Dr. Amy Rosen

Biography

Dr. Amy K. Rosen is a Professor at Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, specializing in General Surgery. She has conducted extensive research in health services, focusing on developing and using risk-adjustment models to compare care quality across different healthcare delivery settings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory care. Her work has evaluated the quality of care received by Medicare beneficiaries undergoing surgical procedures, with a specific emphasis on measuring adverse events as indicators of potential quality issues. Dr. Rosen developed a risk-adjustment model to predict functional status decline in long-term care residents within VA settings and has evaluated existing case-mix models used for provider profiling and quality assessment. Additionally, she has been a principal investigator on a project aimed at creating a psychiatric case-mix measure for the VA to compare care facilities for patients with mental health disorders. Dr. Rosen has also focused on patient safety, analyzing Patient Safety Indicators and working with AHRQ to enhance these metrics. Currently, she is studying patient safety culture within VA hospitals and the impact of resident work duty reforms on care quality.

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