The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Cancer Surgery: A Hard Sell

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 777-781

  Ihse, Ingemar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SWEDEN; VOLUME OUTCOME RELATIONSHIP; ARTICLE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0642307797     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000098616.19622.af     Document Type: Conference Paper

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