Hospital volume and late survival after cancer surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 245, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 777-783

  Birkmeyer, John D ^a,c   Sun, Yating ^a   Wong, Sandra L ^a   Stukel, Therese A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247616047     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000252402.33814.dd     Document Type: Article

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