Impact of a Multidisciplinary Continuous Quality Improvement Program on the Positive Surgical Margin Rate after Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

European Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 853-858

  Touijer, Karim ^a   Kuroiwa, Kentaro ^a   Vickers, Andrew ^a   Reuter, Victor E ^a   Hricak, Hedwig ^a   Scardino, Peter T ^a   Guillonneau, Bertrand ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care; Laparoscopy; Pathology; Prostatic neoplasms; Quality assurance; Surgery

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIOLOGIST; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BIOPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645770982     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2005.12.065     Document Type: Article

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