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Payer leverage and hospital compliance with a benchmark: a population-based observational studyJohn M Hollingsworth
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0330, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 7:112. 2007..Thus, Medicare's transplant experience allows us to examine the role of payer leverage in motivating hospital benchmark compliance...
Large variations in Medicare payments for surgery highlight savings potential from bundled payment programsDavid C Miller
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:2107-15. 2011....- Understanding criteria for surveillance of patients with a small renal massBruce L Jacobs
Department of Urology, Division of Oncology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2800, USA
Urology 79:1027-32. 2012..To better delineate which factors influence the decision to undergo active surveillance of small renal masses... - Use of restaging bladder tumor resection for bladder cancer among Medicare beneficiariesTed A Skolarus
Department of Urology, Division of Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Urology 78:1345-9. 2011..Restaging bladder tumor resection improves staging accuracy and the response to intravesical therapy. However, its use outside of a tertiary care setting, and its subsequent clinical implications, are unknown... - A comparison of extraperitoneal and intraperitoneal approaches for robotic prostatectomyBruce L Jacobs
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2800, USA
Surg Innov 19:268-74. 2012..This study compared oncologic and health-related quality-of-life outcomes among patients undergoing intraperitoneal or extraperitoneal robotic prostatectomy... - Long-term survival following partial vs radical nephrectomy among older patients with early-stage kidney cancerHung Jui Tan
Dow Division of Health Services Research, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2800, USA
JAMA 307:1629-35. 2012.... - A matched comparison of perioperative outcomes of a single laparoscopic surgeon versus a multisurgeon robot-assisted cohort for partial nephrectomyJonathan S Ellison
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Urol 188:45-50. 2012..Perioperative outcomes and complications were compared... - Understanding the role of percutaneous biopsy in the management of patients with a small renal massHung Jui Tan
Division of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Urology 79:372-7. 2012..To evaluate patient and tumor characteristics associated with percutaneous renal mass biopsy (RMB) among patients with small renal masses (SRMs) and assessed the impact on clinical decision-making... - Complications and failure to rescue after laparoscopic versus open radical nephrectomyHung Jui Tan
Dow Division of Health Services Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Urol 186:1254-60. 2011.... - Delays in diagnosis and bladder cancer mortalityBrent K Hollenbeck
Department of Urology, Division of Oncology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Cancer 116:5235-42. 2010..Although screening currently is not recommended, better medical care of patients who are at risk (ie, those with hematuria) has the potential to improve outcomes... - Regional collaboration to improve radiographic staging practices among men with early stage prostate cancerDavid C Miller
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA
J Urol 186:844-9. 2011..We describe findings from a Urological Surgery Quality Collaborative project focused on improving the use of radiographic staging in men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer... - Surgeon characteristics and long-term trends in the adoption of laparoscopic radical nephrectomyChristopher P Filson
Division of Health Services Research, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
J Urol 185:2072-7. 2011..We describe longitudinal trends in surgeon adoption of laparoscopic radical nephrectomy. We assessed whether this technique is associated with specific surgeon and/or practice setting characteristics... - Postoperative complications and long-term survival among patients treated surgically for renal cell carcinomaHung Jui Tan
Division of Health Services Research, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2800, USA
J Urol 187:60-6. 2012..We assessed the relationship between postoperative complications and long-term survival among patients treated surgically for kidney cancer... - Surgical approach and the use of lymphadenectomy and adrenalectomy among patients undergoing radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinomaChristopher P Filson
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Urol Oncol 30:856-63. 2012..We assessed the influence of tumor size and surgical approach on the use of lymphadenectomy and adrenalectomy with radical nephrectomy... - Understanding prostate cancer spending growth among Medicare beneficiariesYun Zhang
Department of Urology, Dow Division of Health and Services Research, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Urology 77:326-31. 2011..Growth in prostate cancer spending continues to outpace that for overall health expenditures, garnering nearly $7 billion annually... - Population-level comparative effectiveness of laparoscopic versus open radical nephrectomy for patients with kidney cancerHung Jui Tan
Division of Health Services Research, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2800, USA
Cancer 117:4184-93. 2011.... - Identifying better practices for early-stage bladder cancerJohn Malcolm Hollingsworth
Dow Division of Health Services Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Med Care 49:1112-7. 2011..Practice guidelines for nonmuscle invasive (ie, early stage) bladder cancer are ambiguous, resulting in substantial practice variation without a clear patient benefit... - Physician practices and readiness for medical home reforms: policy, pitfalls, and possibilitiesJohn M Hollingsworth
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Health Serv Res 47:486-508. 2012..To determine the proportion of physician practices in the United States that currently meets medical home criteria... - The economic burden of prostate cancer survivorship careTed A Skolarus
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 2967, USA
J Urol 184:532-8. 2010..As a result, survivors have a protracted course, harboring considerable clinical and economic implications. Thus, we investigated the extent to which health service use and expenditures vary during continuing prostate cancer care... - Robot-assisted retroperitoneal partial nephrectomy: technique and perioperative resultsAlon Z Weizer
Division of Urologic Oncology, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Endourol 25:553-7. 2011..We describe a robot-assisted retroperitoneal approach for the management of posterior renal masses. Our early results suggest reduced perioperative morbidity with the ability to manage more complex tumors... - Does robotic technology mitigate the challenges of large prostate size?Ted A Skolarus
Department of Urology, Division of Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Urology 76:1117-21. 2010..For this reason, we undertook a study to better understand the relationships between large prostate size and robotic prostatectomy outcomes with respect to intraoperative and pathologic factors... - Specialty care and the patient-centered medical homeJohn M Hollingsworth
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 2967, USA
Med Care 49:4-9. 2011..Such collaboration may require a new equilibrium in chronic disease care, with some of the routine follow-up currently provided by specialists reallocated to PCPs and their medical home teams... - The demographic burden of urologic diseases in AmericaDavid C Miller
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Urol Clin North Am 36:11-27, v. 2009..This article details major initial findings from the Urologic Diseases in America project with respect to the demographic impact of the most common benign, malignant, and pediatric urologic conditions... - Establishment of a urological surgery quality collaborativeDavid C Miller
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA
J Urol 184:2485-90. 2010..We describe the establishment of the Urological Surgery Quality Collaborative including our pilot project to improve radiographic staging for men with prostate cancer... - The delivery of prostate cancer care in the United States: implications for delivery system reformTed A Skolarus
Division of Oncology, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 2967, USA
J Urol 184:2279-84. 2010..To better understand care coordination in the context of prostate cancer we examined how the delivery of prostate cancer care is partitioned across primary care providers and specialists... - Initial patterns of care with oral targeted therapies for patients with renal cell carcinomaChristopher P Filson
Department of Urology, Division of Hematology Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 2967, USA
Urology 77:825-830.e1. 2011..To characterize the contemporary use of oral-targeted therapies (ie, sunitinib, sorafenib) among patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and to assess the factors associated with short-term and sequential treatment... - External validation of a claims-based algorithm for classifying kidney-cancer surgeriesDavid C Miller
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 9:92. 2009..To achieve this aim, we compared procedure assignments based on Medicare claims with the type of surgery specified in SEER registry data and clinical operative reports... - Contemporary clinical epidemiology of renal cell carcinoma: insight from a population based case-control studyDavid C Miller
Department of Urology, University of Michigan and Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
J Urol 184:2254-8. 2010..To clarify the contemporary clinical epidemiology of renal cell carcinoma we present trends in clinical presentation and treatment in patients enrolled in a population based case-control study...