Outpatient Mastectomy and Breast Reconstructive Surgery

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

1987 • 44,619 citations

A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity

1980 • 25,774 citations

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

1992 • 10,174 citations

Overview of the SEER-Medicare data: content, research applications, and generalizability to the United States elderly population.

2002 • 1,699 citations

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Receipt of Cancer Treatment

2002 • 931 citations

Role of Breast Reconstructive Surgery in Physical and Emotional Outcomes Among Breast Cancer Survivors

2000 • 576 citations

Does Managed Care Lead To Better Or Worse Quality Of Care?

1997 • 472 citations

The Unequal Burden of Cancer

1999 • 373 citations

State of the Union

2005 • 345 citations

The Psychological Effect of Mastectomy with or without Breast Reconstruction: A Prospective, Multicenter Study

2003 • 296 citations

Use of SEER-Medicare Data for Measuring Cancer Surgery

2002 • 260 citations

Immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy for cancer

2000 • 240 citations

An Algorithm for the Use of Medicare Claims Data to Identify Women with Incident Breast Cancer

2004 • 189 citations

Stage at Diagnosis and Treatment Patterns Among Older Women With Breast Cancer

1999 • 184 citations

Quality of Life and Affective Distress in Women Seeking Immediate versus Delayed Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy for Breast Cancer

2005 • 112 citations

Accuracy and Completeness of Medicare Claims Data for Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer

2000 • 106 citations

Breast reconstruction. Update of psychosocial and pragmatic concerns

1991 • 100 citations

Comparison of Resource Costs Between Implant-Based and TRAM Flap Breast Reconstruction

1996 • 99 citations

Managed Care, Consolidation among Health Care Providers, and Health Care: Evidence from Mammography

1999 • 88 citations

Patterns of Care for Immediate and Early Delayed Breast Reconstruction following Mastectomy

2005 • 74 citations

Immediate Versus Delayed Reconstruction

2007 • 69 citations

Trends and Outcomes of Outpatient Mastectomy in Elderly Women

1998 • 69 citations

The Effect of Area HMO Market Share on Cancer Screening

2004 • 54 citations

Outpatient mastectomy: clinical, payer, and geographic influences.

2001 • 43 citations

A Comparative Analysis of Mandated Benefit Laws, 1949–2002

2006 • 27 citations

The use and outcomes of outpatient mastectomy in Florida

2000 • 22 citations

Breast cancer treatment choice and mastectomy length of stay: a comparison of HMO and other privately insured women.

1997 • 18 citations

Position Paper: Notes from Connecticut: A surgeon's travail

1998 • 3 citations