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In Press

Cevasco M, Borzecki AM, Chen Q, Zrelak PA, Shin M, Romano PS, Itani KMF, Rosen AK. Positive predictive value of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator Postoperative Sepsis: Implications for Practice and Policy. Journal of the American College of Surgeons; in press.

Zrelak PA, Sadeghi B, Utter GH, Baron R, Tancredi DJ, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Positive predictive value of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator for Central Line Associated-Bloodstream Infection (“Selected Infections Due to Medical Care”). Journal for Healthcare Quality; in press.

Utter GH, Borzecki AM, Rosen AK, Zrelak PA, Baron R, Cuny J, Kaafarani HM, Sadeghi B, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Designing an abstraction instrument—Lessons from efforts to validate the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2011; 37(1):20-28.

Zrelak PA, Sadeghi B, Utter GH, Baron R, Tancredi DJ, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Positive predictive value of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator for Central Line Associated-Bloodstream Infection (“Selected Infections Due to Medical Care”). Journal for Healthcare Quality 2011; 33(2):29-36.

Borzecki AM, Kaafarani HMA, Utter GH, Romano PS, Itani K, Shin MH, Chen Q, Rosen AK. How valid is the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator Postoperative Respiratory Failure? The Veterans Health Administration experience. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2011; 212(6):935-45.

Cevasco M, Borzecki AM, Chen Q, Zrelak PA, Shin M, Romano PS, Itani KMF, Rosen AK. Positive predictive value of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator Postoperative Sepsis: Implications for Practice and Policy. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2011; 212(6):954-61.

Davies SM, McDonald KM, Schmidt E, Schultz E, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Expanding the uses of AHRQ's Prevention Quality Indicators: Validity from the clinician perspective. Medical Care; 49(8):679-85.

Friedman B, Berdahl T, Simpson LA, McCormick MC, Owens PL, Andrews R, Romano PS. Annual report on healthcare for children and youth in the United States: Focus on trends in hospital use and quality. Academic Pediatrics 2011; 11(4):263-79.

Davies SM, McDonald KM, Schmidt E, Schultz E, Geppert JJ, Romano PS. Assessment of a novel hybrid Delphi and nominal group technique to evaluate quality indicators. Health Services Research 2011; Jul 25. [Epub ahead of print].


2011

Davies SM, McDonald KM, Schmidt E, Schultz E, Geppert J, Romano, PS. 'Expanding the Uses of AHRQ's Prevention Quality Indicators: Validity from the Clinician Perspective'. Medical Care 49(8), 679-85.


For publications prior to 2011 see the Archive Resources page.

* The development of these publications was supported through contract with AHRQ.