Mortality rate associated with 56 consecutive esophagectomies performed at a "low-volume" hospital: Is procedure volume as important as we are trying to make it?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1346-1350

  Santin, Brian ^a   Kulwicki, Aaron ^a   Price, Phillip ^a  

^a MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48849083598     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-008-0550-7     Document Type: Article

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