Selected Publications in Journals

Horn SD, Wright HL, Couperus JJ, Rhodes RS, Smout RJ, Roberts KA, Linares AP.  Association Between Patient Controlled Analgesia Pump Use and Post-Operative Surgical Site Infection in Intestinal Surgery Patients, Surgical Infections (to appear).

Willson DF, Horn SD, Hendley JO, Smout R, Gassaway J. The Effect of Practice Variation on Resource Utilization in Infants Hospitalized for Viral Lower Respiratory Illness (VLRI), Pediatrics 108:4 (October 2001) 851-855.

Antonow JA, Smout RJ, Gassaway J, Horn SD, Willson DF. Variation Among Ten Pediatric Hospitals: Sepsis Evaluations for Infants with Bronchiolitis, Journal Nursing Care Quality 15:3 (April 2001) 39-49.

Neumayer LA, Smout RJ, Horn HGS, Horn SD. Early and Sufficient Feeding Reduces Length of Stay and Charges in Surgical Patients, Journal of Surgical Research 95:1 (January 2001) 73-77.

Willson DF, Horn SD, Smout RJ, Gassaway J, Torres A. Severity Assessment in Children Hospitalized with Bronchiolitis Using the Pediatric Component of the Comprehensive Severity Index (CSI^®), Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 1:2 (October 2000) 127-132.

Clemmer TP, Spuhler VJ, Oniki TA, Horn SD. Results of a Collaborative Quality Improvement Program on Outcomes and Costs in a Tertiary Critical Care Unit. Critical Care Medicine 27:9 (September 1999): 1768-1774.

Horn SD. Provision of Outcomes Data. New Horizons (Society of Critical Care Medicine) 7:2 (July 1999): 198-204.

Elliott CG, Dudney T, Egger M, Orme J, Clemmer T, Horn S. Calf-Thigh Sequential Pneumatic Compression Compared with Plantar Venous Pneumatic Compression to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis after Non-Lower Extremity Trauma. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 47:1 (July 1999):25-32.

Raddish M, Horn SD, Sharkey PD. Continuity of Care: Is It Cost Effective? The American Journal of Managed Care 5:6 (June 1999): 727-734.

Horn SD. Data-Driven Clinical Outcomes Improvement to Reduce Health Care Cost, Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management 6:3 (March 1999): 26-32.

Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Phillips-Harris C. Formulary Limitations in the Elderly: Results from the Managed Care Outcomes Project. The American Journal of Managed Care 4:8 (August 1998): 1105-1113.

Wright HL, Horn SD. Analysis of Nonrandom Distribution of Caesarean Sections as a Quality Improvement Indicator. Disease Management 1:1 (January 1998): 13-16.

Bartels SJ, Levine K, Horn SD, Sharkey PD. Treatment of Depression in Older Primary Care Patients in Health Maintenance Organizations. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine 27:3 (March 1997): 215-231.

Horn SD, Sharkey SS, Rimmasch HL. Clinical Practice Improvement: A Methodology to Improve Quality and Decrease Cost in Health Care. Oncology Issues 12:1 (Jan/Feb 1997): 16-20.

Horn SD. Tools and Techniques in Disease Management: Programmes for Improving and Measuring Outcomes. Disease Management and Health Outcomes 1:1 (January 1997): 17-25.

Horn SD. The Clinical Practice Improvement (CPI) Model and How It Is Used to Examine the Availability of Pharmaceuticals and Utilization of Ambulatory Healthcare Services in HMOs: Results from the Managed Care Outcomes Project (MCOP). PharmacoEconomics 10: (Supplement 2, 1996): 50-55.

Horn SD, Prather S, Jones CA. A Cohort Analysis of Pre-Menopausal Women with Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding. HMO Practice 10:2 (June 1996): 59-64.

Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Tracy DM, Horn CE, James B, Goodwin F. Intended and Unintended Consequences of HMO Cost-Containment Strategies: Results From the Managed Care Outcomes Project. The American Journal of Managed Care 2:3 (March 1996): 253-264.

Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Gassaway J. Managed Care Outcomes Project: Study Design, Baseline Patient Characteristics, and Outcome Measures. The American Journal of Managed Care 2:3 (March 1996), 237-247.

Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Levy R. A Managed Care Pharmacoeconomic Research Model Based on the Managed Care Outcomes Project. Journal of Pharmacy Practice 8:4 (August 1995), 172-177.

Horn SD. Using Clinical Practice Improvement: An Interview with Susan Horn. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement 21:6 (June 1995), 301-308.

Sharkey PD, DeHaemer MJ, Simmons LP, Horn SD. Assessing Patient Severity of Illness in the Management of Health Care Resources. Interfaces 23:4 (July/August, 1993), 12-20.

Averill RF, McGuire TE, Manning BE, Fowler DA, Horn SD, Dickson PS, Coye MJ, Knowlton DL, Bender JA. A Study of the Relationship Between Severity of Illness and Hospital Cost in New Jersey Hospitals. Health Services Research 27 (December, 1992), 587-617.

Horn SD, Sharkey PD, Buckle JM, Backofen JE, Averill RF, Horn RA. The Relationship Between Severity of Illness and Hospital Length of Stay and Mortality. Medical Care 29 (April 1991): 305-317.

Horn SD, Buckle JM, Carver CM. The Ambulatory Severity Index: Development of an Ambulatory Case Mix System. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 11 (November 1988): 53-62.

Selected Books and Chapters

Horn SD, Editor. Clinical Practice Improvement Methodology: Implementation and Evaluation. Faulkner & Gray, Inc., New York, September 1997.

Horn SD and Hopkins DSP. Clinical Practice Improvement: A New Technology for Developing Cost-Effective Quality Health Care, Faulkner & Gray, Inc., New York, 1994. ISBN 1-881393-25-9.

Horn SD. Continuous Quality Improvement, Chapter 7 in Medical and Biological Engineering in the Future of Health Care, J.D. Andrade, editor, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah 1994: 53-56.

Horn SD, Buckle JM, Carver CM. The Ambulatory Severity Index: Development of an Ambulatory Case Mix System. Chapter in Ambulatory Care Quality Assurance Manual, edited by Howard S. Rowland and Beatrice L. Rowland, Aspen Publishers Inc., Rockville, Maryland, November 1989.

Horn, SD. Quality, Clinical Practice Improvement, and the Episode of Care, Chapter 9. Global Fees for Episodes of Care: New Approaches to Purchasing Healthcare. D. W. Emery, editor. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1998.

Selected Publications by Independent Research Groups

Iezzoni LI. The Risks of Risk Adjustment. JAMA 278:19 (November 19, 1997): 1600-1607.

Iezzoni LI (editor). Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, Second Edition. Health Administration Press, Ann Arbor, 1997. ISBN 1-56793-054-9.

Iezzoni LI, Restuccia JD, Shwartz M, Schaumburg D, Coffman GA, Kreger BE, Butterly JR, and Selker HP. The Utility of Severity of Illness Information in Assessing the Quality of Hospital Care. Medical Care 30 (May, 1992), 428-444.

Iezzoni LI and Daley J. A Description and Clinical Assessment of the Computerized Severity Index. Quality Review Bulletin 18 (February, 1992), 44-52.

Thomas JW and Ashcraft MLF. Measuring Severity of Illness: Comparison of Six Severity Systems in Terms of Ability to Explain Variations in Costs. Inquiry 28 (Spring, 1991), 39-55.

Alemi F, Rice J, and Hankins R. Predicting In-Hospital Survival of Myocardial Infarction, A Comparative Study of Various Severity Measures. Medical Care 28 (September, 1990), 762-774.