Stage III pressure ulcers

scientific article published on 01 July 1992

Stratifying the risks of oral anticoagulation in patients with liver disease.

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Striving for six sigma in pressure ulcer care

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

The PUSH tool: a survey to determine its perceived usefulness

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

The accuracy of clinician perceptions of "usual" blood pressure control

scientific article published on 28 November 2007

The business case for quality improvement: oral anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

The clock is ticking: the case for achieving more rapid control of hypertension

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

The design and rationale of a multicenter clinical trial comparing two strategies for control of systolic blood pressure: the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT)

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The early experience of a hospital-based pay-for-performance program

scientific article published on March 2007

The effect of age on hypertension control and management

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

The effectiveness of screening for prostate cancer: a nested case-control study.

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The effects of changes in nursing home staffing on pressure ulcer rates

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

The epidemiology and management of severe hypertension.

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The hazards of stroke case selection using administrative data

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The health status of elderly veteran enrollees in the Veterans Health Administration

scientific article published in August 2004

The impact of epilepsy on older veterans.

scientific article published on January 2007

The limited value of routine laboratory assessments in severely impaired nursing home residents

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

The quality of care for adults with epilepsy: an initial glimpse using the QUIET measure

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The quality of quality measures: HEDIS® quality measures for medication management in the elderly and outcomes associated with new exposure.

scientific article published on August 2013

The relationship of system-level quality improvement with quality of depression care

scientific article published on 01 November 2004

The use of follow-up chest roentgenograms among hospitalized patients

scientific article published on 01 April 1989

Tooth retention as an indicator of quality dental care: development of a risk adjustment model

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Trends in use of high-risk medications for older veterans: 2004 to 2006

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Understanding Uncontrolled Hypertension

scientific article published on 02 August 2016

Understanding Uncontrolled Hypertension: Is It the Patient or the Provider?

scientific article published in December 2007

Understanding contributors to racial disparities in blood pressure control

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Understanding racial disparities in treatment intensification for hypertension management.

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Use of risk-adjusted change in health status to assess the performance of integrated service networks in the Veterans Health Administration.

scientific article published on 7 October 2005

Use of selected complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments in veterans with cancer or chronic pain: a cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 6 October 2006

Use of testosterone in men infected with human immunodeficiency virus in the veterans healthcare system.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Using administrative data to identify mental illness: what approach is best?

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Using administrative databases to evaluate long-term care

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

Using the case mix of pressure ulcer healing to evaluate nursing home performance

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Validation of a novel safety climate instrument in VHA nursing homes.

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Validation of self-reported epilepsy for purposes of community surveillance

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

Variations in the management of acute myocardial infarction. Importance of clinical measures of disease severity.

scientific article published on June 1996

Venous thromboembolism after joint replacement in older male veterans with comorbidity

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Warfarin dose management affects INR control.

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What constitutes high quality of care for adults with epilepsy?

scientific article published on 10 October 2007

Who Gets Testosterone? Patient Characteristics Associated with Testosterone Prescribing in the Veteran Affairs System: a Cross-Sectional Study

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