The influence of hospital and surgeon volume on in-hospital mortality for colectomy, gastrectomy, and lung lobectomy in patients with cancer

Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 6-15

  Hannan, Edward L ^a,b   Radzyner, Mark ^a,b   Rubin, David ^a,b   Dougherty, James ^a,b   Brennan, Murray F ^a,b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COMPETENCE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 0036160503     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2002.120238     Document Type: Article

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