The association between surgeon case volume and hospitalization costs in free flap oral cancer reconstruction operations

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-139

  Lin, Chung Shu ^a   Lee, Hsin Chien ^a   Lin, Chen Tong ^a   Lin, Herng Ching ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; MOUTH CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; ADULT; AGED; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH TUMOR; ORAL SURGERY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 48049109423     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181773d71     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Epstein, A. It's time to move ahead. N. Engl. J. Med. 346: 1161, 2002.
2. Luft, H., Bunker, J., and Enthoven, A. Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality. N. Engl. J. Med. 301: 1364, 1979.
3. Birkmeyer, J., Siewers, A., Finlanyson, E., Stukel, T., Lucas, F., and Batista, I. Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. N. Engl. J. Med. 346: 1128, 2002.
4. Birkmeyer, J., Stukel, T., Siewers, A., Goodney, P., Wennberg, D., and Lucas, F. Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States. N. Engl. J. Med. 349: 2117, 2003.
5. Halm, E., Lee, C., and Chassin, M. Is volume related to outcome in health care? A systematic review and methodologic critique of the literature. Ann. Intern. Med. 137: 511, 2002.
6. Mignogna, M., Fedele, S., and Russo, L. The World Cancer Report and the burden of oral cancer. Eur. J. Cancer Prev. 13: 139, 2002.
7. Yang, Y., Chen, C., Chang, J., Lin, C., Cheng, T., and Shieh, T. Incidence rates of oral cancer and oral pre-cancerous lesions in a 6-year follow-up study of a Taiwanese aboriginal community. J. Oral Pathol. Med. 34: 596, 2005.
8. Wei, F., Celik, N., Chen, H., Cheng, M., and Huang, W. Combined anterolateral thigh flap and vascularized fibula osteoseptocutaneous flap in reconstruction of extensive composite mandibular defects. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 109: 45, 2002.
9. Koshima, I., Hosoda, S., Inagawa, K., Urushibara, K., and Moriguchi, T. Free combined anterolateral thigh flap and vascularized fibula for wide, through-and through oromandibular defects. J. Reconstr. Microsurg. 14: 529, 1998.
10. Carlson, G. W. Oncologic and reconstructive principles. In B. M. Achauer, et al. (Eds.), Plastic Surgery: Indications, Operations, and Outcomes. St. Louis: Mosby, 2000. Pp. 1067-1092.
11. Kayser, M. Surgical flaps. Select. Read. Plast. Surg. 9: 1, 1999.
12. Khouri, R. Avoiding free flap failure. Clin. Plast. Surg. 19: 773, 1992.
13. Gal, T., and Futran, N. Outcomes research in head and neck reconstruction. Facial Plast. Surg. 18: 113, 2002.
14. Porter, G., and Skibber, J. Outcomes research in surgical oncology. Ann. Surg. Oncol. 7: 367, 2000.
15. Barker, F., Klibanski, A., and Swearingen, B. Transsphenoi-dal surgery for pituitary tumors in the United States, 1996-2000: Mortality, morbidity, and the effects of hospital and surgeon. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 88: 4709, 2003.
16. Hammond, J., Queale, W., Kim, T., and McFarland, E. Surgeon experience and clinical and economic outcomes for shoulder arthroplasty. J. Bone Joint Surg. (Am.) 85: 2318, 2003.
17. Nallamothu, B., Saint, S., Hofer, T., Vijan, S., Eagle, K., and Bernstein, S. Impact of patient risk on the hospital volume-outcome relationship in coronary artery bypass grafting. Arch. Intern. Med. 165: 333, 2005.
18. Birkmeyer, J., Siewers, A., Finlayson, E., et al. Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. N. Engl. J. Med. 346: 1128, 2002.
19. Deyo, R. A., Cherkin, D. C., and Ciol, M. A. Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases. J. Clin. Epidemiol. 45: 613, 1992.
20. Bryk, A. S., and Raudenbush, S. W. Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1992.
21. Martineau, P., Filion, K., Huk, O., Zukor, D., Eisenberg, M., and Antoniou, J. Primary hip arthroplasty costs are greater in low-volume than in high-volume Canadian hospitals. Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res. 437: 152, 2005.
22. Shook, T., Sun, G., Burstein, S., Eisenhauer, A., and Matthews, R. Comparison of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty outcome and hospital costs for low-volume and high-volume operators. Am. J. Cardiol. 77: 331, 1996.
23. Drummond, M., Aguiar-Ibáñez, R., and Nixon, J. Economic evaluation. Singapore Med. J. 47: 456, 2006.
24. Petruzzelli, G., Brockenbrough, J., Vandevender, D., and Creech, S. The influence of reconstructive modality on cost of care in head and neck oncologic surgery. Arch. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 128: 1377, 2002.
25. Lyman, S., Jones, E., Bach, P., Peterson, M., and Marx, R. The association between hospital volume and total shoulder arthroplasty outcomes. Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res. 432: 132, 2005.
26. Martineau, P., Filion, K., Huk, O., Zukor, D., Eisenberg, M., and Antoniou, J. Primary hip arthroplasty costs are greater in low-volume than in high-volume. Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res. 437: 152, 2005.
27. Panageas, K., Schrag, D., Riedel, E., Bach, P., and Begg, C. The effect of clustering of outcomes on the association of procedure volume and surgical outcomes. Ann. Intern. Med. 139: 658, 2003.
28. Williams, O. Quality of care versus provider volume: Does one lead to the other? Med. Care 41: 1127, 2003.
29. Kizer, K. The volume-outcome conundrum. N. Engl. J. Med. 349: 2159, 2003.