Ann Marie Borzecki MD
Research Associate Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management
Research Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-5941amb@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
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
Education
Medicine, MD, University of Ottawa
Epidemiology/Biostatistics, MPH, Boston University
Biology, BS, University of Ottawa
Publications
Sullivan JL, Shin MH, Chan J, Shwartz M, Miech EJ, Borzecki AM, Yackel E, Yende S, Rosen AK. Quality improvement lessons learned from National Implementation of the "Patient Safety Events in Community Care: Reporting, Investigation, and Improvement Guidebook". Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec; 59 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):e14317. PMID: 38719340.
Published on 12/8/2023Rosen AK, Beilstein-Wedel E, Chan J, Borzecki A, Miech EJ, Mohr DC, Yackel EE, Flynn J, Shwartz M. Standardizing Patient Safety Event Reporting between Care Delivered or Purchased by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2024 Apr; 50(4):247-259. PMID: 38228416.
Published on 6/21/2023Gillespie 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.
Published on 6/5/2023Borzecki 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.
Published on 10/17/2019Kressin 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.
Published on 10/8/2019Borzecki AM, Rosen AK. Is there a 'best measure' of patient safety? BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 03; 29(3):185-188. PMID: 31594843.
Published on 7/4/2018Borzecki 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.
Published on 2/14/2018Shin 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.
Published on 9/28/2017Chen 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.
Published on 12/17/2016Rose 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.