Relation of hospital volume to colostomy rates and survival for patients with rectal cancer

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 708-716

  Hodgson, David C ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^c   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^c   Fuchs, Charles S ^c   Wright, William E ^d   Ayanian, John Z ^c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d California Department of Health Care Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CODING; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; REGISTER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 0037872681     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/95.10.708     Document Type: Article

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