Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School
General Surgery
Dr. John D. Birkmeyer, MD
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John D. Birkmeyer works in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received 3 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Elected Member" and "Fellow". Dr. John D. Birkmeyer is a published doctor as well. He has 101 publications published. The latest was: Lung Cancer Resection at Hospitals With High vs Low Mortality Rates.
Publications
- Lung Cancer Resection at Hospitals With High vs Low Mortality Rates.
- Differences Between Physician Social Networks for Cardiac Surgery Serving Communities With High Versus Low Proportions of Black Residents.
- Impact of Surgical Quality Improvement on Payments in Medicare Patients.
- Ambulatory surgery centers and outpatient procedure use among medicare beneficiaries.
- Time-to-Readmission and Mortality After High-Risk Surgery.
- Use of medical consultants for hospitalized surgical patients: an observational cohort study.
- Assessing the Reach of Health Reform to Outpatient Surgery With Social Network Analysis.
- Variations in Medicare Payments for Episodes of Spine Surgery.
- Variation in utilization of acid-reducing medication at 1 year following bariatric surgery: results from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative.
- The Importance of the First Complication: Understanding Failure to Rescue after Emergent Surgery in the Elderly.
- Differences in Perioperative Care at Low- and High-Mortality Hospitals with Cancer Surgery.
- Variation in Hospital Mortality Rates With Inpatient Cancer Surgery.
- Specialty-Specific Trends in the Prevalence and Distribution of Outpatient Surgery: Implications for Payment and Delivery System Reforms.
- Patient-physician shared decision making.
- Moving Beyond the Headlines: Improving the Technical Quality of Radical Prostatectomy.
- Hospital Volume and Operative Mortality in the Modern Era.
- Does Pay-for-Performance Improve Surgical Outcomes?: An Evaluation of Phase 2 of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration.
- Understanding the Volume-Outcome Effect in Cardiovascular Surgery: The Role of Failure to Rescue.
- Relationship Between Regional Spending on Vascular Care and Amputation Rate.
- Effects of Resident Involvement on Complication Rates after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass.
- Composite Measures for Profiling Hospitals on Bariatric Surgery Performance.
- Strategies for Reducing Regional Variation in the Use of Surgery: A Systematic Review.
- Surgical Skill and Complication Rates after Bariatric Surgery.
- Understanding of regional variation in the use of surgery.
- Composite quality measures for common inpatient medical conditions.
- Safety in Numbers: The Development of Leapfrog's Composite Patient Safety Score for U.S. Hospitals.
- Anticipating the effects of accountable care organizations for inpatient surgery.
- The Comparative Effectiveness of Sleeve Gastrectomy, Gastric Bypass, and Adjustable Gastric Banding Procedures for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity.
- Risks and benefits of prophylactic inferior vena cava filters in patients undergoing bariatric surgery.
- Bariatric surgery complications before vs after implementation of a national policy restricting coverage to centers of excellence.
- Safety culture and complications after bariatric surgery.
- Hospitalist Staffing and Patient Satisfaction in the National Medicare Population.
- Composite measures for profiling hospitals on surgical morbidity.
- Racial Disparities in Surgical Resection and Survival among Elderly Patients with Poor Prognosis Cancer.
- Progress and challenges in improving surgical outcomes.
- Edward E. Mason lecture: Strategies for improving the quality of bariatric surgery.
- Composite measures for rating hospital quality with major surgery.
- Hospital Surgical Volume and Cost of Inpatient Surgery in the Elderly.
- Predicting risk for venous thromboembolism with bariatric surgery: results from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative.
- Hospital quality and the cost of inpatient surgery in the United States.
- Variations in the use of internal fixation for distal radial fracture in the United States medicare population.
- Variation in the use of lower extremity vascular procedures for critical limb ischemia.
- Hospital Volume and Failure to Rescue With High-risk Surgery.
- Large variations in medicare payments for surgery highlight savings potential from bundled payment programs.
- Operator experience and carotid stenting outcomes in Medicare beneficiaries.
- Use of radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer.
- Physician Specialty and Carotid Stenting Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries in the United States.
- Race and Timeliness of Transfer for Revascularization in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction.
- Trends in hospital volume and operative mortality for high-risk surgery.
- Racial disparities in the use of revascularization before leg amputation in Medicare patients.
- How a regional collaborative of hospitals and physicians in michigan cut costs and improved the quality of care.
- Imaging use among employed and self-employed urologists.
- Surgical complications are associated with omission of chemotherapy for stage III colorectal cancer.
- Ranking hospitals on surgical mortality: the importance of reliability adjustment.
- Medicare payments for common inpatient procedures: implications for episode-based payment bundling.
- Strategies for improving surgical quality--checklists and beyond.
- Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in medicare beneficiaries.
- A tale of two provinces: regionalization of pancreatic surgery in Ontario and Quebec.
- Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomy.
- Opening ambulatory surgery centers and stone surgery rates in health care markets.
- Prioritizing perioperative quality improvement in orthopaedic surgery.
- Understanding racial disparities in cancer treatment and outcomes.
- Prioritizing quality improvement in vascular surgery.
- Risk adjustment for comparing hospital quality with surgery: how many variables are needed?
- Racial differences in treatment and outcomes among patients with early stage bladder cancer.
- Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients.
- Identifying high-quality bariatric surgery centers: hospital volume or risk-adjusted outcomes?
- Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery.
- Hospital factors and racial disparities in mortality after surgery for breast and colon cancer.
- Trends in the United States in the treatment of distal radial fractures in the elderly.
- Defining high quality health care.
- Composite measures for predicting surgical mortality in the hospital.
- Outlier payments for cardiac surgery and hospital quality.
- Mortality in medicare patients undergoing surgery in July in teaching hospitals.
- Research based on administrative data.
- Provider treatment intensity and outcomes for patients with early-stage bladder cancer.
- Racial and gender trends in the use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators among Medicare beneficiaries between 1997 and 2003.
- Empirically derived composite measures of surgical performance.
- Understanding and reducing variation in surgical mortality.
- Improving outcomes with lung cancer surgery: selective referral or quality improvement?
- Growing Pains: the challenges of managing congenital heart disease after childhood.
- Prioritizing quality improvement in general surgery.
- Blueprint for a new American College of Surgeons: National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
- Ranking hospitals on surgical quality: does risk-adjustment always matter?
- Socioeconomic status and surgical mortality in the elderly.
- Residual treatment disparities after oncology referral for rectal cancer.
- Hospital lymph node counts and survival after radical cystectomy.
- Outcomes in octogenarians undergoing high-risk cancer operation: a national study.
- Hospital lymph node examination rates and survival after resection for colon cancer.
- Acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure outcomes at specialty cardiac hospitals.
- Evidence-based screening and management of Abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Volume, process of care, and operative mortality for cystectomy for bladder cancer.
- Hospital volume and late survival after cancer surgery.
- Opening of specialty cardiac hospitals and use of coronary revascularization in medicare beneficiaries.
- Use of adjuvant radiotherapy at hospitals with and without on-site radiation services.
- Classifying cause of death after cancer surgery.
- Life expectancy benefits of gastric bypass surgery.
- Racial disparities in late survival after rectal cancer surgery.
- Surgeon age and operative mortality in the United States.
- Are mortality rates for different operations related?: implications for measuring the quality of noncardiac surgery.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Dartmouth Hitchcock Med Center
Dartmouth Med School
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Excision, Shaving, or Destruction of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue (incl. Mohs Micrographic Surgery), Tissue Transfer
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Gastric Bypass Surgery, Laparoscopic
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Incisional Hernia
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Elected Member
- Fellow
Education
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1821196254 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BIRKMEYER |
| First Name Of The Provider | JOHN |
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