Quality measurement and control in physician decision making: state of the art.

Gaps in doctor-patient communication. 1. Doctor-patient interaction and patient satisfaction.

1968 • 933 citations

Relative contributions of history-taking, physical examination, and laboratory investigation to diagnosis and management of medical outpatients.

1975 • 887 citations

Protocol-Based Computer Reminders, the Quality of Care and the Non-Perfectability of Man

1976 • 821 citations

The Reliability of Clinical Methods, Data and Judgments

1975 • 406 citations

Improved Outcomes in Hypertension After Physician Tutorials

1976 • 391 citations

Variations in patients' compliance with doctors' advice: an empirical analysis of patterns o communication.

1968 • 327 citations

How Do Health-Maintenance Organizations Achieve Their “Savings”?

1978 • 302 citations

Human and Computer-aided Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain: Further Report with Emphasis on Performance of Clinicians

1974 • 283 citations

The Physician-Patient as an Informed Consumer of Surgical Services

1974 • 169 citations

Changes in Tonsillectomy Rates Associated With Feedback and Review

1977 • 168 citations

Consumer Assessments of the Quality of Medical Care

1974 • 158 citations

Effect of Surveillance on the Number of Hysterectomies in the Province of Saskatchewan

1977 • 142 citations

Continuing Education and Patient Care Research

1967 • 140 citations

The Relationship between Physician Characteristics and Prescribing Appropriateness

1972 • 133 citations

Evaluation of Patient-Care Protocol Use by Various Providers

1975 • 128 citations

Satisfaction with medical care in a low income population

1971 • 105 citations

Validating the Content of Pediatric Outpatient Medical Records by Means of Tape-Recording Doctor-Patient Encounters

1975 • 99 citations

A computer-based record and clinical monitoring system for ambulatory care.

1977 • 90 citations

The effect of an educational program upon hospital antibiotic use

1977 • 88 citations

Concurrent Quality Assurance in Hospital Care

1978 • 88 citations

Quality Assessment in Hypertension: Analysis of Process and Outcome Methods

1977 • 87 citations

Effects of Screening by Consultants on Recommended Elective Surgical Procedures

1974 • 83 citations

Drug-taking compliance: a review and synthesis.

1978 • 82 citations

Quality Assurance Today and Tomorrow: Forecast for the Future

1976 • 77 citations

Formulating Priorities for Quality Assurance Activity

1978 • 75 citations

Peer review in ambulatory care: use of explicit criteria and implicit judgments.

1979 • 74 citations

What Is Unnecessary Surgery?

1979 • 71 citations

Orphan Data and the Unclosed Loop: A Dilemma in PSRO and Medical Audit

1976 • 51 citations

Cost Containment through Risk-Sharing by Primary-Care Physicians

1979 • 48 citations

Delay and Noncompliance in Cancer Detection: A Behavioral Perspective for Health Planners

1978 • 47 citations

Second Opinions for Elective Surgery

1980 • 44 citations

Office Records in the Evaluation of Quality of Care

1976 • 43 citations

Peer Review: Impact of a System Based on Billing Claims

1974 • 41 citations

Telephone assessment of illness by practicing pediatricians

1976 • 37 citations

Quality of Clinical Management of Disease in Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Centers

1974 • 35 citations

Second Opinion Elective Surgery Programs: Outcome Status over Time

1978 • 34 citations

Quality assurance: the cost of utilization review and the educational value of medical audit in a university hospital.

1976 • 34 citations

Correlates of physicians' prescribing behavior.

1972 • 33 citations

Does continuing medical education improve the quality of medical care? A look at the evidence.

1979 • 33 citations

On-Line Computerized Data Handling System for Treating Patients With Renal Disease

1977 • 31 citations

Medical Care by Nurses In an Internal Medicine Clinic

1975 • 30 citations

Peer review in ambulatory care: use of explicit criteria and implicit judgments.

1979 • 28 citations

How does the quality of health care in HMOs compare to that in other settings? An analytic literature review: 1958 to 1979.

1980 • 27 citations

Auditing Problem-Oriented Records and Traditional Records

1974 • 26 citations

Bailar's laws of data analysis

1976 • 17 citations

Quality Assessment and the Art of Medicine

1979 • 16 citations

The problem-oriented medical record: evaluation and management of anemia before and during use

1976 • 14 citations

A Limitation in the Use of Office Records for Health Care Evaluation

1975 • 14 citations

Use, Costs, and Quality of Medical Services: Impact of the New Mexico Peer Review System

1978 • 12 citations

Effectiveness of educational and administrative interventions in medical outpatient clinics.

1976 • 12 citations

On the statistical validity of standards used in profile monitoring of health care.

1978 • 12 citations

Quality by Objectives

1978 • 11 citations

Physician and patient assessment of ambulatory care in a university facility

1978 • 8 citations

A chart audit peer review system in an ambulatory service.

1975 • 5 citations

Validating audit criteria: an analytic approach illustrated by peptic ulcer disease.

1979 • 3 citations