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Surgical Volume and Center Effects on Early Mortality After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: 25-Year North American Experience From a Multi-institutional Registry

Jeffrey M. Vinocur, Jeremiah Menk, John E. Connett, James H. Moller, Lazaros Kochilas

Pediatric Cardiology · 2013 · 68 citations · 23 references

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An empirically based tool for analyzing mortality associated with congenital heart surgery

Sean M. O’Brien, David R. Clarke, Jeffrey P. Jacobs et al. · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2009 · 712 citations · Full text

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The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns?

Harold S. Luft, Sandra Hunt, Susan Maerki · PubMed · 1987 · 569 citations · Full text

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Surgical Mortality as an Indicator of Hospital Quality

Justin B. Dimick, H. Gilbert Welch, John D. Birkmeyer · JAMA · 2004 · 459 citations

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: The Effect of Hospital and Surgeon Volume on In-hospital Mortality

Edward L. Hannan, Michael Racz, Rae-Ellen W. Kavey et al. · PEDIATRICS · 1998 · 334 citations

In-Hospital Mortality for Surgical Repair of Congenital Heart Defects: Preliminary Observations of Variation by Hospital Caseload

Kathy J. Jenkins, Jane W. Newburger, James E. Lock et al. · PEDIATRICS · 1995 · 292 citations