Use of surgical-site infection rates to rank hospital performance across several types of surgery

Preventing and managing surgical site infections

(2014)   BRITISH JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE

Surgical Site Infections in Colon Surgery

(2011) Martin Hübner   ARCHIVES OF SURGERY

Funnel plots and risk-adjusted count data adverse events. A limitation of indirect standardisation

(2011) A. Morton et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Reliability of Superficial Surgical Site Infections as a Hospital Quality Measure

(2011) Lillian S. Kao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Large Between-Center Differences in Outcome After Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the International Mission on Prognosis and Clinical Trial Design in Traumatic Brain Injury (IMPACT) Study

(2011) Hester F. Lingsma et al.   NEUROSURGERY

Displaying random variation in comparing hospital performance

(2011) A. M. van Dishoeck et al.   BMJ Quality & Safety

Random variation and rankability of hospitals using outcome indicators

(2011) A.-M. van Dishoeck et al.   BMJ Quality & Safety

Surveillance of surgical-site infections: impact on quality of care and reporting dilemmas

(2010) Pascal Astagneau et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Should National Standards for Reporting Surgical Site Infections Distinguish between Primary and Revision Orthopedic Surgeries?

(2010) Surbhi Leekha et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Improving American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Risk Adjustment: Incorporation of a Novel Procedure Risk Score

(2010) Mehul V. Raval et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Risk Factors for and Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infections

(2010) David J. Leaper   Surgical Infections

Fifteen years of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in review

(2009) Kamal M.F. Itani   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Incorporating natural variation into IVF clinic league tables: The Expected Rank

(2009) Hester F Lingsma et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

League Tables of Breast Cancer Screening Units: Worst-case and Best-case Scenario Ratings Helped in Exposing Real Differences between Performance Ratings

(2009) Oscar Lemmers et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCREENING

Understanding and Reducing Variation in Surgical Mortality

(2008) John D. Birkmeyer et al.   Annual Review of Medicine

Rates of Surgical Site Infection After Hip Replacement as a Hospital Performance Indicator: Analysis of Data From the English Mandatory Surveillance System

(2008) J. Wilson et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Trends in the Incidence of Surgical Site Infection in The Netherlands

(2008) Judith Manniën et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Variation between hospitals in patient outcome after stroke is only partly explained by differences in quality of care: results from the Netherlands Stroke Survey

(2008) H F Lingsma et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

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 Initiative

(2008) Darrell A. Campbell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS