2012
Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction.
Bradley EH, Curry LA, Spatz ES, Herrin J, Cherlin EJ, Curtis JP, Thompson JW, Ting HH, Wang Y, Krumholz HM. Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction. Annals Of Internal Medicine 2012, 156: 618-26. PMID: 22547471, PMCID: PMC3386642, DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-9-201205010-00003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk-standardized mortality ratesAcute myocardial infarctionLower risk-standardized mortality ratesMyocardial infarctionNurse championsMortality rateHospital strategiesHospital risk-standardized mortality ratesHospital-level factorsIntensive care unitAcute care hospitalsCardiac catheterization laboratoryCross-sectional surveyUnited Health FoundationCare hospitalCare unitCross-sectional designAMI casesAMI volumeCatheterization laboratoryHospital cliniciansHospitalMultivariate analysisPatientsHealth Foundation
2010
A National Study of Attrition in General Surgery Training
Yeo H, Bucholz E, Sosa J, Curry L, Lewis FR, Jones AT, Viola K, Lin Z, Bell RH. A National Study of Attrition in General Surgery Training. Annals Of Surgery 2010, 128: 131-139. PMID: 20739854, DOI: 10.1097/sla.0b013e3181f2789c.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGS residentsOnly independent predictorNational studyNational prospective studyCategorical residentsGeneral surgery residencyGeneral surgery trainingIndependent predictorsProspective studyCumulative riskMultivariate analysisDemographic dataResident variablesCases of attritionSurgical specialtiesWork-hour reductionPGY-2Demographic informationSurgery residencyPGY-1Postgraduate yearSurgery trainingDemographic factorsProgram reportsAmerican Board