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| Amir A GhaferiSummaryAffiliation: University of Michigan Country: USA Publications
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Bending the cost curve in the United States: the role of comparative effectiveness researchAmir A Ghaferi
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, 2207 Taubman Center, 1500 E, Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0432, USA
Crit Care 14:168. 2010..The exact definition of this phrase, however, remains elusive. In order to affect change in the cost and quality of healthcare, the importance of comparative effectiveness research must be recognized...- Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomyAmir A Ghaferi
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation M SCORE, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Am Coll Surg 211:325-30. 2010..In this study, we sought to better understand the hospital characteristics that may explain failure to rescue... - Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgeryAmir A Ghaferi
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, The Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48104, USA
N Engl J Med 361:1368-75. 2009..Reducing rates of postoperative complications, the current focus of payers and regulators, may be one approach to reducing mortality. However, effective management of complications once they have occurred may be equally important... - Does voluntary reporting bias hospital quality rankings?Amir A Ghaferi
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0432, USA
J Surg Res 161:190-4. 2010..Critics argue that voluntary reporting leads to over-representation of high quality hospitals... - Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patientsAmir A Ghaferi
Department of Surgery, Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation M SCORE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Ann Surg 250:1029-34. 2009..We sought to determine whether hospital variations in surgical mortality were due to differences in complication rates or failure to rescue rates (ie, case-fatality rates in patients with a complication)... - Adverse outcomes in patients with chronic liver disease undergoing colorectal surgeryAmir A Ghaferi
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Ann Surg 252:345-50. 2010..We sought to use a multi-institutional, prospective, clinical database to better understand adverse outcomes in chronic liver disease (CLD) patients undergoing colorectal surgery... - Racial/ethnic disparities in access to care and survival for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinomaAmit K Mathur
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, USA
Arch Surg 145:1158-63. 2010..To determine whether controlling for differences in the use of invasive therapy affects racial/ethnic differences in survival of early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)... - Body mass index and adverse perioperative outcomes following hepatic resectionAmit K Mathur
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 14:1285-91. 2010..The effect of obesity on perioperative outcomes following hepatic resection is not clearly defined. We sought to understand the implications of obesity on post-hepatectomy outcomes in a nationally represented cohort of patients... - Evaluating popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings for cancer surgeryNicholas H Osborne
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Arch Surg 146:600-4. 2011..We sought to determine whether "best hospitals," as defined by the US News & World Report or HealthGrades, have lower mortality rates than all other American hospitals for cancer surgery... - Influence of body mass index on complications and oncologic outcomes following hepatectomy for malignancyAmit K Mathur
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, 2226 Taubman Center, 1500 E Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0331, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 14:849-57. 2010..Following hepatectomy for malignancy, the effect of body mass index (BMI) on hepatic and oncologic outcomes is unknown... - Hospital Volume and Failure to Rescue With High-risk SurgeryAmir A Ghaferi
Department of Surgery, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Med Care 49:1076-81. 2011..We sought to determine whether increased mortality at low-volume centers was due to higher complication rates or less success in rescuing patients from complications... - Reliability of superficial surgical site infections as a hospital quality measureLillian S Kao
Center for Surgical Trials and Evidence Based Practice C STEP, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77026, USA
J Am Coll Surg 213:231-5. 2011..We used the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data to determine the reliability of SSI rates as a measure of hospital performance and to evaluate the effect of hospital caseload on reliability... - Reliability adjustment for reporting hospital outcomes with surgeryJustin B Dimick
Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy and the Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Ann Surg 255:703-7. 2012..We sought to evaluate its impact on hospital outcomes assessed with the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP)... - Do popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings identify hospitals with better cardiovascular surgery outcomes?Nicholas H Osborne
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5604, USA
J Am Coll Surg 210:87-92. 2010..It is unclear whether selecting highly rated hospitals will improve outcomes after cardiovascular surgery procedures... - Prognostic significance of a positive nonsentinel lymph node in cutaneous melanomaAmir A Ghaferi
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 16:2978-84. 2009..There may be additional prognostic significance to melanoma spreading from the SLN to nonsentinel lymph nodes (NSLN). We examined the implications of a positive NSLN for overall and distant disease-free survival... - Pancreatic VIPomas: subject review and one institutional experienceAmir A Ghaferi
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 12:382-93. 2008..Extended, meaningful survival can be achieved for VIPoma patients, combining an aggressive surgical approach with additional strategies for treatment of unresected disease...