Ann Marie Borzecki, MD
Research Associate Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management

Biography
Dr. Borzecki is a research associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Health Law, Policy and Management and the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. She is a research scientist at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, a Veterans Health Administration Health Services and Research Development Service Center of Innovation, and attending physician at the Bedford VAMC and West Roxbury VAMC. Her research has focused on using large datasets and medical record review to measure quality of care and assess the validity of various performance measures, including those related to patient safety and readmissions.
Other Positions
- Research Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- Bedford VA - Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hosp
- Boston Medical Center
Websites
Education
- University of Ottawa, MD
- Boston University, MPH
- University of Ottawa, BS
Publications
- Published on 6/21/2023
Gillespie C, Sitter K, McConeghy KW, Strymish J, Gupta K, Hartmann CW, Borzecki AM. Facilitators and Barriers to Verifying Penicillin Allergies in a Veteran Nursing Home Population. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2023 Sep; 11(9):2848-2854.e3. PMID: 37352930.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/5/2023
Borzecki AM, Conti J, Reisman JI, Vimalananda V, Nagy MW, Paluri R, Linsky AM, McCullough M, Bhasin S, Matsumoto AM, Jasuja GK. Development and Validation of Quality Measures for Testosterone Prescribing. J Endocr Soc. 2023 Jun 05; 7(7):bvad075. PMID: 37362384.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/17/2019
Kressin NR, Elwy AR, Glickman M, Orner MB, Fix GM, Borzecki AM, Katz LA, Cortés DE, Cohn ES, Barker A, Bokhour BG. Beyond Medication Adherence: The Role of Patients' Beliefs and Life Context in Blood Pressure Control. Ethn Dis. 2019; 29(4):567-576. PMID: 31641324.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/8/2019
Borzecki AM, Rosen AK. Is there a 'best measure' of patient safety? BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 03; 29(3):185-188. PMID: 31594843.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/4/2018
Borzecki AM, Chen Q, O'Brien W, Shwartz M, Najjar PA, Itani KMF, Rosen AK. The Patient Safety Indicator Perioperative Pulmonary Embolism or Deep Vein Thrombosis: Is there associated surveillance bias in the Veterans Health Administration? Am J Surg. 2018 11; 216(5):974-979. PMID: 30005806.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/14/2018
Shin MH, Rivard PE, Shwartz M, Borzecki A, Yaksic E, Stolzmann K, Zubkoff L, Rosen AK. Tailoring an educational program on the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to meet stakeholder needs: lessons learned in the VA. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 02 14; 18(1):114. PMID: 29444671.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/28/2017
Chen L, Chan JA, Alligood E, Rosen AK, Borzecki AM. Does Surveillance Bias Influence the Validity of Measures of Inpatient Complications? A Systematic Review. Am J Med Qual. 2018 May/Jun; 33(3):291-302. PMID: 28958153.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/17/2016
Rose AJ, Park A, Gillespie C, Van Deusen Lukas C, Ozonoff A, Petrakis BA, Reisman JI, Borzecki AM, Benedict AJ, Lukesh WN, Schmoke TJ, Jones EA, Morreale AP, Ourth HL, Schlosser JE, Mayo-Smith MF, Allen AL, Witt DM, Helfrich CD, McCullough MB. Results of a Regional Effort to Improve Warfarin Management. Ann Pharmacother. 2017 May; 51(5):373-379. PMID: 28367699.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/5/2016
Hanchate AD, Stolzmann KL, Rosen AK, Fink AS, Shwartz M, Ash AS, Abdulkerim H, Pugh MJV, Shokeen P, Borzecki A. Does adding clinical data to administrative data improve agreement among hospital quality measures? Healthc (Amst). 2017 Sep; 5(3):112-118. PMID: 27932261.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/1/2016
Chen Q, Rosen AK, Borzecki A, Shwartz M. Using Harm-Based Weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators Composite (PSI-90): Does It Affect Assessment of Hospital Performance and Financial Penalties in Veterans Health Administration Hospitals? Health Serv Res. 2016 Dec; 51(6):2140-2157. PMID: 27891603.
Read at: PubMed
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