| Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick New England Journal of Medicine 361 (14), 1368-1375, 2009 | 1676 | 2009 |
| Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Annals of surgery 250 (6), 1029-1034, 2009 | 881 | 2009 |
| Hospital volume and failure to rescue with high-risk surgery AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Medical care 49 (12), 1076-1081, 2011 | 544 | 2011 |
| Hospital volume and operative mortality in the modern era BN Reames, AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Annals of surgery 260 (2), 244-251, 2014 | 467 | 2014 |
| Progression of liver pathology in patients undergoing the Fontan procedure: chronic passive congestion, cardiac cirrhosis, hepatic adenoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma AA Ghaferi, GM Hutchins The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 129 (6), 1348-1352, 2005 | 372 | 2005 |
| STROBE reporting guidelines for observational studies AA Ghaferi, TA Schwartz, TM Pawlik JAMA surgery 156 (6), 577-578, 2021 | 346 | 2021 |
| Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomy AA Ghaferi, NH Osborne, JD Birkmeyer, JB Dimick Journal of the American College of Surgeons 211 (3), 325-330, 2010 | 301 | 2010 |
| Randomized trial of medical versus surgical treatment for refractory heartburn SJ Spechler, JG Hunter, KM Jones, R Lee, BR Smith, H Mashimo, ... New England Journal of Medicine 381 (16), 1513-1523, 2019 | 273 | 2019 |
| Understanding the volume-outcome effect in cardiovascular surgery: the role of failure to rescue AA Gonzalez, JB Dimick, JD Birkmeyer, AA Ghaferi JAMA surgery 149 (2), 119-123, 2014 | 249 | 2014 |
| Explaining racial disparities in outcomes after cardiac surgery: the role of hospital quality G Rangrass, AA Ghaferi, JB Dimick JAMA surgery 149 (3), 223-227, 2014 | 244 | 2014 |
| Independent predictors and outcomes of unanticipated early postoperative tracheal intubation after nonemergent, noncardiac surgery SK Ramachandran, OO Nafiu, A Ghaferi, KK Tremper, A Shanks, ... Survey of Anesthesiology 56 (3), 137-138, 2012 | 230 | 2012 |
| Impact of hospital characteristics on failure to rescue following major surgery KH Sheetz, JB Dimick, AA Ghaferi Annals of surgery 263 (4), 692-697, 2016 | 202 | 2016 |
| Reliability adjustment for reporting hospital outcomes with surgery JB Dimick, AA Ghaferi, NH Osborne, CY Ko, BL Hall Annals of surgery 255 (4), 703-707, 2012 | 181 | 2012 |
| Pancreatic VIPomas: subject review and one institutional experience AA Ghaferi, KA Chojnacki, WD Long, JL Cameron, CJ Yeo Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 12 (2), 382-393, 2008 | 178 | 2008 |
| Importance of teamwork, communication and culture on failure-to-rescue in the elderly AA Ghaferi, JB Dimick Journal of British Surgery 103 (2), e47-e51, 2016 | 160 | 2016 |
| Racial/ethnic disparities in access to care and survival for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma AK Mathur, NH Osborne, RJ Lynch, AA Ghaferi, JB Dimick, CJ Sonnenday Archives of surgery 145 (12), 1158-1163, 2010 | 153 | 2010 |
| Hospitals in ‘Magnet’program show better patient outcomes on mortality measures compared to non-‘Magnet’hospitals CR Friese, R Xia, A Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer, M Banerjee Health Affairs 34 (6), 986-992, 2015 | 147 | 2015 |
| Physiologic and psychological gender differences in bariatric surgery J Kochkodan, DA Telem, AA Ghaferi Surgical endoscopy 32, 1382-1388, 2018 | 136 | 2018 |
| Variation in outcomes at bariatric surgery centers of excellence AM Ibrahim, AA Ghaferi, JR Thumma, JB Dimick JAMA surgery 152 (7), 629-636, 2017 | 134 | 2017 |
| Association of race with bariatric surgery outcomes MH Wood, AM Carlin, AA Ghaferi, OA Varban, A Hawasli, AJ Bonham, ... JAMA surgery 154 (5), e190029-e190029, 2019 | 131 | 2019 |
