Effect of hospital caseload on long-term outcome after standardization of rectal cancer surgery at a national level

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-224

  Wibe, A ^a   Eriksen, M T ^b   Syse, A ^c   Tretli, S ^c   Myrvold, H E ^a   Soreide O ^d  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b Sykehuset Buskerud HF   (Norway)

^c CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; STANDARDIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NORWAY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 13944271784     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4821     Document Type: Article

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