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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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Follow-up treatment for osteoporosis after fracture (Evan Benjamin and Penny Pekow) All Scholarly Works (2005)

Association of admission date with cancer patient survival at a regional hospice: utility of a statistical process control analysis. (Wilson Mertens, Peter Lindenauer and Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2004)

Previously published multivariate analyses have not considered date of entry as a possible factor associated with length of stay (LOS), nor has the pattern of decreasing LOS been analyzed. We set out to assess mean ...

Treating hypertension in patients with diabetes. (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2004)

Use of antihypertensive agents in the management of patients with acute ischemic stroke. (Peter Lindenauer, Evan Benjamin and Penny Pekow) All Scholarly Works (2004)

BACKGROUND: To protect the ischemic penumbra, guidelines have recommended against treating all but the severest elevations in blood pressure during acute ischemic stroke. OBJECTIVE: To determine how often antihypertensive agents were used in routine clini

Diabetes translation research: where are we and where do we want to be? (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2004)

Lipid-lowering therapy and in-hospital mortality following major noncardiac surgery. (Evan Benjamin, Peter Lindenauer and Penny Pekow) All Scholarly Works (2004)

CONTEXT: Cardiovascular complications following major noncardiac surgery are an important source of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Although lipid-lowering medications are considered a key component in the primary and secondary prevention of cardio

The potential preventability of postoperative myocardial infarction: underuse of perioperative beta-adrenergic blockade. (Evan Benjamin, Peter Lindenauer and Nancy Hoople) All Scholarly Works (2004)

BACKGROUND: Among selected patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery, beta-adrenergic blockade has been shown to reduce the risk for postoperative cardiac complications and mortality. We sought to determine how often postoperative MI might be considere

Physician leadership: enhancing the career development of academic physician administrators and leaders. (Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2004)

As the health care environment grows more complex, there is greater opportunity for physician administrative and management leadership. Although physicians in general, and academic physicians in particular, view management as outside their purview, the in

Working towards a culture of safety at Baystate Medical Center. (Peter Lindenauer and Evan Benjamin) All Scholarly Works (2004)

Errors in a busy emergency department. (Philip Henneman, Howard Smithline, Fidela Blank, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2003)

STUDY OBJECTIVE: We describe errors occurring in a busy ED. METHODS: This is a prospective, observational study of reported errors at an academic emergency department (ED) with 100000 annual visits. Trained personnel interviewed all ED ...

Assessment of Provider knowledge, practice and perceived barriers to colorectal cancer screening in urban health centers. (Kevin Hinchey, Evan Benjamin and Andrew Balder) All Scholarly Works (2003)

Improving the care of patients with regard to chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis: the effect of feedback to clinicians on adherence to antiemetic prescribing guidelines. (Wilson Mertens, Donald Higby, Evan Benjamin, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2003)

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effect of performance and outcomes feedback on adherence to clinical practice guidelines regarding chemotherapy-induced nausea and emesis (CINE). METHODS: Institutional CINE clinical practice guidelines were developed based on American Society of ...

The role of the institutional review board in quality improvement: a survey of quality officers, institutional review board chairs, and journal editors. (Evan Benjamin, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, Peter Lindenauer, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2002)

PURPOSE: There has been growing concern about whether and when quality improvement activities require Institutional Review Board (IRB) review and informed consent. We sought to determine whether quality officers, IRB chairs, and journal editors share ...

Quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: assessing the impact of hospitalists. (Evan Benjamin, Peter Lindenauer, Penny Pekow, et al.) All Scholarly Works (2002)

BACKGROUND: The quality of care provided to patients hospitalized for heart failure has been shown to vary by physician, hospital, and region. Hospitalists appear to reduce costs and length of stay, yet their impact on ...

Forecasting the impact of a clinical practice guideline for perioperative (Evan Benjamin, Peter Lindenauer and Jan Fitzgerald) All Scholarly Works (2002)

BACKGROUND: Beta-blockers reduce morbidity and mortality when administered to high-risk patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery, yet little is known about how often they are being prescribed. Clinical practice guidelines are tools that can be used ...