Specialty training and mortality after esophageal cancer resection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 282-286

  Dimick, Justin B ^a   Goodney, Philip P ^b   Orringer, Mark B ^b   Birkmeyer, John D ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CERTIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TRAINING; THORAX SURGERY;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 20544467511     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.01.044     Document Type: Article

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