Variation in outcome of surgical procedures

Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

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

1987 • 565 citations

Impact of variability among surgeons on postoperative morbidity and mortality and ultimate survival.

1991 • 554 citations

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

1989 • 544 citations

Malignant large bowel obstruction

1985 • 404 citations

Complications following removal of impacted third molars: The role of the experience of the surgeon

1986 • 396 citations

Coronary artery bypass surgery: the relationship between inhospital mortality rate and surgical volume after controlling for clinical risk factors.

1991 • 375 citations

The Complications of Coronary Arteriography

1973 • 330 citations

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

1984 • 328 citations

Hospital Inpatient Mortality

1987 • 315 citations

Local recurrence following ‘curative’ surgery for large bowel cancer: II. The rectum and rectosigmoid

1984 • 289 citations

Association of Volume With Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1987 • 286 citations

Effects of Surgeon Volume and Hospital Volume on Quality of Care in Hospitals

1987 • 273 citations

The Relation Between Surgical Volume and Mortality: An Exploration of Causal Factors and Alternative Models

1980 • 248 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

How Accurate are Hospital Discharge Data for Evaluating Effectiveness of Care?

1993 • 188 citations

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 188 citations

Effect of surgical experience on the results of resection for oesophageal carcinoma

1986 • 185 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

IS OBSTETRICS SAFE IN SMALL HOSPITALS?

1985 • 150 citations

Treatment centre size, entry to trials, and survival in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

1989 • 134 citations

Hospital Medical Staff Organization and Quality of Care

1981 • 133 citations

Do treatment protocols improve end results? A study of survival of patients with multiple myeloma in Finland.

1989 • 129 citations

Volume-Outcome Relationships and Inhospital Mortality: The Effect of Changes in Volume Over Time

1992 • 128 citations

Selecting Categories of Patients for Regionalization

1986 • 124 citations

Survival in Childhood Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Effect of Protocol and Place of Treatment

1983 • 113 citations

Hospital Volume and Patient Outcomes

1988 • 111 citations

Differences in Mortality From Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery at Five Teaching Hospitals

1991 • 95 citations

Effect of investigator experience on percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

1984 • 92 citations

FATALITY FROM THREE COMMON SURGICAL CONDITIONS IN TEACHING AND NON-TEACHING HOSPITALS

1957 • 90 citations

Chance, Continuity, and Change in Hospital Mortality Rates

1993 • 82 citations

Evaluating surgical risk: The importance of technical factors in determining outcome

1987 • 61 citations

Management variability in surgery for colorectal emergencies

1992 • 58 citations

Effectiveness in professional organizations: the impact of surgeons and surgical staff organizations on the quality of care in hospitals.

1982 • 51 citations

Outcomes of surgery among the Medicare aged: mortality after surgery.

1985 • 50 citations

Inguinal Herniorrhaphy

1991 • 47 citations

The experience of the person ventilating the lungs does influence postoperative nausea and vomiting

1990 • 41 citations

Case-fatality in Teaching and Non-teaching Hospitals 1956–59

1963 • 36 citations

Is Outcome Worse in a Small Volume Canadian Trauma Centre?

1991 • 33 citations

Effectiveness of Coronary Care Units in Small Community Hospitals

1976 • 29 citations

Mortality in a public and a private hospital compared: the severity of antecedent disorders in Medicare patients.

1993 • 24 citations

Volume, Quality, and the Regionalization of Health Care Services

1984 • 20 citations

Does surgical experience influence mastectomy complications?

1992 • 20 citations

Physician Volume and Obstetric Outcome

1992 • 18 citations

Should vascular surgery become an independent specialty? Implications of data about operative experience

1990 • 15 citations

Costs, Quality, and the Volume of Surgical Oncology Procedures

1990 • 15 citations

Dead or alive

1992 • 4 citations

The surgical value of community hospitals: a closer look.

1991 • 3 citations

Surgeons who undertake surgery for colorectal cancer

1991 • 3 citations

Patient throughput and mortality rate in a trauma service

1990 • 3 citations

Assessment of completeness of vagotomy and surgical experience 10 days and 3 months after proximal gastric vagotomy.

1978 • 2 citations