Published in Scand Cardiovasc J on February 01, 2009
Booked inpatient admissions and hospital capacity: mathematical modelling study. BMJ (2002) 2.96
Manufacturing and placing a bespoke support for the Marfan aortic root: description of the method and technical results and status at one year for the first ten patients. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2009) 2.72
Surgical resection of lung cancer England: more operations but no trials to test their effectiveness. Thorax (2012) 2.06
Is complete heart block after surgical closure of ventricular septum defects still an issue? Ann Thorac Surg (2006) 2.05
Providing feedback to hospital doctors about prescribing errors; a pilot study. Pharm World Sci (2007) 1.82
How many births in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will not be attended by a skilled birth attendant between 2011 and 2015? BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2012) 1.65
Monitoring risk-adjusted outcomes in congenital heart surgery: does the appropriateness of a risk model change with time? Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 1.60
A prospective randomized controlled study to assess the effectiveness of CoSeal® to seal air leaks in lung surgery. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2011) 1.60
A survey of opinions and beliefs concerning surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma amongst 802 members of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2011) 1.50
Congenital heart surgery databases around the world: do we need a global database? Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu (2010) 1.50
Pediatric heart transplantation for congenital and restrictive cardiomyopathy. Ann Thorac Surg (2013) 1.47
The Papworth Bleeding Risk Score: a stratification scheme for identifying cardiac surgery patients at risk of excessive early postoperative bleeding. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2010) 1.47
Results of orthotopic heart transplantation for failed palliation of hypoplastic left heart. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 1.43
Optimal timing of the Ross procedure in the management of chronic aortic incompetence in the young. Cardiol Young (2003) 1.42
Functional outcomes after the Ross (pulmonary autograft) procedure assessed with magnetic resonance imaging and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Heart (2009) 1.40
Does the Aristotle Score predict outcome in congenital heart surgery? Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2006) 1.39
Myosin binding protein C phosphorylation in normal, hypertrophic and failing human heart muscle. J Mol Cell Cardiol (2008) 1.36
The European Thoracic Surgery Database project: modelling the risk of in-hospital death following lung resection. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2005) 1.35
Ten traps for the unwary in surgical series: a case study in mesothelioma reports. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 1.34
Levels of acute health service use among cancer survivors in the United Kingdom. Eur J Cancer (2011) 1.32
Pulmonary metastasectomy in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and quantitative synthesis. J R Soc Med (2010) 1.24
MARS: a sense of perspective and an inconvenient truth. J Thorac Oncol (2013) 1.18
Assessment of whether in-hospital mortality for lobectomy is a useful standard for the quality of lung cancer surgery: retrospective study. BMJ (2003) 1.18
A method for early evaluation of a recently introduced technology by deriving a comparative group from existing clinical data: a case study in external support of the Marfan aortic root. BMJ Open (2012) 1.17
Surgical substrates of postoperative junctional ectopic tachycardia in congenital heart defects. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2002) 1.16
Real time monitoring of risk-adjusted paediatric cardiac surgery outcomes using variable life-adjusted display: implementation in three UK centres. Heart (2013) 1.15
Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction for pulmonary regurgitation after repair of tetralogy of Fallot. Preliminary results. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 1.12
IMA Health 2007. Health Care Manag Sci (2008) 1.12
Development of a diagnosis- and procedure-based risk model for 30-day outcome after pediatric cardiac surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2012) 1.09
The molecular phenotype of human cardiac myosin associated with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Cardiovasc Res (2008) 1.06
Delivering stepped care: an analysis of implementation in routine practice. Implement Sci (2012) 1.04
A technical note concerning non-adherence to drug therapy: exact expressions for the mean and variance of drug concentration. Health Care Manag Sci (2008) 1.04
Mesothelioma: benefit from surgical resection is questionable. J Thorac Oncol (2007) 0.98
Pulmonary metastasectomy for sarcoma: a systematic review of reported outcomes in the context of Thames Cancer Registry data. BMJ Open (2012) 0.97
When professional opinion is not enough. BMJ (2007) 0.96
FDG-PET maximum standardised uptake value is associated with variation in survival: analysis of 498 lung cancer patients. Lung Cancer (2006) 0.95
Neither age at repair nor previous palliation affects outcome in tetralogy of Fallot repair. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2013) 0.90
Modelling to estimate future trends in cancer prevalence. Health Care Manag Sci (2011) 0.90
Use of diagnostic information submitted to the United Kingdom Central Cardiac Audit Database: development of categorisation and allocation algorithms. Cardiol Young (2012) 0.88
Rapid 2-stage Norwood I for high-risk hypoplastic left heart syndrome and variants. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2013) 0.87
Seeking consensus by formal methods: a health warning. J R Soc Med (2007) 0.86
Appropriateness of VATS and bedside thoracostomy talc pleurodesis as judged by a panel using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method (RAM). Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2006) 0.84
The relationship between workload and medical staffing levels in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med (2010) 0.83
The benefits and risks of risk-adjustment in paediatric cardiac surgery. Heart (2013) 0.83
A model to evaluate mass vaccination against pneumococcus as a countermeasure against pandemic influenza. Vaccine (2011) 0.82
Transplantation for adults with congenital heart disease. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2006) 0.81
Late magnetic resonance surveillance of repaired coarctation of the aorta. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 0.81
The management of trauma victims in England and Wales: a study by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2009) 0.80
Quality assurance in congenital heart surgery. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2006) 0.79
Closure of recurrent VSD due to dehiscence of calcified patch. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2003) 0.79
Cardiomyocyte Ca2+ handling and structure is regulated by degree and duration of mechanical load variation. J Cell Mol Med (2012) 0.79
Monitoring mortality trends in low-resource settings. Bull World Health Organ (2012) 0.79
Surgical removal of asymptomatic pulmonary metastases: time for better evidence. BMJ (2013) 0.79
Effective transcatheter valve implantation after pulmonary homograft failure: a new perspective on the Ross operation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2009) 0.78
For neonates undergoing cardiac surgery does thymectomy as opposed to thymic preservation have any adverse immunological consequences? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg (2010) 0.78
Surgical resection of lung cancer in England: more operations but no trials to test their effectiveness. Thorax (2012) 0.78
Impact of shunt type on growth of pulmonary arteries after norwood stage I procedure: current best available evidence. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg (2011) 0.78
Quantifying the impact of non-adherence to drug therapy: a technical note concerning an application of a branch and bound algorithm. Health Care Manag Sci (2008) 0.77
An operational research approach to identify cardiac surgery patients at risk of severe post-operative bleeding. Health Care Manag Sci (2011) 0.76
A stochastic model to evaluate options for antenatal genetic screening. Health Care Manag Sci (2006) 0.76
Natural and modified history of single-ventricle physiology in adult patients. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 0.75
Re: evaluation of the Aristotle complexity models in adult patients with congenital heart disease. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2012) 0.75
Forty years on: pulmonary metastasectomy for sarcoma. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2013) 0.75
Invited commentary. Ann Thorac Surg (2009) 0.75
Authors respond to criticisms of booked inpatient admissions and hospital capacity study. BMJ (2002) 0.75
LUCADA: a valuable resource but there are questions it cannot answer. Thorax (2011) 0.75
A mathematical modelling approach for systems where the servers are almost always busy. Comput Math Methods Med (2012) 0.75
Development and formative evaluation of a visual e-tool to help decision makers navigate the evidence around health financing. JMIR Res Protoc (2012) 0.75
Invited commentary. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 0.75
Midterm follow-up of arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum and left-ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2011) 0.75
Lessons from inter-stage cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in predicting survival for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Cardiol Young (2011) 0.75
MADCAP: a graphical method for assessing risk scoring systems. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2006) 0.75
A technical note concerning emergency bed demand. Health Care Manag Sci (2011) 0.75
The longest functioning apical left ventricular to descending aortic valve conduit. Ann Thorac Surg (2005) 0.75
Neonatal tetralogy of Fallot with doubly committed ventricular septal defect and severe pulmonary valvar stenosis: a contraindication for catheter intervention? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2007) 0.75
Development and evaluation of a single value score to assess global range of motion in juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (2002) 0.75
Problems with the right ventricular outflow tract: a review of morphologic features and current therapeutic options. Cardiol Young (2004) 0.75
Tetralogy of Fallot. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2015) 0.75
Implications of anomalous right subclavian artery in the repair of neonatal aortic coarctation. Ann Thorac Surg (2003) 0.75
Surgical approaches for single ventricle palliation. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg (2007) 0.75
Simplified antegrade cerebral perfusion and myocardial protection during stage I Norwood procedure. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann (2004) 0.75
The surgical history, management, and outcomes of subaortic stenosis in adults. Ann Thorac Surg (2012) 0.75
How best to manage the space after pneumonectomy? Theory and experience but no evidence. Heart Lung Circ (2007) 0.75
Right ventricular inflow obstruction from massive fungal vegetation presenting as neonatal circulatory collapse. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2003) 0.75
Bring on the geeks: the case for improved modelling of capacity requirements. Arch Dis Child (2012) 0.75