Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick New England Journal of Medicine 361 (14), 1368-1375, 2009 | 1586 | 2009 |
Surgical skill and complication rates after bariatric surgery JD Birkmeyer, JF Finks, A O'reilly, M Oerline, AM Carlin, AR Nunn, ... New England Journal of Medicine 369 (15), 1434-1442, 2013 | 1471 | 2013 |
Methods for evaluating changes in health care policy: the difference-in-differences approach JB Dimick, AM Ryan Jama 312 (22), 2401-2402, 2014 | 1172 | 2014 |
Hospital costs associated with surgical complications: a report from the private-sector National Surgical Quality Improvement Program JB Dimick, SL Chen, PA Taheri, WG Henderson, SF Khuri, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 199 (4), 531-537, 2004 | 1054 | 2004 |
Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Annals of surgery 250 (6), 1029-1034, 2009 | 833 | 2009 |
Measuring the quality of surgical care: structure, process, or outcomes? 1 JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick, NJO Birkmeyer Journal of the American College of Surgeons 198 (4), 626-632, 2004 | 598 | 2004 |
Surgical mortality as an indicator of hospital quality: the problem with small sample size JB Dimick, HG Welch, JD Birkmeyer Jama 292 (7), 847-851, 2004 | 591 | 2004 |
Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus ME Cohen, CY Ko, KY Bilimoria, L Zhou, K Huffman, X Wang, Y Liu, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 217 (2), 336-346e1, 2013 | 557 | 2013 |
Trends in the adoption of robotic surgery for common surgical procedures KH Sheetz, J Claflin, JB Dimick JAMA network open 3 (1), e1918911-e1918911, 2020 | 521 | 2020 |
Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Medical care 49 (12), 1076-1081, 2011 | 517 | 2011 |
Hospital complication rates with bariatric surgery in Michigan NJO Birkmeyer, JB Dimick, D Share, A Hawasli, WJ English, J Genaw, ... Jama 304 (4), 435-442, 2010 | 476 | 2010 |
Increased resource use associated with catheter-related bloodstream infection in the surgical intensive care unit JB Dimick, RK Pelz, R Consunji, SM Swoboda, CW Hendrix, PA Lipsett Archives of Surgery 136 (2), 229-234, 2001 | 466 | 2001 |
Hospital volume and operative mortality in the modern era BN Reames, AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Annals of surgery 260 (2), 244-251, 2014 | 457 | 2014 |
Surgical treatment of intact thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms in the United States: hospital and surgeon volume-related outcomes JA Cowan Jr, JB Dimick, PK Henke, TS Huber, JC Stanley, ... Journal of vascular surgery 37 (6), 1169-1174, 2003 | 424 | 2003 |
ICU nurse-to-patient ratio is associated with complications and resource use after esophagectomy RK Amaravadi, JB Dimick, PJ Pronovost, PA Lipsett Intensive care medicine 26, 1857-1862, 2000 | 393 | 2000 |
Why we should not be indifferent to specification choices for difference‐in‐differences AM Ryan, JF Burgess Jr, JB Dimick Health services research 50 (4), 1211-1235, 2015 | 360 | 2015 |
Blueprint for a new American College of Surgeons: national surgical quality improvement program JD Birkmeyer, DM Shahian, JB Dimick, SRG Finlayson, DR Flum, CY Ko, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 207 (5), 777-782, 2008 | 347 | 2008 |
Hospital quality and the cost of inpatient surgery in the United States JD Birkmeyer, C Gust, JB Dimick, NJO Birkmeyer, JS Skinner Annals of surgery 255 (1), 1-5, 2012 | 326 | 2012 |
Potential benefits of the new Leapfrog standards: effect of process and outcomes measures JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Surgery 135 (6), 569-575, 2004 | 324 | 2004 |
Association of hospital participation in a quality reporting program with surgical outcomes and expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries NH Osborne, LH Nicholas, AM Ryan, JR Thumma, JB Dimick Jama 313 (5), 496-504, 2015 | 316 | 2015 |