Volume and Outcome in Hospital Care: Evidence, Explanations and Implications

Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

Seminars in perinatology.

1983 • 795 citations

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

1987 • 565 citations

Systems of Trauma Care

1979 • 551 citations

Obstetrics and gynecology

1933 • 433 citations

Retrospective study of 1000 deaths from injury in England and Wales

1988 • 347 citations

The Effect of Regionalization upon the Quality of Trauma Care as Assessed by Concurrent Audit before and after Institution of a Trauma System: A Preliminary Report

1986 • 342 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

Trauma mortality in Orange County: The effect of implementation of a regional trauma system

1984 • 312 citations

Association of Volume With Outcome of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

1987 • 286 citations

Impact of Regionalization

1983 • 279 citations

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

1987 • 273 citations

Newborn Intensive Care and Neonatal Mortality in Low-Birth-Weight Infants

1982 • 258 citations

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

1980 • 248 citations

Neonatal mortality: an analysis of the recent improvement in the United States.

1980 • 218 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

The regionalization of perinatal services. Summary of the evaluation of a national demonstration program.

1985 • 166 citations

Hospital Medical Staff Organization and Quality of Care

1981 • 133 citations

Selecting Categories of Patients for Regionalization

1986 • 124 citations

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

1987 • 123 citations

Evaluating Individual Hospital Quality Through Outcome Statistics

1986 • 116 citations

The Regionalization of Perinatal Services

1985 • 103 citations

Improved neonatal survival through maternal transport.

1978 • 92 citations

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

1957 • 90 citations

Centralization, Certification, and Monitoring

1986 • 75 citations

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

1980 • 66 citations

Heart disease and hospital deaths: an empirical study.

1987 • 66 citations

Mortality Differences and Speed of Wound Closure Among Specialized Burn Care Facilities

1983 • 66 citations

Changing mortality rates with perinatal intensive care and regionalization.

1977 • 65 citations

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

1986 • 56 citations

REGIONAL CATEGORIZATION AND QUALITY OF CARE IN MAJOR TRAUMA

1977 • 50 citations

Antenatal versus neonatal transport to a regional perinatal center: a comparison between matched pairs.

1979 • 48 citations

Evaluation of a rural perinatal care system.

1980 • 39 citations

A controlled evaluation of rural regional perinatal care: impact on mortality and morbidity.

1985 • 39 citations

A review of perinatal mortality in Colorado, 1971 to 1978, and its relationship to the regionalization of perinatal services

1981 • 38 citations

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

1963 • 36 citations

Health services research

1996 • 36 citations

Trauma audit--the use of TRISS.

1988 • 35 citations

Effectiveness of Coronary Care Units in Small Community Hospitals

1976 • 29 citations

Evaluation of a Rural Perinatal Care System

1980 • 29 citations

Evaluation of Burn Care in Florida

1977 • 27 citations

Declining perinatal mortality in a region of Finland, 1968-82.

1985 • 26 citations

Indications for coronary arteriography: risks vs. benefits.

1971 • 20 citations

Regional organisation of neonatal intensive care in the North-west

1979 • 12 citations

Mortality from myocardial infarction in different types of hospitals.

1987 • 10 citations

Are burn units the best places to treat burn patients?

1977 • 10 citations