Published in Ann Surg on January 01, 2008
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Policy for prevention of a retained sponge after vaginal delivery. Case Rep Med (2012) 0.75
A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. N Engl J Med (2009) 25.01
Improving safety with information technology. N Engl J Med (2003) 14.53
An estimation of the global volume of surgery: a modelling strategy based on available data. Lancet (2008) 14.07
Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation. N Engl J Med (2006) 6.70
Relationship between occurrence of surgical complications and hospital finances. JAMA (2013) 5.89
National costs of the medical liability system. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 5.50
Variation in surgical-readmission rates and quality of hospital care. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.27
The intensity and variation of surgical care at the end of life: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet (2011) 4.44
Simulation-based trial of surgical-crisis checklists. N Engl J Med (2013) 4.14
Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. Lancet (2010) 3.84
Contribution of preventable acute care spending to total spending for high-cost Medicare patients. JAMA (2013) 3.70
Downwardly mobile: the accidental cost of being uninsured. Arch Surg (2009) 3.65
Long-term assessment of a multidisciplinary approach to thyroid nodule diagnostic evaluation. Cancer (2007) 3.36
Crisis checklists for the operating room: development and pilot testing. J Am Coll Surg (2011) 3.19
Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients. J Am Coll Surg (2007) 3.09
Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. J Am Coll Surg (2011) 2.79
Incidence, patterns, and prevention of wrong-site surgery. Arch Surg (2006) 2.44
Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at 4 liability insurers. Surgery (2006) 2.43
Disclosure of medical injury to patients: an improbable risk management strategy. Health Aff (Millwood) (2007) 2.40
Postgame analysis: using video-based coaching for continuous professional development. J Am Coll Surg (2012) 2.33
Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. BMJ Qual Saf (2011) 2.16
Effect of a 19-item surgical safety checklist during urgent operations in a global patient population. Ann Surg (2010) 2.14
Trends in isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: an analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons adult cardiac surgery database. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2012) 2.09
Adopting a surgical safety checklist could save money and improve the quality of care in U.S. hospitals. Health Aff (Millwood) (2010) 2.01
Protecting patients from an unsafe system: the etiology and recovery of intraoperative deviations in care. Ann Surg (2012) 1.91
Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. Int J Qual Health Care (2010) 1.85
Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. Surgery (2011) 1.74
Physicians' needs in coping with emotional stressors: the case for peer support. Arch Surg (2011) 1.66
High-cost imaging in elderly patients with stage IV cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst (2012) 1.63
Mortality for publicly reported conditions and overall hospital mortality rates. JAMA Intern Med (2013) 1.55
Communication practices on 4 Harvard surgical services: a surgical safety collaborative. Ann Surg (2009) 1.53
A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. Ann Surg (2011) 1.49
Pilot testing of a model for insurer-driven, large-scale multicenter simulation training for operating room teams. Ann Surg (2014) 1.48
Adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II right-sided and left-sided colon cancer: analysis of SEER-medicare data. Ann Surg Oncol (2014) 1.48
Patterns of technical error among surgical malpractice claims: an analysis of strategies to prevent injury to surgical patients. Ann Surg (2007) 1.45
Surgical treatment of colon cancer in patients aged 80 years and older : analysis of 31,574 patients in the SEER-Medicare database. Cancer (2012) 1.45
Avoiding low-value care. N Engl J Med (2014) 1.41
Recommendations for Best Communication Practices to Facilitate Goal-concordant Care for Seriously Ill Older Patients With Emergency Surgical Conditions. Ann Surg (2016) 1.41
Critical role of identification of the second gland during unilateral parathyroid surgery: a prospective review of 119 patients with concordant localization. Arch Surg (2011) 1.40
Causes and implications of readmission after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Ann Surg (2012) 1.39
The frequency and significance of discrepancies in the surgical count. Ann Surg (2008) 1.39
Bilateral neck exploration decreases operative time compared to minimally invasive parathyroidectomy in patients with discordant imaging. World J Surg (2013) 1.38
Proficiency of surgeons in inguinal hernia repair: effect of experience and age. Ann Surg (2005) 1.37
Standardised metrics for global surgical surveillance. Lancet (2009) 1.32
Bar-coding surgical sponges to improve safety: a randomized controlled trial. Ann Surg (2008) 1.32
Receipt of appropriate surgical care for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer. Arch Surg (2011) 1.31
Do differences in hospital and surgeon quality explain racial disparities in lower-extremity vascular amputations? Ann Surg (2009) 1.30
Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting. Ann Surg (2013) 1.29
Utility of the surgical apgar score: validation in 4119 patients. Arch Surg (2009) 1.24
Rates and patterns of death after surgery in the United States, 1996 and 2006. Surgery (2011) 1.17
The better colectomy project: association of evidence-based best-practice adherence rates to outcomes in colorectal surgery. Ann Surg (2009) 1.13
Prevention of retained surgical sponges: a decision-analytic model predicting relative cost-effectiveness. Surgery (2009) 1.10
Esophagectomy outcomes at low-volume hospitals: the association between systems characteristics and mortality. Ann Surg (2011) 1.10
Designing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program to improve quality of care at childbirth. Int J Gynaecol Obstet (2013) 1.07
Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2009) 1.06
Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: intracranial neoplasm surgery. Neurosurg Focus (2012) 1.02
Does the Surgical Apgar Score measure intraoperative performance? Ann Surg (2008) 1.01
The intraoperative Surgical Apgar Score predicts postdischarge complications after colon and rectal resection. Surgery (2010) 1.01
Beyond volume: does hospital complexity matter?: an analysis of inpatient surgical mortality in the United States. Med Care (2014) 0.97
Impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on wound complications after breast surgery. Surgery (2012) 0.95
Surgical safety checklists in ontario, Canada. N Engl J Med (2014) 0.95
Patient demographic and tumor characteristics influencing oncologist follow-up frequency in older breast cancer survivors. Ann Surg Oncol (2013) 0.95
Predictors of short-term postoperative survival after elective colectomy in colon cancer patients ≥ 80 years of age. Ann Surg Oncol (2013) 0.94
Lag time in an incident reporting system at a university hospital in Japan. Qual Saf Health Care (2007) 0.94
The Surgical Apgar Score in hip and knee arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2010) 0.94
Surgical apgar outcome score: perioperative risk assessment for radical cystectomy. J Urol (2009) 0.93
Proposed Minimum Rates of Surgery to Support Desirable Health Outcomes: An Observational Study Based on Three Strategies. World J Surg (2015) 0.92
The role of National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center status: observed variation in surgical care depends on the level of evidence. Ann Surg (2012) 0.90
The ACGME competencies in the operating room. Surgery (2007) 0.90
Impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on breast reconstruction. Cancer (2011) 0.90
Educational value of the operating room experience during a core surgical clerkship. Am J Surg (2010) 0.88
Are targeted preoperative risk prediction tools more powerful? A test of models for emergency colon surgery in the very elderly. J Am Coll Surg (2011) 0.88
In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. World J Surg (2011) 0.88
Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: endovascular neurosurgery. Neurosurg Focus (2012) 0.87
Pediatric emergency and essential surgical care in Zambian hospitals: a nationwide study. J Pediatr Surg (2013) 0.87
Measuring outcomes in oncology treatment: the importance of patient-centered outcomes. Surg Clin North Am (2009) 0.87
Predictors of mortality after emergent surgery for acute colonic diverticulitis: analysis of National Surgical Quality Improvement Project data. J Trauma Acute Care Surg (2013) 0.87
Access to essential technologies for safe childbirth: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.86
Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: open cerebrovascular neurosurgery. Neurosurg Focus (2012) 0.86
Surgery for hyperparathyroidism in image-negative patients. Arch Surg (2008) 0.84
The general surgery job market: analysis of current demand for general surgeons and their specialized skills. J Am Coll Surg (2013) 0.84
Variation in the utilization of reconstruction following mastectomy in elderly women. Ann Surg Oncol (2012) 0.84
Patterns in neurosurgical adverse events: cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery. Neurosurg Focus (2012) 0.84
Retained foreign bodies. Adv Surg (2008) 0.83
Projections for Achieving the Lancet Commission Recommended Surgical Rate of 5000 Operations per 100,000 Population by Region-Specific Surgical Rate Estimates. World J Surg (2015) 0.83
What do we know about the safe surgery checklist now? Ann Surg (2015) 0.82
Deconstructing intraoperative communication failures. J Surg Res (2012) 0.82
Audit-identified avoidable factors in maternal and perinatal deaths in low resource settings: a systematic review. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2014) 0.82
Temporal variation in surgical mortality within French hospitals. Med Care (2013) 0.82
False negative cytology in large thyroid nodules. Ann Surg Oncol (2014) 0.82
Using Bayesian p-values in a 2 × 2 table of matched pairs with incompletely classified data. J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat (2009) 0.81