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Senior Vice President for Quality & Population Health and Chief Quality Officer, Department of Medicine

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Present	Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
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Present	Senior Vice President for Quality & Population Health and Chief Quality Officer, Department of Medicine, Baystate Health
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Challenges to research in urban community health centers (Stephenie C. Lemon, Jane G. Zapka, Barbara Estabrook, et al.) Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Publications (2006)

Community health centers (CHCs) are important settings for research aimed at reducing health disparities. However, CHCs pose many challenges to research at patient, provider, and system levels. We summarized lessons learned from a multimethod, formative ...

Attitudes of hospital leaders toward publicly reported measures of health care quality (Peter Lindenauer, Tara Lagu, Penny Pekow, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2014)

IMPORTANCE: Public reporting of quality is considered a key strategy for stimulating improvement efforts at US hospitals; however, little is known about the attitudes of hospital leaders toward existing quality measures. OBJECTIVES: To describe US ...

Impact of cardiac telemetry on patient safety and cost (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2013)

Background: With the impetus for healthcare reform and the imperative for healthcare organizations to improve efficiency and reduce waste, it is valuable to examine high-volume procedures and practices in order to identify potential overuse. At ...

Measuring quality of inpatient care (Adrienne Seiler and Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Urine sampling in hospitalised patients is erroneous and unreliable for clinical care (Surinder Yadav, Mary Ellen Scales, Mary Brunton, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2012)

Improving the quality of care through the use of bundled payments (Evan Benjamin and Winthrop Whitcomb) All Scholarly Works (2011)

Association of corticosteroid dose and route of administration with risk of treatment failure in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Peter Lindenauer, Michael Rothberg, Penny Pekow, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2010)

CONTEXT: Systemic corticosteroids are beneficial for patients hospitalized with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, their optimal dose and route of administration are uncertain. OBJECTIVE: To compare the outcomes of patients treated ...

Public reporting of hospital quality: Recommendations to benefit patients and hospitals (Michael Rothberg, Evan Benjamin and Peter Lindenauer) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Public reporting of hospital performance holds tremendous promise for improving the care provided by hospitals. To date, however, consumers have failed to embrace public reporting, despite considerable efforts to promote it. We review a number ...

One system's journey in creating a disclosure and apology program (Evan Benjamin, Deborah Morsi, Lynn Tenerowicz, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2009)

BACKGROUND: Patients experience adverse events more frequently than the public appreciates. A number of health systems have led the movement toward open, prompt, and compassionate disclosure of adverse events. IMPLEMENTATION: In 2006 Baystate Health (BH) ...

The process of peer review in U.S. hospitals (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2009)

A hospitalist-led multidisciplinary team rounding model to improve quality of care (Surinder Yadav, Jan Fitzgerald, David Ling, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Workflow interruptions in the hospitalist model of care (Surinder Yadav and Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Using hospital standardized mortality ratios for public reporting: A comment by the consortium of chief quality officers (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2009)

Choosing the best hospital: The limitations of public quality reporting (Michael Rothberg, Evan Benjamin, Penny Pekow, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2008)

The call for accountability in health care quality has fueled the development of consumer-oriented Web sites that provide hospital ratings. Taking the consumer perspective, we compared five Web sites to assess the level of agreement ...

Opportunities and challenges for diabetes prevention at two community health centers (Evan Benjamin, Dorothea von Goeler and Penny Pekow) All Scholarly Works (2008)

Outcomes of Care by Hospitalists, General Internists, and Family Physicians (Peter K. Lindenauer, Michael B. Rothberg, Penelope Susan Pekow, et al.) New England Journal of Medicine (2007)

Background: The hospitalist model is rapidly altering the landscape for inpatient care in the United States, yet evidence about the clinical and economic outcomes of care by hospitalists is derived from a small number of ...

Reducing surgical complications (Jan Fitzgerald, Gary Kanter, Evan Benjamin, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2007)

Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement (Peter Lindenauer, Michael Rothberg and Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2007)

Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement. (Peter Lindenauer, Evan Benjamin and Michael Rothberg) All Scholarly Works (2007)

BACKGROUND: Public reporting and pay for performance are intended to accelerate improvements in hospital care, yet little is known about the benefits of these methods of providing incentives for improving care. METHODS: We measured changes ...

Physician characteristics, attitudes, and use of computerized order entry. (Jan Fitzgerald, Peter Lindenauer, David Ling, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2006)

BACKGROUND: Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) is a widely advocated patient safety intervention, yet little is known about its adoption by attending physicians or community hospitals. METHODS: We calculated the order entry rates of attending ...

Quality of care for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (Peter Lindenauer, Penny Pekow and Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2006)

BACKGROUND: Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is 1 of the 10 leading causes of hospitalization among adults in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the quality of care provided to patients hospitalized ...

Physician characteristics, attitudes and use of computerized order entry (Peter Lindenauer, David Ling, Nancy Hoople, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2006)

Challenges to research in urban community health centers. (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2006)

Community health centers (CHCs) are important settings for research aimed at reducing health disparities. However, CHCs pose many challenges to research at patient, provider, and system levels. We summarized lessons learned from a multimethod, formative ...

Perioperative Beta-Blocker Therapy and Mortality after Major Noncardiac Surgery (Peter K. Lindenauer, Penelope Susan Pekow, Kaijun Wang, et al.) New England Journal of Medicine (2005)

Background: Despite limited evidence from randomized trials, perioperative treatment with beta-blockers is now widely advocated. We assessed the use of perioperative beta-blockers and their association with in-hospital mortality in routine clinical practice. Methods: We conducted ...

Perioperative beta-blocker therapy and mortality after major noncardiac surgery. (Evan Benjamin, Peter Lindenauer and Penny Pekow) All Scholarly Works (2005)

BACKGROUND: Despite limited evidence from randomized trials, perioperative treatment with beta-blockers is now widely advocated. We assessed the use of perioperative beta-blockers and their association with in-hospital mortality in routine clinical practi