JosephBCoferMD

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• 3 citations
  Up Close and Personal: A Statewide Collaborative's Effort to Get Individual Surgeon Quality Improvement Data to the Practitioner.
  Brian J. Daley, Cecil W, Joseph B. Cofer, Clarke Pc, Oscar D. Guillamondegui> ;The American Surgeon. 2016 Mar 1
• 13 citations
  Process improvement in surgery
  Christina A. Minami, Catherine R. Sheils, Karl Y. Bilimoria, Julie K. Johnson, Elizabeth R. Berger, Julia R. Berian, Michael J. Englesbe, Oscar D. Guillamondegui, Leon...> ;Current Problems in Surgery. 2016 Feb 1
• An Unusual Case of Metastatic Basal Cell Carcinoma from the Upper Extremity.
  Jessica K Reynolds, Joseph B Cofer> ;The American Surgeon. 2015 Sep 1
• 213 citations
  How Slow Is Too Slow? Correlation of Operative Time to Complications: An Analysis from the Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative
  Brian J. Daley, William Cecil, P. Chris Clarke, Joseph B. Cofer, Oscar D. Guillamondegui> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2015 Apr 1
• Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas in a teenager.
  G. Ralston Major, Nicholas M. Drahush, Joseph B. Cofer, Curt S. Koontz> ;The American Surgeon. 2015 Apr 1
• APDS panel session IV: intersection of surgical outcomes and medical education.
  Rachel R. Kelz, Caroline E. Reinke, Joseph B. Cofer, Stanley W. Ashley, James C. Hebert, Clifford Y. Ko> ;Journal of Surgical Education. 2012 Nov 1
• The Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative: a model for improving quality of care and reducing health care costs.
  Joseph B. Cofer> ;Tennessee Medicine. 2012 Sep 1
• 22 citations
  Contemporary issues in rural surgery.
  Thomas H. Cogbill, Joseph B. Cofer, Benjamin T. Jarman> ;Current Problems in Surgery. 2012 May 1
• 125 citations
  Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative to Improve Surgical Outcomes
  Oscar D. Guillamondegui, Oliver L. Gunter, Leonard Hines, Barbara J. Martin, William Gibson, P. Chris Clarke, William Cecil, Joseph B. Cofer> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2012 Apr 1
• 6 citations
  Program directors' views on general surgery resident travel for transplant rotations
  James G. Bittner, Jonathan P. Fryer, Joseph B. Cofer, John D. Mellinger, James J. Wynn, George M. Fuhrman, Karen R. Borman> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2011 Nov 1
• 5 citations
  General surgery at rural Tennessee hospitals: a survey of rural Tennessee hospital administrators.
  Joseph B. Cofer, Petros Tj, Hans C. Burkholder, Clarke Pc> ;The American Surgeon. 2011 Jul 1
• Fundamentals of liver surgery for the practicing general surgeon.
  Joseph B. Cofer, Reid B. Adams> ;The American Surgeon. 2010 May 1
• 11 citations
  Education of the rural surgeon: experience from Tennessee.
  W. Heath Giles, Joshua D. Arnold, Thomas S. Layman, Michael P. Sumida, Preston W. Brown, R. Phillip Burns, Joseph B. Cofer> ;The Surgical Clinics of North America. 2009 Dec 1
• 336 citations
  Operative experience of residents in US general surgery programs: a gap between expectation and experience.
  Richard H. Bell, Thomas W. Biester, Arnold Tabuenca, Robert S. Rhodes, Joseph B. Cofer, L.D. Britt, Frank R. Lewis> ;Annals of Surgery. 2009 May 1
• 2 citations
  Sclerosing mesenteritis masquerading as a small bowel mesentery neoplasm.
  Melissa Rader, Joseph B. Cofer> ;The American Surgeon. 2008 Aug 1
• 66 citations
  The developing crisis in the national general surgery workforce
  Joseph B. Cofer, R. Phillip Burns> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2008 May 1
• 3 citations
  Project access: giving back at home.
  Joseph B. Cofer> ;Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. 2008 Jan 1
• 3 citations
  Reproduction of postprandial symptoms with cholecystokinin injection: an indication for cholecystectomy without the presence of gallstones or an abnormal ejection frac...
  Joseph B. Cofer, B W Dart th> ;The American Surgeon. 2007 Jul 1
• 140 citations
  Experience with vacuum-pack temporary abdominal wound closure in 258 trauma and general and vascular surgical patients.
  Donald E. Barker, John M. Green, Robert A. Maxwell, Philip W. Smith, Vicente A. Mejia, Benjamin W. Dart, Joseph B. Cofer, S. Michael Roe, R. Phillip Burns> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007 May 1
• 26 citations
  Rural surgery training: a survey of program directors.
  Hans C. Burkholder, Joseph B. Cofer> ;Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2007 Mar 1
• 1 citations
  Risk factors for recurrent hemorrhage after successful mesenteric arterial embolization.
  W. Brent Keeling, Paul A. Armstrong, Patrick A. Stone, Bruce R. Zweibel, Bruce T. Kudryk, Brad L. Johnson, Martin R. Back, Dennis F. Bandyk, Murray L. Shames, Eugene F...> ;The American Surgeon. 2006 Sep 1
• 25 citations
  How surgical faculty and residents assess the first year of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education duty-hour restrictions: results of a multi-institu...
  James E. Coverdill, Gina L. Adrales, William Finlay, John D. Mellinger, Kimberly D. Anderson, Bruce W. Bonnell, Joseph B. Cofer, Douglas B. Dorner, Carl Haisch, Kristi...> ;American Journal of Surgery. 2006 Jan 1
• 43 citations
  Duty-hour restrictions and the work of surgical faculty: Results of a multi-institutional study
  James E. Coverdill, William Finlay, Gina L. Adrales, John D. Mellinger, Kimberly D. Anderson, Bruce W. Bonnell, Joseph B. Cofer, Douglas B. Dorner, Carl E. Haisch, Kri...> ;Academic Medicine. 2006 Jan 1
• What price should be paid for organs
  Curt S. Koontz, Joseph B. Cofer> ;Current Surgery. 2004 Sep 1
• 9 citations
  Resident work hours: can we meet the ACGME requirements?
  W. Todd Cockerham, Joseph B. Cofer, Patricia L. Lewis, Candice M. Scroggins, R. Phillip Burns> ;The American Surgeon. 2004 Aug 1
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