Association Between Urologists' Caseload Volume and In-hospital Mortality for Transurethral Resection of Prostate: A Nationwide Population-based Study

Urology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 329-335

  Chen, Yi Kuang ^a,b,c   Lin, Herng Ching ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Taipei County Hospital   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; TAIWAN; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 48349125302     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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