Published in Am J Public Health on October 31, 2006
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The impact of rheumatoid arthritis on rehabilitation outcomes after lower extremity arthroplasty. J Clin Rheumatol (2007) 1.45
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Pancreatic cancer in the general population: Improvements in survival over the last decade. J Gastrointest Surg (2006) 1.41
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Characteristics of primary care providers who adopted the hospitalist model from 2001 to 2009. J Hosp Med (2015) 1.39
Survival advantage in Medicare patients receiving drug-eluting stents compared with bare metal stents: real or artefactual? Catheter Cardiovasc Interv (2008) 1.39
Completion of adjuvant radiation therapy among women with breast cancer. Cancer (2008) 1.39
Racial and ethnic differences in postacute rehabilitation outcomes after stroke in the United States. Stroke (2008) 1.38
Risk of the "androgen deprivation syndrome" in men receiving androgen deprivation for prostate cancer. Arch Intern Med (2006) 1.38
Antiviral therapy reduces risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol (2009) 1.38
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Referral to medical oncology: a crucial step in the treatment of older patients with stage III colon cancer. Oncologist (2006) 1.35
Trends and disparities in regionalization of pancreatic resection. J Gastrointest Surg (2007) 1.35
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Variation in false-positive rates of mammography reading among 1067 radiologists: a population-based assessment. Breast Cancer Res Treat (2006) 1.30
Diabetes mellitus and incidence of lower body disability among older Mexican Americans. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2005) 1.29