American Journal of Medical Quality

Article	Citations
Using the Electronic Health Record for Crisis Allocation	24
President’s Message	20
Stronger: The 2022 Vizient Connections Summit Report	17
Safety of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers in Behavioral Health Facilities	17
Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Combined Medicine Subspecialty Fellows	16
Hematologic Malignancy Episodes Exceed Target Price in Oncology Care Model	14
The Role of the Physical Environment in Shaping Interruptions and Disruptions in Complex Health Care Settings	13
An Analysis of Exposure Keratopathy Cases to Promote Changes in Eye Care Practice in Intensive Care Units	12
Uncovering Latent Failures Using Human Factors Approach as a Diagnostic Tool for Quality Improvement in Orthopedic Surgery	12
From HRO to HERO	12
The Emerging Value-Based Care Industry: Paving the Road Ahead	11
Osteoporosis Screening for Male Veterans in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic at Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center	10
A New Metric to the Efficiency of the Ventilator Liberation Process	9
Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Telehealth Quality Program	9
Lessons Learned From Rapid Deployment of 100% Mortality Review for Patients With COVID-19 Across a Health System	9
Improving Maternal Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Evaluation of a Pregnancy Medical Home	8
QI Consultation Service: Piloting a Novel Approach to Improving Quality Improvement Initiatives in an Academic Psychiatry Department	7
Advancing Measurement of the Sources and Consequences of Burnout in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	7
Demographics and Medical Comorbidities as Risk Factors for Increased Episode of Care Costs Following Lumbar Fusion in Medicare Patients	7
Why We Still Kill Patients	7
Peer Support for Caregivers: An Acute Care Quality Improvement Initiative	6
Promoting Safe Gun Storage Among Veterans to Prevent and Reduce Gun-Related Suicide and Accidents: A VA Resident Clinic Pilot Initiative	6
Ongoing Simulation-Based Procedural Practice	6
A Quality Education	6
The Impact of a Novel Use of Volunteers on Patient Satisfaction	6

The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	6
A Comprehensive Approach to Improvements in Interdepartmental Communication and Workflow Between IR and General Medicine	5
A Physician Conduct Improvement Program to Address Disruptive Behavior in a Health Care Setting	5
“Together We Will Soar”: A Report on the 2023 Vizient Connections Summit	5
Clinician Perceptions of Receiving Different Forms of Feedback on their Opioid Prescribing	5
Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ	5
Quality Control for Spine Registries: Development and Application of a New Protocol	5
Improving Cancer Care Through Digital Health Coaching	5
Perception of Ridesharing Among Veterans With Cardiovascular Diseases in the Era of the MISSION Act	5
Evaluation of a New Hospital Building’s Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Consumer Experience in Medical Inpatients	5
Evolution and Evaluation of a Quality and Patient Safety Fellowship for Practicing Health Professionals	4
Implementing Self-Measured Blood Pressure in Primary Care: A Feasible and Systematic Approach	4
Before-After Study of a Checklist to Improve Acute Care to ICU Handoffs	4
Lack of Standardized Coding Limits Accuracy of Electronic Clinical Quality Measure for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis	3
De-Implementation of Routine Vein Mapping to Increase Timely Referral for Dialysis Access	3
Reflections on 3 Years of Innovation: Recognizing the Need for Innovation Beyond the Clinical Care Pathway	3
A Learning Health System Approach to Hospital Quality Performance Benchmarking: The Composite Hospital Quality Index	3
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	3
Independent Risk Factors for Less Than “Top Box” Doctor Communication Patient Experience Survey Scores in an Urban Teaching Hospital	3
Commentary: Modernizing Guidelines Development to Speed the Transfer of Science to Patient Care	3
The Institute for Health care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency	3
Improving Barriers to Timely Colonoscopies: A New Approach to Overcoming Gaps in Medical Care	3
Book Review: The Journey’s End	3
The Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Course: Ten Years of Experiential Training in Quality Improvement for Practicing Professionals	3
Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions	3
How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing	3
What’s New at ACMQ for 2022?	2
Resident-Driven Population Management to Improve Primary Care Statin and Blood Pressure Measures	2
Evaluation of the Rothman Index in Predicting Readmission after Colorectal Resection	2
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Utilizing a Mandatory Yale Swallow Protocol	2
Implementation of Quality Improvement System in a National Health System	2
Integrating Social Drivers of Health into Hospital Ratings with Application to the 100 Top Hospitals Study	2
Closing the Communication Gap: Assessing the Alignment Between UME and GME Competencies	2
Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement in a Hospital Setting	2
Leape’s Making Healthcare Safe: Both Invaluable and Incomplete	2
Avoiding Retained Surgical Items at an Academic Medical Center: Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Project	2
Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project	2
Use of Inpatient Subspecialty Consults Among Hospitalists	2
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Intervention to Improve Resident Documentation and Communication about Overnight Cross-Cover Events	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
Announcing Exciting New Developments at ACMQ	2
A Resident-driven Quality Improvement Project to Increase Primary Care Follow-up after Congestive Heart Failure Exacerbation: Use of a Quality and Safety Award	2
IDEAL PICU Rounds: Improving Daily Efficiency by Applying Lean Principles	2
Standardizing Sepsis Patient Education: A Quality Improvement Process	2
CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Lacks Real-World Context	2
Identification of Patient Safety Threats in a Post-Intensive Care Clinic	2
Navigating the Code—How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey by Barry P. Chaiken	2
The Way to Building Humanized Health Care	1
Building a Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Patient Safety Program for COVID-19 Patients	1
Understanding Barriers and Assessing Education Intervention on Prescribing Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder	1

A High-reliability Organization Mindset	1
Implementing Effective Care in a University Population Based on National Vaccination Recommendations	1
Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program	1
Performance of the Simplified HOSPITAL Score for Risk Assessment of Hospital Readmission in a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital	1
Comparative Perspectives on Diagnostic Error Discussions Between Inpatient and Outpatient Pediatric Providers	1
Assessment and Optimization of Practices with Patients with Limited English Proficiency in an Urban Emergency Department	1
Improving Parental Knowledge of Medically Complex Neonates Through Scheduled Conferences	1
Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	1
Reducing Unnecessary Amylase Testing Within a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	1
A Financial and Operational Model Estimating the Value of Interprofessional Collaboration at a Large Academic Institution	1
Relationship Between Working Conditions, Worker Outcomes, and Patient Care	1
Delivery of ERAS Care in an Academic Hospital	1
Community-based, Hospital-Affiliated Medical Group Becomes a Successful Accountable Care Organization	1
Personality Predicts the Efficacy of a Physician Leadership Development Program	1
Implementation of a Standardized Alteplase Administration Algorithm to Improve Hemodialysis Adequacy	1
How Hospitalists in Training Are Improving Quality of Patient Care in Dutch Hospitals	1
The Use of a Checklist to Optimize Electrolyte Replacement in the ICU	1
Promoting a Culture of Civility in High-Reliability Organizations	1
Improving Provider Compliance with Recommended Lab Monitoring for Patients on Mood Stabilizers and Atypical Antipsychotics	1
Patient Experience as a National Quality Metric	1
High Reliability Organization Principles Improve VA Workplace Burnout	1
Achieving a High-Reliability Laboratory: Operational Strategies Designed to Promote Patient Safety and Heighten Quality in the Clinical Lab	1
A Century of Surgical Quality: Origins, Evolution, and Future Directions	1
Enhancing Sepsis Outcomes: A 7-Year Multidisciplinary Endeavor	1
Is the Promise of PROMs Being Realized? Implementation Experience in a Large Orthopedic Practice	1
Capturing the Patient Voice for Diabetes Eye Exams	1
Evaluation of a Custom EMR-embedded Handoff Support Application’s Impact on Resident Handoff Behaviors and Perceptions of Handoff Quality	1
Engaging GME Learners in Health System-Aligned Improvement Work in the Clinical Learning Environment	1
National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias	1
Front-Line Health Care Workers’ COVID-19 Infection Contamination Risks: A Human Factors and Risk Analysis Study of Personal Protective Equipment	1
Effect of ED Prompt on Improving Provider Documentation of Repeat Vital Signs in Children Presenting With Fever and Tachycardia	1
Discharge Disposition and Clinical Outcomes After Spine Surgery	1
Improving Delivery of Sepsis Care in a Veterans Affairs Emergency Department	1
Communication in Health Care	1
The Effect of Individualized Surgeon Comparative Feedback on Arthroplasty Outcomes: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis	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
The Healthcare Improvement and Innovation in Quality (THINQ) Collaborative: A Novel Quality Improvement Training Program for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students	1
Leveraging Informative Phone Calls by Student Volunteers to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening Compliance: A Case Study From the Veterans Health Administration	1
Do Skilled Nursing Facilities That Provide More Rehabilitation Therapy Have Lower Rehospitalization Rates?	1
Quality Improvement Interventions to Enhance Physician Billing: A Systematic Review	1
Building High-Performance Team Dynamics for Rapid Response Events in a US Tertiary Hospital: A Quality Improvement Model for Sustainable Process Change	1
The Clinical Learning Environment: Past, Present, and Future	1
Using Electronic Prescribing to Create a Patient Fingerprint	0
COVID-19 Level-Loading	0
Development and Early Validation of A Survey Instrument for Measuring Patient Engagement in Pain Management	0
Frequency of Statin Prescription Among Individuals with Coronary Artery Calcifications Detected Through Lung Cancer Screening	0
What Is Health Care For? Proposing a Purpose That Connects and Transforms	0
The Evolving Landscape of Emergency Department Patient Transfers: Challenges and Opportunities	0
How Many Lives Will You Save? A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Novel, Online Game for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Education	0
The Clinician in Quality and Innovation: A Qualitative Study of a Novel Academic Pathway at 10 Years	0
Complications of Ambulatory Procedures: Prevalence and Hospital Outpatient Department Variation	0
Double-Blinded Peer Review of Clinical Notes As an Improvement Strategy: A Pilot Study	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
Reevaluating the Significance of Infection Preventionists and Infection Prevention and Control Departments in the Post-COVID-19 Era	0
Initial Specimen Diversion Device Utilization Mitigates Blood Culture Contamination Across Regional Community Hospital and Acute Care Facility	0
Is Patient Geography a Risk Factor for Chronic Opioid Use After ACDF?	0
The Impact of Simultaneous Hospital Participation in Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payments on Episode Outcomes	0
“Near Miss”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Medical Student Assignments in Patient Safety	0
National Early Warning Score Deployment in a Veterans Affairs Facility: A Quality Improvement Initiative and Analysis	0
Effect of a Performance Feedback Dashboard on Hospitalist Laboratory Test Utilization	0
Impact of New York State’s Medicaid Breast Cancer Selective Contracting Policy on Access and Quality of Care Outcomes	0
Overuse of Pulmonary Function Tests	0
Fresh Wave–Fresh Challenges	0
Measuring Improvement Capabilities in a Health System: Findings From a Content Validity Study	0
Evaluating Bias in Substance Use Screening for Hospitalized Obstetric Patients	0
A Multidisciplinary Initiative to Increase Patient Portal Enrollment	0
Improved Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Rates following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Heart Valve Replacement in an Inner-City Veteran Population	0
Improving Inpatient Colonoscopy Bowel Preparation: A Successful Quality Improvement Project	0
DEAFMed: Deaf Education and Awareness for Medical Students	0
Improving Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration in an Academic Internal Medicine Practice	0
Preparing Faculty to Incorporate Health Systems Science into the Clinical Learning Environment: Factors Associated with Sustained Outcomes	0
Rates of Inappropriate Dosing in Older Adults at an Urban, Academic Hospital	0
Validation of the Algorithmic Prediction of Failure Modes in Health Care Methodology: Applied to the Department of Sterile Supply and Equipment	0
Using the AHEC Scholars Program to Enhance Health Professions Learners’ Self-Efficacy for Practice Transformation	0
Making Surgery as Safe as It Should Be: A Qualitative Study	0
More than Meets the Eye	0
Impact of a Clinician Incentive Program on Quality Measures Performance in a Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization	0
Development of a Practice-based Community Outreach Intervention to Prevent Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccinations	0
EHR-Integrated Clinical Pathways Promote Education, Confidence, and Save Time for Primary Care Providers	0
Jefferson Weight Loss Program: The Effectiveness of a Student-Delivered Weight Loss Program	0

When Good Was Not Enough	0
One Result, Many Eyes: Creating a Results Safety Net in a University Hospital-Based Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic	0
Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age: Summary of a Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach	0
Tips From the Iceberg: Effecting Culture Change in Health Care Teams	0
Depression and Distress Screening in Oncology Patients: A Descriptive Analysis	0
Reducing Diabetic Ketoacidosis Readmissions with a Hospital-School-Based Improvement Partnership	0
Anticoagulation Optimization Through a Specialized Center for Atrial Fibrillation	0
Understanding Potentially Preventable 7-day Readmission Rates in Hospital Medicine Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center	0
From Data to Improvement: Social Mechanisms as a Key to Understanding Dashboard Adoption	0
Evaluation of Adult Patients Readmitted for Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Under the BPCI Advanced Program	0
Controlling High Blood Pressure	0
I-PSI	0
Identifying Barriers to Effective Outpatient Mental Health Referral for Medical Inpatients	0
Thank You for Joining Us for “Care After Covid”	0
Organizational Capacity of Hospitals Co-Participating in Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payments	0
Preparation of Patients for Central Venous Catheter Care in the Home: Perspectives From Health Care Personnel	0
Quantifying Ambulatory Care Use Preceding Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions	0
Safe Elective Surgery Using Selective SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Molecular Testing	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
Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Status of Spine Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department	0
Development and Implementation of a Practical Onboarding Curriculum for Physician Quality and Safety Leaders	0
Using a Virtual Clinic to Improve Surgical Care Efficiency	0
Culture of Civility Drives Safe Patient Care in High-Reliability Organizations	0
Is It Time to Follow the Lawyers: Should Hospitals Extract Themselves From US News & World Report Rankings?	0
Improving Documentation and Adherence to United States Preventive Services Taskforce Cancer Screening Recommendations at a Safety Net Clinic	0
Fragmented Ambulatory Care and Medication Count among Older Adults	0
Patient Safety Escape Room	0
Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting	0
Incorporating Acute Conditions into Risk-Adjustment for Provider Profiling: The Case of the US News and World Report Best Hospitals Rankings Methodology	0
A Checklist to Improve Acute Stroke Evaluation and Treatment in the Emergency Department	0
Patient Surveys Are Used Most Often to Assess Health Care Innovations, Rigorous Methods Are Less Common	0
Quantifying Regional and Health Care Variations to Identify Ways to Improve Hemodialysis Service Quality and Survival Outcomes	0
Convocation Valedictory for Quality and Safety	0
Using Registry Data to Support National Quality Forum Endorsement of Quality Measures for Home-Based Medical Care	0
Improving Management of Chest Pain with a High Sensitivity Troponin-Based Protocol	0
Utilizing Inpatient Admissions to Increase HIV Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond	0
Building a Just Culture through Transforming our Response to Adverse Events	0
Improving Mortality Through a Multihospital, Collaborative Quality Improvement Project	0
The Impact of Electronic Handoff Tool on Sign-Out Practices in an Internal Medicine Residency Program	0
Integration of Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Heart Failure Management: A Prospective Quality Improvement Initiative in a Tertiary Hospital	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 2024 Vizient Connections Summit Report	0
The Methodology of the Virtual Clinic in Cardiac Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Adapting to the Future	0
A Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) Clinic in Rural New England	0
Medication Discrepancies in Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities	0
Save the Date for ACMQ’s Annual Conference!	0
Quality Performance of a Transfer Center Reduces Interhospital Transfer and Direct Admission-Related ED Evaluations	0
An Integrated Process for Co-Developing and Implementing Written and Computable Clinical Practice Guidelines	0
Team-Based Painting and Learning Approach to Recognizing Topical Ophthalmic Drops	0
Accrediting Graduate Programs in Healthcare Quality and Safety	0
Practice Transformation to Improve Cancer Screening Outcomes at an Academic Medical Center	0
The Impact of Text Messaging to Promote Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Completion in Orthopedic Practice: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Study	0
Evaluating Resident Physicians’ Perceptions of and Improving Utilization of Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapy: A Quality Improvement Initiative	0
Comparison of LACE and HOSPITAL Readmission Risk Scores for CMS Target and Nontarget Conditions	0
Creating a Pediatric Cardio-Oncology Clinic for Childhood Cancer Survivors	0
Utility of Respiratory Pathogen Panels in the Outpatient Oncology Setting	0
Value-Based Purchasing Programs (VBPs)	0
The Curb Cut	0
Designing a Health Care Delivery Innovation Lab: Reflections From The First Year	0
Urgent Need to Reduce Regulatory Burdens on Clinicians	0
Implementation of the Institute of Medicine Treatment Plan in Oncology Practice	0
Resident-Driven Guideline to Reduce Iatrogenic Pneumothoraxes From Small-Bore Feeding Tubes: A Quality and Safety Improvement Project	0
Expanding Naloxone Coprescribing at a Regional VA Medical Center	0
“Gaps In Care” Fall Short	0
Standardized Management of Sickle Cell Disease Patients and the Effects on Care Utilization and Costs	0
Virus out, Safety in	0
Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Two Quality Improvement Interventions Across 10 Pediatric Intensive Care Units: Video Laryngoscopy-Assisted Coaching and Apneic Oxygenation	0
Pilot-Testing an Influenza Vaccination Program Tailored for Nephrology Care	0
Asthma: Who’s Really in Control?	0
Classification of Quality Improvement Interventions Addressing Medical Errors	0
Leapfrog Safety Grades in California Hospitals: A Data Analysis	0
Adapted Kaizen: Multi-Organizational Complex Process Redesign for Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	0
Bypassing the Brick-and-Mortar Hospital: Increasing Direct Admissions from the Emergency Department to Inpatient Hospital-at-Home	0
The National Practitioner Database Malpractice Study of Severity of Alleged Malpractice Injuries Trends 2008–2018	0
An Evaluation Framework for a Novel Process to Codevelop Written and Computable Guidelines	0
Prospective Study of the Multisite Spread of a Medication Safety Intervention: Factors Common to Hospitals With Improved Outcomes	0
Integration of Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement Into a General Internal Medicine Residency Clinic	0
Keeping Quality Management in Medicine	0
Impact of Faculty Training in Health Systems Science on Scholarly Presentation of Resident Physician and Fellow Quality Improvement Projects	0
Improved Referral for Postdischarge Addiction Treatment Among Inpatients With Opioid Use Disorder	0
Population Health Management Approach to Depression Symptom Monitoring in Primary Care via Patient Portal: A Randomized Controlled Trial	0
The Impact of Principal Diagnosis on Readmission Risk among Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Pneumonia	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
Delay in Time to Antibiotics for De Novo Inpatient Neutropenic Fever May Not Impact Overall Survival for Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis	0
Unite 2O2ONE—Respect, Inspire, Serve	0
Changing the Calculus of Self-Interest in Health Care	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
To Err Is Human: Failing to Reduce Overall Harm Is Inhumane	0
Procedure-Based Telehealth Utilization in General Surgery	0
Preventing Postoperative Sepsis: Multidisciplinary Implementation of Diverse Countermeasures in our first NSQIP Project	0
Medical Student Quality Assurance Projects Well Received by Students and Physicians Across New Jersey Family Medicine Practices	0
Clinician Views of an Opioid Prescribing Report with Peer Comparisons and Patient-Reported Outcomes	0
A Customized Electronic Health Record-Based Tool Highlights and Addresses Gaps in Patient Safety	0
Six-Year Retrospective Look at the Effects of Institutional Quality Improvement Efforts to Reduce CAUTIs	0