Influence of Cardiac-Surgery Performance Reports on Referral Practices and Access to Care — A Survey of Cardiovascular Specialists

A method of uniform stratification of risk for evaluating the results of surgery in acquired adult heart disease.

1989 • 1,151 citations

Risk Adjustment for Measuring Healthcare Outcomes

1994 • 960 citations

Improving the Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in New York State

1994 • 775 citations

A Regional Intervention to Improve the Hospital Mortality Associated With Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1996 • 727 citations

Adult Open Heart Surgery in New York State

1990 • 542 citations

Report Cards on Cardiac Surgeons — Assessing New York State's Approach

1995 • 395 citations

Benefits and Hazards of Reporting Medical Outcomes Publicly

1996 • 374 citations

The Decline in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Mortality in New York State

1995 • 343 citations

Performance Reports on Quality -- Prototypes, Problems, and Prospects

1995 • 244 citations

Outmigration For Coronary Bypass Surgery in an Era of Public Dissemination of Clinical Outcomes

1996 • 238 citations

Explaining variations in hospital death rates. Randomness, severity of illness, quality of care

1990 • 224 citations

Scorecard Cardiovascular Medicine: Its Impact and Future Directions

1994 • 118 citations

Improving the outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery in New York State

1994 • 105 citations

Physician Profiling -- An Analysis of Inpatient Practice Patterns in Florida and Oregon

1994 • 91 citations

Adult open heart surgery in New York State. An analysis of risk factors and hospital mortality rates

1990 • 90 citations

A regional intervention to improve the hospital mortality associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group

1996 • 89 citations

Why Some Health Policies Don't Make Sense at the Bedside

1995 • 84 citations

Consumers and Hospital Use: The HCFA “Death List”

1988 • 82 citations

Current issues in profiling quality of care.

1992 • 81 citations

Judging hospitals by severity-adjusted mortality rates: the case of CABG surgery.

1996 • 77 citations

The challenge of defining and counting generalist physicians: an analysis of Physician Masterfile data.

1995 • 65 citations

The decline in coronary artery bypass graft surgery mortality in New York State. The role of surgeon volume

1995 • 50 citations

Health System Reform

1994 • 22 citations

How Do Purchasers Develop and Use Performance Measures?

1995 • 14 citations

Health system reform. Forward or backward with quality oversight?

1994 • 4 citations