American Journal of Medical Quality

Article	Citations
Perspective: What a Difference a Disaster Makes: The Telehealth Revolution in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Impact of Simulation-Based Closed-Loop Communication Training on Medical Errors in a Pediatric Emergency Department	17
Supporting the Quadruple Aim Using Simulation and Human Factors During COVID-19 Care	15
The Promise of Remote Patient Monitoring	14
Impacts of Post-Hospitalization Accessible Health Technology and Caregiver Support on 90-Day Acute Care Use and Self-Care Assistance	10
Improved FMEA Methods for Proactive Health Care Risk Assessment of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of COVID-19 Remote Patient Telemonitoring	9
Discharge Disposition and Clinical Outcomes After Spine Surgery	9
Initial Specimen Diversion Device Utilization Mitigates Blood Culture Contamination Across Regional Community Hospital and Acute Care Facility	8
Nurse Practitioner Involvement in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations	8
Implementing a COVID-19 Discharge Pathway to Improve Patient Safety	8
Letter to the Editor: Medical Students Improving Health Care Beyond Clinical Rotations During the COVID-19 Outbreak	8
Accrediting Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Safety	7
Post-COVID Care Center to Address Rehabilitation Needs in COVID-19 Survivors: A Model of Care	7
Measuring Implementation Strategy Fidelity in HealthyHearts NYC	7
Relationship Between Working Conditions, Worker Outcomes, and Patient Care	6
COVID-19 Intubation Safety	6
From HRO to HERO	6
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Integrated Clinical Pathway Improves Adherence to COVID-19 Hospital Care Guidelines	5
Avoiding Retained Surgical Items at an Academic Medical Center: Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Project	5
Early Telephone Appointments and Home Telehealth Monitoring May Improve 30-Day Readmission Rates in the COVID-19 Era	5
Preparing Faculty to Incorporate Health Systems Science into the Clinical Learning Environment: Factors Associated with Sustained Outcomes	5
Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Is the Promise of PROMs Being Realized? Implementation Experience in a Large Orthopedic Practice	4
Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement in a Hospital Setting	4
Application of Forcing Functions to Electronic Health Records Is Associated With Improved Pain Control for Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases	4

Rapid Implementation of a Volunteer-Run Service to Combat Social Isolation in Hospitalized Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Combined Medicine Subspecialty Fellows	4
Delivery of ERAS Care in an Academic Hospital	4
Surgical CPT Coding Discrepancies	4
Controlling High Blood Pressure	4
Pandemic as a Catalyst for Rapid Implementation	3
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Two Quality Improvement Interventions Across 10 Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Video Laryngoscopy-Assisted Coaching and Apneic Oxygenation	3
Quality in the Context of Value	3
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Adaptation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Physicians Leading Physicians	3
ACMQ Student, Resident, and Fellow Section (SRF) COVID-19 Resident and Fellow Survey	3
Developing Clinical Quality Improvement Measures Aligned With the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain	3
Key Features Underlying Low-Value Care Recommendations	3
The NQF Scientific Methods Panel	3
Dissemination of Quality Improvement Project Results After Local Presentation	3
Communication in Health Care	3
Making Room at the Bedside	3
An Evaluation Framework for a Novel Process to Codevelop Written and Computable Guidelines	3
Development of a Practice-based Community Outreach Intervention to Prevent Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccinations	3
Designing a Health Care Delivery Innovation Lab: Reflections From The First Year	3
Building a Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Patient Safety Program for COVID-19 Patients	3
Telemedicine Can Support Measurable and High-Quality Epilepsy Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Frequency of Statin Prescription Among Individuals with Coronary Artery Calcifications Detected Through Lung Cancer Screening	3
VA Care Coordination Program Increased Primary Care Visits and Improved Transitional Care for Veterans Post Non-VA Hospital Discharge	3
A Multimodal Quality Improvement Curriculum for Pediatric GME Program Directors	3
Deadly Conflict	2
Electronic Family History Screening Tool for Detection of Inherited Cancer Risk	2
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	2
A Quality Improvement Intervention Leveraging a Safety Net Model for Surveillance Colonoscopy Completion	2
Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions	2
National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias	2
Comparison of LACE and HOSPITAL Readmission Risk Scores for CMS Target and Nontarget Conditions	2
A High-reliability Organization Mindset	2
Impact of Clinical Process Improvement Training in an Integrated Delivery System	2
Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age: Summary of a Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach	2
A Quality Education	2
Cardiac Arrest in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory	2
Improving the Quality of Visualization Dashboards in Critical Care	2
High Reliability Organization Principles Improve VA Workplace Burnout	2
Simulation Use in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Training for Residents	2
Natural Language Processing CAM Algorithm Improves Delirium Detection Compared With Conventional Methods	2
Population Health Management Approach to Depression Symptom Monitoring in Primary Care via Patient Portal: A Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Improving Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in an Academic Internal Medicine Practice	2
The Evolving Curriculum in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review	2
Using a Customer Relationship Management System to Manage a Quality Improvement Intervention	2
The Art of Care: A Report on the 2019 Vizient Connections Education Summit	2
Early Findings on the Use of Clinical Pathways for Management of Unwarranted Variation in Cancer Care	2
The Role of the Physical Environment in Shaping Interruptions and Disruptions in Complex Health Care Settings	2
Prevalence and Characteristics of House Staff Quality and Safety Councils Within Clinical Learning Environments	2
Safe Elective Surgery Using Selective SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Molecular Testing	2

Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting	2
An Integrated Process for Co-Developing and Implementing Written and Computable Clinical Practice Guidelines	2
Formative Evaluation for Implementation of a Low Literacy Pictorial Asthma Action Plan Delivered via Telehealth Improves Asthma Control	2
Quality Performance of a Transfer Center Reduces Interhospital Transfer and Direct Admission-Related ED Evaluations	1
Aligning Graduate Medical Education Improvement Projects With Merit Incentive-Based Payment System Requirements via Functional Outcome Measures	1
COVID-19 Level-Loading	1
The Way to Building Humanized Health Care	1
A Specialized Acute COVID-19 Outpatient Clinic at an Academic Medical Center	1
Commentary: Leadership and a True Culture of Patient Safety	1
DEAFMed: Deaf Education and Awareness for Medical Students	1
Identification of Patient Safety Threats in a Post-Intensive Care Clinic	1
Teaching Students to Transform	1
Before-After Study of a Checklist to Improve Acute Care to ICU Handoffs	1
Cost-Savings of Do Not Resuscitate Orders Among Elderly Patients With Heart Failure in the United States	1
Why Many Quality Improvement Initiatives Die a Quick Death	1
Clinician Perceptions of Receiving Different Forms of Feedback on their Opioid Prescribing	1
Do Skilled Nursing Facilities That Provide More Rehabilitation Therapy Have Lower Rehospitalization Rates?	1
How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing	1
Advancing Measurement of the Sources and Consequences of Burnout in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	1
Practice Transformation to Improve Cancer Screening Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center	1
Newly Developed COVID-19 Bundle Greatly Reduces the Infection Fatality Rate for a Highly Vulnerable Nursing Home Population	1
A Financial and Operational Model Estimating the Value of Interprofessional Collaboration at a Large Academic Institution	1
Improved Physical Exam Documentation in a Pediatric After-Hours Clinic	1
Implementation of the Institute of Medicine Treatment Plan in Oncology Practice	1
Using Registry Data to Support National Quality Forum Endorsement of Quality Measures for Home-Based Medical Care	1
Adapted Kaizen: Multi-Organizational Complex Process Redesign for Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	1
Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program	1
Hypertension and Diabetes Quality Improvement in a Practice Transformation Network	1
Human Factor Consideration in Routine Root Cause Analysis	1
Q-Tip: A Post-Discharge Transition of Care Clinic and Its Impact on Hospital Readmissions at 30 Days	1
Development and Implementation of a Practical Onboarding Curriculum for Physician Quality and Safety Leaders	1
Challenges and Strategies for Patient Safety in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study	1
Perceptions of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist When Implemented by the Multidisciplinary OR Team	1
Evaluation of the Rothman Index in Predicting Readmission after Colorectal Resection	1
Impact of New York State’s Medicaid Breast Cancer Selective Contracting Policy on Access and Quality of Care Outcomes	1
A Geriatrics-Focused Hospitalist Trauma Comanagement Program Improves Quality of Care for Older Adults	1
Health Care Project Improvement Design	1
Rates of Inappropriate Dosing in Older Adults at an Urban, Academic Hospital	1
Lessons Learned From Rapid Deployment of 100% Mortality Review for Patients With COVID-19 Across a Health System	1
Improved Referral for Postdischarge Addiction Treatment Among Inpatients With Opioid Use Disorder	1
Are Rates of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridioides difficile Associated With Quality and Clinical Outcomes in US Acute Care Hospitals?	1
An Integrated Model to Accelerate Patient Satisfaction Improvement	1
CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Lacks Real-World Context	1
Application of Information Technology–Based End-to-End Process Management in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients With Tuberculosis	1
Impact of Faculty Training in Health Systems Science on Scholarly Presentation of Resident Physician and Fellow Quality Improvement Projects	0
Utility of Respiratory Pathogen Panels in the Outpatient Oncology Setting	0
A Customized Electronic Health Record-Based Tool Highlights and Addresses Gaps in Patient Safety	0
Psychometric Evaluation and Validation of an Urdu Version of the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Measure (U-SDSCA)	0
Demographics and Medical Comorbidities as Risk Factors for Increased Episode of Care Costs Following Lumbar Fusion in Medicare Patients	0
Convocation Valedictory for Quality and Safety	0
Making Surgery as Safe as It Should Be: A Qualitative Study	0
A Comprehensive Approach to Improvements in Interdepartmental Communication and Workflow Between IR and General Medicine	0
An Update to “Understanding Ambulatory Care Practices in the Context of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement”	0
Utilizing Inpatient Admissions to Increase HIV Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond	0
Medical Student Quality Assurance Projects Well Received by Students and Physicians Across New Jersey Family Medicine Practices	0
IDEAL PICU Rounds: Improving Daily Efficiency by Applying Lean Principles	0
Welcome to the “New” American Journal of Medical Quality!	0
A Resident-driven Quality Improvement Project to Increase Primary Care Follow-up after Congestive Heart Failure Exacerbation: Use of a Quality and Safety Award	0
Performance of the Simplified HOSPITAL Score for Risk Assessment of Hospital Readmission in a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital	0
Ensuring the Success of Telemedicine Post COVID-19	0
Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Telehealth Quality Program	0
Controlling Chaos	0
Improving Emergency Department Care of Suspected Small Bowel Obstructions	0
Implementation of a Standardized Alteplase Administration Algorithm to Improve Hemodialysis Adequacy	0
The Emerging Value-Based Care Industry: Paving the Road Ahead	0
Value-Based Purchasing Programs (VBPs)	0
ACMQ Joins the National Quality Partners Leadership Consortium	0
Improving Face Mask Etiquette in Patients and Guests During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Changing the Calculus of Self-Interest in Health Care	0
Future in Focus	0
Improving Breast Cancer Screening Rates in a Resident Clinic in Eastern North Carolina	0
Spring Update From New ACMQ President Dan M. Westphal	0
Assessment and Optimization of Practices with Patients with Limited English Proficiency in an Urban Emergency Department	0
The Best Interest of the Patient	0
The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	0
President’s Message	0
Fresh Wave–Fresh Challenges	0
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Status of Spine Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department	0
Standardizing Sepsis Patient Education: A Quality Improvement Process	0
Improving Patients’ Experience Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery	0

Quality Control for Spine Registries: Development and Application of a New Protocol	0
Is It Time to Follow the Lawyers: Should Hospitals Extract Themselves From US News & World Report Rankings?	0
Building a Just Culture through Transforming our Response to Adverse Events	0
Playing With Your Phone in Class	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
Evaluation of a New Hospital Building’s Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Consumer Experience in Medical Inpatients	0
Patient Safety Culture and Practice at a Super-Specialty Hospital in India	0
Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ	0
Low Yield of Hepatitis B Virus DNA Testing in the Absence of Surface Antigen	0
Delay in Time to Antibiotics for De Novo Inpatient Neutropenic Fever May Not Impact Overall Survival for Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis	0
How Many Lives Will You Save? A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel, Online Game for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education	0
Code Torsion: A Novel Pathway for Expedited Evaluation of Suspected Gonadal Torsion in the Emergency Department	0
Using the Electronic Health Record for Crisis Allocation	0
Effect of a Performance Feedback Dashboard on Hospitalist Laboratory Test Utilization	0
ACMQ President’s Message: Update on ACMQ’s Annual Meeting Medical Quality 2020	0
Good Communication During Clinical Handovers: The Students’ Perspective	0
Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project	0
Using the AHEC Scholars Program to Enhance Health Professions Learners’ Self-Efficacy for Practice Transformation	0
Keeping Quality Management in Medicine	0
Sustainability of a Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Surrogate Decision Maker Documentation for Hospitalized Adults	0
Setting Up a COVID-19 Suspect Obstetric Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India	0
Improving Transfer Medication Reconciliation in an Emirati Tertiary Hospital Utilizing the Irish Health Service Executive Model	0
The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia	0
Organizational Costs and Benefits of a Health System Quality Improvement Intervention to Increase Aspirin Use for Primary Prevention of Heart Attack and Stroke	0
Perceptions of Administrators on the Impact of Accreditation on Patient Safety in Gulf Cooperation Council Hospitals	0
Evaluation of Adult Patients Readmitted for Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Under the BPCI Advanced Program	0
Highlights From ACMQ’s Annual Meeting Virtual Medical Quality 2020	0
ACMQ Update: Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition: To Be Released September 1, 2020	0
Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Patients With Diabetes	0
Stronger: The 2022 Vizient Connections Summit Report	0
Shedding the Light on the Off-Hours Problem in Radiology	0
Classification of Quality Improvement Interventions Addressing Medical Errors	0
Osteoporosis Screening for Male Veterans in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic at Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center	0
Ongoing Simulation-Based Procedural Practice	0
EHR-Integrated Clinical Pathways Promote Education, Confidence, and Save Time for Primary Care Providers	0
High-Value Pediatric Home Health Care for Children With Medical Complexity	0
Adherence to Lead Screening Guidelines in an Inner-City Pediatric Population	0
Q-Tip: Stressed Out: The Challenging Task of Ordering Stress Tests Among Non-Cardiologists	0
Quantifying Ambulatory Care Use Preceding Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions	0
The Impact of Text Messaging to Promote Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Completion in Orthopedic Practice: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Study	0
I-PSI	0
Improving Mortality Through a Multihospital, Collaborative Quality Improvement Project	0
Improving Documentation and Adherence to United States Preventive Services Taskforce Cancer Screening Recommendations at a Safety Net Clinic	0
Reducing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Readmissions with a Hospital-School-Based Improvement Partnership	0
What’s New at ACMQ for 2022?	0
Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology	0
Quality and Safety Practices Among Academic Obstetrics and Gynecology Departments	0
Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	0
Promoting Safe Gun Storage Among Veterans to Prevent and Reduce Gun-Related Suicide and Accidents: A VA Resident Clinic Pilot Initiative	0
ACMQ Member Engagement & Education Committee (ME & EC) Update	0
Portable Chest X-Ray Quality Improvement: Approach and Assessment	0
Validation of the Algorithmic Prediction of Failure Modes in Health Care Methodology: Applied to the Department of Sterile Supply and Equipment	0
Quantifying Regional and Health Care Variations to Identify Ways to Improve Hemodialysis Service Quality and Survival Outcomes	0
Leape’s Making Healthcare Safe: Both Invaluable and Incomplete	0
Safety of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers in Behavioral Health Facilities	0
Impact of a Clinician Incentive Program on Quality Measures Performance in a Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization	0
Hospitalist Perceptions of Fall Prevention	0
Improving Cancer Care Through Digital Health Coaching	0
A New Metric to the Efficiency of the Ventilator Liberation Process	0
Reducing Unnecessary Amylase Testing Within a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	0
Improving Time to Defibrillation Following Ventricular Tachycardia (VTach) and Ventricular Fibrillation (VFib) Cardiac Arrest: A Multicenter Retrospective and Prospective Quality Improvement Study	0
Save the Date for ACMQ’s Annual Conference!	0
Community-Based Production of Quality Face Masks for Personal Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
National Early Warning Score Deployment in a Veterans Affairs Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative and Analysis	0
Patient Safety Escape Room	0
ACMQ Appreciates Your Commitment	0
Q-Tip: Reducing Blood Wastage in a Large Level I Trauma Center	0
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Intervention to Improve Resident Documentation and Communication about Overnight Cross-Cover Events	0
Medicaid Expansion’s Importance to Mental Health Care	0
Investigation on Using Smartphones to Obtain Treatment Decisions for Thyroid Cancer Patients Before Surgery	0
Navigating the Code—How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey by Barry P. Chaiken	0
Location Matters	0
Evaluating Caregiver Needs and the Feasibility of an Occupational Therapy Consultation Service to Caregivers of People With Dementia in a Geriatric Ambulatory Clinic	0
Determining Bottlenecks in Length of Stay for Intestinal Obstruction Patients in Surgery Using Lean and Six Sigma	0
Hematologic Malignancy Episodes Exceed Target Price in Oncology Care Model	0
Is My Quality Improvement Initiative Also Research? A Primer on Making This Distinction and the Ethical Considerations for Graduate Trainees	0
Holistic Process Improvement	0
Letter to the Editor: Time-Out Protocol to Ensure Understanding and Implementation of the Storm of Instructions and Protocols During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Assessment of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Children as a Basis of Shared Decision-Making for Adults	0
Improving Intraoperative Ophthalmic Surgery Communication	0
Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Finally Fuel Drug Repurposing Efforts?	0
Organizational Capacity of Hospitals Co-Participating in Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payments	0
Overuse of Pulmonary Function Tests	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
Implementing Effective Care in a University Population Based on National Vaccination Recommendations	0
Influenza Vaccination Rate and Factors Associated With Compliance Among Health Care Employees in Large and Medium Acute Care Hospitals	0
The Curb Cut	0
Procedure-Based Telehealth Utilization in General Surgery	0
Implementing Social Determinant of Health Screening in a Family Medicine Clinic: A Pilot Study	0
Announcing Exciting New Developments at ACMQ	0
QI Consultation Service: Piloting a Novel Approach to Improving Quality Improvement Initiatives in an Academic Psychiatry Department	0
Medication Discrepancies in Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities	0
Reliability of Patient-Report, Physician-Report, and Medical Record Review to Identify Hospital-Acquired Complications	0
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Utilizing a Mandatory Yale Swallow Protocol	0
Q-Tip: Bilirubin Turnaround Time in an Outpatient Pediatric Clinic: Improving Efficiency of Time-Sensitive Lab Results	0