Context.—Medicare has a legislative mandate for quality assurance, but the effectiveness of
its population-based quality improvement programs has been difficult to establish. Objective …

Objective.—To develop and test indicators of the quality of care for patients with acute
myocardial infarction (AMI). Design.—Retrospective medical record review. Setting.—All …

Background and purpose Develop and validate a contemporary bleeding risk model to
guide the clinical use of warfarin in the elderly atrial fibrillation (AF) population. Methods …

Background and Purpose—Bleeding risks from combined antiplatelet-warfarin therapy have
not been well-described in clinical practice. We examined antiplatelet therapy among …

Challenges and Opportunities in Quantifying the Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction
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Background Although aspirin is an effective, inexpensive, and safe treatment of acute
myocardial infarction, the frequency of use of aspirin in actual medical practice is not known …

Objective To test the reliability and validity of the Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument
(NLit) in adult primary care and identify the relationship between nutrition literacy and diet …

Background Mobile technologies have wide-scale reach and disseminability, but no known
studies have examined mobile technologies as a stand-alone tool to improve obesity-related …

Objective: To describe the relationship between adherence to distinct dietary patterns and
nutrition literacy. Design: We identified distinct dietary patterns using principal covariates …

Objectives: To determine how often aspirin was prescribed as a discharge medication to
eligible patients 65 years of age and older who were hospitalized with an acute myocardial …