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A visual, timeline-based display of evidence for emergency thoracotomyBruce L Hall
Department of Surgery, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110 1093, USA
J Trauma 59:773-7. 2005..A novel, visual display of selected evidence regarding emergency resuscitative thoracotomy is presented as a brief review...
New approaches to the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: the American College of Surgeons experienceBruce L Hall
Department of Surgery, St Louis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Surgery, Olin Business School, and Center for Health Policy, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
Am J Surg 198:S56-62. 2009..the foundation and development of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP), a review of recent work and new directions within the American College of Surgeons (ACS) NSQIP is presented, according to the following outline:..- Does surgical quality improve in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: an evaluation of all participating hospitalsBruce L Hall
Department of Surgery, John Cochran Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA
Ann Surg 250:363-76. 2009..The objective was to show that American College of Surgeons (ACS)-NSQIP helps all enrolled hospitals... - Comparison of mortality risk adjustment using a clinical data algorithm (American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) and an administrative data algorithm (Solucient) at the case level within a single institutionBruce Lee Hall
Department of Surgery, John Cochran Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 205:767-77. 2007..We sought to compare actual mortality with risk-adjusted expected mortality in a sample population calculated by two different methods; one based on preexisting administrative records and one based on chart reviews... - 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... - 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)... - Lymph node metastases in differentiated thyroid cancer under 2 cmRishindra M Reddy
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
Surgery 140:1050-4; discussion 1054-5. 2006..Patients with positive lymph nodes have a higher recurrence risk, but no significant increase in death... - Variability in reoperation rates at 182 hospitals: a potential target for quality improvementRyan P Merkow
Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 209:557-64. 2009.... 
Pancreatectomy risk calculator: an ACS-NSQIP resourcePurvi Parikh
Department of Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
HPB (Oxford) 12:488-97. 2010..Therefore, the objective was to create a 'Pancreatectomy Risk Calculator' using the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database...- Impact of isolated clinical performance feedback on clinical productivity of an academic surgical facultyE Scott Paxton
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Coll Surg 202:737-45. 2006..0%) but significant improvement in productivity in this academic surgical faculty group. Performance feedback can be useful and should be used in conjunction with other management tools for this population... - Risk adjustment for comparing hospital quality with surgery: how many variables are needed?Justin B Dimick
Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
J Am Coll Surg 210:503-8. 2010..We sought to determine whether these changes threaten the robustness of the risk adjustment of hospital quality comparisons... - Time-of-day effects on surgical outcomes in the private sector: a retrospective cohort studyRachel R Kelz
Department of Surgery, Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
J Am Coll Surg 209:434-445.e2. 2009..The relationship between operation start time and patient outcomes is not described in private-sector patients or for emergency cases... - 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... - Combined [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) for detection of recurrent, 131I-negative thyroid cancerSteven E Finkelstein
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
Ann Surg Oncol 15:286-92. 2008..Limited data are available regarding the performance of combined FDG-PET/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) for detecting recurrent thyroid cancer in WBS-neg patients... - Anonymous group peer review in surgery morbidity and mortality conferenceLeila C Bender
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis and Barnes Jewish Hospital, Campus Box 8109, 660 South Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110 1093, USA
Am J Surg 198:270-6. 2009..Surgical peer review might be characterized by assessment heterogeneity... - Evaluating individual surgeons based on total hospital costs: evidence for variation in both total costs and volatility of costsBruce L Hall
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Am Coll Surg 202:565-76. 2006..Implications for quality improvement and incentive programs are discussed... - Taking disclosure seriously: disclosing financial conflicts of interest at the American College of SurgeonsJason D Keune
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 212:215-24. 2011..The accurate disclosure of financial conflicts of interest has come to light as a sound component of managing relationships between surgeons and industry... - American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric: a beta phase reportJennifer L Bruny
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
J Pediatr Surg 48:74-80. 2013..Data collection and analysis were aimed at program refinement and development of risk-adjusted models for inter-institutional comparisons... - Surgical site infection prevention: the importance of operative duration and blood transfusion--results of the first American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Best Practices InitiativeDarrell A Campbell
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
J Am Coll Surg 207:810-20. 2008.... - Postoperative morbidity index: a quantitative measure of severity of postoperative complicationsSteven M Strasberg
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 213:616-26. 2011..The purpose of this study was to evaluate and establish feasibility of quantitative morbidity scores for several common abdominal surgical procedures... - Impact of resident duty-hour reform on faculty clinical productivityMary E Klingensmith
Department of Surgery, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Curr Surg 63:74-9. 2006..Prior data have shown that resident duty-hour reform has not affected faculty work hours; yet the preservation of faculty hours may have been at the expense of productivity. We sought to examine change in clinical productivity... - Contralateral papillary thyroid cancer at completion thyroidectomy has no impact on recurrence or survival after radioiodine treatmentPerry W Grigsby
Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA
Surgery 140:1043-7; discussion 1047-9. 2006..Our results, however, suggest that contralateral disease does not have an impact on recurrence or survival after treatment... - Clinical utility of routine barium esophagram after laparoscopic anterior esophageal myotomy for achalasiaLora Melman
Department of Surgery, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Surg Endosc 23:606-10. 2009..This study aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of routine barium esophagram after laparoscopic anterior esophageal myotomy for achalasia... - Intussusception in children: cost-effectiveness of ultrasound vs diagnostic contrast enemaBrian T Bucher
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
J Pediatr Surg 46:1099-105. 2011..The aim of the study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of different imaging strategies for the diagnosis of pediatric intussusception using a decision analytic model... - American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric: a phase 1 reportMehul V Raval
Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
J Am Coll Surg 212:1-11. 2011..This report documents results of the initial phase of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Pediatric... - Quantitative weighting of postoperative complications based on the accordion severity grading system: demonstration of potential impact using the american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement programMatthew R Porembka
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 210:286-98. 2010.... - Missing data in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program are not missing at random: implications and potential impact on quality assessmentsBarton H Hamilton
Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
J Am Coll Surg 210:125-139.e2. 2010..Alternative approaches, including using multiple imputation to incorporate uncertainty or using an indicator of missingness, can enhance robustness of evaluations...