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2005 • 5,692 citations

Hospital Volume and Surgical Mortality in the United States

2002 • 4,818 citations

Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care

1966 • 3,976 citations

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2003 • 2,846 citations

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2003 • 1,041 citations

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2004 • 892 citations

The Public Release of Performance Data

2000 • 858 citations

Selective Referral to High-Volume Hospitals

2000 • 781 citations

The Unintended Consequences of Publicly Reporting Quality Information

2005 • 594 citations

Change in the Quality of Care Delivered to Medicare Beneficiaries, 1998-1999 to 2000-2001

2003 • 583 citations

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2002 • 561 citations

Adult Open Heart Surgery in New York State

1990 • 542 citations

Care in U.S. Hospitals — The Hospital Quality Alliance Program

2005 • 465 citations

Surgical Mortality as an Indicator of Hospital Quality

2004 • 453 citations

The Comparative Assessment and Improvement of Quality of Surgical Care in the Department of Veterans Affairs

2002 • 451 citations

Does Publicizing Hospital Performance Stimulate Quality Improvement Efforts?

2003 • 409 citations

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2004 • 409 citations

Hospital Performance Reports: Impact On Quality, Market Share, And Reputation

2005 • 404 citations

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1998 • 403 citations

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1991 • 386 citations

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1996 • 374 citations

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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

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1991 • 232 citations

The Influence of Public Reporting of Outcome Data on Medical Decision Making by Physicians

2005 • 193 citations

Total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer – what can be achieved by a national audit?

2003 • 138 citations

Partnering with payers to improve surgical quality: The Michigan plan

2005 • 116 citations

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2004 • 108 citations

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1990 • 90 citations

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2005 • 81 citations

A Middle Ground on Public Accountability

2004 • 75 citations

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) Collaborative Quality Improvement Initiative in Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

2002 • 75 citations

Reporting health care performance: learning from the past, prospects for the future

2002 • 74 citations

Predicting Risk-Adjusted Mortality for CABG Surgery

2005 • 54 citations

Invited commentary: Quality of care and the volume-outcome relationship—What's next for surgery?

2002 • 44 citations

Employers’ Efforts To Measure And Improve Hospital Quality: Determinants Of Success

2003 • 40 citations

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2003 • 33 citations

‘A Deficiency Of Will And Ambition’: A Conversation With Donald Berwick

2005 • 31 citations

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2004 • 23 citations

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2004 • 15 citations

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Proposal to Pay for Performance

2003 • 14 citations

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2003 • 11 citations

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2005 • 10 citations

Transparency Is a Prerequisite of Pay for Performance

2004 • 4 citations

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2004 • 2 citations