| Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States JD Birkmeyer, AE Siewers, EVA Finlayson, TA Stukel, FL Lucas, I Batista, ... New England Journal of Medicine 346 (15), 1128-1137, 2002 | 5626 | 2002 |
| Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States JD Birkmeyer, TA Stukel, AE Siewers, PP Goodney, DE Wennberg, ... New England Journal of Medicine 349 (22), 2117-2127, 2003 | 3520 | 2003 |
| Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick New England Journal of Medicine 361 (14), 1368-1375, 2009 | 1586 | 2009 |
| Surgical skill and complication rates after bariatric surgery JD Birkmeyer, JF Finks, A O'reilly, M Oerline, AM Carlin, AR Nunn, ... New England Journal of Medicine 369 (15), 1434-1442, 2013 | 1471 | 2013 |
| Trends in hospital volume and operative mortality for high-risk surgery JF Finks, NH Osborne, JD Birkmeyer New England Journal of Medicine 364 (22), 2128-2137, 2011 | 1408 | 2011 |
| Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Annals of surgery 250 (6), 1029-1034, 2009 | 834 | 2009 |
| A regional intervention to improve the hospital mortality associated with coronary artery bypass graft surgery GT O'Connor, SK Plume, EM Olmstead, JR Morton, CT Maloney, ... JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association 275 (11), 841-846, 1996 | 825 | 1996 |
| The epidemiology of diagnosed pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis in the elderly WD Kniffin, JA Baron, J Barrett, JD Birkmeyer, FA Anderson Archives of internal medicine 154 (8), 861-866, 1994 | 735 | 1994 |
| Hospital volume and late survival after cancer surgery JD Birkmeyer, Y Sun, SL Wong, TA Stukel Annals of surgery 245 (5), 777-783, 2007 | 719 | 2007 |
| Variation in carotid endarterectomy mortality in the Medicare population DE Wennberg, FL Lucas, JD Birkmeyer, CE Bredenberg, ES Fisher JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association 279 (16), 1278-1281, 1998 | 715 | 1998 |
| Measuring the quality of surgical care: structure, process, or outcomes? 1 JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick, NJO Birkmeyer Journal of the American College of Surgeons 198 (4), 626-632, 2004 | 598 | 2004 |
| Surgical mortality as an indicator of hospital quality: the problem with small sample size JB Dimick, HG Welch, JD Birkmeyer Jama 292 (7), 847-851, 2004 | 591 | 2004 |
| Effect of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality with pancreaticoduodenectomy JD Birkmeyer, SRG Finlayson, ANA Tosteson, SM Sharp, AL Warshaw, ... Surgery 125 (3), 250-256, 1999 | 579 | 1999 |
| Volume standards for high-risk surgical procedures: potential benefits of the Leapfrog initiative JD Birkmeyer, EVA Finlayson, CM Birkmeyer Surgery 130 (3), 415-422, 2001 | 573 | 2001 |
| Trends in the United States in the treatment of distal radial fractures in the elderly KC Chung, MJ Shauver, JD Birkmeyer JBJS 91 (8), 1868-1873, 2009 | 560 | 2009 |
| Hospital volume and operative mortality in cancer surgery: a national study EVA Finlayson, PP Goodney, JD Birkmeyer Archives of Surgery 138 (7), 721-725, 2003 | 560 | 2003 |
| The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions in the United States: study examines trends in US hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic. JD Birkmeyer, A Barnato, N Birkmeyer, R Bessler, J Skinner Health Affairs 39 (11), 2010-2017, 2020 | 536 | 2020 |
| Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Medical care 49 (12), 1076-1081, 2011 | 517 | 2011 |
| Understanding of regional variation in the use of surgery JD Birkmeyer, BN Reames, P McCulloch, AJ Carr, WB Campbell, ... The Lancet 382 (9898), 1121-1129, 2013 | 505 | 2013 |
| Patient preferences for location of care: implications for regionalization SRG Finlayson, JD Birkmeyer, ANA Tosteson, RF Nease Jr Medical care 37 (2), 204-209, 1999 | 496 | 1999 |
