Is There a Rationale for Regionalizing Organ Transplantation Services?

Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

Effect of Transplantation on the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program

1988 • 323 citations

Impact of Regionalization

1983 • 279 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

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 188 citations

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 177 citations

Hospital Medical Staff Organization and Quality of Care

1981 • 133 citations

Selecting Categories of Patients for Regionalization

1986 • 124 citations

On the estimation of hospital cost functions

1987 • 120 citations

Competition and efficiency in the end stage renal disease program

1983 • 99 citations

Relation between Surgical Volume and Incidence of Postoperative Wound Infection

1981 • 91 citations

Individual and Institutional Variables Which May Serve as Indicators of Quality of Medical Care

1979 • 91 citations

One-year experience in a regional pediatric trauma center

1985 • 73 citations

Cost and Outcome of Care for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

1986 • 70 citations

Regionalization of Perinatal Care for the United States

1976 • 46 citations

A Critical Review of Urban Pediatric Trauma

1984 • 40 citations

Duplicated Hospital Facilities

1980 • 39 citations

Uncovering the High Costs of Teaching Hospitals

1986 • 38 citations

Economic Analysis of Regionalized Neonatal Care for Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants in the State of Rhode Island

1985 • 37 citations

Evaluation of Regional and Nonregional Poison Centers

1983 • 36 citations

COMPARISON OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT SURVIVAL AMONG TRANSPLANT CENTERS

1975 • 35 citations

ASSESSMENT OF PROGNOSTIC FACTORS AND PROJECTION OF OUTCOMES IN RENAL TRANSPLANTATION

1983 • 34 citations

Should Surgery Be Regionalized?

1982 • 32 citations

Evaluating individual hospital quality through outcome statistics

1986 • 26 citations

Selective Contracting for Hospital Care Based on Volume, Quality, and Price: Prospects, Problems, and Unanswered Questions

1987 • 26 citations

Trauma centers: A pragmatic approach to need, cost, and staffing patterns

1977 • 22 citations

The Boston Center for Liver Transplantation (BCLT)

1986 • 22 citations

Guidelines for Pediatric Cardiology Diagnostic and Treatment Centers

1978 • 21 citations

Trauma Care Regionalization

1983 • 18 citations

Medicare-Designated Centers for Cardiac Transplantation

1987 • 18 citations

The Politics of Transplantation

1984 • 17 citations

Regulating Heart and Liver Transplants in Massachusetts: An Overview of the Report of the Task Force on Organ Transplantation

1985 • 16 citations

Organ Procurement in Europe and the United States

1985 • 16 citations

Health Service Areas

1945 • 16 citations

Poison Control Centers: Prospects and Capabilities

1977 • 13 citations

The influence of surgical specialty and caseload on the results of carotid endarterectomy

1986 • 9 citations

THE VARIATION AMONG TRANSPLANT CENTER RESULTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND FROM 1977 TO 1981

1984 • 7 citations

Regional Care for Mothers and Their Infants

1980 • 6 citations

Optimal resources for cardiac surgery

1975 • 6 citations

Benefits of Experience

1986 • 5 citations

Association of Volume With Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Scheduled vs Nonscheduled Operations

1987 • 3 citations

Regional Pediatric Trauma Center: Does a System of Management Improve Outcome?¹

1982 • 2 citations