Published in Ann Surg on September 01, 2009
Trends in hospital volume and operative mortality for high-risk surgery. N Engl J Med (2011) 6.90
Risk-adjusted pathologic margin positivity rate as a quality indicator in rectal cancer surgery. J Clin Oncol (2014) 4.59
Reliability of the American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status scale in clinical practice. Br J Anaesth (2014) 2.68
Association of hospital participation in a quality reporting program with surgical outcomes and expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA (2015) 2.38
Development and evaluation of the universal ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator: a decision aid and informed consent tool for patients and surgeons. J Am Coll Surg (2013) 2.37
Nurse specialty certification, inpatient mortality, and failure to rescue. J Nurs Scholarsh (2011) 1.83
Normothermia to prevent surgical site infections after gastrointestinal surgery: holy grail or false idol? Ann Surg (2010) 1.47
Defining the potential of neoadjuvant chemotherapy use as a quality indicator for bladder cancer care. J Urol (2014) 1.39
Cost and Mortality Associated With Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury. Ann Surg (2015) 1.26
National Clinical Database feedback implementation for quality improvement of cancer treatment in Japan: from good to great through transparency. Surg Today (2015) 1.23
National surgical quality improvement program underestimates the risk associated with mild and moderate postoperative acute kidney injury. Crit Care Med (2013) 1.16
Challenges and prospects of a clinical database linked to the board certification system. Surg Today (2014) 1.07
The use of report cards and outcome measurements to improve the safety of surgical care: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. BMJ Qual Saf (2014) 1.04
Use of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in orthopaedic surgery. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2015) 1.03
Efficacy of contemporary chemotherapy in stage IIIC endometrial cancer: a histologic dichotomy. Gynecol Oncol (2014) 1.01
Development and assessment of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Surgical Secondary Events grading system. Ann Surg Oncol (2014) 0.97
The power of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program--achieving a zero pneumonia rate in general surgery patients. Perm J (2012) 0.92
Limitations of ACS-NSQIP in reporting complications for patients undergoing pancreatectomy: underscoring the need for a pancreas-specific module. World J Surg (2014) 0.91
Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: The Critical Role of Quality Measurement. Healthc (Amst) (2014) 0.90
Incidence of and risk factors for postoperative ileus in women undergoing primary staging and debulking for epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Gynecol Oncol (2012) 0.90
Outcomes the Ontario Bariatric Network: a cohort study. CMAJ Open (2016) 0.89
Obesity, outcomes and quality of care: body mass index increases the risk of wound-related complications in colon cancer surgery. Am J Surg (2013) 0.89
Risk-scoring models for individualized prediction of overall survival in low-grade and high-grade endometrial cancer. Gynecol Oncol (2014) 0.89
Incidence of adverse events in an integrated US healthcare system: a retrospective observational study of 82,784 surgical hospitalizations. Patient Saf Surg (2014) 0.89
In-hospital death following inpatient surgical procedures in the United States, 1996-2006. World J Surg (2011) 0.88
Predictors and costs of surgical site infections in patients with endometrial cancer. Gynecol Oncol (2013) 0.87
Cancer registries in Japan: National Clinical Database and site-specific cancer registries. Int J Clin Oncol (2014) 0.87
Surgeon's experiences of receiving peer benchmarked feedback using patient-reported outcome measures: a qualitative study. Implement Sci (2014) 0.84
The impact of perioperative packed red blood cell transfusion on survival in epithelial ovarian cancer. Int J Gynecol Cancer (2013) 0.84
Older age increases short-term surgical complications after primary knee arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res (2013) 0.83
The effect of neoadjuvant radiation therapy on perioperative outcomes among patients undergoing resection of retroperitoneal sarcomas. Surg Oncol (2014) 0.83
Importance of teamwork, communication and culture on failure-to-rescue in the elderly. Br J Surg (2015) 0.82
Preoperative functional health status may predict outcomes after elective colorectal surgery for malignancy. Surg Endosc (2014) 0.82
Risk Models of Operative Morbidities in 16,930 Critically Ill Surgical Patients Based on a Japanese Nationwide Database. Medicine (Baltimore) (2015) 0.82
Reducing healthcare costs facilitated by surgical auditing: a systematic review. World J Surg (2015) 0.81
Comparison of prospective risk estimates for postoperative complications: human vs computer model. J Am Coll Surg (2013) 0.81
Change in Adverse Events After Enrollment in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS One (2016) 0.81
Does laparoscopy reduce splenic injuries during colorectal resections? An assessment from the ACS-NSQIP database. Surg Endosc (2014) 0.81
Physician report cards and implementing standards of practice are both significantly associated with improved screening colonoscopy quality. Am J Gastroenterol (2015) 0.81
Emergency surgery in patients who have undergone recent radiotherapy is associated with increased complications and mortality: review of 536 patients. World J Surg (2012) 0.80
Evaluation of the performance of the ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator in gynecologic oncology patients undergoing laparotomy. Gynecol Oncol (2016) 0.79
Preoperative risk factors for postoperative Clostridium difficile infection in colectomy patients. Am J Surg (2013) 0.79
Is American College of Surgeons NSQIP organ space infection a surrogate for pancreatic fistula? J Am Coll Surg (2014) 0.79
Laparoscopic vs open partial colectomy in elderly patients: Insights from the American College of Surgeons - National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database. World J Gastroenterol (2015) 0.79
Pancreatic Resection Results in a Statewide Surgical Collaborative. Ann Surg Oncol (2015) 0.79
Comparison of National Operative Mortality in Gastroenterological Surgery Using Web-based Prospective Data Entry Systems. Medicine (Baltimore) (2015) 0.78
Outcomes after emergency abdominal surgery in patients with advanced cancer: Opportunities to reduce complications and improve palliative care. J Trauma Acute Care Surg (2015) 0.77
Reliability of surgeon-specific reporting of complications after colectomy. Ann Surg (2015) 0.77
Association between hospital imaging use and venous thromboembolism events rates based on clinical data. Ann Surg (2014) 0.77
Preoperative Chemoprophylaxis Is Safe in Major Oncology Operations and Effective at Preventing Venous Thromboembolism. J Am Coll Surg (2015) 0.77
The impact of adverse events on health care costs for older adults undergoing nonelective abdominal surgery. Can J Surg (2016) 0.76
Detecting adverse events in surgery: comparing events detected by the Veterans Health Administration Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the Patient Safety Indicators. Am J Surg (2013) 0.76
30-Day morbidity after augmentation enterocystoplasty and appendicovesicostomy: A NSQIP pediatric analysis. J Pediatr Urol (2015) 0.76
Bile duct surgery in the treatment of hepatobiliary and gallbladder malignancies: effects of hepatic and vascular resection on outcomes. HPB (Oxford) (2015) 0.75
Development of an annually updated Japanese national clinical database for chest surgery in 2014. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2016) 0.75
Surgical research using national databases. Ann Transl Med (2016) 0.75
Compliance of Perioperative Antibiotic Dosing and Surgical Site Infection Rate in Office-Based Elective Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open (2016) 0.75
Quality Improvement-Focused Departmental Grand Rounds Reports: A Strategy to Engage General Surgery Residents. J Grad Med Educ (2016) 0.75
Early Experience with a Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Quality Improvement Program. BMJ Qual Improv Rep (2013) 0.75
Is There an Association between Component Separation and Venous Thromboembolism? Analysis of the NSQIP. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open (2015) 0.75
Which clinical scenarios do surgeons record as complications? A benchmarking study of seven hospitals. BMJ Open (2015) 0.75
Comparing surgical infections in National Surgical Quality Improvement Project and an Institutional Database. J Surg Res (2015) 0.75
How to improve the performance of intraoperative risk models: an example with vital signs using the surgical apgar score. Anesth Analg (2013) 0.75
The safety and risk factors of major hepatobiliary pancreatic surgery in patients older than 80 years. Ann Surg Treat Res (2016) 0.75
National Trends in Short-term Outcomes Following Non-emergent Surgery for Diverticular Disease. J Gastrointest Surg (2016) 0.75
Truth in Reporting: How Data Capture Methods Obfuscate Actual Surgical Site Infection Rates within a Health Care Network System. Dis Colon Rectum (2017) 0.75
Application of traditional indexes and adverse events in the ophthalmologic perioperative medical quality evaluation during 2010-2012. Int J Ophthalmol (2015) 0.75
Open repair of large abdominal wall hernias with and without components separation; an analysis from the ACS-NSQIP database. Ann Med Surg (Lond) (2016) 0.75
An Online Tool for Global Benchmarking of Risk-Adjusted Surgical Outcomes. World J Surg (2017) 0.75
Outcomes after bariatric surgery according to large databases: a systematic review. Langenbecks Arch Surg (2017) 0.75
Risk factors for 30-day outcomes in elective anterior versus posterior cervical fusion: A matched cohort analysis. J Craniovertebr Junction Spine (2017) 0.75
Early Complications and Outcomes in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: An NSQIP Study Based on 5803 Patients. Global Spine J (2017) 0.75
Colon cancer survival rates with the new American Joint Committee on Cancer sixth edition staging. J Natl Cancer Inst (2004) 10.61
Extent of surgery affects survival for papillary thyroid cancer. Ann Surg (2007) 4.73
The National Cancer Data Base: a powerful initiative to improve cancer care in the United States. Ann Surg Oncol (2008) 3.82
National failure to operate on early stage pancreatic cancer. Ann Surg (2007) 3.65
Toward robust information: data quality and inter-rater reliability in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. J Am Coll Surg (2009) 3.55
Disparities in the utilization of high-volume hospitals for complex surgery. JAMA (2006) 3.35
Updated population-based review of carcinoid tumors. Ann Surg (2004) 3.21
Small bowel cancer in the United States: changes in epidemiology, treatment, and survival over the last 20 years. Ann Surg (2009) 3.07
Validation of the 6th edition AJCC Pancreatic Cancer Staging System: report from the National Cancer Database. Cancer (2007) 2.85
Directing surgical quality improvement initiatives: comparison of perioperative mortality and long-term survival for cancer surgery. J Clin Oncol (2008) 2.74
A comparison of clinical registry versus administrative claims data for reporting of 30-day surgical complications. Ann Surg (2012) 2.72
The aging population and its impact on the surgery workforce. Ann Surg (2003) 2.70
American Society of Clinical Oncology/National Comprehensive Cancer Network Quality Measures. J Clin Oncol (2008) 2.69
Sociology. The gender gap in NIH grant applications. Science (2008) 2.66
Effect of delay to operation on outcomes in adults with acute appendicitis. Arch Surg (2010) 2.53
Blueprint for a new American College of Surgeons: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. J Am Coll Surg (2008) 2.53
Lymph node evaluation as a colon cancer quality measure: a national hospital report card. J Natl Cancer Inst (2008) 2.46
A 10-year outcomes evaluation of mucinous and signet-ring cell carcinoma of the colon and rectum. Dis Colon Rectum (2005) 2.45
Development and evaluation of the universal ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator: a decision aid and informed consent tool for patients and surgeons. J Am Coll Surg (2013) 2.37
Evaluation of surveillance bias and the validity of the venous thromboembolism quality measure. JAMA (2013) 2.31
Rates of colon and rectal cancers are increasing in young adults. Am Surg (2003) 2.30
Readmissions following pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreas cancer: a population-based appraisal. Ann Surg Oncol (2008) 2.20
Do young colon cancer patients have worse outcomes? World J Surg (2004) 2.20
Validity and feasibility of the american college of surgeons colectomy composite outcome quality measure. Ann Surg (2013) 2.18
Factors predicting complication rates following total knee replacement. J Bone Joint Surg Am (2006) 2.15
Quality improvement in surgery: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program approach. Adv Surg (2010) 2.14
The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes. J Am Coll Surg (2011) 2.12
Risk adjustment for comparing hospital quality with surgery: how many variables are needed? J Am Coll Surg (2010) 2.12
Hospitalization before and after gastric bypass surgery. JAMA (2005) 2.12
Use and outcomes of laparoscopic-assisted colectomy for cancer in the United States. Arch Surg (2008) 2.10
Cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies for pancreatic head adenocarcinoma and potential opportunities for improvement. Ann Surg Oncol (2012) 2.08
Surgical considerations for the management and resection of esophageal gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 2.04
Malignancies of the appendix: beyond case series reports. Dis Colon Rectum (2005) 2.02
Surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma: does it improve survival? Ann Surg Oncol (2004) 2.01
Adherence with postdischarge venous thromboembolism chemoprophylaxis recommendations after colorectal cancer surgery among elderly Medicare beneficiaries. Ann Surg (2014) 1.97
Distinct properties and advantages of a novel peroxisome proliferator-activated protein [gamma] selective modulator. Mol Endocrinol (2003) 1.96
Optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient: a best practices guideline from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the American Geriatrics Society. J Am Coll Surg (2012) 1.94
Assessment of pancreatic cancer care in the United States based on formally developed quality indicators. J Natl Cancer Inst (2009) 1.92
Comparison of sentinel lymph node biopsy alone and completion axillary lymph node dissection for node-positive breast cancer. J Clin Oncol (2009) 1.90
Reliability of superficial surgical site infections as a hospital quality measure. J Am Coll Surg (2011) 1.90
Prognostic score predicting survival after resection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: analysis of 3851 patients. Ann Surg (2008) 1.90
Association between occurrence of a postoperative complication and readmission: implications for quality improvement and cost savings. Ann Surg (2013) 1.87
Preoperative predictors of weight loss following bariatric surgery: systematic review. Obes Surg (2012) 1.86
Thirty-day mortality statistics underestimate the risk of repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: a statewide experience. J Vasc Surg (2006) 1.84
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
Identification of specific quality improvement opportunities for the elderly undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. Arch Surg (2009) 1.83
Development of an American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program: morbidity and mortality risk calculator for colorectal surgery. J Am Coll Surg (2009) 1.83
Impact of tumor grade on prognosis in pancreatic cancer: should we include grade in AJCC staging? Ann Surg Oncol (2010) 1.82
Cancer-directed surgery for localized disease: decreased use in the elderly. Ann Surg Oncol (2004) 1.80
Comparison of outcomes after laparoscopic versus open appendectomy for acute appendicitis at 222 ACS NSQIP hospitals. Surgery (2010) 1.77
Underuse of axillary dissection for the management of sentinel node micrometastases in breast cancer. Arch Surg (2010) 1.76
Comparison of commission on cancer-approved and -nonapproved hospitals in the United States: implications for studies that use the National Cancer Data Base. J Clin Oncol (2009) 1.75
Comparison of 30-day outcomes after emergency general surgery procedures: potential for targeted improvement. Surgery (2010) 1.74
Measuring the quality of colorectal cancer screening: the importance of follow-up. Dis Colon Rectum (2006) 1.72
Variability in length of stay after colorectal surgery: assessment of 182 hospitals in the national surgical quality improvement program. Ann Surg (2009) 1.70
Reliability adjustment for reporting hospital outcomes with surgery. Ann Surg (2012) 1.70
Are survival rates different for young and older patients with rectal cancer? Dis Colon Rectum (2004) 1.69
An evaluation of replacement rates for posterior resin-based composite and amalgam restorations in U.S. Navy and marine corps recruits. J Am Dent Assoc (2009) 1.69
Small bowel obstruction: a population-based appraisal. J Am Coll Surg (2006) 1.65
Surgeon volume as a predictor of outcomes in inpatient and outpatient endocrine surgery. Surgery (2007) 1.65
Multimodality therapy for pancreatic cancer in the U.S. : utilization, outcomes, and the effect of hospital volume. Cancer (2007) 1.63
Missing data in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program are not missing at random: implications and potential impact on quality assessments. J Am Coll Surg (2010) 1.62
A meta-analysis of perioperative beta blockade: what is the actual risk reduction? Surgery (2005) 1.61
Pancreatectomy risk calculator: an ACS-NSQIP resource. HPB (Oxford) (2010) 1.61
Complete lymph node dissection for sentinel node-positive melanoma: assessment of practice patterns in the United States. Ann Surg Oncol (2008) 1.60
Wait times for cancer surgery in the United States: trends and predictors of delays. Ann Surg (2011) 1.59
Risk factors for superficial vs deep/organ-space surgical site infections: implications for quality improvement initiatives. JAMA Surg (2013) 1.59
Using the NCDB for cancer care improvement: an introduction to available quality assessment tools. J Surg Oncol (2009) 1.58
Effect of postoperative complications on adjuvant chemotherapy use for stage III colon cancer. Ann Surg (2013) 1.56
Do young breast cancer patients have worse outcomes? J Surg Res (2003) 1.53
Risk-based selective referral for cancer surgery: a potential strategy to improve perioperative outcomes. Ann Surg (2010) 1.53
Cancer recurrence: an important but missing variable in national cancer registries. Ann Surg Oncol (2014) 1.52
Complication rates following open reduction and internal fixation of ankle fractures. J Bone Joint Surg Am (2009) 1.50
Evaluating individual surgeons based on total hospital costs: evidence for variation in both total costs and volatility of costs. J Am Coll Surg (2006) 1.49
Risk of surgery following recent myocardial infarction. Ann Surg (2011) 1.47