Taking stock of volume-outcome studies

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 393-394

  Begg, Colin B ^a   Scardino, Peter T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA STRICTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATECTOMY; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037315409     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.11.022     Document Type: Editorial

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