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Ryan Merkow to Hospitals

This is a "connection" page, showing publications Ryan Merkow has written about Hospitals.
Connection Strength

4.944
  1. Utilization and Treatment Patterns of Cytoreduction Surgery and Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in the United States. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020 Jan; 27(1):214-221.
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    Score: 0.552
  2. Exploring the Underlying Mechanisms of the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Complex Cancer Care. Ann Surg Oncol. 2017 Aug; 24(8):2067-2068.
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    Score: 0.478
  3. Reply to Letter: "Ability to Prevent Death as a Sequelae of Morbidity May Be an Additional Indicator of Hospital Quality". Ann Surg. 2015 Jun; 261(6):e158-9.
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    Score: 0.418
  4. Relationship between cancer center accreditation and performance on publicly reported quality measures. Ann Surg. 2014 Jun; 259(6):1091-7.
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    Score: 0.390
  5. Validity and feasibility of the american college of surgeons colectomy composite outcome quality measure. Ann Surg. 2013 Mar; 257(3):483-9.
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    Score: 0.357
  6. Effect of including cancer-specific variables on risk-adjusted hospital surgical quality comparisons. Ann Surg Oncol. 2013 Jun; 20(6):1766-73.
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    Score: 0.355
  7. A common question revisited: can differences in clinical severity explain the volume-outcome relationship? Surgery. 2010 May; 147(5):610-1.
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    Score: 0.294
  8. Variability in reoperation rates at 182 hospitals: a potential target for quality improvement. J Am Coll Surg. 2009 Nov; 209(5):557-64.
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    Score: 0.280
  9. ASO Visual Abstract: Association Between Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities and Hospital Performance in Treatment and Outcomes for Patients with Colon Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 02; 31(2):1095-1096.
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    Score: 0.191
  10. Changes in Surgical Outcomes in a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative with Introduction of Simultaneous, Comprehensive Interventions. J Am Coll Surg. 2023 07 01; 237(1):128-138.
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    Score: 0.179
  11. Correlation of the US News and World Report-Calculated Nurse Staffing Index With Actual Hospital-Reported Nurse Staffing. J Nurs Care Qual. 2022 Jul-Sep 01; 37(3):195-198.
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    Score: 0.166
  12. National Evaluation of Patient Preferences in Selecting Hospitals and Health Care Providers. Med Care. 2020 10; 58(10):867-873.
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    Score: 0.151
  13. A Comprehensive Estimation of the Costs of 30-Day Postoperative Complications Using Actual Costs from Multiple, Diverse Hospitals. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2020 10; 46(10):558-564.
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    Score: 0.149
  14. Hospital variation in use of prophylactic drains following hepatectomy. HPB (Oxford). 2020 10; 22(10):1471-1479.
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    Score: 0.145
  15. Variation in Hospital Utilization of Minimally Invasive Distal Pancreatectomy for Localized Pancreatic Neoplasms. J Gastrointest Surg. 2020 12; 24(12):2780-2788.
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    Score: 0.143
  16. The Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services Hospital Ratings: Pitfalls Of Grading On A Single Curve. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 09; 38(9):1523-1529.
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    Score: 0.140
  17. Assessment of hospital-level adjusted breast cancer sentinel lymph node positivity rates. J Surg Oncol. 2019 Jan; 119(1):101-108.
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    Score: 0.133
  18. Does Performance Vary Within the Same Hospital When Separately Examining Different Patient Subgroups? J Am Coll Surg. 2016 05; 222(5):790-797.e1.
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    Score: 0.110
  19. Impact of hepatectomy surgical complexity on outcomes and hospital quality rankings. Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 Jun; 21(6):1773-80.
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    Score: 0.096
  20. Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus. J Am Coll Surg. 2013 Aug; 217(2):336-46.e1.
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    Score: 0.090
  21. Short-term outcomes after esophagectomy at 164 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program hospitals: effect of operative approach and hospital-level variation. Arch Surg. 2012 Nov; 147(11):1009-16.
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    Score: 0.087
  22. Hospital Volume Predicts Guideline-Concordant Care in Stage III Esophageal Cancer. Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 10; 114(4):1176-1182.
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    Score: 0.040
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