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Bilimoria KY, Bentrem DJ, Stryker Steven J, Nelson H, Merkow RP, Ko CY,
Soper NJ. “Risk-Adjusted Short-Term Outcomes after Laparoscopic-Assisted
Compared to Open Colectomy for Cancer at 121 Hospitals.” Society of Surgery
for the Alimentary Tract / Digestive Diseases Week, San Diego, CA, 2008
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Bentrem DB. “Effect of Body Mass
Index on Short-term Outcomes after Colectomy for Cancer.” American College of
Surgeons, 94th Annual Clinical Congress, Surgical Forum, San Francisco, CA,
2008.
Bilimoria KY, Merkow RP, Cohen ME, Bentrem DJ, Hall BL, Ko CY. “Are You
Calling Me a Poor Performer? Comparison of Outlier Identification Methods in
Hospital Surgical Quality Improvement Programs.” Society of Surgery for the
Alimentry Tract / Digestive Diseases Week, New Orleans, LA, 2010.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Bentrem DJ. “Venous
Thromboembolsim in Surgical Oncology: Extending the Case for Extended
Prophylaxis.” American College of Surgeons, 96th Annual Clinical Congress,
Surgical Forum, Washington DC, 2010.
Bilimoria KY, Merkow RP, Wayne JD, Abbott DE, Hunt KK, Pisters PW,
Pollock R, Bentrem DJ. “Evolution of Multimodality Management of
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors of the Stomach.” Gastrointestinal Cancers
Symposium / American Society of Clinical Oncology, San Francisco, CA, 2011.
Bilimoria KY, Merkow RP, Wang X, Cohen ME, Hall BL, Pisters PW, Ko CY.
“Do cancer centers need to assess quality and outcomes? Introducing a
customized ACS-NSQIP for oncology (Onc-NSQIP).” Gastrointestinal Cancers
Symposium / American Society of Clinical Oncology, San Francisco, CA, 2011.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Chow WB, Stewart AK, Ko CY,
Bentrem DJ. “The Adoption of Multimodal Esophageal Cancer Care in the United
States.” Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium / American Society of Clinical
Oncology, San Francisco, CA, 2011.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, Stewart AK, Gordon HS, Ko CY, Bentrem DJ. “Does
Histology Matter? Clinicopathologic and Treatment Patterns in Esophageal
Cancer.” Academic Surgical Congress / Association for Academic Surgery,
Huntington Beach, CA, 2011.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Chow WB, Stewart AK, Ko CY,
Bentrem DJ. “The Adoption of Multimodalilty Esophageal Cancer Care in the
United States.” Annual Cancer Symposium / Society of Surgical Oncology, San
Antonio, TX, 2011.
Hutter MM, Schirmer BD, Jones DB, Ko CY, Cohen ME, Merkow RP, Nguyen
NT. “First Report from the American College of Surgeons – Bariatric Surgery
Center Network: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) Has Morbidity and
Effectiveness Positioned Between the Band and the Bypass.” American Surgical
Association, Boca Raton, FL, 2011.
Merkow RP, Cohen ME, Chow WB, Stewart AK, Richards K, Hall BL, Ko CY,
Bilimoria KY. “Importance of Cancer-Specific Variables for Risk-Adjustment in
the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement
Progam (ACS NSQIP): Worthless or Worth their Weight?” American College of
Surgeons, 97th Annual Clinical Congress, Surgical Forum, San Francisco, CA,
2011.
Original Articles (Peer Reviewed)
Pearlman NW, McCarter MD, Frank M, Frank M, Hurtubis C, Merkow RP,
Franklin WA, Gonzalez R, Lewis K, Roaten JB, Robinson WA. Size of sentinel
node metastases predicts other nodal disease and survival in malignant melanoma.
Am J Surg. 2006; 192(6):878-81.
Bilimoria KY, Tomlinson JS, Merkow RP, Stewart AK, Talamonti MS, Bentrem
DJ. Clinicopathologic features and treatment trends of pancreatic neuroendocrine
tumors: analysis of 9,821 patients. J Gastrointest Surg. 2007; 11(11):1460.
Bilimoria KY, Bentrem DJ, Merkow RP, Tomlinson JS, Stewart AK, Ko CY,
Talamonti MS. Application of the pancreatic adenocarcinoma staging system to
pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. J Am Coll Surg. 2007; 205(4):558-63.
Bilimoria KY, Bentrem DJ, Tomlinson JS, Merkow RP, Stewart AK, Ko CY,
Prystowsky JB, Talamonti MS. Quality of pancreatic cancer care at Veterans
Administration compared with non-Veterans Administration hospitals. Am J Surg.
2007; 194(5):588-93.
Bilimoria KY, Bentrem DJ, Merkow RP, Nelson H, Wang E, Ko CY, Soper NJ.
Laparoscopic-assisted vs. open colectomy for cancer: comparison of short-term
outcomes from 121 hospitals. J Gastrointest Surg. 2008; 12(11):2001-9.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Bentrem DL. Effect of body mass
index on short-term outcomes after colectomy for cancer. J Am Coll Surg. 2009;
208(1): 53-61.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, Cohen ME, Richards K, Ko CY, Hall BL. Variability
in Reoperation Rates at 182 Hospitals: A Potential Target for Quality
Improvement. J Am Coll Surg. 2009; 209(5): 557-64.
Bilimoria KY, Cohen ME, Merkow RP, Bentrem DJ, Hall BL, Ko CY. Are
Comparison of Outlier Identification Methods in Hospital Surgical Quality
Improvement Programs. J Gastrointest Surg. 2010 14(10):1600-7.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY. A common question revisited: can differences in
clinical severity explain the volume-outcome relationship? Surgery. 2010;
147(5): 610-1.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, Hall BL. Interpretation of the C-Statistic in the
Context of ACS-NSQIP Models. Ann Surg Onc. 2010 Nov 10.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Cohen ME, Barnett CC, Raval MV,
Caprini JA, Gordon HS, Ko CY, Bentrem DJ. Post-Discharge Venous
Thromboembolism after Surgery for Cancer: Extending the Case for Extended
Prophylaxis. Ann Surg. 2011 254(1), 131-137.
Bilimoria KY, Wayne JD, Merkow RP, Abbott DE, Cormier JN, Feig BW, Hunt
KK, Pisters PW, Pollock R, Bentrem DJ. Incorporation of Adjuvant Therapy into
the Multimodality Management of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors of the
Stomach in the United States. Ann Surg Oncol. 2011 [Epub ahead of print].
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Chow WB, Ko KY, Bentrem DJ. Use
of Multimodality Neoadjuvant Therapy for Esophageal Cancer in the United
States: Assessment of 987 Hospitals. Ann Surg Oncol. 2011 [Epub ahead of
print].
Merkow RP, Ko CY. Evidence-Based Medicine in Surgery: the Importance of
both Experimental and Observational Study Designs. JAMA. 2011 306(4), 436-7.
Hutter MM, Schirmer BD, Jones DB, Ko CY, Cohen ME, Merkow RP, Nguyen
NT. First Report from the American College of Surgeons – Bariatric Surgery
Center Network: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) Has Morbidity and
Effectiveness Positioned Between the Band and the Bypass. Ann Surg. 2011
254(3):410-422.
Merkow RP, Bilimoria KY, McCarter MD, Chow WB, Gordon HS, Stewart AK,
Ko CY, Bentrem DJ. Effect of Histologic Subtype on Treatment and Outcomes
for Esophageal Cancer in the United States. Cancer. 2011 [Accepted].