Differences in Mortality From Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery at Five Teaching Hospitals

An Evaluation of Outcome from Intensive Care in Major Medical Centers

1986 • 1,203 citations

The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns?

1987 • 565 citations

Investigation of the Relationship Between Volume and Mortality for Surgical Procedures Performed in New York State Hospitals

1989 • 544 citations

Adult Open Heart Surgery in New York State

1990 • 542 citations

Hospital Characteristics and Mortality Rates

1989 • 511 citations

Clinical and angiographic predictors of operative mortality from the collaborative study in coronary artery surgery (CASS).

1981 • 395 citations

Hospital Use and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries in Boston and New Haven

1989 • 341 citations

Staging of disease. A case-mix measurement

1984 • 320 citations

Association of Volume With Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1987 • 286 citations

Effects of Surgeon Volume and Hospital Volume on Quality of Care in Hospitals

1987 • 273 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

Hospital Medical Staff Organization and Quality of Care

1981 • 133 citations

The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality

1989 • 86 citations

Heart disease and hospital deaths: an empirical study.

1987 • 66 citations

Professional Power and Professional Effectiveness: The Power of the Surgical Staff and the Quality of Surgical Care in Hospitals

1978 • 62 citations

Effectiveness in professional organizations: the impact of surgeons and surgical staff organizations on the quality of care in hospitals.

1982 • 51 citations

Preoperative Risk Assessment in Cardiac Surgery: Comparison of Predicted and Observed Results

1987 • 50 citations

Severity of illness and the teaching hospital

1986 • 31 citations

Determinants of Survival 10 to 14 Years after Coronary Bypass: Analysis of Preoperative Variables in 1,448 Patients

1987 • 26 citations

Is the outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery predictable in patients with severe ventricular function impairment?

1986 • 10 citations