Routine data: a resource for clinical audit?

Mortality associated with delay in operation after hip fracture: observational study. BMJ (2006) 3.82

Making routine data adequate to support clinical audit. BMJ (1994) 3.07

Cross sectional survey of socioeconomic variations in severity and mechanism of childhood injuries in Trent 1992-7. BMJ (2002) 3.04

Use of administrative data or clinical databases as predictors of risk of death in hospital: comparison of models. BMJ (2007) 2.78

Association between teenage pregnancy rates and the age and sex of general practitioners: cross sectional survey in Trent 1994-7. BMJ (2000) 2.58

Proximity to coke works and hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular disease in England and Wales. Thorax (2001) 1.57

Comparative hospital databases: value for management and quality. Qual Health Care (1994) 1.43

Accuracy of routinely collected clinical data on acute medical admissions to one hospital. Br J Gen Pract (1997) 1.19

Identifying patients with chronic conditions using pharmacy data in Switzerland: an updated mapping approach to the classification of medications. BMC Public Health (2013) 1.17

Measuring the quality of observational study data in an international HIV research network. PLoS One (2012) 1.13

Research and development in quality of care: establishing the research agenda. Qual Health Care (1996) 0.97

Accuracy of data entry of patient race/ethnicity/ancestry and preferred spoken language in an ambulatory care setting. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.87

Redesign of diagnostic coding in pediatrics: from form-based to discharge letter linked. Perspect Health Inf Manag (2004) 0.79

Higher occurrence of nausea and vomiting after total hip arthroplasty using general versus spinal anesthesia: an observational study. BMC Anesthesiol (2016) 0.75

Clinical governance in Scotland: an educational model. Br J Gen Pract (2002) 0.75

Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases. J Clin Epidemiol (1992) 60.45

Differences in the use of procedures between women and men hospitalized for coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med (1991) 9.96

Hospital inpatient mortality. Is it a predictor of quality? N Engl J Med (1987) 6.88

Accuracy of diagnostic coding for Medicare patients under the prospective-payment system. N Engl J Med (1988) 6.51

The language of health. BMJ (1993) 6.16

Audit of surgical audit. Lancet (1986) 5.40

The consultant episode: an unhelpful measure. BMJ (1992) 5.35

Assessing hospital-associated deaths from discharge data. The role of length of stay and comorbidities. JAMA (1988) 4.98

Explaining variations in hospital death rates. Randomness, severity of illness, quality of care. JAMA (1990) 3.90

The importance of severity of illness in assessing hospital mortality. JAMA (1990) 3.23

Adult open heart surgery in New York State. An analysis of risk factors and hospital mortality rates. JAMA (1990) 3.09

Using administrative diagnostic data to assess the quality of hospital care. Pitfalls and potential of ICD-9-CM. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1990) 3.06

Caseload or workload? Scoring complexity of operative procedures as a means of analysing workload. BMJ (1990) 3.04

Measuring readmission rates. BMJ (1990) 3.01

Outcome measurement: concepts and questions. Inquiry (1988) 2.95

Staging of disease. A case-mix measurement. JAMA (1984) 2.89

Coding of acute myocardial infarction. Clinical and policy implications. Ann Intern Med (1988) 2.85

Quality of data in the Manchester orthopaedic database. BMJ (1992) 2.82

A successful program to lower cesarean-section rates. N Engl J Med (1988) 2.66

Interpreting hospital mortality data. The role of clinical risk adjustment. JAMA (1989) 2.53

Health surveillance of preschool children: four years' experience. BMJ (1990) 2.45

Hospital leaders' opinions of the HCFA mortality data. JAMA (1990) 2.36

Multicentre trial of four strategies to reduce use of a radiological test. Lancet (1986) 2.26

Prevalence of vertebral compression fractures due to osteoporosis in ankylosing spondylitis. BMJ (1990) 2.25

Measuring severity of illness: homogeneous case mix groups. Med Care (1983) 1.99

Reliability of routine hospital data on poisoning as measures of deliberate self poisoning in adolescents. J Epidemiol Community Health (1990) 1.88

Using computers to identify complications after surgery. Am J Public Health (1985) 1.84

Audit in person: Defining essential hospital data. BMJ (1990) 1.79

Assessment of care of children with sickle cell disease: implications for neonatal screening programmes. BMJ (1990) 1.78

The completeness and accuracy of health authority and cancer registry records according to a study of ovarian neoplasms. Public Health (1991) 1.64

Cervical cytology in the Vale of Trent faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1985-8. BMJ (1990) 1.62

Computers in audit: servants or sirens? BMJ (1991) 1.56

Predicting in-hospital survival of myocardial infarction. A comparative study of various severity measures. Med Care (1990) 1.53

Using administrative data to predict important health outcomes. Entry to hospital, nursing home, and death. Med Care (1988) 1.50

Is stage I epithelial ovarian cancer overtreated both surgically and systemically? Results of a five-year cancer registry review. Br J Obstet Gynaecol (1992) 1.47

Comments on HCFA hospital death rate statistical outliers. Health Care Financing Administration. Health Serv Res (1987) 1.38

The Risk-Adjusted Mortality Index. A new measure of hospital performance. Med Care (1988) 1.28

Risk adjustment in claims-based research: the search for efficient approaches. J Clin Epidemiol (1989) 1.27

Obstetric audit using routinely collected computerised data. BMJ (1990) 1.26

Use of insurance claims data in measuring quality of care. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1990) 1.13

Competition and the quality of care: the importance of information. Inquiry (1988) 1.10

Disease staging--a case-mix system for purchasers? J Public Health Med (1993) 1.09

A methodology for targeting hospital cases for quality of care record reviews. Am J Public Health (1989) 1.09

Monitoring quality of care in the Medicare program. Two proposed systems. JAMA (1987) 1.08

PIS and DRGs: coding inaccuracies and their consequences for resource management. J Public Health Med (1991) 0.95

Problems in the use of large data sets to assess effectiveness. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1990) 0.89

A regional computerised surgical audit project. Qual Assur Health Care (1990) 0.88

Physician-dependent prognostic variables in the management of testicular cancer. Br J Urol (1988) 0.83

Basal cell carcinoma in young adults. Br J Dermatol (1992) 0.82

Current uses of large data sets to assess the quality of providers. Construction of risk-adjusted indexes of hospital performance. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1990) 0.81

Information systems and audit in antenatal care. Baillieres Clin Obstet Gynaecol (1990) 0.80

Symposium: case-mix measurement and assessing quality of hospital care. Health Care Financ Rev (1987) 0.79

Stage distribution of breast cancer: a basis for the evaluation of breast screening programmes. Br J Radiol (1991) 0.79

Guidelines, enthusiasms, uncertainty, and the limits to purchasing. BMJ (1995) 2.59

Junior doctors' work at night: what is done and how much is appropriate? J Public Health Med (1993) 2.51

Which general surgical operations must be done at night? Ann R Coll Surg Engl (1991) 1.36

'Failure to rescue' as a measure of quality of hospital care: the limitations of secondary diagnosis coding in English hospital data. J Public Health Med (1999) 1.30

Disease staging--a case-mix system for purchasers? J Public Health Med (1993) 1.09

Can out-of-hours operating in gynaecology be reduced? Arch Emerg Med (1992) 0.97

What is the requirement for out-of-hours operating in orthopaedics? Arch Emerg Med (1993) 0.91