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| Lauren H NicholasSummaryAffiliation: University of Michigan Country: USA Publications
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Explaining racial disparities in mortality after abdominal aortic aneurysm repairNicholas H Osborne
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation M SCORE, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5604, USA
J Vasc Surg 50:709-13. 2009..Black patients have a higher mortality rate than nonblacks after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. We sought to understand the factors responsible for this racial disparity in the mortality rate after aneurysm repair...- 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... - Evaluating parsimonious risk-adjustment models for comparing hospital outcomes with vascular surgeryNicholas H Osborne
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA
J Vasc Surg 52:400-5. 2010..Most outcomes registries use a large number of variables to control for differences in patients. We sought to determine whether fewer variables could be used for risk adjustment without compromising hospital quality comparisons... - Understanding the racial disparity in the receipt of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repairNicholas H Osborne
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 5604, USA
Arch Surg 145:1105-8. 2010..Racial disparity exists in the management of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) using new health care technology... - The impact of adjusting for reliability on hospital quality rankings in vascular surgeryNicholas H Osborne
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Vasc Surg 53:1-5. 2011..Hospital quality in vascular surgery is often measured using mortality. We sought to determine whether adjusting mortality for statistical reliability changes hospital quality rankings for vascular surgery... - 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... 
Composite measures for rating hospital quality with major surgeryJustin B Dimick
University of Michigan, 2800 Plymouth Road Building 520 Office 3144, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Health Serv Res 47:1861-79. 2012..To assess the value of a novel composite measure for identifying the best hospitals for major procedures...- Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in medicare beneficiariesLauren H Nicholas
Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
Arch Surg 145:999-1004. 2010..To determine whether high rates of compliance with perioperative processes of care used for public reporting and pay-for-performance are associated with lower rates of risk-adjusted mortality and high-risk surgical complications... - Bariatric surgery complications before vs after implementation of a national policy restricting coverage to centers of excellenceJustin B Dimick
Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
JAMA 309:792-9. 2013..Starting in 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has restricted coverage of bariatric surgery to hospitals designated as centers of excellence (COE) by 2 major professional organizations...