Center for Quality of Care Research News

Read the coverage Center for Quality of Care Research studies are receiving in the press.

2012

• January 28, 2012: Some Doctors Try to Squelch Online Reviews. The Washington Post.
  
• April 2012: Three Earn Master of Hospital Medicine Designation. The Hospitalist.
  
• April 3, 2012: 'Decline' in Pneumonia Reflects Changes in Diagnostic Coding. Internal Medicine News.
  
• April 11, 2012: VTE Prophylaxis. ACP Hospitalist.

2011

• December 8, 2011: Better Doctor-Shopping Is On The Way — But Will You Use It? CommonHealth, wbur.org
  
• November, 2011: With Grant, Baystate Researchers Advance Work to Improve Quality of Care. Healthcare News of Western Massachusetts.
  
• March 2, 2011: Q&A: How Can My Hospital Cost More But Help Me Less? Four Answers. Common Health, WBUR.
  
• March 1, 2011: Hospital Spending Doesn't Affect Sepsis Survival Rates. US News & World Report.
  
• March 1, 2011: Bridging the Communication Gap. The Callie Crossley Show, WGBH.
  
• February 28, 2011: Expensive Hospital Care May Not Save More Lives. Reuters.

2010

• Nov 10, 2010: Patients Fail to Grasp That PCI Reduces Angina But Not Myocardial Infarction Risk. JAMA.
  
• June 18, 2010: Corticosteroids In COPD Exacerbations — High-Dose Intravenous Or Low-Dose Oral? Journal Watch.
  
• June 16 2010: Rate My Doctor: Online reviews of physicians are more positive and less plentiful than expected, study finds. Tufts Journal.
  
• June 15 2010: Equal Or Better Outcomes For Hospitalized C-O-P-D Patients When Given Low Versus High Dose Steroid Therapy. The JAMA Report.
  
• June 8, 2010: Doctor-Review Websites – for Good or Harm? NPR-WFCR.
  
• May 20, 2010: Rating the doctor-rating sites. The Boston Globe.
  
• May 18, 2010: Physician rating website mainly sing doctors’ praises, study finds. The Los Angeles Times.