Disparities in the Utilization of High-Volume Hospitals for Complex Surgery

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

1987 • 44,619 citations

Statistical Analysis With Missing Data

1989 • 18,117 citations

Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases

1992 • 10,174 citations

Bootstrap Methods for Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Other Measures of Statistical Accuracy

1986 • 6,027 citations

Hospital Volume and Surgical Mortality in the United States

2002 • 4,818 citations

Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship

1999 • 2,101 citations

Is Volume Related to Outcome in Health Care? A Systematic Review and Methodologic Critique of the Literature

2002 • 1,659 citations

Impact of Hospital Volume on Operative Mortality for Major Cancer Surgery

1998 • 1,642 citations

Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States

2004 • 1,149 citations

Primary Care Physicians Who Treat Blacks and Whites

2004 • 960 citations

Patient Race/Ethnicity and Quality of Patient–Physician Communication During Medical Visits

2004 • 892 citations

Selective Referral to High-Volume Hospitals

2000 • 781 citations

Unmet Health Needs of Uninsured Adults in the United States

2000 • 758 citations

Volume standards for high-risk surgical procedures: Potential benefits of the Leapfrog initiative

2001 • 537 citations

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HOSPITAL AND SURGEON PROCEDURE VOLUME AND THE OUTCOMES OF TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT

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Influence of Hospital Procedure Volume on Outcomes Following Surgery for Colon Cancer

2000 • 487 citations

Race and Surgical Mortality in the United States

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Association of Volume With Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1987 • 286 citations

A hospital's annual rate of esophagectomy influences the operative mortality rate

1998 • 245 citations

Hospital volume and hospital mortality for esophagectomy

2001 • 228 citations

Race and Gender Disparities in Rates of Cardiac Revascularization

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Hospital Volume and Patient Outcomes

1988 • 111 citations

The Association of Hospital Volumes of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty With Adverse Outcomes, Length of Stay, and Charges in California

1995 • 86 citations

Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care

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Is the hospital volume-mortality relationship in coronary artery bypass surgery the same for low-risk versus high-risk patients?

2003 • 38 citations

Regionalization of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Implications for Patient Travel Distance

2004 • 33 citations

Comparison of carotid endarterectomy at high- and low-volume hospitals

2001 • 29 citations

Being uninsured in 1996 compared to 1987: how has the experience of the uninsured changed over time?

2001 • 22 citations

Uninsured Adults Aged 65 Years and Older: Is Their Health at Risk?

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Using Volume Criteria: Do California Hospitals Measure Up?

2003 • 14 citations