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Justin B Dimick

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1 Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery. N Engl J Med 2009 9.39
2 Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients. Ann Surg 2009 3.68
3 Large variations in Medicare payments for surgery highlight savings potential from bundled payment programs. Health Aff (Millwood) 2011 3.05
4 Hospital quality and the cost of inpatient surgery in the United States. Ann Surg 2012 3.04
5 Hospital complication rates with bariatric surgery in Michigan. JAMA 2010 2.92
6 Measuring the quality of surgical care: structure, process, or outcomes? J Am Coll Surg 2004 2.86
7 Potential benefits of the new Leapfrog standards: effect of process and outcomes measures. Surgery 2004 2.78
8 Introduction to propensity scores: A case study on the comparative effectiveness of laparoscopic vs open appendectomy. Arch Surg 2010 2.63
9 Blueprint for a new American College of Surgeons: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. J Am Coll Surg 2008 2.53
10 Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery. Med Care 2011 2.29
11 Medicare payments for common inpatient procedures: implications for episode-based payment bundling. Health Serv Res 2010 2.18
12 The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes. J Am Coll Surg 2011 2.12
13 Operator experience and carotid stenting outcomes in Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA 2011 2.12
14 Medicare's public reporting initiative on hospital quality had modest or no impact on mortality from three key conditions. Health Aff (Millwood) 2012 2.04
15 Racial/ethnic disparities in access to care and survival for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma. Arch Surg 2010 2.01
16 Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in medicare beneficiaries. Arch Surg 2010 1.96
17 Regional intensity of vascular care and lower extremity amputation rates. J Vasc Surg 2013 1.95
18 Surgeon volume as an indicator of outcomes after carotid endarterectomy: an effect independent of specialty practice and hospital volume. J Am Coll Surg 2002 1.91
19 Reliability of superficial surgical site infections as a hospital quality measure. J Am Coll Surg 2011 1.90
20 Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus. J Am Coll Surg 2013 1.84
21 Empirically derived composite measures of surgical performance. Med Care 2009 1.80
22 Hospital volume and operative mortality in the modern era. Ann Surg 2014 1.73
23 Prioritizing quality improvement in general surgery. J Am Coll Surg 2008 1.69
24 Surgical treatment of intact thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms in the United States: hospital and surgeon volume-related outcomes. J Vasc Surg 2003 1.63
25 Impact of surgical volume on mortality and length of stay after nephrectomy. Urology 2004 1.62
26 Operative mortality and procedure volume as predictors of subsequent hospital performance. Ann Surg 2006 1.59
27 The impact of provider volume on mortality after intracranial tumor resection. Neurosurgery 2003 1.59
28 Adverse outcomes in patients with chronic liver disease undergoing colorectal surgery. Ann Surg 2010 1.47
29 Changes in the utilization of spinal fusion in the United States. Neurosurgery 2006 1.46
30 Outcomes after cerebral aneurysm clip occlusion in the United States: the need for evidence-based hospital referral. J Neurosurg 2003 1.46
31 Evaluating popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings for cancer surgery. Arch Surg 2011 1.46
32 Medicare's Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in Surgery May Disproportionately Affect Minority-serving Hospitals. Ann Surg 2015 1.45
33 Relevance of the c-statistic when evaluating risk-adjustment models in surgery. J Am Coll Surg 2012 1.45
34 Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomy. J Am Coll Surg 2010 1.44
35 Risk adjustment in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: a comparison of logistic versus hierarchical modeling. J Am Coll Surg 2009 1.40
36 Attending, house officer, and medical student perceptions about teaching in the third-year medical school general surgery clerkship. J Am Coll Surg 2004 1.39
37 Association of surgical care improvement project infection-related process measure compliance with risk-adjusted outcomes: implications for quality measurement. J Am Coll Surg 2010 1.38
38 Outlier payments for cardiac surgery and hospital quality. Health Aff (Millwood) 2009 1.35
39 The Michigan surgical quality collaborative: will a statewide quality improvement initiative pay for itself? Ann Surg 2007 1.27
40 A population-based analysis of endovascular versus open thoracic aortic aneurysm repair. J Vasc Surg 2009 1.27
41 Who performs endocrine operations in the United States? Surgery 2003 1.25
42 Improving American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program risk adjustment: incorporation of a novel procedure risk score. J Am Coll Surg 2010 1.24
43 The impact of adjusting for reliability on hospital quality rankings in vascular surgery. J Vasc Surg 2010 1.23
44 Racial disparities in the use of revascularization before leg amputation in Medicare patients. J Vasc Surg 2011 1.22
45 Understanding and reducing variation in surgical mortality. Annu Rev Med 2009 1.19
46 Surgeon age and operative mortality in the United States. Ann Surg 2006 1.19
47 Racial and geographic disparities in the utilization of surgical therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma. J Gastrointest Surg 2007 1.18
48 Payer status is related to differences in access and outcomes of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the United States. Surgery 2003 1.17
49 Gaming hospital-level pneumonia 30-day mortality and readmission measures by legitimate changes to diagnostic coding. Crit Care Med 2015 1.15
50 Explaining racial disparities in mortality after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. J Vasc Surg 2009 1.12
51 A national and single institutional experience in the contemporary treatment of acute lower extremity ischemia. Ann Surg 2003 1.10
52 Utilization and outcomes of inpatient surgical care at critical access hospitals in the United States. JAMA Surg 2013 1.07
53 Trends in utilization of adrenalectomy in the United States: have indications changed? World J Surg 2004 1.05
54 Understanding the racial disparity in the receipt of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Arch Surg 2010 1.03
55 Use of endovascular coil embolization and surgical clip occlusion for cerebral artery aneurysms. J Neurosurg 2007 1.03
56 Diffusion of new technology in health care: the case of aorto-iliac occlusive disease. Surgery 2004 1.00
57 Developing strategies for predicting and preventing readmissions in vascular surgery. J Vasc Surg 2012 0.99
58 A validated risk model to predict 90-day VTE events in postsurgical patients. Chest 2014 0.99
59 Real money: complications and hospital costs in trauma patients. Surgery 2008 0.98
60 Changes in the source of unscheduled hospitalizations in the United States. Med Care 2013 0.98
61 Do popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings identify hospitals with better cardiovascular surgery outcomes? J Am Coll Surg 2010 0.95
62 Tread carefully with stepwise regression. Arch Surg 2010 0.94
63 Variation in mortality after high-risk cancer surgery: failure to rescue. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 2012 0.93
64 Emergency department visits after surgery are common for Medicare patients, suggesting opportunities to improve care. Health Aff (Millwood) 2013 0.92
65 Do hospitals alter patient care effort allocations under pay-for-performance? Health Serv Res 2010 0.92
66 Does pay-for-performance improve surgical outcomes? An evaluation of phase 2 of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration. Ann Surg 2014 0.91
67 The early effects of Medicare's mandatory hospital pay-for-performance program. Health Serv Res 2014 0.90
68 Effect of increasing patient age on complication rates following intact abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the United States. J Surg Res 2004 0.89
69 Epidemiology of surgically treated gastric cancer in the United States, 1988-2000. J Gastrointest Surg 2003 0.89
70 Epidemiology of aortic aneurysm repair in the United States from 1993 to 2003. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006 0.87
71 Time-to-readmission and Mortality After High-risk Surgery. Ann Surg 2015 0.87
72 Reliability adjustment: a necessity for trauma center ranking and benchmarking. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2013 0.86
73 Does voluntary reporting bias hospital quality rankings? J Surg Res 2009 0.86
74 Diffusion of new technology for the treatment of renovascular hypertension in the United States: surgical revascularization versus catheter-based therapy, 1988-2001. J Vasc Surg 2004 0.85
75 Hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy in patients with splenomegaly or prior upper abdominal operation. Surgery 2002 0.85
76 Evaluating parsimonious risk-adjustment models for comparing hospital outcomes with vascular surgery. J Vasc Surg 2010 0.85
77 Ruptured thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm treatment in the United States: 1988 to 1998. J Vasc Surg 2003 0.84
78 Clinical Effect of Surgical Volume. N Engl J Med 2016 0.82
79 Implementation of a small bowel obstruction guideline improves hospital efficiency. Surgery 2012 0.82
80 Hospital morbidity rankings and complication severity in vascular surgery. J Vasc Surg 2012 0.82
81 Comparing treatments using observational study designs: what can we do about selection bias? Arch Surg 2010 0.82
82 Composite quality measures for common inpatient medical conditions. Med Care 2013 0.82
83 Bariatric surgery in minority patients before and after implementation of a centers of excellence program. JAMA 2013 0.82
84 Variation in outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States and predictors of periprocedural mortality. Cardiology 2005 0.81
85 The effect of secondary operations on mortality following abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the United States: 1988-2001. Vasc Endovascular Surg 2005 0.81
86 Reliability of surgical outcomes for predicting future hospital performance. Med Care 2014 0.81
87 Inpatient urological surgery at critical access hospitals in the United States. J Urol 2012 0.81
88 Impact of Surgical Quality Improvement on Payments in Medicare Patients. Ann Surg 2015 0.81
89 Prioritizing quality improvement in vascular surgery. Surg Innov 2010 0.80
90 Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Research on Social Media: A Prospective, Case-control Crossover Study. Ann Surg 2017 0.79
91 Too much of a good thing? Multi-tasking and distraction in quality improvement. Arch Surg 2011 0.79
92 Epidemiology of surgically treated abdominal aortic aneurysms in the United States, 1988 to 2000. Vascular 2005 0.79
93 Reducing avoidable deaths among veterans: directing private-sector surgical care to high-performance hospitals. Am J Public Health 2007 0.79
94 Impact of Hospital Characteristics on Failure to Rescue Following Major Surgery. Ann Surg 2016 0.79
95 Gadolinium as a nonnephrotoxic contrast agent for catheter-based arteriographic evaluation of renal arteries in patients with azotemia. J Vasc Surg 2003 0.78
96 How do administrative data compare with a clinical registry for identifying 30-day postoperative complications? J Am Coll Surg 2014 0.77
97 Getting the science right on the surgeon workforce issue. Arch Surg 2011 0.77
98 Understanding failure to rescue and improving safety culture. Ann Surg 2015 0.77
99 Existence of abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients with thoracic aortic dissections. J Vasc Surg 2003 0.77
100 Using Surgical Video to Improve Technique and Skill. Ann Surg 2016 0.76
101 Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Surgical Checklist in Medicare Patients. Med Care 2015 0.76
102 Developing leaders in surgery. Arch Surg 2012 0.75
103 Mortality Among Older Adults Before Versus After Hospital Transition to Intensivist Staffing. Med Care 2016 0.75
104 Understanding gaps in surgical quality: learning to count what cannot be counted. Ann Surg 2013 0.75
105 Quality Accounting: Understanding the Impact of Multiple Surgical Complications. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
106 Hospital Teaching Status and Medicare Expenditures for Complex Surgery. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
107 Strategies for Reducing Population Surgical Costs in Medicare: Local Referrals to Low-cost Hospitals. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
108 Specialist Physicians' Attitudes and Practice Patterns Regarding Disclosure of Pre-Referral Medical Errors. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
109 Hospital Quality and Medicare Expenditures for Bariatric Surgery in the United States. Ann Surg 2016 0.75
110 Emergency Surgery for Medicare Beneficiaries Admitted to Critical Access Hospitals. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
111 Health policy update: making sense of accountable care organizations. Arch Surg 2012 0.75
112 Ensuring excellence in centers of excellence programs. Ann Surg 2015 0.75
113 Health services research resources for surgeons. J Surg Res 2011 0.75
114 Are Patient-reported Outcomes Correlated With Clinical Outcomes After Surgery?: A Population-based Study. Ann Surg 2016 0.75
115 Opportunities for Surgical Leadership in Managing Population Health Costs. Ann Surg 2016 0.75
116 A Methodological Critique of the ProPublica Surgeon Scorecard. Rand Health Q 2016 0.75
117 Impact of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on Surgical Readmissions Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
118 Council of State Neurosurgical Societies Resident Award: The utilization of carotid endarterectomy by neurosurgeons in the United States from 1990 to 2000. Clin Neurosurg 2004 0.75
119 Building a Better Operating Room: Views from Surgery and Architecture. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
120 Inferring causation from multiple regression: do not resuscitate? Arch Surg 2011 0.75
121 Readiness of US General Surgery Residents for Independent Practice. Ann Surg 2017 0.75
122 Surgeon Experience and Medicare Expenditures for Laparoscopic Compared to Open Colectomy. Ann Surg 2017 0.75