Published in Health Serv Res on June 01, 1993
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Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality. N Engl J Med (1979) 11.10
How do health-maintenance organizations achieve their "savings"? N Engl J Med (1978) 8.55
Health services research as a scientific process: the metamorphosis of an empirical research project from grant proposal to final report. Health Serv Res (1986) 6.32
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Variation in office-based quality. A claims-based profile of care provided to Medicare patients with diabetes. JAMA (1995) 5.86
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The relation between surgical volume and mortality: an exploration of causal factors and alternative models. Med Care (1980) 5.05
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The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns? Health Serv Res (1987) 4.29
Primary care physicians and AIDS. Attitudinal and structural barriers to care. JAMA (1991) 3.67
Misconceptions about cancer among Latinos and Anglos. JAMA (1992) 3.60
Bias in the coding of hospital discharge data and its implications for quality assessment. Med Care (1994) 3.56
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Effects of surgeon volume and hospital volume on quality of care in hospitals. Med Care (1987) 2.84
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Agreement between physicians' office records and Medicare Part B claims data. Health Care Financ Rev (1995) 2.47
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A systems model of clinical preventive care: an analysis of factors influencing patient and physician. Health Educ Q (1992) 2.21
How good is communication between primary care physicians and subspecialty consultants? Arch Intern Med (1984) 2.21
Outcomes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in nursing homes: can we predict who will benefit? Am J Med (1993) 2.19
Use of coronary artery bypass surgery in the United States and Canada. Influence of age and income. JAMA (1993) 2.17
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Pharmacoeconomic analyses: making them transparent, making them credible. JAMA (2000) 2.08
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Developing performance measures for alcohol and other drug services in managed care plans. Washington Circle Group. Jt Comm J Qual Improv (2000) 2.03
Health maintenance organizations and the rationing of medical care. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1982) 2.01
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Opening pathways to cancer screening for Vietnamese-American women: lay health workers hold a key. Prev Med (1999) 1.98
The failure of physician education as a cost containment strategy. Report of a prospective controlled trial at a university hospital. JAMA (1984) 1.90
Assessing the evidence on HMO performance. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1980) 1.88
Cancer screening by primary care physicians. Can we explain the differences? J Fam Pract (1991) 1.73
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Diverging trends in hospitalization: fact or artifact? Med Care (1981) 1.62
The effectiveness of a media-led intervention to reduce smoking among Vietnamese-American men. Am J Public Health (1997) 1.62
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Charges for obstetric liability insurance and discontinuation of obstetric practice in New York. J Fam Pract (1997) 1.57
The ravelled sleeve of care. Managing the stresses of residency training. JAMA (1989) 1.55
Policy recommendations for pharmaceutical representative-resident interactions. Fam Med (1992) 1.52
Exercise counseling by primary care physicians in the era of managed care. Am J Prev Med (1999) 1.51
Tobacco use in Vietnam. Prevalence, predictors, and the role of the transnational tobacco corporations. JAMA (1997) 1.48
The costs and risks of medical care: an annotated bibliography for clinicians and educators. West J Med (1982) 1.41
Cigarette smoking among Vietnamese immigrants in California. Am J Health Promot (1995) 1.39
Letter from the Abbey. West J Med (2001) 1.39
The impact of clinical pharmacists' consultations on physicians' geriatric drug prescribing. A randomized controlled trial. Med Care (1992) 1.36
Health care access and preventive care among Vietnamese immigrants: do traditional beliefs and practices pose barriers? Soc Sci Med (1996) 1.35
Competition and regulation. Med Care (1985) 1.32
Secondary syphilis with pulmonary involvement. West J Med (1983) 1.31
Duplicate health insurance coverage: determinants of variation across states. Health Care Financ Rev (1982) 1.29
The Cancer Prevention Reminder System. MD Comput (1991) 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
Hepatitis B immunization coverage among Vietnamese-American children 3 to 18 years old. Pediatrics (2000) 1.27
End-of-life care content in 50 textbooks from multiple specialties. JAMA (2000) 1.26
Improving primary care residents' proficiency in the diagnosis of skin cancer. J Gen Intern Med (1998) 1.26
The effect on resident attitudes of regulatory policies regarding pharmaceutical representative activities. J Gen Intern Med (1993) 1.25
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of breast and cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese women. J Cancer Educ (1992) 1.22
Patient selection in a competitive health care system. Health Aff (Millwood) (1988) 1.21
Autopsy: moribund art or vital science? Am J Med (1985) 1.21
Use of automated telephone disease management calls in an ethnically diverse sample of low-income patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care (1999) 1.21
How house officers cope with their mistakes. West J Med (1993) 1.20
Training in a primary care internal medicine residency program. The first ten years. JAMA (1987) 1.18
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