Assistant Professor of Surgery and Management and Organizations, University of Michigan Schools of Medicine and Business; Chief of General Surgery, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System
General Surgery
Dr. Amir A. Ghaferi, MD
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Amir Ghaferi practices General Surgery. He went to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has a rank of 3 in research and a 29 in primary care He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Amir Ghaferi is also published. He has 34 publications published. The lastest publication: "Hospital variation in perioperative complications for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in Michigan.'
Publications
- Hospital variation in perioperative complications for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in Michigan.
- Hospital readmission as a quality measure in surgery.
- Understanding Failure to Rescue and Improving Safety Culture.
- The Association Between Hospital Care Intensity and Surgical Outcomes in Medicare Patients.
- Using same-hospital readmission rates to estimate all-hospital readmission rates.
- Time-to-Readmission and Mortality After High-Risk Surgery.
- Failure to rescue-reply.
- The Importance of the First Complication: Understanding Failure to Rescue after Emergent Surgery in the Elderly.
- Explaining racial disparities in outcomes after cardiac surgery: the role of hospital quality.
- Socioeconomic Disparities in Mortality After Cancer Surgery: Failure to Rescue.
- Hospital Safety Scores: Do Grades Really Matter?
- Improving the care of elderly adults undergoing surgery in michigan.
- Understanding the Volume-Outcome Effect in Cardiovascular Surgery: The Role of Failure to Rescue.
- Hospital Volume and Operative Mortality in the Modern Era.
- Failure to rescue and mortality following repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
- Improving mortality following emergent surgery in older patients requires focus on complication rescue.
- Variation in mortality after high-risk cancer surgery: failure to rescue.
- Hospital Volume and Failure to Rescue With High-risk Surgery.
- Reliability of Superficial Surgical Site Infections as a Hospital Quality Measure.
- Evaluating popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings for cancer surgery.
- Racial/ethnic disparities in access to care and survival for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomy.
- Body mass index and adverse perioperative outcomes following hepatic resection.
- Adverse outcomes in patients with chronic liver disease undergoing colorectal surgery.
- Does voluntary reporting bias hospital quality rankings?
- Influence of body mass index on complications and oncologic outcomes following hepatectomy for malignancy.
- 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.
- Prognostic significance of a positive nonsentinel lymph node in cutaneous melanoma.
- Variation in hospital mortality associated with inpatient surgery.
- Pancreatic VIPomas: subject review and one institutional experience.
- Progression of liver pathology in patients undergoing the Fontan procedure: Chronic passive congestion, cardiac cirrhosis, hepatic adenoma, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Impact of Hospital Characteristics on Failure to Rescue Following Major Surgery.
Schools
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Conditions Treated
- Second-Degree Burns
Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- 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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