Workload projections for surgical oncology: Will we need more surgeons?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1112-1117

  Etzioni, David A ^a   Liu, Jerome H ^a,b   Maggard, Melinda A ^a,b   O'Connell, Jessica B ^a,b   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Projection; Surgery; Workforce; Workload

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBULATORY SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PANCREAS SURGERY; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGEON; WORKLOAD; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICE; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 1542436025     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2003.03.034     Document Type: Review

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