Postoperative Adverse Events of Common Surgical Procedures in the Medicare Population

The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

1982 • 20,275 citations

The definition of quality and approaches to its assessment

1980 • 1,746 citations

Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

Transurethral Prostatectomy: Immediate and Postoperative Complications. A Cooperative Study of 13 Participating Institutions Evaluating 3,885 Patients

1989 • 1,430 citations

Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance

1991 • 611 citations

Adult Open Heart Surgery in New York State

1990 • 542 citations

Hospital Characteristics and Mortality Rates

1989 • 511 citations

Transurethral Prostatectomy: Practice Aspects of the Dominant Operation in American Urology

1989 • 310 citations

Use of claims data systems to evaluate health care outcomes. Mortality and reoperation following prostatectomy

1987 • 287 citations

Does Quality Influence Choice of Hospital?

1990 • 277 citations

Predicting hospital-associated mortality for Medicare patients. A method for patients with stroke, pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction, and congestive heart failure

1988 • 273 citations

Outcome measurement: concepts and questions.

1988 • 259 citations

Identification of patients at greatest risk for developing major complications at cardiac surgery.

1990 • 246 citations

Flaws in mortality data. The hazards of ignoring comorbid disease

1988 • 246 citations

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

1990 • 224 citations

The Importance of Severity of Illness in Assessing Hospital Mortality

1990 • 221 citations

MEDISGRPS: a clinically based approach to classifying hospital patients at admission.

1985 • 153 citations

A clinical assessment of MedisGroups

1988 • 138 citations

Using computers to identify complications after surgery.

1985 • 95 citations

The Condition of the Literature on Differences in Hospital Mortality

1989 • 86 citations

Carotid Endarterectomy for Elderly Patients: Predicting Complications

1990 • 84 citations

Results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients ≥65 years of age (from the 1985 to 1986 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Coronary Angioplasty Registry)

1990 • 81 citations

A Critique of the Use of Generic Screening in Quality Assessment

1991 • 78 citations

Using Clinical Variables to Estimate the Risk of Patient Mortality

1991 • 45 citations

Admission and mid-stay MedisGroups scores as predictors of death within 30 days of hospital admission.

1991 • 39 citations

Geographic variations in elderly hospital and surgical discharge rates, New York State.

1987 • 36 citations

The rise in the incidence of hospitalizations for the aged, 1967 to 1979.

1982 • 25 citations

Carotid endarterectomy for elderly patients: Predicting complications

1992 • 17 citations

Indications for Selected Medical and Surgical Procedures - A Literature Review and Ratings of Appropriateness

1986 • 12 citations