Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan
General Surgery
Dr. Justin B. Dimick, MD
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Justin Dimick practices General Surgery. He researched medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3/29 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 2 awards: "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Fellow (FACS)". Dr. Justin B. Dimick is also a published doctor. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: Hospital variation in rates of acid-reducing medication use after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
Publications
- Reliability of hospital cost profiles in inpatient surgery.
- Power Outage-Inadequate Surgeon Performance Measures Leave Patients in the Dark.
- Hospital variation in rates of acid-reducing medication use after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
- Impact of a National Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence Program on Medicare Expenditures.
- Antibiotics vs Surgery for Acute Appendicitis: Toward a Patient-Centered Treatment Approach.
- Time for a More Unified Approach to Pediatric Health Care Policy?: The Case of Congenital Heart Care.
- Hospital variation in perioperative complications for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in Michigan.
- A checklist-based intervention to improve surgical outcomes in michigan: evaluation of the keystone surgery program.
- Gaming Hospital-Level Pneumonia 30-Day Mortality and Readmission Measures by Legitimate Changes to Diagnostic Coding.
- Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Bariatric Surgery: Choose Your Own Adventure.
- Hospital readmission as a quality measure in surgery.
- Association of hospital participation in a quality reporting program with surgical outcomes and expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries.
- Understanding Failure to Rescue and Improving Safety Culture.
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Surgical Checklist in Medicare Patients.
- Methods for evaluating changes in health care policy: the difference-in-differences approach.
- Why We Should Not Be Indifferent to Specification Choices for Difference-in-Differences.
- Impact of Surgical Quality Improvement on Payments in Medicare Patients.
- The beginning of the end for laparoscopic banding.
- Profiling hospitals on bariatric surgery quality: which outcomes are most reliable?
- Using same-hospital readmission rates to estimate all-hospital readmission rates.
- Hospital volume and outcomes for laparoscopic gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding in the modern era.
- Geographic Variation in Use of Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer.
- The Association Between Hospital Care Intensity and Surgical Outcomes in Medicare Patients.
- Is Reference Pricing the Next Big Thing in Payment Reform?
- An Updated National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel on Bariatric Surgery.
- Changes in bariatric surgery procedure use in Michigan, 2006-2013.
- Rethinking eligibility criteria for bariatric surgery.
- Time-to-Readmission and Mortality After High-Risk Surgery.
- The Early Effects of Medicare's Mandatory Hospital Pay-for-Performance Program.
- Reliability of surgical outcomes for predicting future hospital performance.
- Health Policy Update: Rethinking Hospital Readmission as a Surgical Quality Measure.
- Variation in utilization of acid-reducing medication at 1 year following bariatric surgery: results from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative.
- Transfer Rates and Use of Post-Acute Care After Surgery At Critical Access vs Non-Critical Access Hospitals.
- Disseminating Research Findings: Preparing for Generation Y.
- Medicare's Hospital Readmission Reduction Program in Surgery May Disproportionately Affect Minority-Serving Hospitals.
- Racial disparities in readmissions and site of care for major surgery.
- Explaining racial disparities in outcomes after cardiac surgery: the role of hospital quality.
- Socioeconomic Disparities in Mortality After Cancer Surgery: Failure to Rescue.
- Reliability of Risk-Adjusted Outcomes for Profiling Hospital Surgical Quality.
- Reliability of hospital readmission rates in Vascular surgery.
- Reliability of Readmission Rates as a Hospital Quality Measure in Cardiac Surgery.
- 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.
- Hospital Report Cards: Necessary but Not Sufficient?
- Understanding the Volume-Outcome Effect in CardioVascular Surgery: The Role of Failure to Rescue.
- Composite Measures for Profiling Hospitals on Bariatric Surgery Performance.
- Surgical Skill and Complication Rates after Bariatric Surgery.
- Bariatric Surgery in Minority Patients Before and After Implementation of a Centers of Excellence Program.
- Composite quality measures for common inpatient medical conditions.
- Utilization and outcomes of inpatient surgical care at critical access hospitals in the United States.
- Taking a broader perspective on the benefits of minimally invasive surgery.
- Bariatric surgery complications before vs after implementation of a national policy restricting coverage to centers of excellence.
- Composite measures for profiling hospitals on surgical morbidity.
- Hospital morbidity rankings and complication severity in Vascular surgery.
- Inpatient Urologic Surgery at Critical Access Hospitals in the United States.
- Composite measures for rating hospital quality with major surgery.
- Implementation of a small bowel Obstruction guideline improves hospital efficiency.
- Variation in mortality after high-risk cancer surgery: failure to rescue.
- Health policy update: making sense of accountable care organizations.
- Hospital quality and the cost of inpatient surgery in the United States.
- 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.
- Inferring causation from multiple regression: do not resuscitate?
- Health Services Research Resources for Surgeons.
- Reliability of Superficial Surgical Site Infections as a Hospital Quality Measure.
- Racial disparities in the use of reVascularization before leg amputation in Medicare patients.
- Evaluating popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings for cancer surgery.
- The influence of resident involvement on surgical outcomes.
- Getting the science right on the surgeon workforce issue.
- Too much of a good thing? Multi-tasking and distraction in quality improvement.
- Do hospitals alter patient care effort allocations under pay-for-performance?
- Disparities in access to care: Does it translate into worse outcomes?: Comment on "Possible geographical barriers to trauma center access for vulnerable patients ...
- The impact of adjusting for reliability on hospital quality rankings in Vascular surgery.
- Improving American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program risk adjustment: incorporation of a novel procedure risk score.
- Ranking hospitals on surgical mortality: the importance of reliability adjustment.
- Association of surgical care improvement project infection-related process measure compliance with risk-adjusted outcomes: implications for quality measurement.
- Racial/ethnic disparities in access to care and survival for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Medicare payments for common inpatient procedures: implications for episode-based payment bundling.
- Importance of teamwork in the operating room: Comment on "Working with a fixed operating room team on consecutive similar cases and the effect on case duration an...
- Tread carefully with stepwise regression.
- Understanding the racial disparity in the receipt of endovascular Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
- Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in medicare beneficiaries.
- Introduction to propensity scores: A case study on the comparative effectiveness of laparoscopic vs open appendectomy.
- Comparing treatments using observational study designs: what can we do about selection bias?
- Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomy.
- Evaluating parsimonious risk-adjustment models for comparing hospital outcomes with Vascular surgery.
- Adverse outcomes in patients with chronic liver Disease undergoing colorectal surgery.
- Does voluntary reporting bias hospital quality rankings?
- Prioritizing quality improvement in Vascular surgery.
- Risk adjustment for comparing hospital quality with surgery: how many variables are needed?
- What makes a "good" quality indicator?
- Do popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings identify hospitals with better cardioVascular surgery outcomes?
- 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?
- Risk adjustment in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program: a comparison of logistic versus hierarchical modeling.
- Explaining racial disparities in mortality after Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
- Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery.
- Composite measures for predicting surgical mortality in the hospital.
- Outlier payments for cardiac surgery and hospital quality.
Schools
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Appendectomy, Open
- Enterostomy (Laparoscopic or Open)
- Esophagectomy (Esophagogastrostomy, Esophagojejunostomy)
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anorectal Abscess
- Atelectasis
- Biliary Atresia
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers -
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1114047727 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | DIMICK |
| First Name Of The Provider | JUSTIN |
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