The impact of adjusting for reliability on hospital quality rankings in vascular surgery

Dimick, 2008, The zero mortality paradox in surgery, J Am Coll Surg, 206, 13, 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.07.032 Iezzoni, 2003 Dimick, 2009, Composite measures for predicting surgical mortality in the hospital, Health Aff (Millwood), 28, 1189, 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.1189 Shahian, 2007, Quality measurement in adult cardiac surgery: part 1–Conceptual framework and measure selection, Ann Thorac Surg, 83, S3, 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.01.053 Daley, 1997, Validating risk-adjusted surgical outcomes: site visit assessment of process and structure, J Am Coll Surg, 185, 341 Fink, 2002, The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in non-veterans administration hospitals: initial demonstration of feasibility, Ann Surg, 236, 344, 10.1097/00000658-200209000-00011 Khuri, 1998, The Department of Veterans Affairs' NSQIP: the first national, validated, outcome-based, risk-adjusted, and peer-controlled program for the measurement and enhancement of the quality of surgical care, Ann Surg, 228, 491, 10.1097/00000658-199810000-00006 Khuri, 1997, Risk adjustment of the postoperative mortality rate for the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical care: results of the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study, J Am Coll Surg, 185, 315 Shiloach, 2010, Toward robust information: data quality and inter-rater reliability in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, J Am Coll Surg, 210, 6, 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.09.031 Hofer, 1999, The unreliability of individual physician “report cards” for assessing the costs and quality of care of a chronic disease, JAMA, 281, 2098, 10.1001/jama.281.22.2098 Shahian, 2008, Comparison of “risk-adjusted” hospital outcomes, Circulation, 117, 1955, 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.747873 Shahian, 2005, Massachusetts cardiac surgery report card: implications of statistical methodology, Ann Thorac Surg, 80, 2106, 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.078