Comment on

• The Department of Veterans Affairs' NSQIP: the first national, validated, outcome-based, risk-adjusted, and peer-controlled program for the measurement and enhancement of the quality of surgical care. National VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

  Khuri SF, Daley J, Henderson W, Hur K, Demakis J, Aust JB, Chong V, Fabri PJ, Gibbs JO, Grover F, Hammermeister K, Irvin G 3rd, McDonald G, Passaro E Jr, Phillips L, Scamman F, Spencer J, Stremple JF. Khuri SF, et al. Ann Surg. 1998 Oct;228(4):491-507. doi: 10.1097/00000658-199810000-00006. Ann Surg. 1998. PMID: 9790339 Free PMC article.
• Volume standards for high-risk surgical procedures: potential benefits of the Leapfrog initiative.

  Birkmeyer JD, Finlayson EV, Birkmeyer CM. Birkmeyer JD, et al. Surgery. 2001 Sep;130(3):415-22. doi: 10.1067/msy.2001.117139. Surgery. 2001. PMID: 11562662
• Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States.

  Birkmeyer JD, Siewers AE, Finlayson EV, Stukel TA, Lucas FL, Batista I, Welch HG, Wennberg DE. Birkmeyer JD, et al. N Engl J Med. 2002 Apr 11;346(15):1128-37. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa012337. N Engl J Med. 2002. PMID: 11948273
• The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in non-veterans administration hospitals: initial demonstration of feasibility.

  Fink AS, Campbell DA Jr, Mentzer RM Jr, Henderson WG, Daley J, Bannister J, Hur K, Khuri SF. Fink AS, et al. Ann Surg. 2002 Sep;236(3):344-53; discussion 353-4. doi: 10.1097/00000658-200209000-00011. Ann Surg. 2002. PMID: 12192321 Free PMC article.