Selective Referral to High-Volume Hospitals

Impact of Hospital Volume on Operative Mortality for Major Cancer Surgery

1998 • 1,642 citations

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

1994 • 775 citations

Relation of Perioperative Deaths to Hospital Volume Among Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Resection for Malignancy

1995 • 576 citations

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

1987 • 565 citations

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

1989 • 544 citations

Importance of Hospital Volume in the Overall Management of Pancreatic Cancer

1998 • 508 citations

Meta-analysis: State-of-the-Science

1992 • 504 citations

The Effects of Regionalization on Cost and Outcome for One General High-Risk Surgical Procedure

1995 • 474 citations

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

1991 • 375 citations

The Effects of Patient Volume and Level of Care at the Hospital of Birth on Neonatal Mortality

1996 • 375 citations

Coronary Angioplasty Volume-Outcome Relationships for Hospitals and Cardiologists

1997 • 341 citations

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: The Effect of Hospital and Surgeon Volume on In-hospital Mortality

1998 • 335 citations

The Complications of Coronary Arteriography

1973 • 330 citations

Patient and Hospital Characteristics Related to In-Hospital Mortality after Lung Cancer Resection

1992 • 294 citations

The Relation between the Volume of Coronary Angioplasty Procedures at Hospitals Treating Medicare Beneficiaries and Short-Term Mortality

1994 • 291 citations

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

1987 • 273 citations

Hospital volume differences and five-year survival from breast cancer.

1998 • 253 citations

A hospital's annual rate of esophagectomy influences the operative mortality rate

1998 • 245 citations

Statewide Regionalization of Pancreaticoduodenectomy and its Effect on In-Hospital Mortality

1998 • 239 citations

Indications, Outcomes, and Provider Volumes for Carotid Endarterectomy

1998 • 226 citations

Relationship Between Physician and Hospital Coronary Angioplasty Volume and Outcome in Elderly Patients

1997 • 224 citations

Relationship of surgical volume to short-term mortality, morbidity, and hospital charges in arthroplasty

1995 • 219 citations

Relationship between the Volume of Total Hip Replacements Performed by Providers and the Rates of Postoperative Complications in the State of Washington*

1997 • 208 citations

The Statistical Analysis of Discrete Data.

1991 • 205 citations

Relationship Between the Volume of Craniotomies for Cerebral Aneurysm Performed at New York State Hospitals and In-Hospital Mortality

1996 • 200 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

Relationship Between Provider Volume and Mortality for Carotid Endarterectomies in New York State

1998 • 197 citations

Hospital volume influences outcome in patients undergoing pancreatic resection for cancer.

1996 • 189 citations

The Relationship Between Coronary Angioplasty Procedure Volume and Major Complications

1995 • 186 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

Regionalization of Cardiac Surgery in the United States and Canada

1995 • 163 citations

Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in Veterans Affairs medical centers

1996 • 160 citations

Relationship between mortality rates and hospital patient volume for medicare patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery of the hip, knee, spine, and femur

1997 • 149 citations

The Relation Between Hospital Experience and In-Hospital Mortality for Patients With AIDS-Related PCP

1989 • 143 citations

Accuracy of Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rate As a Measure of Hospital Quality of Care

1999 • 141 citations

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

1989 • 134 citations

Patients treated by cardiologists have a lower in-hospital mortality for acute myocardial infarction

1998 • 128 citations

Hospital vascular surgery volume and procedure mortality rates in California, 1982-1994

1998 • 127 citations

Risk of carotid endarterectomy in the elderly.

1989 • 117 citations

Carotid Endarterectomy Among Medicare Beneficiaries

1998 • 114 citations

The Effect of Transplant Center Volume on Cardiac Transplant Outcome

1994 • 112 citations

Coronary angioplasty. Statewide experience in California.

1993 • 105 citations

The Relation Between Hospital Experience and Mortality for Patients With AIDS

1992 • 103 citations

No continuous relationship between veterans affairs hospital coronary artery bypass grafting surgical volume and operative mortality

1996 • 95 citations

Measuring the Effectiveness of Perinatal Medical Care

1979 • 92 citations

The Association of Hospital Volumes of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty With Adverse Outcomes, Length of Stay, and Charges in California

1995 • 86 citations

Deaths and complications following prostatectomy in 1400 men in the Northern Region of England

1994 • 81 citations

Predictors of Success and Major Complications for Primary Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction

1997 • 76 citations

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

1980 • 66 citations

Should HLA-identical sibling bone marrow transplants for leukemia be restricted to large centers? [see comments]

1992 • 58 citations

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

1990 • 52 citations

Is there a Relationship between the Volume of Work Carried Out in Intensive Care and its Outcome?

1995 • 49 citations

Influence of surgical experience on the results of carotid surgery

1998 • 48 citations

Mortality rates as an indicator of hospital quality.

1997 • 30 citations

The impact of the volume of neurotrauma experience on mortality after head injury.

1994 • 24 citations

Relation between hospital HIV/AIDS caseload and mortality among persons with HIV/AIDS in Canada.

1998 • 23 citations

Coronary artery bypass grafting. The relationship of surgical volume, hospital location, and outcome.

1991 • 23 citations

Is There a Rationale for Regionalizing Organ Transplantation Services?

1989 • 21 citations

Expected Hospital Costs of Knee Replacement for Rural Residents by Location of Service

1995 • 17 citations

THE RELATIONSHIP OF CLINICAL OUTCOMES TO STATUS AS A MEDICARE-APPROVED HEART TRANSPLANT CENTER

1995 • 14 citations

The public eye. Published outcomes reports effect change at Pa. hospitals.

1997 • 2 citations