Research Topics
| George StukenborgSummaryAffiliation: University of Virginia Country: USA Publications
Research Grants
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
The relationship between body mass index and 30-day mortality risk, by principal surgical procedureFlorence E Turrentine
Departments of Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0821, USA
Arch Surg 147:236-42. 2012..Obesity is a prevalent chronic disease in the United States, and general and vascular surgeons are caring for an increasing population of obese patients...- Hospital mortality risk adjustment for heart failure patients using present on admission diagnoses: improved classification and calibrationGeorge J Stukenborg
Division of Patient Outcomes, Policy, and Population Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Med Care 49:744-51. 2011..Heart failure patient mortality rates are a focus of hospital quality assessment. This study examines whether comprehensive use of diagnoses identified as present on admission improves methods for comparing hospital mortality rates... 
Comparison of the performance of two comorbidity measures, with and without information from prior hospitalizationsG J Stukenborg
Division of Health Services Research and Outcomes Evaluation, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 0821, USA
Med Care 39:727-39. 2001....- Which hospitals have significantly better or worse than expected mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction patients? Improved risk adjustment with present-at-admission diagnosesGeorge J Stukenborg
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Multistory Building, Room 3181, PO Box 800438, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0821, USA
Circulation 116:2960-8. 2007..This study examines the effect on hospital mortality rate comparisons of improved risk adjustment methods using diagnoses reported as present-at-admission... - Present-at-admission diagnoses improved mortality risk adjustment among acute myocardial infarction patientsGeorge J Stukenborg
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 60:142-54. 2007..In this study, we present an AMI mortality risk-adjustment model that adjusts for comorbid disease and for AMI severity using information from secondary diagnoses reported as present at admission for California hospital patients... - Hospital discharge abstract data on comorbidity improved the prediction of death among patients hospitalized with aspiration pneumoniaGeorge J Stukenborg
Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Blake Center, Room 400B, 1224 West Main Street, P O Box 800821, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0821, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:522-32. 2004.... - Present-at-admission diagnoses improve mortality risk adjustment and allow more accurate assessment of the relationship between volume of lung cancer operations and mortality riskGeorge J Stukenborg
Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908 0821, USA
Surgery 138:498-507. 2005..Previous studies of this relationship have used different methods of adjusting for factors that influence mortality risk, but none have adjusted for differences in comorbid disease using only diagnoses identified as present-at-admission... - Bundle-branch block morphology and other predictors of outcome after cardiac resynchronization therapy in Medicare patientsKenneth C Bilchick
Departments of Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, PO Box 800158, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
Circulation 122:2022-30. 2010..Analysis of population-based outcomes provides a method to identify real-world predictors of CRT outcomes... - Treatment strategies for pelvic organ prolapse: a cost-effectiveness analysisKathie L Hullfish
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Int Urogynecol J 22:507-15. 2011..To compare the relative cost effectiveness of treatment decision alternatives for post-hysterectomy pelvic organ prolapse (POP)... 
Race and the likelihood of localized prostate cancer at diagnosis among men in 4 southeastern statesMohammed Norman Oliver
University of Virginia Health Systems, Department of Family Medicine, Box 800729, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 101:750-7. 2009..To assess the statistical relationship between stage at diagnosis of prostate cancer and racial category in 4 southeastern states...- Comorbid disease and the effect of race and ethnicity on in-hospital mortality from aspiration pneumoniaM Norman Oliver
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 96:1462-9. 2004..African Americans are hospitalized at a significantly higher rate than whites for aspiration pneumonia; however, no studies have investigated racial and ethnic disparities in mortality in this population... - Influence of weekend hospital admission on short-term mortality after intracerebral hemorrhageR Webster Crowley
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Stroke 40:2387-92. 2009..Although many clinicians have hypothesized the presence of this "weekend effect" with patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, there is a paucity of studies validating this conjecture... - Addition of adult-to-adult living donation to liver transplant programs improves survival but at an increased costPatrick G Northup
Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Liver Transpl 15:148-62. 2009..The addition of LDLT to a standard waiting list DDLT program is effective at improving recipient survival and preventing waiting list deaths but at a greater cost... - Radiotracer-guided thoracoscopic resection is a cost-effective technique for the evaluation of subcentimeter pulmonary nodulesEric L Grogan
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 86:934-40; discussion 934-40. 2008..Decision analysis, used to model cost and effectiveness, is useful to compare treatment options. We hypothesize that RGTR strategy is more cost-effective compared with thoracotomy for subcentimeter pulmonary nodules... - Decision analysis of discordant thyroid nodule biopsy guideline criteriaChristopher R McCartney
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Box 800391, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 93:3037-44. 2008..Recently published guidelines are discordant regarding diagnostic approaches to small (10-14 mm) thyroid nodules... - A cost-effective analysis of adjuvant therapies for the treatment of stage I endometrial adenocarcinomaJason A Lachance
Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Gynecol Oncol 108:77-83. 2008..Our goal was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these alternatives for management of stage I endometrial adenocarcinoma... - The association between hospital characteristics and rates of preventable complications and adverse eventsDeirdre K Thornlow
University of Virginia, School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA 22309, USA
Med Care 44:265-9. 2006.... - A thoracic surgeon-directed tobacco cessation interventionBenjamin D Kozower
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 0679, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 89:926-30; discussion 930. 2010..The purpose of this study was to prospectively evaluate a brief tobacco cessation intervention offered by surgeons in an outpatient thoracic surgery clinic... - Cardiac catheterization within 24 hours of valve surgery is significantly associated with acute renal failureSara A Hennessy
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 140:1011-7. 2010..We hypothesized that preoperative cardiac catheterization within 24 hours of valve surgery is associated with the development of acute renal failure... - Atrial fibrillation is associated with increased risk of perioperative stroke and death from carotid endarterectomyNancy L Harthun
Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Vasc Surg 51:330-6. 2010..This study evaluates whether atrial fibrillation is significantly associated with an increased risk of death or stroke for patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy... - Cancer incidence after localized therapy for prostate cancerKihyuck Moon
Department of Urology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Cancer 107:991-8. 2006..It is noteworthy that, to the authors' knowledge, this report shows for the first time that, despite the higher doses of radiation delivered, patients who received radioactive implants had the lowest odds of developing second cancers... - Primary payer status affects mortality for major surgical operationsDamien J LaPar
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0679, USA
Ann Surg 252:544-50; discussion 550-1. 2010..Medicaid and Uninsured populations are a significant focus of current healthcare reform. We hypothesized that outcomes following major surgical operations in the United States is dependent on primary payer status... - Influence of weekend versus weekday hospital admission on mortality following subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical articleR Webster Crowley
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Neurosurg 111:60-6. 2009..This study examines the relationship between short-term mortality risk and weekend admission among patients hospitalized following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)... - BRMS1 transcriptional repression correlates with CpG island methylation and advanced pathological stage in non-small cell lung cancerAlykhan S Nagji
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Pathol 221:229-37. 2010.... - Outcomes of reoperative aortic valve replacement after previous sternotomyDamien J LaPar
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 139:263-72. 2010..Effect of initial cardiac operation on reoperative aortic valve replacement was also investigated... - Predicted risk of mortality models: surgeons need to understand limitations of the University HealthSystem Consortium modelsBenjamin D Kozower
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 209:551-6. 2009....
Research Grants
- Mortality Risk Adjustment with Present On Admission DiagnosesGeorge J Stukenborg; Fiscal Year: 2010..This study will develop a series of statistical models using secondary diagnoses reported as present on admission to substantially improve mortality risk adjustment in studies using administrative data. ..
- Administrative Data and General Comorbidity ModelsGeorge Stukenborg; Fiscal Year: 2002..In the fourth stage, we will compare the statistical performance of the developed models to that of other comparable methods (Deyo/Charlson method and the Elixhauser et al. Method) in each study population. ..