Tonya J. Sharp

TL;DR: A large sample of physician reviews of medical records was used to estimate the degree of agreement on the cause of adverse patient outcomes and the implications of the results for quality assurance, performance assessment, and proposals for no-fault patient compensation are discussed.

TL;DR: The data indicate that sites with high levels of elastase are at significantly greater risk for progressive bone loss as assessed by digital subtraction radiography.

TL;DR: Findings indicated that teeth with poorer attachment level at baseline had a higher probability of being lost during the next 5 yr and teeth that experienced attachment loss during a time period were more likely to be lost at the next time period than teeth without additional attachment loss.

TL;DR: This prospective study evaluates the ability of MRI using T1‐weighted fat‐suppressed spin‐echo (T1FS) and dynamic gadolinium chelate enhanced spoiled‐gradient echo (SGE) to detect the presence of pancreatic tumor in patients in whom spiral CT findings are inconclusive.

TL;DR: This work examines one attempt to compare hospitals based on their observed mortality, made in 1992 by consultants to a managed care program for a large corporation to determine which of the hospitals serving the corporation's employees in central Pennsylvania delivered better quality of care as reflected in part by fewer in-hospital deaths in 1989 and 1990.