Using administrative data to screen hospitals for high complication rates.

The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

1982 • 20,275 citations

Measuring the Accuracy of Diagnostic Systems

1988 • 9,129 citations

The Nature of Adverse Events in Hospitalized Patients

1991 • 3,705 citations

The Timing of Prophylactic Administration of Antibiotics and the Risk of Surgical-Wound Infection

1992 • 1,762 citations

Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in Health Care

1989 • 1,752 citations

Hospital and Patient Characteristics Associated With Death After Surgery

1992 • 849 citations

The CASE for USING INDUSTRIAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT SCIENCE in HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

1993 • 403 citations

Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care

1992 • 400 citations

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

1988 • 342 citations

The Effects of Regulation, Competition, and Ownership on Mortality Rates among Hospital Inpatients

1988 • 282 citations

DRG Creep

1981 • 270 citations

Hospital Characteristics Associated With Adverse Events and Substandard Care

1991 • 262 citations

The health care quality improvement initiative. A new approach to quality assurance in Medicare

1992 • 257 citations

Clinical Versus Administrative Data Bases for CABG Surgery

1992 • 243 citations

Medicare Reimbursement Accuracy Under the Prospective Payment System, 1985 to 1988

1992 • 155 citations

Hospital Leaders' Opinions of the HCFA Mortality Data

1990 • 143 citations

Hospital Volume and Patient Outcomes

1988 • 111 citations

Hospital Case-Mix Change: Sicker Patients Or Drg Creep?

1989 • 108 citations

A Method for Screening the Quality of Hospital Care Using Administrative Data: Preliminary Validation Results

1992 • 104 citations

Validating risk-adjusted mortality as an indicator for quality of care.

1993 • 96 citations

Postoperative pulmonary complications

1992 • 83 citations

The Relationship of Hospital Characteristics and the Results of Peer Review in Six Large States

1991 • 80 citations

Can Medicare Prospective Payment Survive the ICD-9-CM Disease Classification System?

1986 • 73 citations

The role of a defined protocol for cardiac risk assessment in decreasing perioperative myocardial infarction in vascular surgery

1992 • 47 citations

Icd-9-Cm Coding Handbook, Without Answers

1988 • 6 citations