Publications
Listed below are selected peer-reviewed publications by Center investigators sorted by date.
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Calhoun SR, Reiter JG, Hill AS, Guevara JP, Zorc JJ, Even-Shoshan O. Racial Disparities in Medicaid Asthma Hospitalizations. Pediatrics, 2017 Jan; 139(1). PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Wang W, Calhoun SR, Reiter JG, Even-Shoshan O, Greeley WJ. Practice Style Variation in Medicaid and Non-Medicaid Children With Complex Chronic Conditions Undergoing Surgery. Annals of Surgery. 2016 November [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Wang W, Calhoun S, Guevara JP, Zorc JJ, Even-Shoshan O. Practice Patterns in Medicaid and Non-Medicaid Asthma Admissions. Pediatrics, 2016 Jul. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Wang W, Ludwig JM, Calhoun S, Guevara JP, Zorc JJ, Zeigler A, Even-Shoshan O. Auditing Practice Style Variation in Pediatric Inpatient Asthma Care. JAMA Pediatrics, 2016 Jul. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, McHugh MD, Ludwig JM, Smith HL, Niknam BA, Even-Shoshan O, Fleisher LA, Kelz RR, Aiken LH. Comparison of the Value of Nursing Work Environments in Hospitals Across Different Levels of Patient Risk. JAMA Surgery, 2016 Jun; 151(6): 527. PubMed
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Silber JH, Satopää VA, Mukherjee N, Rockova V, Wang W, Hill AS, Even-Shoshan O, Rosenbaum PR, George EI. Improving Medicare's Hospital Compare Mortality Model. Health Services Research, 2016 Jun; 51(S2): 1229–1247. PubMed
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Harhay MN, Hill AS, Wang W, Even-Shoshan O, Mussell AS, Bloom RD, Feldman HI, Karlawish JH, Silber JH, Reese PP. Measures of Global Health Status on Dialysis Signal Early Rehospitalization Risk After Kidney Transplantation. PloS one, 2016 Jun; 11(6): 1-20. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Ross RN, Ludwig JM, Wang W, Niknam BA, Hill AS, Even-Shoshan O, Kelz RR, Fleisher LA. Indirect Standardization Matching: Assessing Specific Advantage and Risk Synergy. Health Services Research, 2016 Feb. PubMed
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D'Agostino JA, Passarella M, Saynisch P, Martin AE, Macheras M, Lorch SA. Preterm Infant Attendance at Health Supervision Visits. Pediatrics, 2015 Oct; 136(4): e794-802. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Kelz RR, Gaskin DJ, Ludwig JM, Ross RN, Niknam BA, Hill A, Wang M, Even-Shoshan O, Fleisher LA. Examining Causes of Racial Disparities in General Surgical Mortality: Hospital Quality Versus Patient Risk. Med Care, 2015 Jul; 53(7): 619-629. PubMed
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Jensen EA, Lorch SA. Effects of a Birth Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Level and Annual Volume of Very Low-Birth-Weight Infant Deliveries on Morbidity and Mortality. JAMA Pediatr, 2015 Aug; 169(8): e151906. PubMed
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Tucker Edmonds B, McKenzie F, Macheras M, Srinivas SK, Lorch SA. Morbidity and mortality associated with mode of delivery for breech periviable deliveries. Am J Obstet Gynecol, 2015 Jul;213(1):70.e1-70.e12. PubMed
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Lorch SA. The importance of understanding hospital and country-specific case-mix for neonatal patients. J Pediatr (Rio J), 2015 May-Jun; 91(3):207-9. PubMed
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Pimentel SD, Kelz RR, Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR. Large, sparse optimal matching with refined covariate balance in an observational study of the health outcomes produced by new surgeons. J Am Stat Assoc, 2015 Apr; 110(510):515-527. PubMed
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Murthy K, Macheras M, Grobman WA, Lorch SA. Hospital of Delivery and the Racial Differences in Late Preterm and Early-Term Labor Induction. Am J Perinatol, 2015 Mar. PubMed
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Lorch SA. The clinical and policy implications of new measures of premature infant growth. Pediatrics, 2015 Mar;135(3):e703-4. PubMed
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Yang F, Zubizarreta JR, Small DS, Lorch S, Rosenbaum PR. Dissonant Conclusions When Testing the Validity of an Instrumental Variable. Am Stat, 2014; 68(4):253-263.
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Lorch SA, Martin AE, Ranade R, Srinivas SK, Grande, D. Lessons For Providers And Hospitals From Philadelphia’s Obstetric Services Closures And Consolidations, 1997–2012. 2014 Health Aff (Millwood), 33(12), 2162-2169. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Ross RN, Niknam BA, Ludwig JM, Wang W, Clark AS, Fox KR, Wang M, Even-Shoshan O, Giantonio BJ. Racial disparities in colon cancer survival. A matched cohort study. Ann Intern Med, 2014 Dec; 161(12): 845-54. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Passarella M, Zeigler A. Challenges to Measuring Variation in Readmission Rates of Neonatal Intensive Care Patients. Acad Pediatr, 2014 14(5), S47-S53. PubMed
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Nakamura MM, Toomey SL, Zaslavsky AM, Berry JG, Lorch SA, Jha AK, Schuster, MA. Measuring Pediatric Hospital Readmission Rates to Drive Quality Improvement. Acad Pediatr, 2014 14(5), S39-S46. PubMed
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Pati S, Wong AT, Calixte RE, Ludwig J, Zeigler, A, Localio, AR, Silber, JH. Medicaid and CHIP Retention Among Children in 12 States. Acad Pediatr, 2014 Nov; 22: S1876-2859. PubMed
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Patel MS, Volpp KG, Small DS, Hill AS, Even-Shoshan O, Rosenbaum L, Silber, JH. Association of the 2011 ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reforms With Mortality and Readmissions Among Hospitalized Medicare Patients. JAMA, 2014; 312(22), 2364-2373. PubMed
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Forrest CB, and Silber JH. Concept and measurement of pediatric value. Acad Pediatr, Sep-Oct 2014; 14(5), S33-S38. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Ross, RN, Ludwig JM, Wang W, Niknam BA, Saynisch PA, Even-Shoshan O, Kelz RR, Fleisher LA. Template matching for auditing hospital cost and quality. Health Serv Res, 2014 Oct; 49(5), 1446-1474. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Ross RN, Ludwig JM, Wang W, Niknam BA, Fleisher LA. A Hospital‐Specific Template for Benchmarking its Cost and Quality. Health Serv Res, 2014 Oct; 49(5), 1475-1497. PubMed
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Kozhimannil K, Macheras M, Lorch SA. Trends in childbirth before 39 weeks' gestation without medical indication. Med Care, 2014 Jul; 52(7):649-57. PubMed
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Wang W. Linear mixed function‐on‐function regression models. Biometrics, 2014 Dec;70(4), 794-801. PubMed
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Neuman M, Rosenbaum PR, Ludwig JM, Zubizaretta JR, Silber JH. Anesthesia technique, mortality, and length of stay after hip fracture surgery. JAMA, 2014 June 25; 311(24):2509-17. PubMed
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Neuman MD, Silber JH, Magaziner JS, Passarella MA, Mehta S, Werner, RM. Survival and functional outcomes after hip fracture among nursing home residents. JAMA Intern Med, 2014 Aug; 174(8), 1273-1280. PubMed
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Yang F, Lorch SA, Small DS. Estimation of causal effects using instrumental variables with nonignorable missing covariates: Application to effect of type of delivery NICU on premature infants. Ann Appl Stat, 2014; 8(1):48-73.
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Guo Z, Cheng J, Lorch SA, Small DS. Using an instrumental variable to test for unmeasured confounding. Stat Med, 2014 Sep; 33(20), 3528-3546. PubMed
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Patrick S, Kaplan H, Passarella M, Davis M, Lorch SA. Variation in treatment of neonatal abstinence syndrome in US children’s hospitals, 2004-2011. J Perinatol, 2014 Nov; 34(11), 867-872. PubMed
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Enlow E, Herbert SL, Jovel IJ, Lorch SA, Anderson C, Chamberlain LJ. Neonatal intensive care unit to home: the transition from parent and pediatrician perspectives, a prospective cohort study. J Perinatol, 2014 Oct; 34, 761-766. PubMed
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Liu Y, Traskin M, Lorch SA, George EI, Small D. Ensemble of trees approaches to risk adjustment for evaluating a hospital's performance. Health Care Manag Sci. 2014 Apr 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed
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Tucker Edmonds B, Ahlberg C, McPherson K, Srinivas S, Lorch S. Predictors and adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with antepartum discharge against medical advice. Matern Child Health J. 2014; 18(3):640-647. PubMed
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Guevara JP, Moon J, Hines EM, Fremont E, Wong A, Forrest CB, Silber JH, Pati S. Continuity of public insurance coverage: A systematic review of the literature. Med Care Res Rev. 2014; 71(2):115-137. PubMed
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Silber JH, Romano PS, Itani KM, Rosen AK, Small D, Lipner RS, Bosk CL, Wang Y, Halenar MJ, Korovaichuk S, Even-Shoshan O, Volpp KG. Assessing the effects of the 2003 resident duty hours reform on internal medicine board scores. Acad Med. 2014 Apr; 89(4):644-51. PubMed
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Srinivas SK, Fager C, Lorch SA. Variations in postdelivery infection and thrombosis by hospital teaching status. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013; 209(6):567. PubMed
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Ray KN, Lorch SA. Hospitalization of early preterm, late preterm, and term infants during the first year of life by gestational age. Hosp Pediatr. 2013; 3(3):194-203. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Clark AS, Giantonio BJ, Ross RN, Teng Y, Wang M, Niknam BA, Ludwig JM, Wang W, Even-Shoshan O, Fox KR. Characteristics associated with differences in survival among black and white women with breast cancer. JAMA. 2013; 310:389-397. PubMed
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Goyal N, Zubizaretta JR, Small DS, Lorch SA. Length of stay and readmission among late preterm infants: An instrumental variable approach. Hosp Pediatr. 2013; 3(1):7-15. PubMed
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Helstrom AW, Ingram E, Wang W, Small D, Klaus J, Oslin D. (2014). Treating heavy drinking in primary care practices: Evaluation of a telephone-based intervention program. Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment, 13(3), 101-109.
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Ross RN, Even-Shoshan O, Kelz RR, Neuman MD, Reinke CE, Ludwig JM, Kyle FA, Bratzler DW, Fleisher LA. Racial disparities in operative procedure time: The influence of obesity. Anesthesiology. 2013; 119:43-51. PubMed
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Kelz RR, Reinke CE, Zubizarreta JR, Wang M, Saynisch P, Even-Shoshan O, Reese PP, Fleisher LA, Silber JH. Acute kidney injury, renal function, and the elderly obese surgical patient: A matched case-control study. Ann Surg. 2013; 258:359-363. PubMed
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Tubbs-Cooley HL, Cimiotti JP, Silber JH, Sloane DM, Aiken LK. An observational study of nurse staffing ratios and hospital readmission among children admitted for common conditions. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013; 22(9):735-742. PubMed
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Volpp KG, Small DS, Romano PS, Itani KMF, Rosen AK, Even-Shoshan O, Wang Y, Bellini L, Halenar MJ, Korovaichuk S, Zhu J, Silber JH. Teaching hospital five-year mortality trends in the wake of duty hour reforms. J Gen Intern Med. 2013; 28:1048-1055. PubMed
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Navathe AS, Silber JH, Zhu J, Volpp KG. Does admission to a teaching hospital affect acute myocardial infarction survival? Acad Med. 2013; 88(4):475-482. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR and Silber JH. Using the exterior match to compare two entwined matched control groups. Am Stat. 2013; 67:67-75.
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Lorch SA, Srinivas SK, Ahlberg C, Small DS. The impact of obstetric unit closures on maternal and infant pregnancy outcomes. Health Serv Res. 2013; 48(2 Pt 1):455-475. PubMed
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Wang W. Identifiability of linear mixed effects models. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 2013; 7:244-263.
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Navathe AS, Silber JH, Small DS, Rosen AK, Romano PS, Even-Shoshan O, Wang Y, Zhu J, Halenar MJ, Volpp KG. Teaching hospital financial status and patient outcomes following ACGME duty hour reform. Health Serv Res. 2013; 48:476-498. PubMed
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Traskin M, Wang W, Ten Have TR, Small DS. Efficient estimation of the attributable fraction when there are monotonicity constraints and interactions. Biostatistics. 2013; 14(1):173-188.
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Zubizarreta, JR,Neuman MD, Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR. Contrasting evidence within and between institutions that supply treatment in an observational study of alternative forms of anesthesia. J Am Stat Assoc. 2012; 107:901-915.
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Reinke CE, Kelz RR, Zubizarreta JR, Mi L, Saynisch P, Kyle FA, Even-Shoshan O, Fleisher LA, Silber JH. Obesity and readmission in elderly surgical patients. Surgery. 2012;152(3):355-62. PubMed
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Neuman MD, Silber JH, Elkassabany NM, Ludwig JM, Fleisher LA. Comparative effectiveness of regional versus general anesthesia for hip fracture surgery in adults. Anesthesiology. 2012;117(1):72-92. PubMed
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Ray KN, Lorch SA. Hospitalization of rural and urban infants during the first year of life. Pediatrics. 2012; 130(6):1084-93. PubMed
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Wang W, Small D. A comparative study of parametric and nonparametric estimates of the attributable fraction for a semi-continuous exposure. Int J Biostat. 2012; 8(1):32. PubMed
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Shea JA, Weissman A, McKinney S, Silber JH, Volpp KG. Internal medicine trainees' views of training adequacy and duty hours restrictions in 2009. Acad Med. 2012;87(7):889-94. PubMed
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Yang D, Small DS, Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR. Optimal matching with minimal deviation from fine balance in a study of obesity and surgical outcomes. Biometrics. 2012;68(2):628-36. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Srinivas SK, Ahlberg C, Small DS. The impact of obstetric unit closures on maternal and infant pregnancy outcomes. Health Serv Res. 2013; 48(2 Pt 1):455-475. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Kelz RR, Reinke CE, Neuman MD, Ross RN, Even-Shoshan O, David G, Saynisch PA, Kyle FA, Bratzler DW, Fleischer LA. Medical and financial risks associated with surgery in the elderly obese. Ann Surg. 2012; 256(1):79-86. PubMed
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Goyal NK, Fiks AG, Lorch SA. Persistence of underweight status among late preterm infants . Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012; 166(5):424-30. PubMed
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Lorch SA Baiocchi M, Ahlberg CE, Small DS. The differential impact of delivery hospital on the outcomes of premature infants. Pediatrics. 2012; 130(2):270-8. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Kroelinger CD, Ahlberg C, Barfield WD. Factors that mediate racial/ethnic disparities in fetal death rates: United States. Am J Pub Health. 2012; 102(10):1902-10. PubMed
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Srinivas SK, Lorch SA. The laborist model of obstetric care: we need more evidence. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012; 207(1):30-5. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Maheshwari P, Even-Shoshan O. The impact of certificate of need programs on neonatal intensive care units. J Perinatol. 2012; 32:39-44. PubMed (Selected for "Editor's Choice" by the e-Journal of Neonatology)
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Pati S, Lorch SA, Lee GE, Sheffler-Collins S, Shah SS. Health insurance and length of stay for children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. J Hosp Med. 2012; 7(4):304-10. PubMed
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Dennis EF, Webb DA, Lorch SA, Mathew L, Bloch JR, Culhane JF. Subjective social status and maternal health in a low income urban population. Matern Child Health J. 2012; 16(4):834-43. PubMed
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DeMauro SB, Abbasi S, Lorch S. The impact of feeding interval on feeding outcomes in very low birth-weight infants. J Perinatol, 2011; 31(7), 481-486. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Even-Shoshan O, Mi L, Kyle F, Teng Y, Bratzler DW, Fleisher LA. Estimating anesthesia time using the Medicare claim: A validation study. Anesthesiology. 2011; 115:322-333. PubMed.
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Zubizarreta JR, Reinke CE, Kelz RR, Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR. Matching for several sparse nominal variables in a case-control study of readmission following surgery. Am Stat.2011; 65(4):229-238.
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Shah SS, Aronson PL, Mohamad Z, Lorch SA. Delayed acyclovir therapy and death among neonates with herpes simplex virus infection. Pediatrics. 2011;128(6):1153-60. PubMed
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Goyal NK, Fiks AG, Lorch SA. Association of late-preterm birth with asthma in young children: practice-based study. Pediatrics. 2011; 128(4):e830-8. PubMed
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Goyal NK, Fager C, Lorch SA. Adherence to discharge guidelines for late-preterm newborns. Pediatrics. 2011; 128(1):62-71. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR. A new u-statistic with superior design sensitivity in matched observational studies. Biometrics. 2011; 67(3):1017-27. PubMed
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Tucker Edmonds B, Srinivas S, Fager C, Lorch S. Predictors of cesarean delivery for periviable neonates. Obstet Gynecol. 2011; 118:49-56. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Srinivasan L, Escobar GJ. Epidemiology of apnea and bradycardia resolution in premature infants. Pediatrics. 2011; 128:62-71. PubMed
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Kaplan HC, Lorch SA, Pinto-Martin J, Putt M, Silber JH: Assessment of surfactant use in preterm infants as a marker of neonatal intensive care unit quality. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011; 11:22. PubMed
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Armstrong K, Randall TC, Polsky D, Moye E, Silber JH. Racial differences in surgeons and hospitals for endometrial cancer treatment. Med Care. 2011;49(2):207-14. PubMed
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Press MJ, Silber JH, Rosen AK, Romano PS, Itani KM, Zhu J, Wang Y, Even-Shoshan O, Halenar MJ, Volpp KG. The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26(4):405-11. PubMed
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Volpp KG, Friedman W, Romano PS, Rosen A, Silber JH. Residency training at a crossroads: duty-hour standards. 2010. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153(12):826-8. PubMed
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Neuman MD, David G, Silber JH, Schwartz JS, Fleisher LA. Changing access to emergency care for patients undergoing outpatient procedures at ambulatory surgery centers: evidence from Florida. Med Care Res Rev. 2011; 68(2):247-58. PubMed
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Dukhovny D, Lorch SA, Schmidt B, Doyle LW, Kok JH, Roberts RS, Kamholz KL, Wang N, Mao W, Zupancic JA; Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity Trial Group. Economic evaluation of caffeine for apnea of prematurity. Pediatrics. 2011; 127(1):e146-55. PubMed
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Kaestner R, Silber JH: Evidence on the efficacy of inpatient spending on medical patients. Milbank Q. 2010; 88:560-594. PubMed (AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year)
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Silber JH, Kaestner R, Even-Shoshan O, Wang Y, Bressler LJ: Aggressive treatment style and surgical outcomes. Health Serv Res. 2010; 45:1872-1892. PubMed (AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year)
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Brachet TJ, Ross RN, Bressler LJ, Even-Shoshan O, Lorch SA, Volpp KG. The Hospital Compare Mortality Model and the Volume-Outcome Relationship. Health Serv Res. 2010;45(5 Pt 1):1148-67. PubMed
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Srinivas SK, Fager C, Lorch SA. Evaluating risk-adjusted cesarean delivery rate as a measure of obstetric quality. Obstet Gynecol. 2010; 115(5):1007-13. PubMed
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Neuman MD, Fleisher LA, Even-Shoshan O, Mi L, Silber JH: Non-Operative Care for Hip fracture in the elderly: The influence of race, income, and comorbidities. Med Care. 2010; 48(4):314-20. PubMed
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Glickman SW, Kit Delgado M, Hirshon JM, Hollander JE, Iwashyna TJ, Jacobs AK, Kilaru AS, Lorch SA, Mutter RL, Myers SR, Owens PL, Phelan MP, Pines JM, Seymour CW, Ewen Wang N, Branas CC; 2010 Academic emergency medicine consensus conference Beyond regionalization: Intergrated networks of emergency care. Defining and measuring successful emergency care networks: a research agenda. Acad Emerg Med. 2010; 17(12):1297-305. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Myers S, Carr B. The regionalization of pediatric health care. Pediatrics. 2010; 126(6):1182-90. PubMed
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Ray KN, Escobar GJ, Lorch SA. Premature infants born to adolescent mothers: health care utilization after initial discharge. Acad Pediatr. 2010; 10(5):302-8. PubMed
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Lee GE, Lorch SA, Sheffler-Collins S, Kronman MP, Shah SS. National hospitalization trends for pediatric pneumonia and associated complications. Pediatrics. 2010; 126(2):204-13. PubMed
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Friese CR, Earle CC, Silber JH, Aiken LH: Hospital characteristics, clinical severity, and outcomes for surgical oncology patients. Surgery. 2010; 147(5):602-9 PubMed
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Lorch SA, Baiocchi M, Silber JH, Even-Shoshan O, Escobar GJ, Small DS. The role of outpatient facilities in explaining variations in risk-adjusted readmission rates between hospitals. Health Serv Res. 2010;45(1):24-41. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Millman AM, Shah SS. Impact of congenital anomalies and treatment location on clinical outcomes and health resource use in infants hospitalized with herpes simplex virus. J Hosp Med. 2010;5(3):154-9. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR and Silber JH: Amplification of sensitivity analysis in matched observational studies. J Amer Stat Assoc. 2009; 104(488):1398-1405. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Rosen AK, Romano PS, Itani KMF, Cen L, Mi L, Halenar MJ, Even-Shoshan O, Volpp KG: Prolonged hospital stay and the resident duty hour rules of 2003. Med Care. 2009; 47:1-11. PubMed.
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Prasad M, Iwashyna TJ, Christie JD, Kramer AA, Silber JH, Volpp KG, Kahn JM. Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals. Crit Care Med. 2009;37(9):2564-9. PubMed
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Rosen AK, Loveland SA, Romano PS, Itani KM, Silber JH, Even-Shoshan O, Halenar MJ, Teng Y, Zhu J, Volpp KG. Effects of resident duty hour reform on surgical and procedural patient safety indicators among hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare patients. Med Care. 2009;47(7):723-31. PubMed
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Volpp KG, Rosen AK, Rosenbaum PR, Romano PS, Itani KM, Bellini L, Even-Shoshan O, Cen L, Wang Y, Halenar MJ, Silber JH. Did Duty Hour Reform Lead to Better Outcomes Among the Highest Risk Patients? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2009; 24(10):1149-55. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Wade KC, Bakewell-Sachs S, Medoff-Cooper B, Silber JH, Escobar GJ. Antibiotic Use in Premature Infants After Discharge From the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Clinical Pediatrics. 2010; 49(3):249-57. PubMed
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Silber JH, Lorch SA, Rosenbaum PR, Medoff-Cooper B, Bakewell-Sachs S, Millman A, Mi L, Even-Shoshan O, Escobar GJ. Time to send the preemie home? Additional maturity at discharge and subsequent healthcare costs and outcomes. Health Services Research. 2009; 44:444-463. PubMed
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Small DS, Rosenbaum PR. Error-Free Milestones in Error Prone Measurements. Ann Appl Stat. 2009;3(3):881-901. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Silber JH, Even-Shoshan O, Millman A. Use of Prolonged Travel to Improve Pediatric Risk Adjustment Models. Health Services Research. 2009; 44:519-541. PubMed
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Bakewell-Sachs S, Medoff-Cooper B, Escobar GJ, Silber JH, Lorch SA. Infant functional status: The timing of physiologic maturation of premature infants. Pediatrics. 2009; 123(5):e878-86. PubMed
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Putt M, Long JA, Montagnet C, Silber JH, Chang VW, Kaijun Liao, Schwartz JS, Pollack CE, Wong YN, Armstrong K. Racial differences in the impact of comorbidities on survival among elderly men with prostate cancer. Med Care Res Rev. 2009; 66(4):409-35. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Romano PS, Rosen AK, Wang Y, Teng Y, Halenar MJ, Even-Shoshan O, Volpp KG. Hospital Teaching Intensity, Patient Race, and Surgical Outcomes. Archives of Surgery. 2009;144(2):113-20; discussion 121. PubMed
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Feudtner C, Hexem KR, Shabbout M, Feinstein JA, Sochalski J, Silber JH. Prediction of pediatric death in the year after hospitalization: a population-level retrospective cohort study. J Palliat Med. 2009;12(2):160-9. PubMed
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Brachet T, David G. "Economies of Scale" in Ross Mullner, ed., Encyclopedia of Health Services Research, SAGE Publications, 2009.
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Carr BG, Brachet T, David G, Duseja R, Branas CC. The Time Cost of Prehospital Intubation and Intravenous Access in Trauma Patients. Prehospital Emergency Care. 2008;12(3):327-32. PubMed
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Wade KC, Lorch SA, Bakewell-Sachs S, Medoff-Cooper B, Silber JH, Escobar GJ. Pediatric care for preterm infants after NICU discharge: high number of office visits and prescription medications. J Perinatol. 2008; 28(10):696-701. PubMed
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Hibbs AM, Walsh MC, Martin RJ, Truog WE, Lorch SA, Alessandrini E, Cnaan A, Palermo L, Wadlinger SR, Coburn CE, Ballard PL, Ballard RA. One-year respiratory outcomes of preterm infants enrolled in the Nitric Oxide (to prevent) Chronic Lung Disease trial. J Pediatr. 2008; 153(4):525-9. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Millman AM, Zhang X, Even-Shoshan O, Silber JH. The impact of admission day crowding on the length of stay of pediatric hospitalizations. Pediatrics. 2008;121:e718-e730. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR, Silber JH. Aberrant effects of treatment. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2008;103:240-247.
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Friese CR, Lake ET, Aiken LH, Silber JH, Sochalski J. Hospital nurse practice environments and outcomes for surgical oncology patients. Health Serv Res. 2008; 43(4):1145-63. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Wade KC, Bakewell-Sachs S, Medoff-Cooper B, Escobar GJ, Silber JH. Racial differences in the use of respiratory medications in premature infants after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Pediatrics. 2007;151:604-610. PubMed
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Cohen DM, Lorch SA, King RL, Hodinka RL, Cohn KA, Shah SS. Factors influencing the decision to test young infants for herpes simplex virus infection. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2007; 26(12):1156-8. PubMed
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Silber JH, Romano PS, Rosen AK, Wang Y, Even-Shoshan O, Volpp KG. Failure-To-Rescue: Comparing Definitions to Measure Quality of Care. Medical Care. 2007;45(10):918-25. PubMed
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Volpp KG, Rosen AK, Rosenbaum PR, Romano PS, Even-Shoshan O, Wang Y, Bellini L, Behringer T, Silber JH. Mortality Among Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries in the First Two Years Following ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reform. The Journal of the American Medical Association. 2007;298(9):975-983 . PubMed
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Volpp KG, Rosen AK, Rosenbaum PR, Romano PS, Even-Shoshan O, Canamucio A, Bellini L, Behringer T, Silber JH. Mortality Among Patients in VA Hospitals in the First Two Years Following ACGME Resident Duty Hour Reform. The Journal of the American Medical Association. 2007; 298(9):984-992. PubMed
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King RL, Lorch SA, Cohen DM, Hodinka RL, Cohn KA, Shah SS. Routine cerebrospinal fluid enterovirus polymerase chain reaction testing reduces hospitalization and antibiotic use for infants 90 days of age or younger. Pediatrics. 2007; 120(3):489-96. PubMed
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Tabak YP, Johannes RS, Silber JH. Using automated clinical data for risk adjustment: development and validation of six disease-specific mortality predictive models for pay-for-performance. Med Care. 2007;45(8):789-805. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Polsky D, Ross RN, Even-Shoshan O, Shwartz JS, Armstrong KA, Randall TC. Does ovarian cancer treatment and survival differ by the specialty providing chemotherapy? J Clin Oncol. 2007; 25(10):1169-75. PubMed
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Seifert HA, Howard DL, Silber JH, Jobes DR. Female gender increases the risk of death during hospitalization for pediatric cardiac surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007; 133(3):668-75. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR. Sensitivity analysis for m-estimates, tests, and confidence intervals in matched observational studies. Biometrics. 2007; 63(2):456-64. PubMed
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Weiner MG, Ross SJ, Mathew JI, Millman AM, Even-Shoshan O, Fox KR, Silber JH. Estimating the costs of chemotherapy-associated adverse event clusters. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. 2007; 7:1-21.
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Zhang X, Even-Shoshan O. Estimating anesthesia and surgical procedure times from Medicare anesthesia claims. Anesthesiology. 2007; 106(2):346-355. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Zhang X, Even-Shoshan O. The influence of patient and hospital characteristics on anesthesia time in Medicare patients undergoing general and orthopedic surgery. Anesthesiology. 2007; 106(2):356-364. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR, Ross R, Silber JH. Minimum distance matched sampling with fine balance in an observational study of treatment for ovarian cancer. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 2007; 102:75-83.
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Polsky D, Randall TC, Ross RN, Even-Shoshan O, Silber JH. Variation in chemotherapy utilization in ovarian cancer: the relative contribution of geography. Health Services Research. 2006; 41(6):2201-2218. PubMed
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Fiks AG, Alessandrini EA, Luberti AA, Ostapenko S, Zhang X, Silber JH. Identifying factors predicting immunization delay for children followed in an urban primary care network using an electronic health record. Pediatrics. 2006; 118(6):e1680-6. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Trudeau ME, Chen W, Zhang X, Rapaport RK, Mosher RE, Even-Shoshan O. Changes in prognosis after the first postoperative complication. Medical Care. 2005; 43:122-131. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Trudeau ME, Chen W, Zhang X, Lorch SA, Kelz RR, Mosher RE, Even-Shoshan O. Preoperative antibiotics and mortality in the elderly. Annals of Surgery. 2005; 242:107-114. PubMed
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Tabak YP, Johannes RS, Silber JH, Kurtz SG. Should Do-Not-Resuscitate status be included as a mortality risk adjustor? The impact of DNR variations on performance reporting. Med Care. 2005 Jul;43(7):658-66. PubMed
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Silber JH. Role of afterload reduction in the prevention of late anthracycline cardiomyopathy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2005; 44(7):607-13. PubMed
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Silber JH. Challenges in conducting a pediatric longitudinal prevention study: lessons from the ACE-inhibitor after anthracycline trial. Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. 2005; 20:65-70.
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Ailawadi M, Lorch SA, Barnhart KT. Cost-effectiveness of presumptively medically treating women at risk for ectopic pregnancy compared with first performing a dilatation and curettage. Fertil Steril. 2005; 83(2):376-82. PubMed
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McGuire KJ, Bernstein J, Polsky D, Silber JH. The 2004 Marshall Urist award: delays until surgery after hip fracture increases mortality. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2004; (428):294-301. PubMed
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Ginsberg JP, Cnaan A, Zhao H, Clark BJ, Paridon SM, Chin AJ, Rychik J, Hogarty AN, Barber G, Rutkowski M, Kimball TR, DeLaat C, Steinherz LJ, Silber JH. Using health-related quality of life measures to predict cardiac function in survivors exposed to anthracyclines. J Clin Oncol. 2004; 22(15):3149-55. PubMed
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Silber JH, Cnaan A, Clark BJ, Paridon SM, Chin AJ, Rychik J, Hogarty AN, Cohen MI, Barber G, Rutkowski M, Kimball, TR, DeLaat C, Steinherz LJ, Zhao H. Enalapril to prevent cardiac function decline in long-term survivors of pediatric cancer exposed to anthracyclines. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2004; 5:820-828. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Zhang X, Rosenbaum PR, Evan-Shoshan O, Silber JH. Equivalent lengths of stay in pediatric patients hospitalized in rural and non-rural hospitals. Pediatrics. 2004; 114:e400-e408. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Munson D, Lightfoot R, Ischiropoulos H. Oxygen tension and inhaled nitric oxide modulate pulmonary levels of S-nitrosocysteine and 3-nitrotyrosine in rats. Pediatric Research. 2004; 56:345-352. PubMed
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Lorch SA, D'Agosino J, Zimmerman R, Bernbaum J. Benign extra-axial fluid in survivors of neonatal intensive care. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 2004; 158:178-182. PubMed
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Lorch SA, Cnaan A, Barnhart K. The cost-effectiveness of inhaled nitric oxide for the treatment of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. Pediatrics. 2004; 114: 417-426. PubMed
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Greevy R, Lu B, Silber JH, Rosenbaum P. Optimal multivariate matching before randomization. Biostatistics. 2004; 5(2):263-75. PubMed
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Howard DL, Silber JH, Jobes DR. Do regulations limiting residents' work hours affect patient mortality? J Gen Intern Med. 2004; 19(1):1-7. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Even-Shoshan O, Shabbout M, Zhang X, Bradlow ET, Marsh, RR. Length of stay, conditional length of stay, and prolonged stay in pediatric asthma. Health Services Research. 2003; 38:867-886.PubMed
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Silber JH, Kennedy SK, Even-Shoshan O, Chen W, Mosher RE, Showan AM, Longnecker DE. Anesthesiologist board certification and patient outcomes. Anesthesiology. 2002; 96:1044-1052. PubMed
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Rosenbaum PR, Silber JH. Matching and thick description in an observational study of mortality after surgery. Biostatistics. 2001;2(2):217-32. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Trudeau ME, Even-Shoshan O, Chen W, Zhang X, Mosher RE. Multivariate matching and bias reduction in the surgical outcomes study. Medical Care. 2001; 39:1048-1064. PubMed
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Silber JH, Cnaan A, Clark BJ, Paridon SM, Chin AJ, Rychik J, Hogarty AN, Cohen MI, Barber G, Rutkowsky M, Kimball TR, Delaat C, Steinherz LJ, Zhao H, Tartaglione MR. Design and baseline characteristics for the ACE Inhibitor After Anthracycline (AAA) study of cardiac dysfunction in long-term pediatric cancer survivors. Am Heart J. 2001; 142(4):577-85. PubMed
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Silber JH, Kennedy SK, Even-Shoshan O, Chen W, Koziol LF, Showan AM, Longnecker DE. Anesthesiologist direction and patient outcomes. Anesthesiology. 2000; 93:152-163. PubMed
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Silber JH, Gleeson S, Zhao H. The influence of chronic disease on resource utilization in common acute pediatric conditions: financial concerns for children's hospitals. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. 1999; 153:169-179. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Koziol LF, Sutaria N, Marsh RR, Even-Shoshan O. Conditional length of stay. Health Services Research. 1999; 34:349-363. PubMed
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Silber JH, Fridman M, Shpilsky A, Even-Shoshan O, Smink DS, Jayaraman J, Fox KR, Pauly MV. Modeling the cost effectiveness of GCSF use in early stage breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1998; 16:2435-2444. PubMed
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Silber JH, Fridman M, DiPaola RS, Erder MH, Pauly MV, Fox KR. First cycle blood counts and subsequent neutropenia, dose reduction or delay in early stage breast cancer therapy. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1998; 16:2392-2400. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR. A spurious correlation between hospital mortality and complication rates: the importance of severity adjustment. Medical Care. 1997; 35:OS77-OS92. PubMed
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Silber JH, Rosenbaum PR, Williams SV, Ross RN, Schwartz JS. The relationship between choice of outcome measure and hospital rank in general surgical procedures: implications for quality assessment. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 1997; 9:193-200. PubMed
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Silber, JH, Williams SV, Krakauer H, Schwartz, JS. Hospital and patient characteristics associated with death after surgery: A study of adverse occurrence and failure to rescue. Medical Care. 1992; 30(7):615-629. JSTOR