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Teaching Hospitals and Quality of Care: A Review of the Literature by Ayanian, John Z., Weissman, Joel S.

“…Because teaching hospitals face increasing pressure to justify their higher charges for clinical care, the quality of care in teaching and nonteaching…”
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Quality of Care by Race and Gender for Congestive Heart Failure and Pneumonia by Ayanian, John Z., Weissman, Joel S., Chasan-Taber, Scott, Epstein, Arnold M.

“…Background. Variations in the rates of major procedures by race and gender are well described, but few studies have assessed the quality of care by race and…”
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Variation in the Use of Cardiac Procedures after Acute Myocardial Infarction by Guadagnoli, Edward, Hauptman, Paul J, Ayanian, John Z, Pashos, Chris L, McNeil, Barbara J, Cleary, Paul D

“…There are substantial geographic differences in the rates at which patients with cardiac disease undergo diagnostic procedures and treatments, but there is…”
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Trends in the Quality of Care and Racial Disparities in Medicare Managed Care by Trivedi, Amal N, Zaslavsky, Alan M, Schneider, Eric C, Ayanian, John Z

“…In this study examining trends from 1997 to 2003 for white patients and black patients enrolled in Medicare managed care, performance on all nine quality…”
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Trends in the Aggressiveness of Cancer Care Near the End of Life by EARLE, Craig C, NEVILLE, Bridget A, LANDRUM, Mary Beth, AYANIAN, John Z, BLOCK, Susan D, WEEKS, Jane C

“…To characterize the aggressiveness of end-of-life cancer treatment for older adults on Medicare, and its relationship to the availability of healthcare…”
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Identifying Potential Indicators of the Quality of End-of-Life Cancer Care From Administrative Data by EARLE, Craig C, PARK, Elyse R, LAI, Bonnie, WEEKS, Jane C, AYANIAN, John Z, BLOCK, Susan

“…To explore potential indicators of the quality of end-of-life services for cancer patients that could be monitored using existing administrative data. Quality…”
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Looking back from death: the value of retrospective studies of end-of-life care by Earle, Craig C, Ayanian, John Z

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Validating recommendations for coronary angiography following acute myocardial infarction in the elderly: A matched analysis using propensity scores by Normand, Sharon-Lise T., Landrum, Mary Beth, Guadagnoli, Edward, Ayanian, John Z., Ryan, Thomas J., Cleary, Paul D., McNeil, Barbara J.

“…We determined whether adherence to recommendations for coronary angiography more than 12 h after symptom onset but prior to hospital discharge after acute…”
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Unmet Health Needs of Uninsured Adults in the United States by Ayanian, John Z, Weissman, Joel S, Schneider, Eric C, Ginsburg, Jack A, Zaslavsky, Alan M

“…CONTEXT In 1998, 33 million US adults aged 18 to 64 years lacked health insurance. Determining the unmet health needs of this population may aid efforts to…”
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Evaluating claims-based indicators of the intensity of end-of-life cancer care by Earle, Craig C., Neville, Bridget A., Landrum, Mary Beth, Souza, Jeffrey M., Weeks, Jane C., Block, Susan D., Grunfeld, Eva, Ayanian, John Z.

“…Objective. To evaluate measures that could use existing administrative data to assess the intensity of end-of-life cancer care. Methods. Benchmarking standards…”
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Lovastatin and rhabdomyolysis by Ayanian, J Z, Fuchs, C S, Stone, R M

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Impact of Hospital Volume on Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Procedure Mortality by Trivedi, Amal N., Sequist, Thomas D., Ayanian, John Z.

“…Impact of Hospital Volume on Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Procedure Mortality Amal N. Trivedi, Thomas D. Sequist, John Z. Ayanian To assess whether…”
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Impact of Medicare Coverage on Basic Clinical Services for Previously Uninsured Adults by McWilliams, J. Michael, Zaslavsky, Alan M, Meara, Ellen, Ayanian, John Z

“…CONTEXT Uninsured adults receive less appropriate care and have more adverse health consequences than insured adults. Longitudinal studies would help to more…”
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Control of Hypertension in Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States by Peralta, Carmen A, Hicks, Leroi S, Chertow, Glenn M, Ayanian, John Z, Vittinghoff, Eric, Lin, Feng, Shlipak, Michael G

“…Although improved control of hypertension is known to attenuate progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), little is known about the adequacy of hypertension…”
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Health Insurance Coverage And Mortality Among The Near-Elderly by McWilliams, J. Michael, Zaslavsky, Alan M, Meara, Ellen, Ayanian, John Z

“…Uninsured near-elderly people may be particularly at risk for adverse health outcomes. We compared mortality of a nationally representative cohort of insured…”
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Specialty of Ambulatory Care Physicians and Mortality among Elderly Patients after Myocardial Infarction by Ayanian, John Z, Landrum, Mary Beth, Guadagnoli, Edward, Gaccione, Peter

“…The investigators used Medicare data to assess associations between the type of physician providing ambulatory care and mortality after myocardial infarction…”
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The Effect of Patients' Preferences on Racial Differences in Access to Renal Transplantation by Ayanian, John Z, Cleary, Paul D, Weissman, Joel S, Epstein, Arnold M

“…Racial differences in access to effective medical procedures are a persistent problem in the United States. 1 – 6 Black patients are less likely than white…”
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Patients' Perceptions of Quality of Care for Colorectal Cancer by Race, Ethnicity, and Language by Ayanian, John Z, Zaslavsky, Alan M, Guadagnoli, Edward, Fuchs, Charles S, Yost, Kathleen J, Creech, Cynthia M, Cress, Rosemary D, O'Connor, Lilia C, West, Dee W, Wright, William E

“…To identify opportunities for improving care, we evaluated patients' perceptions of the quality of their cancer care by race, ethnicity, and language. We…”
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Racial Inequities in the Timing of Breast Cancer Detection, Diagnosis, and Initiation of Treatment by Elmore, Joann G., Nakano, Connie Y., Linden, Hannah M., Reisch, Lisa M., Ayanian, John Z., Larson, Eric B.

“…Background: Recent studies suggest differences in quality and timeliness of care received may be major contributing sources to the racial disparity in breast…”
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Factors Related to Underuse of Surveillance Mammography Among Breast Cancer Survivors by KEATING, Nancy L, LANDRUM, Mary Beth, GUADAGNOLI, Edward, WINER, Eric P, AYANIAN, John Z

“…Many older breast cancer survivors do not undergo annual mammography despite guideline recommendations. We identified factors associated with underuse of…”
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