Published in Med Care on July 01, 1978
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The Severity of Illness Index as a severity adjustment to diagnosis-related groups. Health Care Financ Rev (1984) 1.84
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Measuring severity of illness to predict patient resource use within DRGs. Inquiry (1983) 1.65
Validity, reliability and implications of an index of inpatient severity of illness. Med Care (1981) 1.59
Information factors affecting problem follow-up in ambulatory care. Med Care (1976) 1.51
Societal alternatives to anabolic steroid use. Clin J Sport Med (2000) 1.50
Severity assessment in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis using the pediatric component of the Comprehensive Severity Index. Pediatr Crit Care Med (2000) 1.49
An analysis of case mix complexity using information theory and diagnostic related grouping. Med Care (1979) 1.47
The effect of duration of membership in a prepaid group health plan on the utilization of services. Med Care (1976) 1.45
Measuring severity: how sick is sick? How well is well? Healthc Financ Manage (1986) 1.41
Seroprevalence of HIV antibody among individuals entering the Iowa Prison System. Am J Public Health (1988) 1.40
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Variations in utilization of health services by children. Pediatrics (1979) 1.32
Hospital case mix groupings and generic algorithms. QRB Qual Rev Bull (1982) 1.30
Severity of illness within DRGs. Homogeneity study. Med Care (1986) 1.30
Sports injuries at the 1985 Junior Olympics. An epidemiologic analysis. Am J Sports Med (1988) 1.29
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Ambulatory severity index: development of an ambulatory case mix system. J Ambul Care Manage (1988) 1.27
The history of synthetic testosterone. Sci Am (1995) 1.17
Measuring severity of illness: a reliability study. Med Care (1983) 1.16
The Computerized Psychiatric Severity Index as a predictor of inpatient length of stay for psychoses. Med Care (1991) 1.11
Comparing classification methods: measurement of variations in charges, length of stay, and mortality. Med Care (1982) 1.09
Goodness-of-fit tests for discrete data: a review and an application to a health impairment scale. Biometrics (1977) 1.08
Validity of medical staff judgments in establishing quality assurance priorities. Med Care (1979) 1.04
Endoscope-assisted supraorbital craniotomy for lesions of the interpeduncular fossa. Neurosurgery (1999) 1.03
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Does chiropractic utilization substitute for less available medical services? Am J Public Health (1980) 1.03
Priority setting in quality assurance: reliability of staff judgments in medical institutions. Med Care (1978) 1.03
A methodology for the collection of supplemental information on agricultural fatalities. Am J Ind Med (1990) 1.00
Physicians and non-physician health practitioners: the characteristics of their practices and their relationships. Am J Public Health (1978) 1.00
Early and sufficient feeding reduces length of stay and charges in surgical patients. J Surg Res (2001) 0.99
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Severity of illness and resource use differences among white and black hospitalized elderly. Arch Intern Med (1992) 0.97
Reliability and validity of the Severity of Illness Index. Med Care (1986) 0.94
Calf-thigh sequential pneumatic compression compared with plantar venous pneumatic compression to prevent deep-vein thrombosis after non-lower extremity trauma. J Trauma (1999) 0.92
Effects of capitation payment for pharmacy services on pharmacist-dispensing and physician-prescribing behavior: I. Prescription quantity and dose analysis. Drug Intell Clin Pharm (1981) 0.91
Effects of capitation payment for pharmacy services on pharmacist-dispensing and physician-prescribing behavior: II. Therapeutic category analysis, over-the-counter drug usage, and drug interactions. Drug Intell Clin Pharm (1981) 0.91
Capitation payment for pharmacy services: impact on generic substitution. Med Care (1980) 0.90
Severity indices: potential uses in quality measurement. Top Health Rec Manage (1989) 0.90
Psychological and behavioural effects of endogenous testosterone levels and anabolic-androgenic steroids among males. A review. Sports Med (1990) 0.89
Predicting length of stay for patients with psychoses. Health Serv Res (1992) 0.89
The Computerized Severity Index. A new tool for case-mix management. J Med Syst (1986) 0.89
Clinical review 31: Anabolic-androgenic steroids and athletes: what are the issues? J Clin Endocrinol Metab (1992) 0.88
Health status of the rural elderly according to farm work history: the Iowa 65 + rural health study. Arch Environ Health (1985) 0.85
Commentary: the traditional public health approach to prevention and risk reduction--can we raise the Titanic? Am J Prev Med (1993) 0.85
Severity of illness within DRGs: impact on prospective payment. Am J Public Health (1985) 0.85
Neurovirulence tests of type 3 oral poliovirus vaccine manufactured by Lederle Laboratories, 1964-1988. Vaccine (1992) 0.84
HMO formularies and care costs. Lancet (1996) 0.84
The computerized severity index. A new sophisticated tool to measure hospital quality of care. Healthc Forum (1987) 0.83
Control of gastric vascular resistance in cardiogenic shock. Surgery (1985) 0.83
A statewide targeted burn prevention program. J Burn Care Rehabil (1989) 0.82
Anabolic-androgenic steroid use among high school football players. J Community Health (1999) 0.82
End-to-end versus peripheral nerve graft repair of the oculomotor nerve in rats: A comparative histological and morphometric study. Microsurgery (1999) 0.82
Use of intraperitoneal xenon- 133 for imaging of intestinal strangulation in small bowel obstruction. Am J Surg (1981) 0.81
Psychological and behavioural effects of endogenous testosterone and anabolic-androgenic steroids. An update. Sports Med (1996) 0.81
Familial congenital hydrocephalus and aqueduct stenosis with probably autosomal dominant inheritance and variable expression. J Neurol Sci (1998) 0.81
Profiles of physician practice and patient severity of illness. Am J Public Health (1986) 0.79
A giant cell tumor of the sacrum or a soft tissue giant cell tumor? A case report. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (1998) 0.79
Radicular dysfunction due to spinal deformities in Marfan syndrome at older age: three case reports. Eur J Med Genet (2009) 0.78
Anabolic steroids in the athlete. Annu Rev Med (1991) 0.78
Effect of informed parental consent on mothers' knowledge of newborn screening. Pediatrics (1983) 0.78
Drop metastasis from pituitary adenoma. Case illustration. J Neurosurg (2001) 0.78
Changes in body size of elite high school football players: 1963-1989. Percept Mot Skills (1993) 0.77
Medical, legal, and societal implications of androstenedione use. JAMA (1999) 0.77
The hidden future supply of foreign medical graduates. Med Care (1989) 0.77
Weight training. A potential confounding factor in examining the psychological and behavioural effects of anabolic-androgenic steroids. Sports Med (1994) 0.77
Anabolic-androgenic steroids and the adolescent. Pediatr Ann (1992) 0.76
Self-Reported Use of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids by Elite Power Lifters. Phys Sportsmed (1988) 0.76
Exploration of intracranial structures endoscopically. Plast Reconstr Surg (1997) 0.75
Cerebral salt wasting syndrome. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry (1996) 0.75
Use and costs under the Iowa capitation drug program. Health Care Financ Rev (1981) 0.75
Lessons from evaluating an automated patient severity index. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1997) 0.75
Commentary on "Membership Duration and Utilization Rates in a Prepaid Group Practice," by Mary Jane Griffith and Nicholas Baloff. Med Care (1981) 0.75
An interpretation of implicit judgments in chart review. J Community Health (1977) 0.75
The severity of illness index: an interview with Susan D. Horn. Health Care Strateg Manage (1985) 0.75
The relationship between infant mortality rates and medical care and socio-economic variables, Chile 1960-1970. Int J Epidemiol (1979) 0.75
Overview of current models for prospective payment. ANA Publ (1984) 0.75
Severity data aid in hospital management. Hosp Forum (1984) 0.75
Length of stay variations: a focused review. QRB Qual Rev Bull (1980) 0.75
"AS-SCORE": a multi-attribute clinical index of illness severity. QRB Qual Rev Bull (1980) 0.75
Intramuscular Abscess. Phys Sportsmed (1994) 0.75
Hospital cost per case: analyses using a statewide data system. Med Care (1979) 0.75