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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Quality Improvement in Chronic Illness Care: A Collaborative Approach	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2001	541
2	The Incident Reporting System Does Not Detect Adverse Drug Events: A Problem for Quality Improvement	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1995	484
3	Using Health Care Failure Mode and Effect Analysis™: The VA National Center for Patient Safety’s Prospective Risk Analysis System	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	449
4	Microsystems in Health Care: Part 1. Learning from High-Performing Front-Line Clinical Units	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	326
5	Evidence-Based Implementation of Evidence-Based Medicine	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1999	319
6	Lessons for Guidelines from the Diffusion of Innovations	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1995	285
7	A Framework for the Continual Improvement of Health Care: Building and Applying Professional and Improvement Knowledge to Test Changes in Daily Work	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1993	229
8	Using a Computerized Sign-Out Program to Improve Continuity of Inpatient Care and Prevent Adverse Events	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1998	220
9	Lessons from Experienced Guideline Implementers: Attend to Many Factors and Use Multiple Strategies	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	197
10	Developing and Deploying a Patient Safety Program in a Large Health Care Delivery System: You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Know About	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2001	188
11	The Veterans Affairs Root Cause Analysis System in Action	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	182
12	The Three Faces of Performance Measurement: Improvement, Accountability, and Research	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1997	164
13	Reducing Adverse Drug Events: Lessons from a Breakthrough Series Collaborative	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	151
14	A Randomized Controlled Trial of CQI Teams and Academic Detailing: Can They Alter Compliance with Guidelines?	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1998	144
15	Improving Health Care, Part 1: The Clinical Value Compass	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1996	137
16	The Art and Science of Chart Review	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	135
17	Patient Safety and Computerized Medication Ordering at Brigham and Women’s Hospital	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2001	123
18	Pooling Research Results: Benefits and Limitations of Meta-Analysis	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1999	110
19	Making Health Care Quality Reports Easier to Use	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2001	109
20	Guideline Implementation: What the Literature Doesn’t Tell Us	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	104
21	Assessing “Best Evidence”: Issues in Grading the Quality of Studies for Systematic Reviews	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1999	101
22	Critical Path Method: An Important Tool for Coordinating Clinical Care	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1993	98
23	Failure Mode and Effect Analysis: An Application in Reducing Risk in Blood Transfusion	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	94
24	Developing Performance Measures for Alcohol and Other Drug Services in Managed Care Plans	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	93
25	Using Standardized Patients to Measure Quality: Evidence from the Literature and a Prospective Study	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	89
26	Cleveland Health Quality Choice: A Model for Collaborative Community-Based Outcomes Assessment	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1994	87
27	Improving Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates: The CDC Experience	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1996	86
28	Choosing and Evaluating Clinical Performance Measures	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1998	86
29	Understanding the Quality Challenge for Health Consumers: The Kaiser/AHCPR Survey	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1997	85
30	The PDSA Cycle at the Core of Learning in Health Professions Education	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1996	76
31	Improving Diabetes Care in a Large Health Care System: An Enhanced Primary Care Approach	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	75
32	Improving Functional Outcomes in Older Patients: Lessons from an Acute Care for Elders Unit	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1998	74
33	The Search for Good Antimicrobial Stewardship	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2001	73
34	Working Together but Apart: Barriers and Routes to Nurse–Physician Collaboration	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	73
35	Toward the Development of Uniform Reporting Standards for Managed Care Organizations: The Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (Version 2.0)	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1993	71
36	Understanding Patient willingness to Recommend and Return: A Strategy for Prioritizing Improvement Opportunities	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1999	71
37	System Innovation: Concord Hospital	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	71
38	Systematic Root Cause Analysis of Adverse Drug Events in a Tertiary Referral Hospital	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	66
39	Benchmarking Applied to Health Care	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1994	65
40	How Pennsylvania Hospitals Have Responded to Publicly Released Reports on Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1998	64
41	What Health Professionals Can Do to Identify and Resolve Patient Dissatisfaction	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1998	62
42	A Practical Approach to Evidence Grading	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	62
43	The Impact of Quality Report Cards on Choice of Physicians, Hospitals, and HMOs: A Midcourse Evaluation	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2001	61
44	Linking Outcomes Measurement to Continual Improvement: The Serial “V” Way of Thinking About Improving Clinical Care	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1994	60
45	The Paradox of Guideline Implementation: How AHCPR’s Depression Guideline Was Adapted at Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1995	59
46	Health Online and the Empowered Medical Consumer	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	1997	59
47	Does Patient-Centered Care Pay Off?	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	58
48	Taking the National Guideline for Care of Acute Myocardial Infarction to the Bedside: Developing the Guideline Applied in Practice (GAP) Initiative in southeast Michigan	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2002	58
49	Controlled Trials of CQI and Academic Detailing to Implement a Clinical Practice Guideline for Depression	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	56
50	Quality Improvements in End of Life Care: Insights from Two Collaboratives	The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement	2000	56

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