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Comparison of risk-adjusted 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and selected university medical centers: general surgical operations in menWilliam G Henderson
University of Colorado Health Outcomes Program, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1103-14. 2007....- Relationship of processes and structures of care in general surgery to postoperative outcomes: a hierarchical analysisTracy L Schifftner
National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, Office of Patient Care Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Aurora, CO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1166-77. 2007..The purpose of this study was to identify the important processes and structures of surgical care that relate to 30-day, risk-adjusted postoperative morbidity in general surgery... - Relationship of processes and structures of care in general surgery to postoperative outcomes: a descriptive analysisDeborah S Main
Colorado Health Outcomes Program, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1157-65. 2007..The purpose of this article was to describe results of a quantitative survey designed to measure surgical care structures and processes within NSQIP sites... - Predictors of cognitive decline following coronary artery bypass graft surgeryP Michael Ho
Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 77:597-603; discussion 603. 2004..Our objectives were to identify patient-related risk factors, processes of care, and the occurrence of any perioperative complications associated with cognitive decline... - Relationship of processes and structures of care in general surgery to postoperative outcomes: a qualitative analysisDeborah S Main
Colorado Health Outcomes Program, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80045 0508, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1147-56. 2007..With increased focus on improving surgical care quality, understanding structures and processes that influence surgical care is timely and important, as is more precise specification of these through improved measurement... 
Patient risk factors, operative care, and outcomes among older community-dwelling male veterans with hip fractureTiffany A Radcliff
Colorado REAP to Improve Care Coordination, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, 1055 Clermont Street MS 151, Denver, CO 80220, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 90:34-42. 2008..The purpose of the present study was to test whether perioperative care impacts thirty-day outcomes, with patient characteristics being taken into account...- Design and statistical methodology of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: why is it what it is?William G Henderson
University of Colorado, Health Outcomes Program, Aurora, CO, USA
Am J Surg 198:S19-27. 2009.... - Multivariable predictors of postoperative surgical site infection after general and vascular surgery: results from the patient safety in surgery studyLeigh Neumayer
Department of Surgery, George E Whalen Salt Lake City VA Health Care System, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1178-87. 2007..Surgical site infection (SSI) is a potentially preventable complication. We developed and tested a model to predict patients at high risk for surgical site infection... - Multivariable predictors of postoperative cardiac adverse events after general and vascular surgery: results from the patient safety in surgery studyDaniel L Davenport
Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536 0298, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1199-210. 2007..We used the Patient Safety in Surgery Study database to develop and test a model to predict patient risk for CAEs after general and vascular surgical operations... - Multivariable predictors of postoperative respiratory failure after general and vascular surgery: results from the patient safety in surgery studyRobert G Johnson
Saint Louis University and the John Cochran VA Medical Center, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1188-98. 2007..This model is an extension of an earlier model that was derived and tested exclusively from a population of male patients from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program... - Pancreatic resection in Veterans Affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery studyRobert E Glasgow
Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1252-60. 2007..This study aims to describe the 30-day morbidity and mortality for pancreatectomy and to compare outcomes between private-sector and Veterans Affairs hospitals using multiinstitutional data... - Does volume help predict outcome in surgical disease?Shukri F Khuri
VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Adv Surg 39:379-453. 2005 - Comparison of risk-adjusted 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and selected university medical centers: vascular surgical operations in womenRobert G Johnson
Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1137-46. 2007.... - Comparison of risk-adjusted 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and selected university medical centers: general surgical operations in womenAaron S Fink
Department of Surgery, Atlanta VAMC, Atlanta, GA 30033, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1127-36. 2007..This report examines the results of the comparison between patient characteristics and outcomes of female general surgical patients in the two health care environments... - Comparison of risk-adjusted 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity in Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and selected university medical centers: vascular surgical operations in menMatthew M Hutter
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1115-26. 2007..This article analyzes risk-adjusted outcomes after vascular surgical operations in men performed at VA hospitals as compared with private-sector hospitals... - The patient safety in surgery study: background, study design, and patient populationsShukri F Khuri
VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1089-102. 2007..The purpose of this article is to describe the background, design, and patient populations of the Patient Safety in Surgery Study, as a preliminary to the articles in this journal that will report the results of the Study... - Multivariable predictors of postoperative venous thromboembolic events after general and vascular surgery: results from the patient safety in surgery studySelwyn O Rogers
Department of Surgery and Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1211-21. 2007..Accurate risk prediction is an essential first step toward limiting serious, and sometimes fatal, postoperative VTE. We sought to develop and test a model to predict patients at high risk for postoperative VTE... - Thyroid and parathyroid operations in veterans affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery studyBruce Lee Hall
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1222-34. 2007..Relative outcomes performance for the Veterans Affairs (VA) and private-sector populations was compared after risk adjustment... - Breast cancer surgery in Veterans Affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery studyLeigh Neumayer
George E Whalen Salt Lake City VA Health Care System, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1235-41. 2007.... - Successful implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in the private sector: the Patient Safety in Surgery studyShukri F Khuri
Department of Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Ann Surg 248:329-36. 2008..We sought to determine if NSQIP methods and risk models were applicable to private sector (PS) hospitals and if implementation of the NSQIP in the PS would be associated with reductions in adverse postoperative outcomes... - Open and laparoscopic adrenalectomy: analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramJames Lee
Division of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
J Am Coll Surg 206:953-9; discussion 959-61. 2008..This study uses the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database to compare these two approaches, adjusting for baseline differences... - Time of day is associated with postoperative morbidity: an analysis of the national surgical quality improvement program dataRachel R Kelz
Department of Surgery, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Ann Surg 247:544-52. 2008..To examine the association between surgical start time and morbidity and mortality for nonemergent procedures... - Risk-adjusted morbidity in teaching hospitals correlates with reported levels of communication and collaboration on surgical teams but not with scale measures of teamwork climate, safety climate, or working conditionsDaniel L Davenport
Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536 0298, USA
J Am Coll Surg 205:778-84. 2007..The goal of this study was to measure the impact of OCSFs on risk-adjusted surgical morbidity and mortality... - Mortality after nonemergent major surgery performed on Friday versus Monday through WednesdayMarc M Zare
Department of Surgery, Boston VA Healthcare System, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Ann Surg 246:866-74. 2007..To determine whether nonemergent major surgery leads to higher mortality when performed on Friday versus early weekdays... 
Detecting the blind spot: complications in the trauma registry and trauma quality improvementMark R Hemmila
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0033, USA
Surgery 142:439-48; discussion 448-9. 2007..We sought to apply the NSQIP methodology to collect comorbidity and outcome data for trauma patients. Data were compared to the NTDB to determine the benefit and validity of using the NSQIP methodology for trauma...- Seasonal variation in surgical outcomes as measured by the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP)Michael J Englesbe
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0331
Ann Surg 246:456-62; discussion 463-5. 2007..We hypothesize that the systems of care within academic medical centers are sufficiently disrupted with the beginning of a new academic year to affect patient outcomes... - Use of national surgical quality improvement program data as a catalyst for quality improvementKatherine S Rowell
QCMetrix, Inc, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1293-300. 2007..An important issue is to determine which actions a surgical service should take in the presence of a high O/E ratio... - Morbidity and mortality after liver resection: results of the patient safety in surgery studySophia Virani
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1284-92. 2007.... - Adrenalectomy in Veterans Affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery studyFlorence E Turrentine
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1273-83. 2007.... - Bariatric operations in Veterans Affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery studyDavid B Lautz
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Coll Surg 204:1261-72. 2007..The objectives of this study were to evaluate outcomes and predictors of morbidity in patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) during the Patient Safety in Surgery (PSS) Study... - Liver resection in veterans affairs and selected university medical centers: results of the patient safety in surgery studyRobert T Lancaster
Department of Surgery, Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114
J Am Coll Surg 204:1242-51. 2007..A series of National Surgical Quality Improvement Program articles evaluate the effect of hospital type (VA versus university hospitals) on procedure-specific outcomes. This article focuses on liver resections... - Risk factors and clinical impact of postoperative symptomatic venous thromboembolismChethan Gangireddy
University of Michigan School of Medicine Section of Vascular Surgery, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Vasc Surg 45:335-341; discussion 341-2. 2007..This study evaluated prospective perioperative demographic and clinical variables associated with occurrence of postoperative symptomatic VTE... - Performance of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair in high-risk patients: results from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramRuth L Bush
Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, The University of Houston, College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Vasc Surg 45:227-233; discussion 233-5. 2007..The purpose of our study was to evaluate outcomes after elective EVAR performed in high-risk veterans... - Intraoperative regional myocardial acidosis and reduction in long-term survival after cardiac surgeryShukri F Khuri
Surgical Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 129:372-81. 2005..This study examined the relationship between intraoperative regional myocardial acidosis and long-term survival of patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass... - Mortality after noncardiac surgery: prediction from administrative versus clinical dataHoward S Gordon
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, the Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Med Care 43:159-67. 2005..Hospital profiles are increasingly constructed using risk-adjusted clinical data abstracted from patient records... - Coronary-artery revascularization before elective major vascular surgeryEdward O McFalls
Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55417, USA
N Engl J Med 351:2795-804. 2004..The benefit of coronary-artery revascularization before elective major vascular surgery is unclear... - Hospital costs associated with surgical complications: a report from the private-sector National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramJustin B Dimick
Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
J Am Coll Surg 199:531-7. 2004.... - Relationship between processes of care and coronary bypass operative mortality and morbidityA Laurie W Shroyer
Medical Research Service, Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
Med Care 42:59-70. 2004..Further evaluation of these processes of care using observational data, as well as randomized trials when feasible, would be of interest... - Preoperative risks and outcomes of hip and knee arthroplasty in the Veterans Health AdministrationFrances Weaver
Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Hines VAMC, IL, USA
J Arthroplasty 18:693-708. 2003..Preoperative comorbid conditions, abnormal laboratory values, and being nonwhite were related to poor outcomes of TJA. Gender was a significant independent predictor of morbidity and length of stay for total knee arthroplasty... - Postoperative mortality and pulmonary complication rankings: how well do they correlate at the hospital level?Ahsan M Arozullah
Veterans Affairs Chicago Healthcare System, Westside Division, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Med Care 41:979-91. 2003..Postoperative mortality rankings are used alone for quality assessment... - Impact of renal insufficiency on short-term morbidity and mortality after lower extremity revascularization: data from the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramANN M O'HARE
Department of Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Am Soc Nephrol 14:1287-95. 2003..Further studies are needed to explore reasons for the higher rate of limb-threatening infection in patients with renal insufficiency undergoing revascularization... - The Vietnam Era Twin RegistryJack Goldberg
VET Registry, Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98108-1597, USA
Twin Res 5:476-81. 2002..New Registry initiatives for the future include the construction of a web site and the development of a DNA repository... - Outcomes after esophagectomy: a ten-year prospective cohortStephen H Bailey
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 75:217-22; discussion 222. 2003..Data from this study can be used to better stratify patients before esophagectomy... - Modest serum creatinine elevation affects adverse outcome after general surgeryRalph Gonzales
Division of Cardiac Research, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Colorado, USA
Kidney Int 62:585-92. 2002..5 mg/dL) is a significant predictor of risk-adjusted morbidity and mortality after general surgery. A preoperative serum creatinine of 1.5 mg/dL or higher is a readily available marker for potential adverse outcomes after general surgery... - Identifying patient preoperative risk factors and postoperative adverse events in administrative databases: results from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramWilliam R Best
The Hines VA Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research, IL 60141, USA
J Am Coll Surg 194:257-66. 2002..500. CONCLUSION: Sensitivity and positive predictive value of administrative data in comparison to NSQIP data were poor. We cannot recommend substitution of administrative data for NSQIP data methods... - Racial variations in postoperative outcomes of carotid endarterectomy: evidence from the Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement ProgramRonnie D Horner
VA Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Stroke QUERI Program, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Med Care 40:I35-43. 2002..It is unclear whether worse surgical outcomes are influencing clinical decision-making regarding use of the operation among minority group patients... - Patient satisfaction and use of Veterans Affairs versus non-Veterans Affairs healthcare services by veteransKevin T Stroupe
Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois 60141, USA
Med Care 43:453-60. 2005..We examined whether patient satisfaction affected subsequent use of non-Veterans Affairs (VA) services among chronically ill veterans discharged from VA hospitals... - Early outcomes of endovascular versus open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Private Sector (NSQIP-PS)Hong T Hua
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, WAC 458, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Vasc Surg 41:382-9. 2005..This study was designed to compare early outcomes of open (OPEN) versus EVAR in a contemporary (2000 to 2003) large, multicenter prospective cohort... - Risk factors for serious complication after uvulopalatopharyngoplastyEric J Kezirian
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 132:1091-8. 2006..Concurrent retrolingual procedures were also associated with serious complication, but the cumulative risk of separate retrolingual procedures is unknown... - Cost-effectiveness of coronary artery bypass grafts versus percutaneous coronary intervention for revascularization of high-risk patientsKevin T Stroupe
Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines VA Hospital, PO Box 5000 151H, Hines, IL 60141, USA
Circulation 114:1251-7. 2006..The present study examined the cost-effectiveness of PCI versus CABG for these high-risk patients... - Spouses of Persian Gulf War I veterans: medical evaluation of a U.S. cohortSeth A Eisen
Medical Service, St. Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St. Louis, MO 63106. USA
Mil Med 171:613-8. 2006..We conclude that, 10 years after GW I, the general physical health of spouses of GW I DV is similar to that of spouses of NDV... - Open versus endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in VA hospitalsRuth L Bush
Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Am Coll Surg 202:577-87. 2006.... - Defining the high-risk patient for carotid endarterectomy: an analysis of the prospective National Surgical Quality Improvement Program databaseMichael C Stoner
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Masschusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
J Vasc Surg 43:285-295; discussion 295-6. 2006..Our study examined results for CEA in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database (both Veterans Affairs and private sector)... - Biological age--a concept whose time has come: a preliminary studyJacqueline Goffaux
Vanderbilt University, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
South Med J 98:985-93. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The usefulness of a biological age (BA/PR) approach in predicting outcomes in the elderly was supported. Needed research should develop tools for routine "tracking" of the aging process... - Surgical resident supervision in the operating room and outcomes of care in Veterans Affairs hospitalsKamal M F Itani
VA Boston Health Care System 112A, Boston and Harvard Universities, 1400 VFW Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Am J Surg 190:725-31. 2005..In this study, we assessed the impact of level 3 on risk-adjusted morbidity and mortality in the VA system... - Preoperative risk factors and surgical complexity are more predictive of costs than postoperative complications: a case study using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) databaseDaniel L Davenport
University of Kentucky, Department of Surgery, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
Ann Surg 242:463-8; discussion 468-71. 2005..This single-center study tested the hypothesis that preoperative risk factors and surgical complexity predict more variation in hospital costs than complications... - Percutaneous intervention versus coronary bypass surgery for patients older than 70 years of age with high-risk unstable anginaKodangudi B Ramanathan
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 80:1340-6. 2005.... - Identifying risk factors for potentially avoidable complications following radical cystectomyBrent K Hollenbeck
Department of Urology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Urol 174:1231-7; discussion 1237. 2005.... - Determinants of long-term survival after major surgery and the adverse effect of postoperative complicationsShukri F Khuri
Departments of Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System, MA 02132, USA
Ann Surg 242:326-41; discussion 341-3. 2005..The objective of this study was to identify the determinants of 30-day postoperative mortality and long-term survival after major surgery as exemplified by 8 common operations... - Gulf War veterans' health: medical evaluation of a U.S. cohortSeth A Eisen
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63106, USA
Ann Intern Med 142:881-90. 2005..United States military personnel reported various symptoms after deployment to the Persian Gulf during the 1991 Gulf War. However, the symptoms' long-term prevalence and association with deployment remain controversial... - Surgical morbidity and mortality among American Indian and Alaska Native veterans: a comparative analysisLori Arviso Alvord
Department of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA
J Am Coll Surg 200:837-44. 2005..56; 95% CI, 1.04-2.35). CONCLUSIONS: Our results add postoperative mortality to health disparities experienced by AI/ANs. Future research should be conducted to identify other factors that contribute to this disparity... - The comparative assessment and improvement of quality of surgical care in the Department of Veterans AffairsShukri F Khuri
Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, MA 02132, USA
Arch Surg 137:20-7. 2002..The future of the NSQIP lies in expanding it to the private sector and in enhancing its capabilities by incorporating additional measures of outcome, structure, process, and cost... - Race and surgical outcomes: it is not all black and whiteNestor F Esnaola
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ann Surg 248:647-55. 2008..We hypothesized that the apparent adverse effect of race on surgical outcomes is due to confounding by comorbidity, not race itself...