Published in Med Care on September 01, 1980
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The effect of hospital volume on the in-hospital complication rate in knee replacement patients. Health Serv Res (1998) 1.35
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Changing systems of external monitoring of quality of health care in the United States. Qual Health Care (1994) 1.20
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A systematic review of the impact of center volume in dialysis. BMC Res Notes (2015) 0.86
The effect of hospital characteristics and organizational factors on pre- and postoperative lengths of hospital stay. Health Serv Res (1984) 0.84
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Re-examining the significance of surgical volume to breast cancer survival and recurrence versus process quality of care in Taiwan. Health Serv Res (2012) 0.83
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A systematic review of the impact of volume of surgery and specialization in Norwood procedure. BMC Pediatr (2014) 0.77
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Ethnic variation in cholecystectomy rates and outcomes, Manitoba, Canada, 1972-84. Am J Public Health (1989) 0.75
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Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality. N Engl J Med (1979) 11.10
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Does managed care lead to better or worse quality of care? Health Aff (Millwood) (1997) 6.17
Managed care plan performance since 1980. A literature analysis. JAMA (1994) 5.27
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Appropriate measures of hospital market areas. Health Serv Res (1987) 3.29
Regionalization of cardiac surgery in the United States and Canada. Geographic access, choice, and outcomes. JAMA (1995) 3.12
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A comparison of administrative versus clinical data: coronary artery bypass surgery as an example. Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. J Clin Epidemiol (1994) 2.79
Managed care: past evidence and potential trends. Front Health Serv Manage (1993) 2.77
Evaluating individual hospital quality through outcome statistics. JAMA (1986) 2.70
Selecting categories of patients for regionalization. Implications of the relationship between volume and outcome. Med Care (1986) 2.64
The impact of hospital market structure on patient volume, average length of stay, and the cost of care. J Health Econ (1985) 2.62
Competition and the cost of hospital care, 1972 to 1982. JAMA (1987) 2.53
The role of specialized clinical services in competition among hospitals. Inquiry (1986) 2.47
Association of volume with outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Scheduled vs nonscheduled operations. JAMA (1987) 2.27
Use of coronary artery bypass surgery in the United States and Canada. Influence of age and income. JAMA (1993) 2.17
Competition, regulation, and hospital costs, 1982 to 1986. JAMA (1988) 2.10
Pharmacoeconomic analyses: making them transparent, making them credible. JAMA (2000) 2.08
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Health maintenance organizations and the rationing of medical care. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1982) 2.01
Making sense out of utilization data. Med Care (1975) 1.98
Assessing the evidence on HMO performance. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1980) 1.88
Diverging trends in hospitalization: fact or artifact? Med Care (1981) 1.62
The sensitivity of conditional choice models for hospital care to estimation technique. J Health Econ (1989) 1.57
Charges for obstetric liability insurance and discontinuation of obstetric practice in New York. J Fam Pract (1997) 1.57
Choice of hospital for delivery: a comparison of high-risk and low-risk women. Health Serv Res (1993) 1.36
Competition and regulation. Med Care (1985) 1.32
Duplicate health insurance coverage: determinants of variation across states. Health Care Financ Rev (1982) 1.29
Factors affecting the use of physician services in a rural community. Am J Public Health (1976) 1.29
Hospital volume and patient outcomes. The case of hip fracture patients. Med Care (1988) 1.28
The impact of financial incentives on quality of health care. Milbank Q (1998) 1.27
Patient selection in a competitive health care system. Health Aff (Millwood) (1988) 1.21
The costs and outcomes of restricting public access to poison control centers. Results from a natural experiment. Med Care (1998) 1.16
Coronary angioplasty. Statewide experience in California. Circulation (1993) 1.15
Surgeon volume vs hospital volume: which matters more? JAMA (1989) 1.14
The association of hospital volumes of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with adverse outcomes, length of stay, and charges in California. Med Care (1995) 1.14
The California Hospital Outcomes Project: using administrative data to compare hospital performance. Jt Comm J Qual Improv (1995) 1.14
Estimating hospital admission patterns using Medicare data. Soc Sci Med (1993) 1.13
Why do HMOs seem to provide more health maintenance services? Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1978) 1.10
Managed care and children: an overview. Future Child (1998) 1.06
A method for risk-adjusting employer contributions to competing health insurance plans. Inquiry (1991) 1.01
Risk adjusting community rated health plan premiums: a survey of risk assessment literature and policy applications. Annu Rev Public Health (1995) 1.01
The policy implications of using hospital and physician volumes as "indicators" of quality of care in a changing health care environment. Int J Qual Health Care (1997) 1.01
Measuring hospital mortality rates: are 30-day data enough? Ischemic Heart Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team. Health Serv Res (1995) 0.98
The competitive effects of health maintenance organizations: another look at the evidence from Hawaii, Rochester, and Minneapolis/St. Paul. J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 0.97
A reply to Sullivan's reanalysis of managed care plan performance since 1980. Am J Public Health (2000) 0.96
Changes in patient characteristics and surgical outcomes for coronary artery bypass surgery 1972-82. Am J Public Health (1987) 0.96
HMOs and the quality of care. Inquiry (1988) 0.96
Adverse selection in a large, multiple-option health benefits program: a case study of the California public employees' retirement system. Adv Health Econ Health Serv Res (1985) 0.96
Regionalization of medical care. Am J Public Health (1985) 0.96
National health care expenditures: Where do the dollars go? Inquiry (1976) 0.95
Willingness to pay for poison control centers. J Health Econ (1997) 0.95
Health plan switching in anticipation of increased medical care utilization. Med Care (1993) 0.95
Hospital behavior in a local market context. Med Care Rev (1986) 0.94
Trends in medical care costs. Do HMOs lower the rate of growth? Med Care (1980) 0.93
Use of risk-adjusted outcome data for quality improvement by public hospitals. West J Med (1996) 0.91
Selective contracting for hospital care based on volume, quality, and price: prospects, problems, and unanswered questions. J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 0.90
Assessing the relationship between quality of care and the characteristics of health care organizations. Med Care Res Rev (2000) 0.90
Managed care plans: characteristics, growth, and premium performance. Annu Rev Public Health (1994) 0.90
Border crossing for hospital care and its implications for the use of statewide data. Soc Sci Med (1993) 0.86
Health maintenance organization environments in the 1980s and beyond. Health Care Financ Rev (1990) 0.85
Impact of increasing physician supply: a scenario for the future. Health Aff (Millwood) (1986) 0.84
Hospital competition and surgical length of stay. JAMA (1988) 0.82
Expenditure models for prospective risk adjustment: choosing the measure appropriate for the problem. Med Care Res Rev (1997) 0.80
Diversity and transition in health insurance plans. Health Aff (Millwood) (1991) 0.80
Should surgery be regionalized? Surg Clin North Am (1982) 0.80
Services and charges by PPO physicians for PPO and indemnity patients. An episode of care comparison. Med Care (1990) 0.79
Regionalization of services within a multihospital health maintenance organization. Health Serv Res (1980) 0.79
Variations in clinical practice patterns. Arch Intern Med (1983) 0.79
Service patterns in local hospital markets: complementarity or medical arms race? Health Serv Manage Res (1991) 0.78
Hospital competition, cost, and medical practice. J Med Pract Manage (1988) 0.78
Compensating for biased selection in health insurance. Milbank Q (1986) 0.78
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Benefit-cost analysis and public policy implementation: from normative to positive analysis. Public Policy (1976) 0.77
The implications of the PSRO legislation for the teaching hospital sector. J Med Educ (1974) 0.77
Office visit patterns in physician group practices. GHAA J (1986) 0.77
Identifying and assessing the null hypothesis. Health Serv Res (2000) 0.75
The Professional Activity Study of the Commission on Hospital and Professional Activities: a user's perspective. Health Serv Res (1983) 0.75
Anatomy of health care reform proposals. West J Med (1993) 0.75
Goals, targets, and tactics: making health care policy decisions explicit. J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 0.75
Better for whom? Policy implications of acting on the relation between volume and outcome in coronary artery bypass grafting. J Am Coll Cardiol (2001) 0.75
Coronary angioplasty procedure volume and major complications. JAMA (1996) 0.75
Volume and mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting. BMJ (1995) 0.75
Pushing good research to go farther. Health Serv Res (1998) 0.75
On the use of vouchers for Medicare. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1984) 0.75
Population choice and variable selection in the estimation and application of risk models. Inquiry (1999) 0.75
Decisionmaking in regional health planning agencies. J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 0.75
HMOs: friends or foes? Bus Health (1985) 0.75
Reimbursement: and the winner is... Healthc Exec (1987) 0.75
Medical care in a changing economic environment. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc (1985) 0.75
For-profit hospitals: a cost problem or solution? Bus Health (1985) 0.75
Subspecialty care in radiology: oncologic imaging. Acad Radiol (1998) 0.75
Response to McClure. On the potential failure of good ideas: an interview with the originator of Murphy's Law. J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 0.75
Return to work following myocardial infarction: a medical and economic critique of the work evaluation unit. J Chronic Dis (1977) 0.75
From policy question to empirical answers. J Health Econ (1985) 0.75
HMOs and the medical care market. Socioecon Issues Health (1980) 0.75