Hospital Volume and Surgical Mortality in the United States

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Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

Presentation adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative data: Differing perspectives

1993 • 1,704 citations

Impact of Hospital Volume on Operative Mortality for Major Cancer Surgery

1998 • 1,642 citations

Selective Referral to High-Volume Hospitals

2000 • 781 citations

The accuracy of Medicare's hospital claims data: progress has been made, but problems remain.

1992 • 723 citations

Organizational Characteristics of Intensive Care Units Related to Outcomes of Abdominal Aortic Surgery

1999 • 694 citations

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

1989 • 544 citations

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

2001 • 537 citations

Accuracy of Diagnostic Coding for Medicare Patients under the Prospective-Payment System

1988 • 506 citations

Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias. Does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality?

1992 • 459 citations

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1998 • 403 citations

Operative mortality rates for intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in Michigan: An eleven-year statewide experience

1994 • 375 citations

Assessing hospital-associated deaths from discharge data. The role of length of stay and comorbidities

1988 • 342 citations

Does practice make perfect? Part I: The relation between hospital volume and outcomes for selected diagnostic categories.

1984 • 328 citations

Effects of Admission to a Teaching Hospital on the Cost and Quality of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries

1999 • 282 citations

Effects of admission to a teaching hospital on the cost and quality of care for medicare beneficiaries.

1999 • 213 citations

New York state's cardiac surgery reporting system: Four years later

1994 • 206 citations

Analysis of the Effect of Conversion From Open to Closed Surgical Intensive Care Unit

1999 • 203 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

Statewide Quality Improvement Initiatives and Mortality After Cardiac Surgery

1997 • 188 citations

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 188 citations

Operative mortality with elective surgery in older adults.

2001 • 187 citations

Potential benefits of regionalizing major surgery in Medicare patients.

2000 • 101 citations

Investigation of the relationship between volume and mortality for surgical procedures performed in New York State hospitals

1989 • 88 citations

Statewide quality improvement initiatives and mortality after cardiac surgery

1997 • 42 citations

How is volume related to quality in health care? A systematic review of the research literature

2000 • 39 citations