Search Results - "Higgins, John H"
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How Many Patients Are Needed to Provide Reliable Evaluations of Individual Clinicians?
Published in Medical care (01-03-2004)“…Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine how many patients are needed to provide reliable patient ratings of care at the individual clinician level…”
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Identifying Associations between Somatic Mutations and Clinicopathologic Findings in Lung Cancer Pathology Reports
Published in Methods of information in medicine (01-02-2018)“…We aim to build an informatics methodology capable of identifying statistically significant associations between the clinical findings of non-small cell lung…”
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Is age an independent risk factor for medical complications following minimally invasive radical prostatectomy? An evaluation of contemporary American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement (ACS-NSQIP) data
Published in Journal of robotic surgery (01-12-2016)“…While robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP) is an effective treatment for localized prostate cancer, the risk of complications in older…”
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Screening for Recurrences in Patients Treated with Breast-Conserving Surgery: Is there a Role for MRI?
Published in Annals of surgical oncology (01-06-2008)“…Background Although it has been shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more sensitive than mammography in the detection of breast cancer in high-risk…”
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Interval Inset of TRAM Flaps in Immediate Breast Reconstruction: A Technical Refinement
Published in Annals of plastic surgery (01-12-2010)“…Healthy, viable mastectomy skin is a critical factor in the outcome of immediate breast reconstruction. Unfortunately, mastectomy skin viability can be…”
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Transforming administrative data into real-time information in the Department of Surgery
Published in Quality & safety in health care (01-10-2010)“…Cardiothoracic surgical programmes face increasingly more complex procedures performed on evermore challenging patients. Public and private stakeholders are…”
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Rationalising the treatment of anaemia in cardiac surgery: short and mid-term results from a local quality improvement initiative
Published in Quality & safety in health care (01-10-2010)“…Transfusion of red blood cells, while often used for treating blood loss or haemodilution, is also associated with higher infection rates and mortality. The…”
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