Understanding variation in the management of rectal cancer: the potential of a surgeon-initiated database

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 559-562

  Hyman, Neil ^a   Healey, Christopher ^a   Osler, Turner ^a   Cataldo, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome; Rectal cancer; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548478781     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.01.029     Document Type: Article

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