The Volume-performance Relationship in Esophagectomy

Thoracic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-94

  Chang, Andrew C ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTICEMIA; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; HUMANS; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33646115438     PISSN: 15474127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2006.01.008     Document Type: Review

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