Should Hepatic Resections Be Performed at High-Volume Referral Centers?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-20

  Choti, Michael A ^a,b   Bowman, Helen M ^a   Pitt, Henry A ^a   Sosa, Julie Ann ^a   Sitzmann, James V ^a   Cameron, John L ^a   Gordon, Toby A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEGRO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031598860     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(98)80098-X     Document Type: Article

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