Objective: Five years ago the Institute of Medicine recommended improving patient safety
by addressing organizational cultural issues. Since then, surveys measuring a patient safety …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Root cause analysis (RCA) is an analysis framework used in
health care to determine the systemic causes and prevent recurrences of adverse events. It …

… Drs Watts, Mayo, Young-Xu, Weeks, and Friedman report no financial or other conflicts of
interest. Funding/support: This work was supported through funding from the US Department of …

Importance Preventable hospitalizations are common among older adults for reasons that
are not well understood. Objective To determine whether Medicare patients with ambulatory …

Objectives. We sought to determine whether disparities in health-related quality of life exist
between veterans who live in rural settings and their suburban or urban counterparts. …

BACKGROUND: Both providers and payors bear the financial risk associated with complications
of poor quality care. But the stakeholder who bears the largest burden of this risk has a …

… wherein the byline listed individual authors and indicated that the listed authors were writing
for a larger group (ie, WB Weeks, AE Wallace, BC Surott Kimberly for the XYZ study group). …

… Davis MA, Sirovich BE, Weeks WB. Utilization and expenditures on chiropractic care in the
… Statson WB, Shepard DS, Ritter G, et al. Evaluation of the Demonstration of Coverage of …

Background Morbid obesity is associated with serious health and social consequences, high
medical costs and is increasing in the USA, particularly among rural, socioeconomically …

… By early 2003, waiting time for new evaluations had reached 6 weeks, and no-show rates
were higher than 40%. With no expectation of increasing staff size, the service devoted a …