Relation of perioperative deaths to hospital volume among patients undergoing pancreatic resection for malignancy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 222, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 638-645

  Lieberman, Michael D ^a   Kilburn, Harold ^b   Lindsey, Michael ^b   Brennan, Murray F ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Dept Hlth Care Res Info Serv ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 0028879883     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199511000-00006     Document Type: Article

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