Dead or alive

Should Operations Be Regionalized?

1979 • 1,737 citations

Retrospective study of 1000 deaths from injury in England and Wales

1988 • 347 citations

Hospital Inpatient Mortality

1987 • 315 citations

Retinoblastoma in Great Britain 1969-80: incidence, treatment, and survival.

1988 • 202 citations

Physician and Hospital Factors Associated With Mortality of Surgical Patients

1986 • 199 citations

Does Practice Make Perfect?

1984 • 188 citations

IS OBSTETRICS SAFE IN SMALL HOSPITALS?

1985 • 150 citations

Centralisation of treatment and survival rates for cancer.

1988 • 144 citations

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

1989 • 134 citations

Do treatment protocols improve end results? A study of survival of patients with multiple myeloma in Finland.

1989 • 129 citations

Survival in Childhood Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Effect of Protocol and Place of Treatment

1983 • 113 citations

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

1957 • 90 citations

Centralization, Certification, and Monitoring

1986 • 75 citations

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

1963 • 36 citations

Is Outcome Worse in a Small Volume Canadian Trauma Centre?

1991 • 33 citations

Patient throughput and mortality rate in a trauma service

1990 • 3 citations

The surgical value of community hospitals: a closer look.

1991 • 3 citations