Selected Publications

  1. Association of hospital participation in a regional trauma quality improvement collaborative with patient outcomes (JAMA Surg, 2018)
  2. Noncompliance with American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma recommended criteria for full trauma team activation is associated with undertriage deaths (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2018)
  3. Unfractionated heparin versus low-molecular-weight heparin for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in trauma (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2017)
  4. Quality improvement in the surgical intensive care unit (Scientific American Surgery, Chapter, 2016)
  5. Prophylactic inferior vena cava filter placement does not result in a survival benefit for trauma patients (Ann Surg, 2015)
  6. Trauma surges: Detecting hospital capacity strain and its influence on trauma patient mortality (JACS, 2015)
  7. Regional collaborative quality improvement for trauma reduces complications and costs (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2015)
  8. Reduction in venous thromboembolism events: Trauma performance improvement and loop closure through participation in a state-wide quality collaborative (JACS, 2015)
  9. Methodology and analytic rationale for the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (JACS, 2013)
  10. The effect of exclusion criteria on risk-adjusted performance in the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program: DOA or DIE (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2012)
  11. Prevention of complications and successful rescue of patients with serious complications: Characteristics of high-performing trauma centers (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2011)
  12. Health care reform at trauma centers – mortality, complications, and length of stay (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2010)
  13. Hips can lie: Impact of excluding isolated hip fractures on external benchmarking of trauma center performance (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2010)
  14. The attributable mortality and length of stay of trauma-related complications: A matched cohort study (Ann Surg, 2010)
  15. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services quality indicators do not correlate with risk-adjusted mortality at trauma centers (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2010)
  16. Quality of care within a trauma center is not altered by injury type (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2010)
  17. The trauma quality improvement program: Pilot study and initial demonstration of feasibility (J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2010)
  18. The trauma quality improvement program of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (JACS, 2009)
  19. Real money: Complications and hospital costs in trauma patients (Surgery, 2008)
  20. Detecting the blind spot: Complications in the trauma registry and trauma quality improvement (Surgery, 2007)