Hospitals, Low-Volume

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Assessment of Operator Variability in Risk-Standardized Mortality Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report From the NCDR. 
  • Association Between Hospital Volume, Processes of Care, and Outcomes in Patients Admitted With Heart Failure: Insights From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. 
  • Association Between Hospital Volumes and Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. 
  • Association between hospital procedure volume and early complications after pacemaker implantation: results from a large, unselected, contemporary cohort of the German nationwide obligatory external quality assurance programme. 
  • Association of hospital myocardial infarction volume with adherence to American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association performance measures: Insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • Case mix-adjusted cost of colectomy at low-, middle-, and high-volume academic centers. 
  • Comparison of survival of stage I-III colon cancer by travel distance and hospital volume. 
  • Defining a Hospital Volume Threshold for Minimally Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy in the United States. 
  • Factors Associated With and Outcomes of Aborted Procedures During Elective Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. 
  • Failure to rescue in the era of the lung allocation score: The impact of center volume. 
  • Fenestrated repair improves perioperative outcomes but lacks a hospital volume association for complex abdominal aortic aneurysms. 
  • Going the Extra Mile: Improved Survival for Pancreatic Cancer Patients Traveling to High-volume Centers. 
  • Hospital Factors Associated With Interhospital Transfer Destination for Stroke in the Northeast United States. 
  • Hospital Quality Metrics: "America's Best Hospitals" and Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke. 
  • Hospital Volume Threshold for the Treatment of Retroperitoneal Sarcoma. 
  • Hospital Volume and the Costs Associated with Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer. 
  • Identification of hospital outliers in bleeding complications after percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Impact of centre volume, surgeon volume, surgeon experience and geographic location on reoperation after intramedullary nailing of tibial shaft fractures 
  • Invited Commentary. 
  • Is hospital procedure volume associated with hospitalization charges and complication rates for cleft lip repairs? 
  • Lung Transplant Center Volume Ameliorates Adverse Influence of Prolonged Ischemic Time on Mortality. 
  • Malignant pleural mesothelioma and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database: an analysis of surgical morbidity and mortality. 
  • Outcomes of PCI in Relation to Procedural Characteristics and Operator Volumes in the United States. 
  • Outcomes of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Impact of preoperative risk. 
  • Overcoming a travel burden to high-volume centers for treatment of retroperitoneal sarcomas is associated with improved survival. 
  • Patients Treated at Low-Volume Centers have Higher Rates of Incomplete Resection and Compromised Outcomes: Analysis of 31,129 Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer. 
  • Perioperative Outcomes and Surgical Case Volume in Pediatric Complex Cranial Vault Reconstruction: A Multicenter Observational Study From the Pediatric Craniofacial Collaborative Group. 
  • Procedural Volume and Outcomes for Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement. 
  • Relationship Between Operator Volume and Long-Term Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 
  • Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Extremities: What Is the Value of Treating at High-volume Centers? 
  • Stage 1 hybrid palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome--assessment of contemporary patterns of use: an analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • Surgeon and center volume influence on outcomes after arterial switch operation: analysis of the STS Congenital Heart Surgery Database. 
  • The Association of Overall Annual Hospital Volume and Perioperative Outcomes following Free Flap Breast Reconstruction. 
  • The Effect of Hospital Volume on Breast Cancer Mortality. 
  • The Relationship Between Hospital Payer Mix and Volume Growth in Total Joint Arthroplasty: A 12-Year Analysis. 
  • The Vancouver 3M (Multidisciplinary, Multimodality, But Minimalist) Clinical Pathway Facilitates Safe Next-Day Discharge Home at Low-, Medium-, and High-Volume Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Centers: The 3M TAVR Study. 
  • The center volume-outcome effect in pancreas transplantation: a national analysis. 
  • The impact of hospital volume on clinical and economic outcomes in ventral hernia repair: an analysis with national policy implications. 
  • The influence of institutional volume on the incidence of complications and their effect on mortality after heart transplantation. 
  • The relationship between clinical trial accrual volume and outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia: A SWOG/ECOG-ACRIN study (S0106 and E1900). 
  • Travel distance and overall survival in hepatocellular cancer care. 
  • Treatment patterns and outcomes for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma associated with hospital case volume in the United States. 
  • Trends in use of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting: Results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database. 
  • Understanding the relationship between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital Compare star rating, surgical case volume, and short-term outcomes after major cancer surgery.