American Journal of Medical Quality

Article	Citations
Using the Electronic Health Record for Crisis Allocation	17
President’s Message	16
Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Telehealth Quality Program	16
The Emerging Value-Based Care Industry: Paving the Road Ahead	15
Lessons Learned From Rapid Deployment of 100% Mortality Review for Patients With COVID-19 Across a Health System	15
Osteoporosis Screening for Male Veterans in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic at Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center	13
Stronger: The 2022 Vizient Connections Summit Report	11
Adherence to Lead Screening Guidelines in an Inner-City Pediatric Population	10
Safety of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers in Behavioral Health Facilities	10
Hematologic Malignancy Episodes Exceed Target Price in Oncology Care Model	10
Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Combined Medicine Subspecialty Fellows	10
From HRO to HERO	9
An Analysis of Exposure Keratopathy Cases to Promote Changes in Eye Care Practice in Intensive Care Units	9
The Role of the Physical Environment in Shaping Interruptions and Disruptions in Complex Health Care Settings	8
QI Consultation Service: Piloting a Novel Approach to Improving Quality Improvement Initiatives in an Academic Psychiatry Department	8
Demographics and Medical Comorbidities as Risk Factors for Increased Episode of Care Costs Following Lumbar Fusion in Medicare Patients	8
A New Metric to the Efficiency of the Ventilator Liberation Process	8
Using a Customer Relationship Management System to Manage a Quality Improvement Intervention	7
Improving Maternal Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Evaluation of a Pregnancy Medical Home	7
Perception of Ridesharing Among Veterans With Cardiovascular Diseases in the Era of the MISSION Act	7
Advancing Measurement of the Sources and Consequences of Burnout in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	7
The Impact of a Novel Use of Volunteers on Patient Satisfaction	7
Why We Still Kill Patients	7
Improving Cancer Care Through Digital Health Coaching	6
Impact of Clinical Process Improvement Training in an Integrated Delivery System	6

The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	6
A Quality Education	6
Measuring Implementation Strategy Fidelity in HealthyHearts NYC	5
Clinician Perceptions of Receiving Different Forms of Feedback on their Opioid Prescribing	5
A Comprehensive Approach to Improvements in Interdepartmental Communication and Workflow Between IR and General Medicine	5
“Together We Will Soar”: A Report on the 2023 Vizient Connections Summit	5
Quality Control for Spine Registries: Development and Application of a New Protocol	5
Promoting Safe Gun Storage Among Veterans to Prevent and Reduce Gun-Related Suicide and Accidents: A VA Resident Clinic Pilot Initiative	5
Ongoing Simulation-Based Procedural Practice	5
Perceptions of Administrators on the Impact of Accreditation on Patient Safety in Gulf Cooperation Council Hospitals	5
Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ	5
An Integrated Model to Accelerate Patient Satisfaction Improvement	4
Before-After Study of a Checklist to Improve Acute Care to ICU Handoffs	4
Evolution and Evaluation of a Quality and Patient Safety Fellowship for Practicing Health Professionals	4
Evaluation of a New Hospital Building’s Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Consumer Experience in Medical Inpatients	4
Developing a Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Emergency Department Length of Stay in a Large-Scale Hospital Under Routinized Prevention and Control of COVID-19	4
Implementing Self-Measured Blood Pressure in Primary Care: A Feasible and Systematic Approach	4
Book Review: The Journey’s End	4
Lack of Standardized Coding Limits Accuracy of Electronic Clinical Quality Measure for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis	3
A Learning Health System Approach to Hospital Quality Performance Benchmarking: The Composite Hospital Quality Index	3
Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions	3
Improving the Quality of Visualization Dashboards in Critical Care	3
Commentary: Modernizing Guidelines Development to Speed the Transfer of Science to Patient Care	3
How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing	3
Independent Risk Factors for Less Than “Top Box” Doctor Communication Patient Experience Survey Scores in an Urban Teaching Hospital	3
Improving Barriers to Timely Colonoscopies: A New Approach to Overcoming Gaps in Medical Care	3
Announcing Exciting New Developments at ACMQ	3
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Intervention to Improve Resident Documentation and Communication about Overnight Cross-Cover Events	3
The Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Course: Ten Years of Experiential Training in Quality Improvement for Practicing Professionals	3
Reflections on 3 Years of Innovation: Recognizing the Need for Innovation Beyond the Clinical Care Pathway	3
De-Implementation of Routine Vein Mapping to Increase Timely Referral for Dialysis Access	3
The Institute for Health care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency	3
A Resident-driven Quality Improvement Project to Increase Primary Care Follow-up after Congestive Heart Failure Exacerbation: Use of a Quality and Safety Award	3
What’s New at ACMQ for 2022?	3
Assessment of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Children as a Basis of Shared Decision-Making for Adults	2
Improving Emergency Department Care of Suspected Small Bowel Obstructions	2
Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement in a Hospital Setting	2
Use of Inpatient Subspecialty Consults Among Hospitalists	2
CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Lacks Real-World Context	2
Implementation of Quality Improvement System in a National Health System	2
Communication in Health Care	2
Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project	2
Evaluation of the Rothman Index in Predicting Readmission after Colorectal Resection	2
Avoiding Retained Surgical Items at an Academic Medical Center: Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Project	2
Identification of Patient Safety Threats in a Post-Intensive Care Clinic	2
Integrating Social Drivers of Health into Hospital Ratings with Application to the 100 Top Hospitals Study	2
Standardizing Sepsis Patient Education: A Quality Improvement Process	2
Medicaid Expansion’s Importance to Mental Health Care	2
VA Care Coordination Program Increased Primary Care Visits and Improved Transitional Care for Veterans Post Non-VA Hospital Discharge	2
IDEAL PICU Rounds: Improving Daily Efficiency by Applying Lean Principles	2

Optimizing Utilization of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Kidney Disease in a VA Primary Care Clinic: An Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Project	2
Navigating the Code—How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey by Barry P. Chaiken	2
Leape’s Making Healthcare Safe: Both Invaluable and Incomplete	2
Improving Patients’ Experience Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery	2
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Utilizing a Mandatory Yale Swallow Protocol	2
Building a Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Patient Safety Program for COVID-19 Patients	1
Building High-Performance Team Dynamics for Rapid Response Events in a US Tertiary Hospital: A Quality Improvement Model for Sustainable Process Change	1
Discharge Disposition and Clinical Outcomes After Spine Surgery	1
A Century of Surgical Quality: Origins, Evolution, and Future Directions	1
Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program	1
Improving Provider Compliance with Recommended Lab Monitoring for Patients on Mood Stabilizers and Atypical Antipsychotics	1
High Reliability Organization Principles Improve VA Workplace Burnout	1
Personality Predicts the Efficacy of a Physician Leadership Development Program	1
Quality Improvement Interventions to Enhance Physician Billing: A Systematic Review	1
The Healthcare Improvement and Innovation in Quality (THINQ) Collaborative: A Novel Quality Improvement Training Program for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students	1
Do Skilled Nursing Facilities That Provide More Rehabilitation Therapy Have Lower Rehospitalization Rates?	1
A Financial and Operational Model Estimating the Value of Interprofessional Collaboration at a Large Academic Institution	1
Engaging GME Learners in Health System-Aligned Improvement Work in the Clinical Learning Environment	1
Understanding Barriers and Assessing Education Intervention on Prescribing Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder	1
Surgical CPT Coding Discrepancies	1
A High-reliability Organization Mindset	1
Capturing the Patient Voice for Diabetes Eye Exams	1
The Use of a Checklist to Optimize Electrolyte Replacement in the ICU	1
The Way to Building Humanized Health Care	1
Teaching Students to Transform	1
Delivery of ERAS Care in an Academic Hospital	1
Relationship Between Working Conditions, Worker Outcomes, and Patient Care	1
Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	1
National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias	1
Comparative Perspectives on Diagnostic Error Discussions Between Inpatient and Outpatient Pediatric Providers	1
How Hospitalists in Training Are Improving Quality of Patient Care in Dutch Hospitals	1
The Promise of Remote Patient Monitoring	1
A Specialized Acute COVID-19 Outpatient Clinic at an Academic Medical Center	1
Implementation of a Standardized Alteplase Administration Algorithm to Improve Hemodialysis Adequacy	1
Improving Parental Knowledge of Medically Complex Neonates Through Scheduled Conferences	1
Ensuring the Success of Telemedicine Post COVID-19	1
Evaluation of a Custom EMR-embedded Handoff Support Application’s Impact on Resident Handoff Behaviors and Perceptions of Handoff Quality	1
Community-based, Hospital-Affiliated Medical Group Becomes a Successful Accountable Care Organization	1
The Clinical Learning Environment: Past, Present, and Future	1
A Novel Method to Improve the Identification of Time of Intubation for Retrospective EHR Data Analysis During a Time of Resource Strain, the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Holistic Process Improvement	1
Front-Line Health Care Workers’ COVID-19 Infection Contamination Risks: A Human Factors and Risk Analysis Study of Personal Protective Equipment	1
Tips From the Iceberg: Effecting Culture Change in Health Care Teams	0
Organizational Capacity of Hospitals Co-Participating in Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payments	0
Early Findings on the Use of Clinical Pathways for Management of Unwarranted Variation in Cancer Care	0
Save the Date for ACMQ’s Annual Conference!	0
The Evolving Landscape of Emergency Department Patient Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities	0
Evaluation of Adult Patients Readmitted for Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Under the BPCI Advanced Program	0
Development and Early Validation of A Survey Instrument for Measuring Patient Engagement in Pain Management	0
When Good Was Not Enough	0
Asthma: Who’s Really in Control?	0
Reevaluating the Significance of Infection Preventionists and Infection Prevention and Control Departments in the Post-COVID-19 Era	0
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Two Quality Improvement Interventions Across 10 Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Video Laryngoscopy-Assisted Coaching and Apneic Oxygenation	0
Formative Evaluation for Implementation of a Low Literacy Pictorial Asthma Action Plan Delivered via Telehealth Improves Asthma Control	0
Standardized Management of Sickle Cell Disease Patients and the Effects on Care Utilization and Costs	0
Virus out, Safety in	0
Improved Referral for Postdischarge Addiction Treatment Among Inpatients With Opioid Use Disorder	0
Measuring Improvement Capabilities in a Health System: Findings From a Content Validity Study	0
Understanding Potentially Preventable 7-day Readmission Rates in Hospital Medicine Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center	0
Improving Documentation and Adherence to United States Preventive Services Taskforce Cancer Screening Recommendations at a Safety Net Clinic	0
Improving Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in an Academic Internal Medicine Practice	0
Medication Discrepancies in Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities	0
Designing a Health Care Delivery Innovation Lab: Reflections From The First Year	0
Integration of Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Heart Failure Management: A Prospective Quality Improvement Initiative in a Tertiary Hospital	0
Expanding Naloxone Coprescribing at a Regional VA Medical Center	0
Performance of the Simplified HOSPITAL Score for Risk Assessment of Hospital Readmission in a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital	0
Delay in Time to Antibiotics for De Novo Inpatient Neutropenic Fever May Not Impact Overall Survival for Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis	0
Utility of Respiratory Pathogen Panels in the Outpatient Oncology Setting	0
The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia	0
Impact of New York State’s Medicaid Breast Cancer Selective Contracting Policy on Access and Quality of Care Outcomes	0
Patient Experience as a National Quality Metric	0
The Clinician in Quality and Innovation: A Qualitative Study of a Novel Academic Pathway at 10 Years	0
Population Health Management Approach to Depression Symptom Monitoring in Primary Care via Patient Portal: A Randomized Controlled Trial	0
The Methodology of the Virtual Clinic in Cardiac Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Adapting to the Future	0
Development and Implementation of a Practical Onboarding Curriculum for Physician Quality and Safety Leaders	0
COVID-19 Level-Loading	0
Reducing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Readmissions with a Hospital-School-Based Improvement Partnership	0
Unite 2O2ONE—Respect, Inspire, Serve	0
Keeping Quality Management in Medicine	0
A Multidisciplinary Initiative to Increase Patient Portal Enrollment	0

Efficacy of Interventions Based on WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Eastern India: A Quasi-Experimental Study	0
Location Matters	0
Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting	0
Preparation of Patients for Central Venous Catheter Care in the Home: Perspectives From Health Care Personnel	0
Patient Surveys Are Used Most Often to Assess Health Care Innovations, Rigorous Methods Are Less Common	0
How Many Lives Will You Save? A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel, Online Game for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education	0
Fresh Wave–Fresh Challenges	0
Frequency of Statin Prescription Among Individuals with Coronary Artery Calcifications Detected Through Lung Cancer Screening	0
A Geriatrics-Focused Hospitalist Trauma Comanagement Program Improves Quality of Care for Older Adults	0
Implementation of the Institute of Medicine Treatment Plan in Oncology Practice	0
Clinical Staff Perceptions of Pay-for-Performance Financial Incentives for HPV Vaccine Promotion	0
Overuse of Pulmonary Function Tests	0
Urgent Need to Reduce Regulatory Burdens on Clinicians	0
Lessons From the Northeast COVID-19 Surge: Well-Being of the Health Care Workforce	0
Using Registry Data to Support National Quality Forum Endorsement of Quality Measures for Home-Based Medical Care	0
Deadly Conflict	0
Could Modernizing Health Care Technology Be a Cure for Provider Burnout?	0
Newly Developed COVID-19 Bundle Greatly Reduces the Infection Fatality Rate for a Highly Vulnerable Nursing Home Population	0
Bypassing the Brick-and-Mortar Hospital: Increasing Direct Admissions from the Emergency Department to Inpatient Hospital-at-Home	0
Six-Year Retrospective Look at the Effects of Institutional Quality Improvement Efforts to Reduce CAUTIs	0
Answering the Call to Action: A Multimodal Wellness Response to Psychological Distress in Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Bronx	0
Practice Transformation to Improve Cancer Screening Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center	0
Effect of a Performance Feedback Dashboard on Hospitalist Laboratory Test Utilization	0
Validation of the Algorithmic Prediction of Failure Modes in Health Care Methodology: Applied to the Department of Sterile Supply and Equipment	0
Improving Compliance with Preoperative Nasal Povidone-Iodine to Prevent Surgical Site Infection in Vascular and Neurosurgery Services in a Community Teaching Hospital	0
Quantifying Regional and Health Care Variations to Identify Ways to Improve Hemodialysis Service Quality and Survival Outcomes	0
From Data to Improvement: Social Mechanisms as a Key to Understanding Dashboard Adoption	0
Impact of a Clinician Incentive Program on Quality Measures Performance in a Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization	0
The Impact of Multimodal Analgesia on Length of Stay and Patient Satisfaction After COVID-19: A Retrospective Study Examining Lean Methodology in Pain Management for Patients Undergoing Partial Nephre	0
Improved Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Rates following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Heart Valve Replacement in an Inner-City Veteran Population	0
Accrediting Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Safety	0
Implementing Social Determinant of Health Screening in a Family Medicine Clinic: A Pilot Study	0
Leapfrog Safety Grades in California Hospitals: A Data Analysis	0
Nurse Practitioner Involvement in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations	0
Preparing Faculty to Incorporate Health Systems Science into the Clinical Learning Environment: Factors Associated with Sustained Outcomes	0
An Electronic Questionnaire to Survey Colorectal Cancer Screening Status and Identify High-Risk Cohorts in Large Health Care Organizations	0
Enhancing Sepsis Outcomes: A 7-Year Multidisciplinary Endeavor	0
An Integrated Process for Co-Developing and Implementing Written and Computable Clinical Practice Guidelines	0
The Impact of Electronic Handoff Tool on Sign-Out Practices in an Internal Medicine Residency Program	0
Making Surgery as Safe as It Should Be: A Qualitative Study	0
Using Electronic Prescribing to Create a Patient Fingerprint	0
Safe Elective Surgery Using Selective SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Molecular Testing	0
The Impact of Text Messaging to Promote Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Completion in Orthopedic Practice: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Study	0
The Curb Cut	0
Utilizing Inpatient Admissions to Increase HIV Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond	0
Fragmented Ambulatory Care and Medication Count among Older Adults	0
Classification of Quality Improvement Interventions Addressing Medical Errors	0
Controlling High Blood Pressure	0
The National Practitioner Database Malpractice Study of Severity of Alleged Malpractice Injuries Trends 2008–2018	0
Team-Based Painting and Learning Approach to Recognizing Topical Ophthalmic Drops	0
National Early Warning Score Deployment in a Veterans Affairs Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative and Analysis	0
Challenges and Strategies for Patient Safety in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study	0
I-PSI	0
Implementation of a Smart Phrase to Improve Documentation and Compliance With the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain: A Quality Improvement Initiative	0
Spring Update From New ACMQ President Dan M. Westphal	0
A Platform Designed to Empower Quality Improvement for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation	0
Medical Student Quality Assurance Projects Well Received by Students and Physicians Across New Jersey Family Medicine Practices	0
Thank You for Joining Us for “Care After Covid”	0
Double-Blinded Peer Review of Clinical Notes As an Improvement Strategy: A Pilot Study	0
Improving Mortality Through a Multihospital, Collaborative Quality Improvement Project	0
Future in Focus	0
Complications of Ambulatory Procedures: Prevalence and Hospital Outpatient Department Variation	0
“Gaps In Care” Fall Short	0
Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology	0
Patient Safety Escape Room	0
More than Meets the Eye	0
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Status of Spine Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department	0
To Err Is Human: Failing to Reduce Overall Harm Is Inhumane	0
Resident-Driven Guideline to Reduce Iatrogenic Pneumothoraxes From Small-Bore Feeding Tubes: A Quality and Safety Improvement Project	0
Comparison of LACE and HOSPITAL Readmission Risk Scores for CMS Target and Nontarget Conditions	0
An Evaluation Framework for a Novel Process to Codevelop Written and Computable Guidelines	0
Is Pathogen Molecular Testing Reshaping Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing?	0
Implementing Effective Care in a University Population Based on National Vaccination Recommendations	0
An Update to “Understanding Ambulatory Care Practices in the Context of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement”	0
Cardiac Arrest in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory	0
Health Care Project Improvement Design	0
A Survey-Based Analysis of the Language of the Prescription Bottles and Instructions for the Medications of Limited English Proficiency Patients	0
Achieving a High-Reliability Laboratory: Operational Strategies Designed to Promote Patient Safety and Heighten Quality in the Clinical Lab	0
Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age: Summary of a Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach	0
Improving Management of Chest Pain with a High Sensitivity Troponin-Based Protocol	0
Development of a Practice-based Community Outreach Intervention to Prevent Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccinations	0
Is Patient Geography a Risk Factor for Chronic Opioid Use After ACDF?	0
Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Patients With Diabetes	0
DEAFMed: Deaf Education and Awareness for Medical Students	0
Using the AHEC Scholars Program to Enhance Health Professions Learners’ Self-Efficacy for Practice Transformation	0
Initial Specimen Diversion Device Utilization Mitigates Blood Culture Contamination Across Regional Community Hospital and Acute Care Facility	0
Creating a Pediatric Cardio-Oncology Clinic for Childhood Cancer Survivors	0
Identifying Barriers to Effective Outpatient Mental Health Referral for Medical Inpatients	0
A Customized Electronic Health Record-Based Tool Highlights and Addresses Gaps in Patient Safety	0
Integration of Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement Into a General Internal Medicine Residency Clinic	0
Changing the Calculus of Self-Interest in Health Care	0
“Near Miss”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Medical Student Assignments in Patient Safety	0
Quality Performance of a Transfer Center Reduces Interhospital Transfer and Direct Admission-Related ED Evaluations	0
Value-Based Purchasing Programs (VBPs)	0
High-Value Pediatric Home Health Care for Children With Medical Complexity	0