Robert H. Brook
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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity - 1992
Adapting practice patterns to a managed care environment, carotid endarterectomy--a case example - 1996
Adjusted hospital death rates : a potential screen for quality of medical care - 1996
Analysis of Quality of Care for Patients Who are Black and Poor in Rural and Urban Settings - 1993
Appropriateness of Acute Medical Care for the Elderly: An Analysis of the Literature - 1989
The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy - 1991
The Appropriateness of Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain, a Pilot Study - 1996
The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Indications and Ratings by a Multidisciplinary Expert Panel - 1991
The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Indications and Ratings by an All-Chiropractic Expert Panel - 1992
The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain: Project Overview and Literature Review - 1991
Appropriateness of acute medical care for the elderly : an analysis of the literature - 1991
The appropriateness of coronary artery bypass graft surgery in academic medical centers - 1996
The appropriateness of hysterectomy : a comparison of care in seven health plans - 1993
The appropriateness of the use of cardiovascular procedures : British versus U.S. perspectives - 1994
The appropriateness of using a medical procedure : is information in the medical record valid? - 1991
Assessing clinical decision making : is the ideal system feasible? - 1991
Assessing the Performance of Mortality Prediction Models: Final Report for HCFA Severity Project - 1993
Associations among psychological well-being and other health status constructs - 1978
Benefits and costs of screening and treatment for early breast cancer : development of a basic benefit package - 1995
Carotid Endarterectomy for Elderly Patients: Predicting Complications - 1990
Cataract Surgery: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Cruciality - 1993
Changing Practice Patterns in the Management of Primary Breast Cancer: Concensus Development Program - 2004
Changing medical practice through technology assessment : an evaluation of the NIH Consensus Development Program - 1989
Choosing Measures of Health Status for Individuals in General Populations - 1981
Choosing quality-of-care measures based on the expected impact of improved quality of care for the major causes of mortality and morbidity - 1992
Clinical practice : audit of coronary angiography and bypass surgery - 1991
A Community-Based Study of the Use of Chiropractic Services - 1991
Comparison of the Appropriateness of Coronary Angiography and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Between Canada and New York State - 1994
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health Habits for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. I, Smoking - 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health Habits for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. II, Overweight - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study : Vol. VIII, Overview - 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. I, Model of Health and Methodology - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. II, Physical Health in Terms of Functioning - 1978
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. III, Mental Health - 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. IV, Social Health - 1978
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. VI, Analysis of Relationships Among Health Status Measures - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults in the Health Insurance Study: Vol. VII, Power Analysis of Health Status Measures - 1979
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Adults: Use of Hypnotic and Anxiolytic Drugs - 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Health for Children in the Health Insurance Study - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 1, Overview of Chronic Disease in a General Adult Population - 1986
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 10, Joint Disorders - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 11, Hypercholesterolemia - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 12, Vision Impairment - 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 13, Hay Fever - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 14, Hearing Loss - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 15, Surgical Conditions - 1983
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 16, Urinary Tract Infection - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 17, Peptic Ulcer Disease - 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 2, Acne - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 3, Hypertension - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 4, Angina Pectoris - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 5, Congestive Heart Failure - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 6, Anemia - 1980
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 7, Diabetes Mellitus - 1981
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 8, Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease - 1982
Conceptualization and Measurement of Physiologic Health for Adults: Vol. 9, Thyroid Disease - 1982
Congruence Between Decisions to Initiate Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain and Appropriateness Criteria in North America - 1998
Consensus Methods: Characteristics and Guidelines for Use - 1991
Consequences of variations in definitions of the primary care physician - 1984
Construction and Scoring of Aggregate Functional Status Measures: Volume I - 1982
Construction and Scoring of Aggregate Functional Status Measures: Volume II, Appendixes - 1982
Consumer acceptance of prepaid and fee-for-service medical care : results from a randomized controlled trial - 1986
Coronary Angiography: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity - 1992
Coronary Angiography: Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity by a Canadian Panel - 1993
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty : Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity by a Canadian Panel - 1993
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity - 1991
Cross-Validation Performance of Mortality Prediction Models - 2004
Defining and Measuring Quality of Care: A Perspective from U.S. Researchers - 2000
Derivation of clinical indications for carotid endarterectomy by an expert panel - 1991
Development of Outcome Criteria and Standards to Assess the Quality of Care for Patients with Osteoarthrosis - 1977
Differences among hospitals in Medicare patient mortality - 1989
Differences in Quality of Care for Hospitalized Elderly Men and Women - 2004
Do Patient, Physician, and Hospital Characteristics Affect Appropriateness and Outcome of Selected Procedures? - 1991
Does Inappropriate Use Explain Geographic Variations in the Use of Health Care Services? - 2004
Does inappropriate use explain geographic variations in the use of health care services? : a study of three procedures - 1987
Does more generous dental insurance coverage improve oral health? - 1987
Dying to Know: Public Release of Information about Quality of Health Care - 2000
Educating Physicians and Treating Patients in the Ambulatory Setting: Where Are We Going and How Will We Know When We Arrive? - 1987
The Effect of Coinsurance on the Health of Adults: Results from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment - 1984
The Effect of Comorbidity on Appropriateness Ratings for Two Gastrointestinal Procedures - 1991
Effect of Variability in the Interpretation of Coronary Angiograms on the Appropriateness of use of Coronary Revascularization Procedures - 2000
Effect of a Health Maintenance Organization on Physiologic Health: Results from a Randomized Trial - 1987
Effect of a health maintenance organization on physiologic health : results from a randomized trial - 1987
The effect of cost sharing on the use of antibiotics in ambulatory care : results from a population-based randomized controlled trial - 1987
Effects of Medicare’s Prospective Payment System on the Quality of Hospital Care - 2006
Effects of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on service use by depressed elderly inpatients - 1996
Effects of cost sharing on physiological health, health practices, and worry - 1987
The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Executive Summary - 1991
The Effects of the DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients: Final Report - 1992
Efficacy, Effectiveness, Variations, and Quality: Boundary-crossing Research - 1991
Electronic Prescribing Systems: Making It Safer to Take Your Medicine? - 2005
Ensuring Delivery of Necessary Care in the United States: Testimony Presented to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - 1999
Evaluating Quality of Health Care for the Disadvantaged: A Literature Review. - 1975
Evaluating the Quality of Care - 2002
Evaluation of the New Mexico Peer Review System, 1971 to 1973. - 1977
Explaining variations in hospital death rates : randomness, severity of illness, quality of care - 1990
Explaining variations in hospital death rates : randomness, severity of illness, quality of care - 1991
Foreign Medical Graduates and Their Effects on the Quality of Medical Care in the United States - 1976
Geographic Variations in the Use of Services: Do They Have Any Clinical Significance? - 1991
HMO vs Fee-for-Service Care of Older Persons with Acute Myocardial Infarction - 1992
Health Information Systems: Design Issues and Analytic Applications - 1998
The Health Insurance Experiment: A Classic RAND Study Speaks to the Current Health Care Reform Debate - 2006
The Health Insurance Study Screening Examination Procedures Manual - 1978
Health Outcomes for Adults in Prepaid and Fee-for-Service Systems of Care: Results from the Health Insurance Experiment - 1987
Health care for black and poor hospitalized Medicare patients - 1994
Health care reform is on the way, do we want to compete on quality? - 1994
Health services research : is it good for you and me? - 1991
Health system reform and quality - 1996
Hospital inpatient mortality : is it a predictor of quality? - 1991
How Coronary Angiography is Used: Clinical Determinants of Appropriateness - 2004
How Free Care Improved Vision in the Health Insurance Experiment - 1989
How Good is the Quality of Health Care in the United States? - 2002
How coronary angiography is used : clinical determinants of appropriateness - 1987
How free care reduced hypertension of participants in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment - 1985
Identifying Widely Covered Drugs and Drug Coverage Variation Among Medicare Part D Formularies - 2007
The Impact of Cost Sharing on Emergency Department Use - 1985
Impact of Medicare Prospective Payment on the Quality of Medical Care: A Research Agenda - 1985
The Impact of the New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization on the Quality of the Use of Injections. - 1976
Improving Patient Function: A Randomized Trial of Functional Disability Screening - 1989
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Carotid Endarterectomy - 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Cholecystectomy - 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Colonoscopy - 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Coronary Angiography - 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery - 1986
Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness: Diagnostic Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - 1986
Keeping Quality on the Policy Agenda - 2001
Maintaining Quality of Care in a Cost-Conscious Environment: A National Imperative - 1996
Managed Care is Not the Problem, Quality Is - 2001
Managed care and capitation in California, how do physicians at financial risk control their own utilization? - 1996
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children : Volume 4, Vision Impairments - 1985
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children : Volume 5, Anemia - 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 1, Allergic Conditions - 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 2, Middle Ear Disease and Hearing Impairment - 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 3, Seizure Disorders - 1983
Measurement of Physiologic Health for Children: Volume 6, Urinary Tract Infection - 1986
Measuring Case Mix and Quality of Care: Rater Training and Reliability in the Graduate Medical Education Study - 1987
Measuring Case Mix and Quality of Care: Validity Studies for the Graduate Medical Education Study - 1987
Measuring Quality of Care for Prostate Cancer - 2000
Measuring Underuse of Necessary Care Among Eledery Medicare Beneficiaries Using Inpatient and Outpatient Claims - 2001
Measuring components of children's health status - 1979
Measuring health and economic status of older adults in developing countries - 1996
Measuring the clinical appropriateness of the use of a procedure : can we do it? - 1991
Mechanisms for Assuring Quality of U.S. Medical Care Services: Past, Present, and Future - 1977
The Medical Quality Commission (TMQC) 1994-1995 Consumer Satisfaction Study - 1995
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing the Appropriateness of Hysterectomy - 1993
Medical Record Abstraction Form and Guidelines for Assessing the Quality of Pre-Natal Care - 1993
Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction - 1988
Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with cerebrovascular accident - 1988
Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure - 1988
Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with depression - 1988
Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with hip fracture - 1988
Medical record abstraction form and guidelines for assessing quality of care for hospitalized patients with pneumonia - 1988
Medical record abstraction forms for assessing compliance with NIH consensus conference recommendations - 1987
Medicare quality and getting older : a personal essay - 1996
A Method for the Detailed Assessment of the Appropriateness of Medical Technologies - 1991
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly - 2008
Next-Day Care for Emergency Department Users with Nonacute Conditions: A Randomized, Controlled Trial - 2002
Obtaining Clinical Data on the Appropriateness of Medical Care in Community Practice - 1987
Outcomes in 248 patients who had diagnostic evaluations for epilepsy surgery - 1996
The PSRO and the nursing home. Vol. 1, An assessment of PSRO long-term care review - 1979
The PSRO and the nursing home. Vol. II, Ten demonstration projects in PSRO long-term care review - 1979
Peer Review and Technology Assessment in Medicine - 1981
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness and Necessity - 1991
Performance of Panel-Based Criteria to Evaluate the Appropriateness of Colonoscopy: A Prospective Study - 1998
Phase II of the AHCPR-sponsored heart failure guideline : translating practice recommendations into review criteria - 1997
Physician Ratings of Appropriate Indications for Six Medical and Surgical Procedures - 1986
Physician ratings of appropriate indications for six medical and surgical procedures - 1991
Physician survey for evaluating the NIH consensus development program - 1987
Policy Issues in Quality Assurance. - 1975
Practice guidelines : to be or not to be - 1996
The Practices of General and Subspecialty Internists in Counseling about Smoking and Exercise - 1986
Prenatal care : a literature review and quality assessment criteria - 1992
Prepaid group practice effects on the utilization of medical services and health outcomes for children : results from a controlled trial - 1990
Preventable Deaths: Who, How Often, and Why? - 2004
Prostate Cancer Patient Outcomes and Choice of Providers: Development of an Infrastructure for Quality Assessment - 2000
The Public Release of Performance Data: What Do We Expect to Gain? A Review of the Evidence - 2000
Quality Assurance in Medicine: Experience in the Public Sector - 1984
Quality Assurance in the 20th Century: Will It Lead to Improved Health in the 21st? - 1975
Quality assessment in mental health - 1979
Quality assurance and cost control in ambulatory care - 1977
Quality assurance in medical care: lessons from the U.S. experience - 1980
Quality measures for prenatal care : a comparison of care in six health care plans - 1994
Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: An Overview of the Method - 1976
Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: Eight Disease-Specific Applications - 1976
Quality of Medical Care Assessment Using Outcome Measures: Executive Summary - 1976
Quality of care in the New Mexico Medicaid program (1971-1975) : the effect of the New Mexico Experimental Medical Care Review Organization on the use of antibiotics for common infectious diseases - 1980
Quality of health care. Part 2, Measuring quality of care - 1997
Quality of life of epilepsy surgery patients compared to outpatients with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and - 1993
RAND Review: Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer 2001 - 2001
RAND Review: Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 2007 - 2007
The RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method - 1995
The Relationship between Medical Malpractice and Quality of Care. - 1975
Report Cards for Health Care: Is Anyone Checking Them? - 2002
Research opportunities in primary care - 1978
Safely Directing Patients to Appropriate Levels of Care: Guideline-Driven Triage in the Emergency Service - 2000
Selected reflections on quality of medical care evaluation in the 1980s - 1979
Some Interim Results from a Controlled Trial of Cost Sharing in Health Insurance - 1982
Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain - 1996
Structured Implicit Review for Physician Implicit Measurement of Quality of Care: Development of the Form and Guidelines for Its Use - 1989
Structured Implicit Review of the Medical Record : A Method for Measuring the Quality of Inhospital Medical Care and a Summary of Quality Changes Following Implementation of the Medicare Prospective Payment System - 1991
A study of the reliability, validity, and precision of scales to measure chronic functional limitations due to poor health - 1977
Sufficiency of clinical literature on the appropriate uses of six medical and surgical procedures - 1991
A Summary of the Effects of DRG-Based Prospective Payment System on Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients - 1990
Taking the Pulse of Health Care in America - 1999
Toward Assessing Outcomes of Emergency Care - 1998
Underuse and Overuse of Diagnostic Testing for Coronary Artery Disease in Patients Presenting with New-Onset Chest Pain - 1999
Underuse of cardiac procedures : do women, ethnic minorities, and the uninsured fail to receive needed revascularization? - 1999
The Use and Misuse of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - 1988
Use of Medical Care in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: Diagnosis- and Service-specific Analyses in a Randomized Controlled Trial - 1986
Use of carotid endarterectomy in five California Veterans Administration medical centers - 1991
Uterine Artery Embolization: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Proposal for Research - 2000
Variations in the use of medical and surgical services by the Medicare population - 1986
Waiting Times in California's Emergency Departments - 2003
Watching the Doctor-Watchers: How Well do Peer Review Organization Methods Detect Hospital Care Quality Problems? - 2004
Will we need to ration effective health care? - 1991
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