| 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 | 5348 | 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 | 3325 | 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 | 1479 | 2009 |
| 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 | 1302 | 2011 |
| 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 | 1291 | 2013 |
| 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 | 819 | 1996 |
| 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 | 768 | 2009 |
| 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 | 721 | 1994 |
| 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 | 700 | 1998 |
| Hospital volume and late survival after cancer surgery JD Birkmeyer, Y Sun, SL Wong, TA Stukel Annals of surgery 245 (5), 777, 2007 | 675 | 2007 |
| 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 | 571 | 2004 |
| 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 | 567 | 2001 |
| 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 | 565 | 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 | 565 | 1999 |
| 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 | 533 | 2003 |
| Trends in the United States in the treatment of distal radial fractures in the elderly KC Chung, MJ Shauver, JD Birkmeyer The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume. 91 (8), 1868, 2009 | 500 | 2009 |
| Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Medical care, 1076-1081, 2011 | 474 | 2011 |
| 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 | 462 | 1999 |
| 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 | 452 | 2013 |
| Hospital complication rates with bariatric surgery in Michigan NJO Birkmeyer, JB Dimick, D Share, A Hawasli, WJ English, J Genaw, ... Jama 304 (4), 435-442, 2010 | 441 | 2010 |
