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Dissecting the bundle: The final rules for the prospective payment system for dialysis.

Introduction of a rapid response system at a United States veterans affairs hospital reduced cardiac arrests.

Risk-adjusted number-between failures charting procedures for monitoring a patient care process for acute myocardial infarctions.

The new Medicare PPS and home dialysis.

Is risk-adjusted mortality an indicator of quality of care in general surgery?: a comparison of risk adjustment to peer review.

Administrative database studies in IBD: a cautionary tale.

Physician cost profiling.

Evaluation of paediatric cardiosurgical model in Croatia by using the Aristotle basic complexity score and the risk adjustment for congenital cardiac surgery-1 method.

Thrombin generation in rheumatoid arthritis: dependence on plasma factor composition.

Comparison of 30-day outcomes after emergency general surgery procedures: potential for targeted improvement.

More operations, more deaths? Relationship between operative intervention rates and risk-adjusted mortality at trauma centers.

Procedure volume as a predictor of surgical outcomes.

Regional variations in diagnostic practices.

Geographic variation in Medicare spending.

Trends in the overall survival of cancer patients diagnosed 1964-2003 in the Nordic countries followed up to the end of 2006: the importance of case-mix.

Evaluating risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality.

Evaluating risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality.

Surgical site infection in colorectal surgery: a new look at an old risk adjustment tool.

Validation of the risk index category as a predictor of surgical site infection in elective colorectal surgery.

Association between the Thr325Ile polymorphism of the thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor and stroke in the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health Study.