The Relationship Between Choice of Outcome Measure and Hospital Rank in General Surgical Procedures: Implications for Quality Assessment

Hospital and Patient Characteristics Associated With Death After Surgery

1992 • 849 citations

Analysis of frequency data

2022 • 585 citations

Hospital Characteristics and Mortality Rates

1989 • 511 citations

Identifying Complications of Care Using Administrative Data

1994 • 446 citations

Evaluation of the Complication Rate as a Measure of Quality of Care in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1995 • 321 citations

Clinical Versus Administrative Data Bases for CABG Surgery

1992 • 243 citations

Comparing the Contributions of Groups of Predictors: Which Outcomes Vary with Hospital Rather than Patient Characteristics?

1995 • 187 citations

Using administrative data to screen hospitals for high complication rates.

1994 • 170 citations

Variation in outcome after acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage

1995 • 162 citations

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

1985 • 153 citations

Hospital Structure and Performance

1987 • 142 citations

A clinical assessment of MedisGroups

1988 • 138 citations

Predicting In-Hospital Mortality

1992 • 118 citations

Evaluating Individual Hospital Quality Through Outcome Statistics

1986 • 116 citations

Measuring severity of illness: six severity systems and their ability to explain cost variations.

1991 • 113 citations

Measuring outcomes of hospital care using multiple risk-adjusted indexes.

1991 • 104 citations

AUDIT OF SURGICAL AUDIT

1986 • 82 citations

The Risk-Adjusted Mortality Index

1988 • 81 citations

Predicted probabilities of hospital death as a measure of admission severity of illness.

1993 • 76 citations

Postoperative Adverse Events of Common Surgical Procedures in the Medicare Population

1992 • 68 citations

Institutional Differences in Postoperative Death Rates

1968 • 62 citations

Comorbidity-Adjusted Complication Risk

1996 • 59 citations

Biased Estimates of Expected Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality Using Medis-Groups Admission Severity Groups

1991 • 46 citations

Medis Groups Data Bases

1993 • 39 citations

Assessing providers of coronary revascularization: a method for peer review organizations.

1992 • 39 citations

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

1991 • 39 citations

Measuring severity of illness: a comparison of interrater reliability among severity methodologies.

1989 • 36 citations

Admission and Mid-Stay MedisGroups?? Scores as Predictors of Hospitalization Charges

1991 • 26 citations

The Use of Risk-adjusted Complication Rates to Compare Hospitals Performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery or Angioplasty

1992 • 18 citations

Evaluation of the Complication Rate as a Measure of Quality of Care in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1996 • 8 citations