American Journal of Medical Quality

Article	Citations
Impact of Simulation-Based Closed-Loop Communication Training on Medical Errors in a Pediatric Emergency Department	18
The Promise of Remote Patient Monitoring	17
Supporting the Quadruple Aim Using Simulation and Human Factors During COVID-19 Care	16
Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions	11
Discharge Disposition and Clinical Outcomes After Spine Surgery	11
Improved FMEA Methods for Proactive Health Care Risk Assessment of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of COVID-19 Remote Patient Telemonitoring	10
Impacts of Post-Hospitalization Accessible Health Technology and Caregiver Support on 90-Day Acute Care Use and Self-Care Assistance	10
Is the Promise of PROMs Being Realized? Implementation Experience in a Large Orthopedic Practice	9
Communication in Health Care	9
Post-COVID Care Center to Address Rehabilitation Needs in COVID-19 Survivors: A Model of Care	9
From HRO to HERO	8
Implementing a COVID-19 Discharge Pathway to Improve Patient Safety	8
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
Building a Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Patient Safety Program for COVID-19 Patients	8
Controlling High Blood Pressure	7
Accrediting Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Safety	7
Measuring Implementation Strategy Fidelity in HealthyHearts NYC	7
Natural Language Processing CAM Algorithm Improves Delirium Detection Compared With Conventional Methods	6
Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement in a Hospital Setting	6
Relationship Between Working Conditions, Worker Outcomes, and Patient Care	6
The NQF Scientific Methods Panel	6
COVID-19 Intubation Safety	6
Early Telephone Appointments and Home Telehealth Monitoring May Improve 30-Day Readmission Rates in the COVID-19 Era	5
Surgical CPT Coding Discrepancies	5

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	5
Developing Clinical Quality Improvement Measures Aligned With the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain	5
Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Frequency of Statin Prescription Among Individuals with Coronary Artery Calcifications Detected Through Lung Cancer Screening	5
How Many Lives Will You Save? A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel, Online Game for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education	5
Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Combined Medicine Subspecialty Fellows	5
Delivery of ERAS Care in an Academic Hospital	5
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Two Quality Improvement Interventions Across 10 Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Video Laryngoscopy-Assisted Coaching and Apneic Oxygenation	5
Avoiding Retained Surgical Items at an Academic Medical Center: Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Project	5
Preparing Faculty to Incorporate Health Systems Science into the Clinical Learning Environment: Factors Associated with Sustained Outcomes	5
Pandemic as a Catalyst for Rapid Implementation	4
Population Health Management Approach to Depression Symptom Monitoring in Primary Care via Patient Portal: A Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Clinician Perceptions of Receiving Different Forms of Feedback on their Opioid Prescribing	4
Dissemination of Quality Improvement Project Results After Local Presentation	4
Telemedicine Can Support Measurable and High-Quality Epilepsy Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Rapid Implementation of a Volunteer-Run Service to Combat Social Isolation in Hospitalized Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Key Features Underlying Low-Value Care Recommendations	4
Application of Forcing Functions to Electronic Health Records Is Associated With Improved Pain Control for Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy for Bone Metastases	4
The Evolving Curriculum in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review	4
National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias	3
Comparison of LACE and HOSPITAL Readmission Risk Scores for CMS Target and Nontarget Conditions	3
A High-reliability Organization Mindset	3
Electronic Family History Screening Tool for Detection of Inherited Cancer Risk	3
Making Room at the Bedside	3
Physicians Leading Physicians	3
A Specialized Acute COVID-19 Outpatient Clinic at an Academic Medical Center	3
A Multimodal Quality Improvement Curriculum for Pediatric GME Program Directors	3
Improving the Quality of Visualization Dashboards in Critical Care	3
Teaching Students to Transform	3
Quality in the Context of Value	3
Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting	3
Impact of Clinical Process Improvement Training in an Integrated Delivery System	3
An Integrated Process for Co-Developing and Implementing Written and Computable Clinical Practice Guidelines	3
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Integrated Clinical Pathway Improves Adherence to COVID-19 Hospital Care Guidelines	3
Cardiac Arrest in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory	3
A Quality Improvement Intervention Leveraging a Safety Net Model for Surveillance Colonoscopy Completion	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
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Adaptation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Adapted Kaizen: Multi-Organizational Complex Process Redesign for Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	3
Using a Customer Relationship Management System to Manage a Quality Improvement Intervention	3
VA Care Coordination Program Increased Primary Care Visits and Improved Transitional Care for Veterans Post Non-VA Hospital Discharge	3
Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age: Summary of a Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach	3
Challenges and Strategies for Patient Safety in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study	3
An Evaluation Framework for a Novel Process to Codevelop Written and Computable Guidelines	3
Do Skilled Nursing Facilities That Provide More Rehabilitation Therapy Have Lower Rehospitalization Rates?	2
The Role of the Physical Environment in Shaping Interruptions and Disruptions in Complex Health Care Settings	2
Simulation Use in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Training for Residents	2
Improved Referral for Postdischarge Addiction Treatment Among Inpatients With Opioid Use Disorder	2
Improving Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in an Academic Internal Medicine Practice	2

Formative Evaluation for Implementation of a Low Literacy Pictorial Asthma Action Plan Delivered via Telehealth Improves Asthma Control	2
Early Findings on the Use of Clinical Pathways for Management of Unwarranted Variation in Cancer Care	2
Health Care Project Improvement Design	2
High Reliability Organization Principles Improve VA Workplace Burnout	2
Practice Transformation to Improve Cancer Screening Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center	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
Deadly Conflict	2
Evaluation of the Rothman Index in Predicting Readmission after Colorectal Resection	2
COVID-19 Level-Loading	2
Advancing Measurement of the Sources and Consequences of Burnout in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	2
Implementation of a Smart Phrase to Improve Documentation and Compliance With the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain: A Quality Improvement Initiative	2
Newly Developed COVID-19 Bundle Greatly Reduces the Infection Fatality Rate for a Highly Vulnerable Nursing Home Population	2
Improving Transfer Medication Reconciliation in an Emirati Tertiary Hospital Utilizing the Irish Health Service Executive Model	2
A Quality Education	2
Quality Performance of a Transfer Center Reduces Interhospital Transfer and Direct Admission-Related ED Evaluations	2
Why Many Quality Improvement Initiatives Die a Quick Death	1
Performance of the Simplified HOSPITAL Score for Risk Assessment of Hospital Readmission in a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital	1
Building a Just Culture through Transforming our Response to Adverse Events	1
The Way to Building Humanized Health Care	1
EHR-Integrated Clinical Pathways Promote Education, Confidence, and Save Time for Primary Care Providers	1
A Learning Health System Approach to Hospital Quality Performance Benchmarking: The Composite Hospital Quality Index	1
Procedure-Based Telehealth Utilization in General Surgery	1
Could Modernizing Health Care Technology Be a Cure for Provider Burnout?	1
Identification of Patient Safety Threats in a Post-Intensive Care Clinic	1
A Geriatrics-Focused Hospitalist Trauma Comanagement Program Improves Quality of Care for Older Adults	1
DEAFMed: Deaf Education and Awareness for Medical Students	1
Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Patients With Diabetes	1
Evaluation of a New Hospital Building’s Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Consumer Experience in Medical Inpatients	1
Before-After Study of a Checklist to Improve Acute Care to ICU Handoffs	1
Medicaid Expansion’s Importance to Mental Health Care	1
Application of Information Technology–Based End-to-End Process Management in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients With Tuberculosis	1
The Institute for Health care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency	1
Human Factor Consideration in Routine Root Cause Analysis	1
Impact of New York State’s Medicaid Breast Cancer Selective Contracting Policy on Access and Quality of Care Outcomes	1
Demographics and Medical Comorbidities as Risk Factors for Increased Episode of Care Costs Following Lumbar Fusion in Medicare Patients	1
Perceptions of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist When Implemented by the Multidisciplinary OR Team	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
Rates of Inappropriate Dosing in Older Adults at an Urban, Academic Hospital	1
The Impact of Electronic Handoff Tool on Sign-Out Practices in an Internal Medicine Residency Program	1
Are Rates of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridioides difficile Associated With Quality and Clinical Outcomes in US Acute Care Hospitals?	1
Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program	1
An Integrated Model to Accelerate Patient Satisfaction Improvement	1
CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Lacks Real-World Context	1
Improving Cancer Care Through Digital Health Coaching	1
Development and Implementation of a Practical Onboarding Curriculum for Physician Quality and Safety Leaders	1
Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology	1
How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing	1
Is It Time to Follow the Lawyers: Should Hospitals Extract Themselves From US News & World Report Rankings?	1
Aligning Graduate Medical Education Improvement Projects With Merit Incentive-Based Payment System Requirements via Functional Outcome Measures	1
The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia	1
Using Registry Data to Support National Quality Forum Endorsement of Quality Measures for Home-Based Medical Care	1
Lessons Learned From Rapid Deployment of 100% Mortality Review for Patients With COVID-19 Across a Health System	1
Evolution and Evaluation of a Quality and Patient Safety Fellowship for Practicing Health Professionals	1
Hypertension and Diabetes Quality Improvement in a Practice Transformation Network	1
Cost-Savings of Do Not Resuscitate Orders Among Elderly Patients With Heart Failure in the United States	1
Quality and Safety Practices Among Academic Obstetrics and Gynecology Departments	1
Improving Inpatient Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation: A Successful Quality Improvement Project	0
The Healthcare Improvement and Innovation in Quality (THINQ) Collaborative: A Novel Quality Improvement Training Program for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students	0
Patient Safety Escape Room	0
Spring Update From New ACMQ President Dan M. Westphal	0
Fresh Wave–Fresh Challenges	0
A Century of Surgical Quality: Origins, Evolution, and Future Directions	0
Tips From the Iceberg: Effecting Culture Change in Health Care Teams	0
Changing the Calculus of Self-Interest in Health Care	0
Leape’s Making Healthcare Safe: Both Invaluable and Incomplete	0
Low Yield of Hepatitis B Virus DNA Testing in the Absence of Surface Antigen	0
Is My Quality Improvement Initiative Also Research? A Primer on Making This Distinction and the Ethical Considerations for Graduate Trainees	0
Integration of Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Heart Failure Management: A Prospective Quality Improvement Initiative in a Tertiary Hospital	0
Save the Date for ACMQ’s Annual Conference!	0
Playing With Your Phone in Class	0
A Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) Clinic in Rural New England	0
Influenza Vaccination Rate and Factors Associated With Compliance Among Health Care Employees in Large and Medium Acute Care Hospitals	0
What’s New at ACMQ for 2022?	0
Effect of a Performance Feedback Dashboard on Hospitalist Laboratory Test Utilization	0
Medical Student Quality Assurance Projects Well Received by Students and Physicians Across New Jersey Family Medicine Practices	0
Improving Parental Knowledge of Medically Complex Neonates Through Scheduled Conferences	0
Improving Emergency Department Care of Suspected Small Bowel Obstructions	0

National Early Warning Score Deployment in a Veterans Affairs Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative and Analysis	0
Portable Chest X-Ray Quality Improvement: Approach and Assessment	0
The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	0
One Result, Many Eyes: Creating a Results Safety Net in a University Hospital-Based Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic	0
Medication Discrepancies in Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities	0
I-PSI	0
Safety of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers in Behavioral Health Facilities	0
Quantifying Ambulatory Care Use Preceding Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions	0
Unite 2O2ONE—Respect, Inspire, Serve	0
Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project	0
Hematologic Malignancy Episodes Exceed Target Price in Oncology Care Model	0
Improving Maternal Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Evaluation of a Pregnancy Medical Home	0
Ensuring the Success of Telemedicine Post COVID-19	0
Implementing Effective Care in a University Population Based on National Vaccination Recommendations	0
Good Communication During Clinical Handovers: The Students’ Perspective	0
Delay in Time to Antibiotics for De Novo Inpatient Neutropenic Fever May Not Impact Overall Survival for Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis	0
Reliability of Patient-Report, Physician-Report, and Medical Record Review to Identify Hospital-Acquired Complications	0
A Comprehensive Approach to Improvements in Interdepartmental Communication and Workflow Between IR and General Medicine	0
Improving Time to Defibrillation Following Ventricular Tachycardia (VTach) and Ventricular Fibrillation (VFib) Cardiac Arrest: A Multicenter Retrospective and Prospective Quality Improvement Study	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
“Together We Will Soar”: A Report on the 2023 Vizient Connections Summit	0
Improving Breast Cancer Screening Rates in a Resident Clinic in Eastern North Carolina	0
Controlling Chaos	0
Stronger: The 2022 Vizient Connections Summit Report	0
Assessment of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Children as a Basis of Shared Decision-Making for Adults	0
Improved Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Rates following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Heart Valve Replacement in an Inner-City Veteran Population	0
Implementation of Quality Improvement System in a National Health System	0
Psychometric Evaluation and Validation of an Urdu Version of the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities Measure (U-SDSCA)	0
Ongoing Simulation-Based Procedural Practice	0
Hospitalist Perceptions of Fall Prevention	0
Clinical Staff Perceptions of Pay-for-Performance Financial Incentives for HPV Vaccine Promotion	0
Implementing Social Determinant of Health Screening in a Family Medicine Clinic: A Pilot Study	0
Evaluation of Adult Patients Readmitted for Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Under the BPCI Advanced Program	0
Bypassing the Brick-and-Mortar Hospital: Increasing Direct Admissions from the Emergency Department to Inpatient Hospital-at-Home	0
Reducing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Readmissions with a Hospital-School-Based Improvement Partnership	0
Announcing Exciting New Developments at ACMQ	0
Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	0
Capturing the Patient Voice for Diabetes Eye Exams	0
Improving Documentation and Adherence to United States Preventive Services Taskforce Cancer Screening Recommendations at a Safety Net Clinic	0
When Good Was Not Enough	0
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Intervention to Improve Resident Documentation and Communication about Overnight Cross-Cover Events	0
Holistic Process Improvement	0
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Utilizing a Mandatory Yale Swallow Protocol	0
IDEAL PICU Rounds: Improving Daily Efficiency by Applying Lean Principles	0
Integration of Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement Into a General Internal Medicine Residency Clinic	0
Future in Focus	0
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	0
Quantifying Regional and Health Care Variations to Identify Ways to Improve Hemodialysis Service Quality and Survival Outcomes	0
High-Value Pediatric Home Health Care for Children With Medical Complexity	0
Improving Patients’ Experience Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery	0
Osteoporosis Screening for Male Veterans in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic at Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center	0
Patient Safety Culture and Practice at a Super-Specialty Hospital in India	0
What’s New at ACMQ	0
Standardizing Sepsis Patient Education: A Quality Improvement Process	0
Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Telehealth Quality Program	0
Improving Face Mask Etiquette in Patients and Guests During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Enhancing Sepsis Outcomes: A 7-Year Multidisciplinary Endeavor	0
A Customized Electronic Health Record-Based Tool Highlights and Addresses Gaps in Patient Safety	0
President’s Message	0
Overuse of Pulmonary Function Tests	0
Improving Intraoperative Ophthalmic Surgery Communication	0
Promoting Safe Gun Storage Among Veterans to Prevent and Reduce Gun-Related Suicide and Accidents: A VA Resident Clinic Pilot Initiative	0
Making Surgery as Safe as It Should Be: A Qualitative Study	0
The Impact of Text Messaging to Promote Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Completion in Orthopedic Practice: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Study	0
Adherence to Lead Screening Guidelines in an Inner-City Pediatric Population	0
Perception of Ridesharing Among Veterans With Cardiovascular Diseases in the Era of the MISSION Act	0
Utilizing Inpatient Admissions to Increase HIV Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond	0
Code Torsion: A Novel Pathway for Expedited Evaluation of Suspected Gonadal Torsion in the Emergency Department	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
Leapfrog Safety Grades in California Hospitals: A Data Analysis	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
The Emerging Value-Based Care Industry: Paving the Road Ahead	0
QI Consultation Service: Piloting a Novel Approach to Improving Quality Improvement Initiatives in an Academic Psychiatry Department	0
Highlights From ACMQ’s Annual Meeting Virtual Medical Quality 2020	0
Using the Electronic Health Record for Crisis Allocation	0
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Status of Spine Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department	0
Utility of Respiratory Pathogen Panels in the Outpatient Oncology Setting	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
Assessment and Optimization of Practices with Patients with Limited English Proficiency in an Urban Emergency Department	0
Navigating the Code—How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey by Barry P. Chaiken	0
Setting Up a COVID-19 Suspect Obstetric Unit at a Tertiary Care Hospital in India	0
Sustainability of a Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Surrogate Decision Maker Documentation for Hospitalized Adults	0
ACMQ Appreciates Your Commitment	0
The National Practitioner Database Malpractice Study of Severity of Alleged Malpractice Injuries Trends 2008–2018	0
Location Matters	0
Integrating Social Drivers of Health into Hospital Ratings with Application to the 100 Top Hospitals Study	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
Using the AHEC Scholars Program to Enhance Health Professions Learners’ Self-Efficacy for Practice Transformation	0
Value-Based Purchasing Programs (VBPs)	0
Keeping Quality Management in Medicine	0
Community-Based Production of Quality Face Masks for Personal Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Classification of Quality Improvement Interventions Addressing Medical Errors	0
Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ	0
Organizational Capacity of Hospitals Co-Participating in Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payments	0
A New Metric to the Efficiency of the Ventilator Liberation Process	0