High Radical Prostatectomy Surgical Volume is Related to Lower Radical Prostatectomy Total Hospital Charges

European Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-63

  Ramirez, Alvaro ^a   Benayoun, Serge ^a   Briganti, Alberto ^a   Chun, Jongi ^a   Perrotte, Paul ^a   Kattan, Michael W ^b   Graefen, Markus ^c   McCormack, Michael ^a   Neugut, Alfred I ^d   Saad, Fred ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic outcomes; Radical prostatectomy; Surgical volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; COST CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; COVARIANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RACE; SURGEON; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY;

EID: 33744947494     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.02.066     Document Type: Article

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