VA National Quality Scholars Publications
Birmingham, Alabama
Heckemeyer CM, Kiefe CI. Glitazone in Diabetes: Relationship to patient dual public/private sector use. Diabetes Care. 28(11):2807, 2005.
Varadarajulu S, Lopes TL, Wilcox CM, Drelichman ER, Kilgore ML, Christein JD. EUS versus surgical cyst-gastrostomy for management of pancreatic pseudocysts. Gastrointest Endosc. 2008.
Boyd CM, Ritchie CS, Tipton EF, Studenski SA, Wieland D. From Bedside to Bench: summary from the American Geriatrics Society/National Institute on Aging Research Conference on Comorbidity and Multiple Morbidity in Older Adults. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2008, 20, 3, 181-188, Italy.
Snyder ED, Castiglioni A, Salanitro A, Estrada CA. Preparing for scientific presentations: How do you practice? Regional Meeting, Southern Society of General Internal Medicine, New Orleans, February 13-14, 2009. J Invest Med 2009; 57: 421-2.
Safford MM, Salanitro A, Houston TK, Estrada CA, Hillman-Williams J, Ovalle F, Kiefe CI, Allison JJ. How much physician is there to profile? Patient complexity and quality of care measurement. 31th Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 9-12, 2008. J Gen Intern Med 2008 23; (Supp 2): 318.
Cleveland, Ohio
Best M, Neuhauser D. Walter A Shewhart, 1924, and the Hawthorne factory. Qual Saf Health Care. 15(2):142-3, 2006.
Best M, Neuhauser D. Joseph Juran: Overcoming resistance to organizational change. Qual Saf Health Care. 15(5):380-2, 2006.
Best M, Neuhauser D. W Edwards Deming: Father of quality management, patient and composer. Qual Saf Health Care. 14(4):310-2, 2005.
Best M, Neuhauser D. Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis: Master of the spirit of mathematical clinical science. Qual Saf Health Care. 14(6):462-4, 2005.
Hebert LA, Rovin BH, Hebert CJ. The design of ALLHAT may have biased the study's outcome in favor of the diuretic cohort. Nat Clin Pract Nephrol. 3(2):60-1, 2007.
Iowa City, Iowa
Abrams TE, Vaughn-Sarrazin M, Rosenthal GE. Variations in the associations between psychiatric comorbidity and hospital mortality according to the method of identifying psychiatric diagnoses. J Gen Intern Med. 23(3):317-22, 2008.
Abrams TE, Barnett MJ, Hoth A, Schultz S, Kaboli PJ. The relationship between hearing impairment and depression in older veterans. J Am Geriatr Soc. 54(9):1475-7, 2006.
Haynes K, Hennessy S, Morales KH, Gibson GA, Barnhart C, Jaipaul CK, Linkin DR. Inter-rater reliability of a classification system for hospital adverse drug event reports. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2008, 83, 3, 485-488, United States.
Myers JS, Jaipaul CK, Kogan JR, Krekun S, Bellini LM, Shea JA. Are discharge summaries teachable? The effects of a discharge summary curriculum on the quality of discharge summaries in an internal medicine residency program. Acad Med. 81(10 Suppl):S5-8, 2006.
Popescu I, Nallamothu BK, Vaughan-Sarrazin MS, Cram P. Do specialty cardiac hospitals have greater adherence to acute myocardial infarction and heart failure process measures? An empirical assessment using Medicare quality measures: quality of care in cardiac specialty hospitals. Am Heart J. 2008, 156, 1, 155-160, United States.
