RT Journal
A1 Slakey DP
T1 Surgical outcomes beyond the individual: Comment on “the association of community health indicators with outcomes for kidney transplant recipients in the united states”
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2012
FD June 1
VO 147
IS 6
SP 526
OP 527
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2012.1
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2012.1
AB 
The focus on outcomes as dependent on the individual extends to the surgical patient as well. A multitude of surgical patient risk-stratification schemes exist, some well known and validated, others resigned to trivia. The field of transplantation has been at the forefront of evaluating and implementing measures of outcomes.