Location of Cancer Surgery for Older Veterans with Cancer April 1, 2012 Kouri EM, Landrum MB, Lamont EB, et al. Mary Beth Landrum Barbara J. McNeil Nancy L. Keating Health Services Research http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22092115
Survival of older cancer patients in the Veterans Health Administration versus Fee-for-Service Medicare April 1, 2012 Landrum MB, Keating NL, Lamont EB, et al. Mary Beth Landrum Nancy L. Keating Barbara J. McNeil Journal of Clinical Oncology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Survival%20of%20older%20cancer%20patients%20in%20the%20Veterans%20Health%20Administration%20versus%20Fee-for-Service%20Medicare
Sources of hospital variation in short term readmission rates after percutaneous coronary intervention. April 1, 2012 Yeh RW, Rosenfield K, Zelevinsky K, et al. Sharon-Lise Normand Circulation Interventions http://circinterventions.ahajournals.org/content/5/2/227.long
Out-of-pocket medication costs and use of medications and health care services among children with asthma March 28, 2012 Karaca-Mandic P, Jena AB, Joyce G, et al. Anupam B. Jena Journal of the American Medical Association http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1105117
Sensitivity of Medicare claims data for measuring use of standard multi-agent chemotherapy regimens. March 20, 2012 Lamont EB and Lan L Medical Care http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=9000&issue=00000&article=99458&type=abstract
Use of quality indicators in patient care: a senior primary care physician trying to take good care of his patients. March 7, 2012 Bruce E. Landon Journal of the American Medical Association http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1105055
Understanding variation in primary prostate cancer treatment within the Veterans Health Administration March 1, 2012 Nambudiri VE, Landrum MB, Lamont EB, et al. Mary Beth Landrum Barbara J. McNeil Nancy L. Keating Urology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22245306
Hospital-wide mortality as a quality metric: conceptual and methodological considerations. March 1, 2012 Shahian DM, Iezzoni LI, Meyer GS, et al. Sharon-Lise Normand American Journal of Medical Quality http://ajm.sagepub.com/content/27/2/112.abstract
A Prescription for Drug Formulary Evaluation: an Application of Price Indexes March 1, 2012 J. Glazer, H.A. Huskamp, and T.G. McGuire Haiden A. Huskamp Thomas G. McGuire Forum for Health Economics and Policy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556729/
The importance of secondary trauma exposure for post-disaster mental disorder. March 1, 2012 Kessler R.C., McLaughlin K.A., Koenen K.C., Ronald C. Kessler Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3465701/