| First report from the American College of Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network: laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has morbidity and effectiveness positioned between the band … MM Hutter, BD Schirmer, DB Jones, CY Ko, ME Cohen, RP Merkow, ... Annals of surgery 254 (3), 410-422, 2011 | 783 | 2011 |
| Optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient: a best practices guideline from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement … WB Chow, RA Rosenthal, RP Merkow, CY Ko, NF Esnaola Journal of the American College of Surgeons 215 (4), 453-466, 2012 | 764 | 2012 |
| Underlying reasons associated with hospital readmission following surgery in the United States RP Merkow, MH Ju, JW Chung, BL Hall, ME Cohen, MV Williams, TC Tsai, ... Jama 313 (5), 483-495, 2015 | 748 | 2015 |
| Optimizing ACS NSQIP modeling for evaluation of surgical quality and risk: patient risk adjustment, procedure mix adjustment, shrinkage adjustment, and surgical focus ME Cohen, CY Ko, KY Bilimoria, L Zhou, K Huffman, X Wang, Y Liu, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 217 (2), 336-346e1, 2013 | 547 | 2013 |
| Postoperative complications reduce adjuvant chemotherapy use in resectable pancreatic cancer RP Merkow, KY Bilimoria, JS Tomlinson, JL Paruch, JB Fleming, ... Annals of surgery 260 (2), 372-377, 2014 | 379 | 2014 |
| Post-discharge venous thromboembolism after cancer surgery: extending the case for extended prophylaxis RP Merkow, KY Bilimoria, MD McCarter, ME Cohen, CC Barnett, ... Annals of surgery 254 (1), 131-137, 2011 | 239 | 2011 |
| Effect of body mass index on short-term outcomes after colectomy for cancer RP Merkow, KY Bilimoria, MD McCarter, DJ Bentrem Journal of the American College of Surgeons 208 (1), 53-61, 2009 | 236 | 2009 |
| Validation of new readmission data in the American college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program MM Sellers, RP Merkow, A Halverson, K Hinami, RR Kelz, DJ Bentrem, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 216 (3), 420-427, 2013 | 235 | 2013 |
| Clinicopathologic features and treatment trends of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: analysis of 9,821 patients KY Bilimoria, JS Tomlinson, RP Merkow, AK Stewart, CY Ko, ... Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 11 (11), 1460-1469, 2007 | 183 | 2007 |
| American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; American Geriatrics Society. Optimal preoperative assessment of the geriatric surgical patient: a … WB Chow, RA Rosenthal, RP Merkow, CY Ko, NF Esnaola J Am Coll Surg 215 (4), 453-466, 2012 | 169 | 2012 |
| Treatment trends, risk of lymph node metastasis, and outcomes for localized esophageal cancer RP Merkow, KY Bilimoria, RN Keswani, J Chung, KL Sherman, LM Knab, ... JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute 106 (7), dju133, 2014 | 166 | 2014 |
| Practical guide to surgical data sets: National Cancer Database (NCDB) RP Merkow, AW Rademaker, KY Bilimoria JAMA surgery 153 (9), 850-851, 2018 | 158 | 2018 |
| Laparoscopic-assisted vs. open colectomy for cancer: comparison of short-term outcomes from 121 hospitals KY Bilimoria, DJ Bentrem, RP Merkow, H Nelson, E Wang, CY Ko, ... Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 12 (11), 2001-2009, 2008 | 148 | 2008 |
| Relevance of the c-statistic when evaluating risk-adjustment models in surgery RP Merkow, BL Hall, ME Cohen, JB Dimick, E Wang, WB Chow, CY Ko, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 214 (5), 822-830, 2012 | 130 | 2012 |
| Application of the pancreatic adenocarcinoma staging system to pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors KY Bilimoria, DJ Bentrem, RP Merkow, JS Tomlinson, AK Stewart, CY Ko, ... Journal of the American College of Surgeons 205 (4), 558-563, 2007 | 128 | 2007 |
| Effect of postoperative complications on adjuvant chemotherapy use for stage III colon cancer RP Merkow, DJ Bentrem, MF Mulcahy, JW Chung, DE Abbott, TE Kmiecik, ... Annals of surgery 258 (6), 847-853, 2013 | 116 | 2013 |
| The Chicago consensus on peritoneal surface malignancies: management of appendiceal neoplasms Annals of surgical oncology 27 (6), 1753-1760, 2020 | 109* | 2020 |
| Immediate two-stage tissue expander breast reconstruction compared with one-stage permanent implant breast reconstruction: a multi-institutional comparison of short-term … AA Davila, LM Mioton, G Chow, E Wang, RP Merkow, KY Bilimoria, N Fine, ... Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery 47 (5), 344-349, 2013 | 89 | 2013 |
| Doubling of 30-day mortality by 90 days after esophagectomy: a critical measure of outcomes for quality improvement H In, BE Palis, RP Merkow, MC Posner, MK Ferguson, DP Winchester, ... Annals of surgery 263 (2), 286-291, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| Relationship between cancer center accreditation and performance on publicly reported quality measures RP Merkow, JW Chung, JL Paruch, DJ Bentrem, KY Bilimoria Annals of Surgery 259 (6), 1091-1097, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
