Rate of elective cholecystectomy and the incidence of severe gallstone disease
Urbach DR, Stukel TA. CMAJ. 2005; 172(8):1015-9.
Publications
Does it matter what a hospital is “high volume” for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data
Urbach DR, Baxter NN. Qual Saf Healthcare. 2004; 13(5):379-83.
Volume and outcome in healthcare: implications for health policy
Urbach DR. Healthc Q. 2004; 7(4):22-3.
Differences in operative mortality between high- and low-volume hospitals in Ontario for 5 major surgical procedures: estimating the number of lives potentially saved through regionalization
Urbach DR, Bell CM, Austin PC. CMAJ. 2003; 168(11):1409-14.
Misclassification of hospital volume in surgical volume-outcome analyses of persons aged 65 years and older: potential limitations of medicare data
Baxter NN, Urbach D. Evid Based Surg. 2003; 1(1):49-55.