2020
Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home?
Venkatesh AK, Gettel CJ, Mei H, Chou SC, Rothenberg C, Liu SL, D’Onofrio G, Lin Z, Krumholz HM. Where Skilled Nursing Facility Residents Get Acute Care: Is the Emergency Department the Medical Home? Journal Of Applied Gerontology 2020, 40: 828-836. PMID: 32842827, PMCID: PMC7904961, DOI: 10.1177/0733464820950125.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care visitsCare visitsEmergency departmentMedicare beneficiariesSNF staySNF servicesSkilled nursing facility residentsNursing facility residentsSkilled nursing facility servicesAcute care capabilitiesCross-sectional analysisNursing facility servicesHigher proportionAcute careMedical homeFacility residentsCare capabilitiesVisitsNumber of daysStayCareDepartmentFacility servicesBeneficiariesProportion
2019
Evaluation of the Patient Request Process for Radiology Imaging in U.S. Hospitals.
Lye CT, Krumholz HM, Eckroate JE, Daniel JG, deBronkart D, Mann MK, Hsiao AL, Forman HP. Evaluation of the Patient Request Process for Radiology Imaging in U.S. Hospitals. Radiology 2019, 292: 409-413. PMID: 31184560, DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2019190473.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2000
What's Happening in Quality Improvement at the Local Hospital: A State Wide Study From the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project
Holmboe E, Meehan T, Radford M, Wang Y, Krumholz H. What's Happening in Quality Improvement at the Local Hospital: A State Wide Study From the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. American Journal Of Medical Quality 2000, 15: 106-113. PMID: 10872260, DOI: 10.1177/106286060001500304.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionCooperative Cardiovascular ProjectFull-time equivalentsAMI careNonfederal hospitalsIndividual hospitalsCare of patientsProcess of careMultidisciplinary QI teamQuality of careQuality improvement activitiesMyocardial infarctionLocal hospitalImprovement interventionsHospitalRegistered NursesSecondary analysisPhysician championsQI teamsCareScientific evidenceState-wide studyCritical pathwaysQuestionnaire studyDepartment
1990
Blood culture phlebotomy: switching needles does not prevent contamination.
Krumholz HM, Cummings S, York M. Blood culture phlebotomy: switching needles does not prevent contamination. Annals Of Internal Medicine 1990, 113: 290-2. PMID: 2375564, DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-113-4-290.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBlood culturesSkin flora contaminationEmergency departmentBlood culture bottlesConventional blood culture techniqueMedical inpatient servicesRenal transplant unitLarge university hospitalBlood culture techniquesCulture bottlesTransplant unitUniversity HospitalInpatient servicesPhysician assistantsGeneral medicineRate of contaminationSterile needleMedical studentsNeedleDepartment