Presidential address: Outcome assessment in vascular surgery — Results mean everything

Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

Cardiovascular Health and Disease in Women

1993 • 803 citations

Improving the Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in New York State

1994 • 775 citations

The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns?

1987 • 565 citations

The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy

1988 • 501 citations

Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care

1992 • 400 citations

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

1984 • 328 citations

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

1940 • 303 citations

Stroke and mortality rate in carotid endarterectomy: 228 consecutive operations.

1977 • 263 citations

Recommended indications for operative treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms

1992 • 262 citations

The Importance of Severity of Illness in Assessing Hospital Mortality

1990 • 221 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 188 citations

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 177 citations

A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between in-hospital mortality in New York State and the volume of abdominal aortic aneurysm surgeries performed.

1992 • 167 citations

Adjusted hospital death rates: a potential screen for quality of medical care.

1987 • 157 citations

Factors determining survival after ruptured aortic aneurysm: The hospital, the surgeon, and the patient

1990 • 156 citations

Carotid endarterectomy: Practice guidelines. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to the Joint Council of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the North American Chapter of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery

1992 • 134 citations

The risk of vascular surgery in a metropolitan community

1984 • 131 citations

Group judgments of appropriateness: the effect of panel composition.

1992 • 120 citations

Risk of carotid endarterectomy in the elderly.

1989 • 117 citations

Differences among hospitals in Medicare patient mortality.

1989 • 95 citations

Epidemiology of carotid endarterectomies among Medicare beneficiaries

1992 • 87 citations

Relation between Surgeons' Practice Volumes and Geographic Variation in the Rate of Carotid Endarterectomy

1989 • 82 citations

Treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm in an entire state over 7 years

1980 • 66 citations

Vascular surgery in the United States

1987 • 64 citations

Peripheral arterial occlusive disease of the extremities in the United States: Hospitalization and mortality

1990 • 58 citations

In-hospital mortality of surgical patients: is there an empiric basis for standard setting?

1986 • 56 citations

Influence of the contralateral carotid artery on neurologic complications following carotid endarterectomy

1984 • 55 citations

Optimal Resources for Vascular Surgery

1972 • 55 citations

Abdominal aortic aneurysms. Is there an association between surgical volume, surgical experience, hospital type and operative mortality ?

1990 • 52 citations

Practice guidelines: Lower extremity revascularization

1993 • 49 citations

Carotid endarterectomy in a metropolitan community: The early results after 8535 operations

1988 • 45 citations

Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

1991 • 43 citations

Guidelines for hospital privileges in vascular surgery

1989 • 39 citations

Guidelines for hospital privileges in vascular surgery

1991 • 37 citations

Carotid endarterectomy in the elderly population: A statewide experience

1989 • 35 citations

Myth and reality in general surgery.

1993 • 35 citations

The Utility of PRO Data on Surgical Volume: The Example of Carotid Endarterectomy

1993 • 31 citations

Surgical operations in the United States: 1979 to 1984.

1987 • 23 citations

Carotid Endarterectomy in Community Practice: Surgeon-Specific Versus Institutional Results

1989 • 17 citations

Peripheral Vascular Disease

1992 • 12 citations

Does the Surgeon's Annual Case Load Make a Difference in the Quality of Peripheral Vascular Surgery?

1985 • 6 citations

Concurrent audit of early outcome for 1,617 consecutive arterial reconstructions.

1993 • 6 citations

HCFA release of hospital specific death rates: where are we and where are we going?

1988 • 1 citations