Impact of Claims Data Research on Clinical Practice

Bias in analytic research

1979 • 2,040 citations

Small Area Variations in Health Care Delivery

1973 • 1,865 citations

Dealing With Medical Practice Variations: A Proposal for Action

1984 • 718 citations

Mortality and Reoperation after Open and Transurethral Resection of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

1989 • 670 citations

Variations in the Use of Medical and Surgical Services by the Medicare Population

1986 • 659 citations

Accuracy of Diagnostic Coding for Medicare Patients under the Prospective-Payment System

1988 • 506 citations

The Appropriateness of Carotid Endarterectomy

1988 • 501 citations

Assessing hospital-associated deaths from discharge data. The role of length of stay and comorbidities

1988 • 342 citations

Watchful Waiting vs Immediate Transurethral Resection for Symptomatic Prostatism

1988 • 273 citations

Assessing Hospital-Associated Deaths From Discharge Data

1988 • 213 citations

An Assessment of Prostatectomy for Benign Urinary Tract Obstruction

1988 • 193 citations

Double Standards, Scientific Methods, and Epidemiologic Research

1982 • 156 citations

A Population-Based Study of Prostatectomy: Outcomes Associated with Differing Surgical Approaches

1987 • 123 citations

Improving Hospital Discharge Data: Lessons From the National Hospital Discharge Survey

1981 • 81 citations

ICD, POR, and DRG

1988 • 65 citations

Methodologic problems and standards in case-control research

1979 • 58 citations

Diagnosis-Related Groups and Severity

1985 • 51 citations