Influence of hospital characteristics on operative death and survival of patients after major cancer surgery in Ontario

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 251-258

  Simunovic, Marko ^a,b   Rempel, Eddy ^a   Thériault, Marc Erick ^c   Coates, Angela ^a   Whelan, Timothy ^a,b   Holowaty, Eric ^c   Langer, Bernard ^d   Levine, Mark ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER SURGERY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; REGIONALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL TIME; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748928433     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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