American Journal of Medical Quality

Article	Citations
Using the Electronic Health Record for Crisis Allocation	18
President’s Message	17
Lessons Learned From Rapid Deployment of 100% Mortality Review for Patients With COVID-19 Across a Health System	16
Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Telehealth Quality Program	16
The Emerging Value-Based Care Industry: Paving the Road Ahead	13
Osteoporosis Screening for Male Veterans in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic at Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center	11
Hematologic Malignancy Episodes Exceed Target Price in Oncology Care Model	10
Stronger: The 2022 Vizient Connections Summit Report	10
Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Combined Medicine Subspecialty Fellows	10
Safety of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers in Behavioral Health Facilities	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	9
A New Metric to the Efficiency of the Ventilator Liberation Process	8
QI Consultation Service: Piloting a Novel Approach to Improving Quality Improvement Initiatives in an Academic Psychiatry Department	8
Clinician Perceptions of Receiving Different Forms of Feedback on their Opioid Prescribing	7
Improving Maternal Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Evaluation of a Pregnancy Medical Home	7
Demographics and Medical Comorbidities as Risk Factors for Increased Episode of Care Costs Following Lumbar Fusion in Medicare Patients	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
Using a Customer Relationship Management System to Manage a Quality Improvement Intervention	6
The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	6
Improving Cancer Care Through Digital Health Coaching	6

Before-After Study of a Checklist to Improve Acute Care to ICU Handoffs	5
Quality Control for Spine Registries: Development and Application of a New Protocol	5
Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ	5
Measuring Implementation Strategy Fidelity in HealthyHearts NYC	5
An Integrated Model to Accelerate Patient Satisfaction Improvement	5
Perceptions of Administrators on the Impact of Accreditation on Patient Safety in Gulf Cooperation Council Hospitals	5
A Comprehensive Approach to Improvements in Interdepartmental Communication and Workflow Between IR and General Medicine	5
A Quality Education	5
“Together We Will Soar”: A Report on the 2023 Vizient Connections Summit	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
Implementing Self-Measured Blood Pressure in Primary Care: A Feasible and Systematic Approach	4
Evaluation of a New Hospital Building’s Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Consumer Experience in Medical Inpatients	4
Evolution and Evaluation of a Quality and Patient Safety Fellowship for Practicing Health Professionals	4
Independent Risk Factors for Less Than “Top Box” Doctor Communication Patient Experience Survey Scores in an Urban Teaching Hospital	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
Book Review: The Journey’s End	4
The Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Course: Ten Years of Experiential Training in Quality Improvement for Practicing Professionals	3
A Learning Health System Approach to Hospital Quality Performance Benchmarking: The Composite Hospital Quality Index	3
The Institute for Health care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency	3
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Intervention to Improve Resident Documentation and Communication about Overnight Cross-Cover Events	3
Announcing Exciting New Developments at ACMQ	3
How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing	3
Improving Barriers to Timely Colonoscopies: A New Approach to Overcoming Gaps in Medical Care	3
De-Implementation of Routine Vein Mapping to Increase Timely Referral for Dialysis Access	3
What’s New at ACMQ for 2022?	3
Navigating the Code—How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey by Barry P. Chaiken	3
Reflections on 3 Years of Innovation: Recognizing the Need for Innovation Beyond the Clinical Care Pathway	3
Lack of Standardized Coding Limits Accuracy of Electronic Clinical Quality Measure for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis	3
Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions	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
Commentary: Modernizing Guidelines Development to Speed the Transfer of Science to Patient Care	3
IDEAL PICU Rounds: Improving Daily Efficiency by Applying Lean Principles	2
Improving the Quality of Visualization Dashboards in Critical Care	2
Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement in a Hospital Setting	2
Leape’s Making Healthcare Safe: Both Invaluable and Incomplete	2
Assessment of Pneumococcal Vaccination in Children as a Basis of Shared Decision-Making for Adults	2
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Utilizing a Mandatory Yale Swallow Protocol	2
Ensuring the Success of Telemedicine Post COVID-19	2
Improving Emergency Department Care of Suspected Small Bowel Obstructions	2
Identification of Patient Safety Threats in a Post-Intensive Care Clinic	2
Use of Inpatient Subspecialty Consults Among Hospitalists	2
CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Lacks Real-World Context	2
VA Care Coordination Program Increased Primary Care Visits and Improved Transitional Care for Veterans Post Non-VA Hospital Discharge	2
Implementation of Quality Improvement System in a National Health System	2
Improving Patients’ Experience Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Delivery	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
Integrating Social Drivers of Health into Hospital Ratings with Application to the 100 Top Hospitals Study	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

Standardizing Sepsis Patient Education: A Quality Improvement Process	2
Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project	2
Communication in Health Care	2
Personality Predicts the Efficacy of a Physician Leadership Development Program	1
Building High-Performance Team Dynamics for Rapid Response Events in a US Tertiary Hospital: A Quality Improvement Model for Sustainable Process Change	1
Enhancing Sepsis Outcomes: A 7-Year Multidisciplinary Endeavor	1
How Hospitalists in Training Are Improving Quality of Patient Care in Dutch Hospitals	1
A Century of Surgical Quality: Origins, Evolution, and Future Directions	1
Front-Line Health Care Workers’ COVID-19 Infection Contamination Risks: A Human Factors and Risk Analysis Study of Personal Protective Equipment	1
Improving Provider Compliance with Recommended Lab Monitoring for Patients on Mood Stabilizers and Atypical Antipsychotics	1
A High-reliability Organization Mindset	1
The Use of a Checklist to Optimize Electrolyte Replacement in the ICU	1
Delivery of ERAS Care in an Academic Hospital	1
Evaluation of a Custom EMR-embedded Handoff Support Application’s Impact on Resident Handoff Behaviors and Perceptions of Handoff Quality	1
The Healthcare Improvement and Innovation in Quality (THINQ) Collaborative: A Novel Quality Improvement Training Program for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students	1
Community-based, Hospital-Affiliated Medical Group Becomes a Successful Accountable Care Organization	1
A Specialized Acute COVID-19 Outpatient Clinic at an Academic Medical Center	1
Engaging GME Learners in Health System-Aligned Improvement Work in the Clinical Learning Environment	1
Quality Improvement Interventions to Enhance Physician Billing: A Systematic Review	1
Building a Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Patient Safety Program for COVID-19 Patients	1
Capturing the Patient Voice for Diabetes Eye Exams	1
Teaching Students to Transform	1
Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	1
Implementation of a Standardized Alteplase Administration Algorithm to Improve Hemodialysis Adequacy	1
The Clinical Learning Environment: Past, Present, and Future	1
A Financial and Operational Model Estimating the Value of Interprofessional Collaboration at a Large Academic Institution	1
The Effect of Individualized Surgeon Comparative Feedback on Arthroplasty Outcomes: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis	1
Achieving a High-Reliability Laboratory: Operational Strategies Designed to Promote Patient Safety and Heighten Quality in the Clinical Lab	1
National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias	1
Do Skilled Nursing Facilities That Provide More Rehabilitation Therapy Have Lower Rehospitalization Rates?	1
Comparative Perspectives on Diagnostic Error Discussions Between Inpatient and Outpatient Pediatric Providers	1
High Reliability Organization Principles Improve VA Workplace Burnout	1
Discharge Disposition and Clinical Outcomes After Spine Surgery	1
Improving Parental Knowledge of Medically Complex Neonates Through Scheduled Conferences	1
Surgical CPT Coding Discrepancies	1
Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program	1
Understanding Barriers and Assessing Education Intervention on Prescribing Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder	1
The Way to Building Humanized Health Care	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
Patient Experience as a National Quality Metric	1
Improving Delivery of Sepsis Care in a Veterans Affairs Emergency Department	0
Early Findings on the Use of Clinical Pathways for Management of Unwarranted Variation in Cancer Care	0
Expanding Naloxone Coprescribing at a Regional VA Medical Center	0
Reducing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Readmissions with a Hospital-School-Based Improvement Partnership	0
Implementing Effective Care in a University Population Based on National Vaccination Recommendations	0
Patient Surveys Are Used Most Often to Assess Health Care Innovations, Rigorous Methods Are Less Common	0
Improving Management of Chest Pain with a High Sensitivity Troponin-Based Protocol	0
Development and Implementation of a Practical Onboarding Curriculum for Physician Quality and Safety Leaders	0
Controlling High Blood Pressure	0
Relationship Between Working Conditions, Worker Outcomes, and Patient Care	0
Using the AHEC Scholars Program to Enhance Health Professions Learners’ Self-Efficacy for Practice Transformation	0
A Geriatrics-Focused Hospitalist Trauma Comanagement Program Improves Quality of Care for Older Adults	0
Quantifying Ambulatory Care Use Preceding Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions	0
Comparison of LACE and HOSPITAL Readmission Risk Scores for CMS Target and Nontarget Conditions	0
Integration of Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement Into a General Internal Medicine Residency Clinic	0
Urgent Need to Reduce Regulatory Burdens on Clinicians	0
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Two Quality Improvement Interventions Across 10 Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Video Laryngoscopy-Assisted Coaching and Apneic Oxygenation	0
Procedure-Based Telehealth Utilization in General Surgery	0
High-Value Pediatric Home Health Care for Children With Medical Complexity	0
Could Modernizing Health Care Technology Be a Cure for Provider Burnout?	0
Measuring Improvement Capabilities in a Health System: Findings From a Content Validity Study	0
Tips From the Iceberg: Effecting Culture Change in Health Care Teams	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
Health Care Project Improvement Design	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
Save the Date for ACMQ’s Annual Conference!	0
Using Registry Data to Support National Quality Forum Endorsement of Quality Measures for Home-Based Medical Care	0
Improving Documentation and Adherence to United States Preventive Services Taskforce Cancer Screening Recommendations at a Safety Net Clinic	0
Utility of Respiratory Pathogen Panels in the Outpatient Oncology Setting	0
Medical Student Quality Assurance Projects Well Received by Students and Physicians Across New Jersey Family Medicine Practices	0
Validation of the Algorithmic Prediction of Failure Modes in Health Care Methodology: Applied to the Department of Sterile Supply and Equipment	0
Preparing Faculty to Incorporate Health Systems Science into the Clinical Learning Environment: Factors Associated with Sustained Outcomes	0
Implementation of the Institute of Medicine Treatment Plan in Oncology Practice	0
Six-Year Retrospective Look at the Effects of Institutional Quality Improvement Efforts to Reduce CAUTIs	0
To Err Is Human: Failing to Reduce Overall Harm Is Inhumane	0
Integration of Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Heart Failure Management: A Prospective Quality Improvement Initiative in a Tertiary Hospital	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
The Impact of Text Messaging to Promote Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Completion in Orthopedic Practice: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Study	0
Keeping Quality Management in Medicine	0
Prospective Study of the Multisite Spread of a Medication Safety Intervention: Factors Common to Hospitals With Improved Outcomes	0

Virus out, Safety in	0
From Data to Improvement: Social Mechanisms as a Key to Understanding Dashboard Adoption	0
Preventing Postoperative Sepsis: Multidisciplinary Implementation of Diverse Countermeasures in our first NSQIP Project	0
The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia	0
Impact of Faculty Training in Health Systems Science on Scholarly Presentation of Resident Physician and Fellow Quality Improvement Projects	0
Understanding Potentially Preventable 7-day Readmission Rates in Hospital Medicine Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center	0
Fragmented Ambulatory Care and Medication Count among Older Adults	0
Promoting a Culture of Civility in High-Reliability Organizations	0
National Early Warning Score Deployment in a Veterans Affairs Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative and Analysis	0
Accrediting Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Safety	0
Development and Early Validation of A Survey Instrument for Measuring Patient Engagement in Pain Management	0
Performance of the Simplified HOSPITAL Score for Risk Assessment of Hospital Readmission in a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital	0
Population Health Management Approach to Depression Symptom Monitoring in Primary Care via Patient Portal: A Randomized Controlled Trial	0
Creating a Pediatric Cardio-Oncology Clinic for Childhood Cancer Survivors	0
Using Electronic Prescribing to Create a Patient Fingerprint	0
Value-Based Purchasing Programs (VBPs)	0
Convocation Valedictory for Quality and Safety	0
Unite 2O2ONE—Respect, Inspire, Serve	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
Challenges and Strategies for Patient Safety in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study	0
Improving Compliance with Preoperative Nasal Povidone-Iodine to Prevent Surgical Site Infection in Vascular and Neurosurgery Services in a Community Teaching Hospital	0
Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting	0
Thank You for Joining Us for “Care After Covid”	0
Impact of a Clinician Incentive Program on Quality Measures Performance in a Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization	0
COVID-19 Level-Loading	0
A Multidisciplinary Initiative to Increase Patient Portal Enrollment	0
Complications of Ambulatory Procedures: Prevalence and Hospital Outpatient Department Variation	0
Bypassing the Brick-and-Mortar Hospital: Increasing Direct Admissions from the Emergency Department to Inpatient Hospital-at-Home	0
Evaluating Resident Physicians’ Perceptions of and Improving Utilization of Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapy: A Quality Improvement Initiative	0
I-PSI	0
Effect of a Performance Feedback Dashboard on Hospitalist Laboratory Test Utilization	0
Classification of Quality Improvement Interventions Addressing Medical Errors	0
Patient Safety Escape Room	0
DEAFMed: Deaf Education and Awareness for Medical Students	0
Quantifying Regional and Health Care Variations to Identify Ways to Improve Hemodialysis Service Quality and Survival Outcomes	0
Organizational Capacity of Hospitals Co-Participating in Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payments	0
When Good Was Not Enough	0
Resident-Driven Guideline to Reduce Iatrogenic Pneumothoraxes From Small-Bore Feeding Tubes: A Quality and Safety Improvement Project	0
Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology	0
Reevaluating the Significance of Infection Preventionists and Infection Prevention and Control Departments in the Post-COVID-19 Era	0
Formative Evaluation for Implementation of a Low Literacy Pictorial Asthma Action Plan Delivered via Telehealth Improves Asthma Control	0
Delay in Time to Antibiotics for De Novo Inpatient Neutropenic Fever May Not Impact Overall Survival for Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis	0
Initial Specimen Diversion Device Utilization Mitigates Blood Culture Contamination Across Regional Community Hospital and Acute Care Facility	0
Newly Developed COVID-19 Bundle Greatly Reduces the Infection Fatality Rate for a Highly Vulnerable Nursing Home Population	0
Preparation of Patients for Central Venous Catheter Care in the Home: Perspectives From Health Care Personnel	0
Utilizing Inpatient Admissions to Increase HIV Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond	0
Identifying Barriers to Effective Outpatient Mental Health Referral for Medical Inpatients	0
Practice Transformation to Improve Cancer Screening Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center	0
A Platform Designed to Empower Quality Improvement for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation	0
The Clinician in Quality and Innovation: A Qualitative Study of a Novel Academic Pathway at 10 Years	0
Changing the Calculus of Self-Interest in Health Care	0
Is the Promise of PROMs Being Realized? Implementation Experience in a Large Orthopedic Practice	0
Evaluation of Adult Patients Readmitted for Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Under the BPCI Advanced Program	0
Pilot-Testing an Influenza Vaccination Program Tailored for Nephrology Care	0
Assessment and Optimization of Practices with Patients with Limited English Proficiency in an Urban Emergency Department	0
Clinical Staff Perceptions of Pay-for-Performance Financial Incentives for HPV Vaccine Promotion	0
Is Patient Geography a Risk Factor for Chronic Opioid Use After ACDF?	0
A Customized Electronic Health Record-Based Tool Highlights and Addresses Gaps in Patient Safety	0
Implementing Social Determinant of Health Screening in a Family Medicine Clinic: A Pilot Study	0
The Impact of Electronic Handoff Tool on Sign-Out Practices in an Internal Medicine Residency Program	0
“Near Miss”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Medical Student Assignments in Patient Safety	0
Fresh Wave–Fresh Challenges	0
EHR-Integrated Clinical Pathways Promote Education, Confidence, and Save Time for Primary Care Providers	0
The Curb Cut	0
The Evolving Landscape of Emergency Department Patient Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities	0
Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age: Summary of a Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach	0
Depression and Distress Screening in Oncology Patients: A Descriptive Analysis	0
The National Practitioner Database Malpractice Study of Severity of Alleged Malpractice Injuries Trends 2008–2018	0
Asthma: Who’s Really in Control?	0
Development of a Practice-based Community Outreach Intervention to Prevent Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccinations	0
Team-Based Painting and Learning Approach to Recognizing Topical Ophthalmic Drops	0
Standardized Management of Sickle Cell Disease Patients and the Effects on Care Utilization and Costs	0
Improved Referral for Postdischarge Addiction Treatment Among Inpatients With Opioid Use Disorder	0
One Result, Many Eyes: Creating a Results Safety Net in a University Hospital-Based Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic	0
Frequency of Statin Prescription Among Individuals with Coronary Artery Calcifications Detected Through Lung Cancer Screening	0
Leapfrog Safety Grades in California Hospitals: A Data Analysis	0
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Status of Spine Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department	0
How Many Lives Will You Save? A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel, Online Game for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education	0
Overuse of Pulmonary Function Tests	0
The 2024 Vizient Connections Summit Report	0
An Evaluation Framework for a Novel Process to Codevelop Written and Computable Guidelines	0
Designing a Health Care Delivery Innovation Lab: Reflections From The First Year	0
Future in Focus	0
Medication Discrepancies in Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities	0
Improved Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Rates following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Heart Valve Replacement in an Inner-City Veteran Population	0
Lessons From the Northeast COVID-19 Surge: Well-Being of the Health Care Workforce	0
Improving Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in an Academic Internal Medicine Practice	0
Improving Mortality Through a Multihospital, Collaborative Quality Improvement Project	0
Making Surgery as Safe as It Should Be: A Qualitative Study	0
“Gaps In Care” Fall Short	0
An Integrated Process for Co-Developing and Implementing Written and Computable Clinical Practice Guidelines	0
The Methodology of the Virtual Clinic in Cardiac Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Adapting to the Future	0
Reducing Unnecessary Amylase Testing Within a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	0
More than Meets the Eye	0
Impact of New York State’s Medicaid Breast Cancer Selective Contracting Policy on Access and Quality of Care Outcomes	0