The Volume-Outcomes Effect in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery: Hospital Versus Surgeon Contributions and Specificity of the Relationship

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 528-538

  Nathan, Hari ^a   Cameron, John L ^a   Choti, Michael A ^a   Schulick, Richard D ^a   Pawlik, Timothy M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANCREATECTOMY; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 62349131980     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Gordon T.A., Burleyson G.P., Tielsch J.M., and Cameron J.L. The effects of regionalization on cost and outcome for one general high-risk surgical procedure. Ann Surg 221 (1995) 43-49
2. Lieberman M.D., Kilburn H., Lindsey M., and Brennan M.F. Relation of perioperative deaths to hospital volume among patients undergoing pancreatic resection for malignancy. Ann Surg 222 (1995) 638-645
3. Choti M.A., Bowman H.M., Pitt H.A., et al. Should hepatic resections be performed at high-volume referral centers?. J Gastrointest Surg 2 (1998) 11-20
4. Begg C.B., Cramer L.D., Hoskins W.J., and Brennan M.F. Impact of hospital volume on operative mortality for major cancer surgery. JAMA 280 (1998) 1747-1751
5. Sosa J.A., Bowman H.M., Gordon T.A., et al. Importance of hospital volume in the overall management of pancreatic cancer. Ann Surg 228 (1998) 429-438
6. Birkmeyer J.D., Finlayson S.R., Tosteson A.N., et al. Effect of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality with pancreaticoduodenectomy. Surgery 125 (1999) 250-256
7. Gordon T.A., Bowman H.M., Bass E.B., et al. Complex gastrointestinal surgery: impact of provider experience on clinical and economic outcomes. J Am Coll Surg 189 (1999) 46-56
8. Birkmeyer J.D., Siewers A.E., Finlayson E.V., et al. Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med 346 (2002) 1128-1137
9. Finlayson E.V., Goodney P.P., and Birkmeyer J.D. Hospital volume and operative mortality in cancer surgery: a national study. Arch Surg 138 (2003) 721-725 discussion 726
10. Birkmeyer J.D., Stukel T.A., Siewers A.E., et al. Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States. N Engl J Med 349 (2003) 2117-2127
11. Dimick J.B., Cowan Jr. J.A., Knol J.A., and Upchurch Jr. G.R. Hepatic resection in the United States: indications, outcomes, and hospital procedural volumes from a nationally representative database. Arch Surg 138 (2003) 185-191
12. Dimick J.B., Pronovost P.J., Cowan Jr. J.A., and Lipsett P.A. Postoperative complication rates after hepatic resection in Maryland hospitals. Arch Surg 138 (2003) 41-46
13. Dimick J.B., Wainess R.M., Cowan J.A., et al. National trends in the use and outcomes of hepatic resection. J Am Coll Surg 199 (2004) 31-38
14. McPhee J.T., Hill J.S., Whalen G.F., et al. Perioperative mortality for pancreatectomy: a national perspective. Ann Surg 246 (2007) 246-253
15. Birkmeyer J.D., Warshaw A.L., Finlayson S.R., et al. Relationship between hospital volume and late survival after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Surgery 126 (1999) 178-183
16. Birkmeyer J.D., Sun Y., Wong S.L., and Stukel T.A. Hospital volume and late survival after cancer surgery. Ann Surg 245 (2007) 777-783
17. Birkmeyer J.D., Lucas F.L., and Wennberg D.E. Potential benefits of regionalizing major surgery in Medicare patients. Eff Clin Pract 2 (1999) 277-283
18. Birkmeyer J.D., Sun Y., Goldfaden A., et al. Volume and process of care in high-risk cancer surgery. Cancer 106 (2006) 2476-2481
19. Hannan E.L., Radzyner M., Rubin D., et al. The influence of hospital and surgeon volume on in-hospital mortality for colectomy, gastrectomy, and lung lobectomy in patients with cancer. Surgery 131 (2002) 6-15
20. Brennan M.F. Presumption, privilege, and preemption. Ann Surg 238 (2003) 307-314
21. Hollenbeck B.K., Wei Y., and Birkmeyer J.D. Volume, process of care, and operative mortality for cystectomy for bladder cancer. Urology 69 (2007) 871-875
22. Goshima K.R., Mills Sr. J.L., Awari K., et al. Measure what matters: institutional outcome data are superior to the use of surrogate markers to define "center of excellence" for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Ann Vasc Surg 22 (2008) 328-334
23. HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID), and Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). 1999-2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/sidoverview.jsp Accessed April 1, 2008
24. HCUP Central Distributor SID Description of Data Elements, and Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). 1999-2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/siddist/sid_multivar.jsp Accessed April 1, 2008
25. HCUP Procedure Classes, and Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). 1999-2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/procedure/procedure.jsp Accessed April 1, 2008
26. 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 (1992) 613-619
27. Charlson M.E., Pompei P., Ales K.L., and MacKenzie C.R. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chronic Dis 40 (1987) 373-383
28. Sundararajan V., Quan H., Halfon P., et al. Cross-national comparative performance of three versions of the ICD-10 Charlson index. Med Care 45 (2007) 1210-1215
29. Urbach D.R., and Austin P.C. Conventional models overestimate the statistical significance of volume-outcome associations, compared with multilevel models. J Clin Epidemiol 58 (2005) 391-400
30. Urbach D.R., and Baxter N.N. Does it matter what a hospital is "high volume" for?. Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data. Qual Saf Health Care 13 (2004) 379-383
31. Konety B.R., Allareddy V., Modak S., and Smith B. Mortality after major surgery for urologic cancers in specialized urology hospitals: are they any better?. J Clin Oncol 24 (2006) 2006-2012
32. Allareddy V., and Konety B.R. Specificity of procedure volume and in-hospital mortality association. Ann Surg 246 (2007) 135-139
33. Gilbert S.M., Dunn R.L., Miller D.C., et al. Mortality after urologic cancer surgery: impact of non-index case volume. Urology 71 (2008) 906-910
34. McKay A., You I., Bigam D., et al. Impact of surgeon training on outcomes after resective hepatic surgery. Ann Surg Oncol 15 (2008) 1348-1355
35. Hofland J., and Henny C.P. Bloodless (liver) surgery?. The anesthetist's view. Dig Surg 24 (2007) 265-273
36. Cammu G., Troisi R., Cuomo O., et al. Anaesthetic management and outcome in right-lobe living liver-donor surgery. Eur J Anaesthesiol 19 (2002) 93-98
37. Harmon J.W., Tang D.G., Gordon T.A., et al. Hospital volume can serve as a surrogate for surgeon volume for achieving excellent outcomes in colorectal resection. Ann Surg 230 (1999) 404-411
38. Schrag D., Panageas K.S., Riedel E., et al. Hospital and surgeon procedure volume as predictors of outcome following rectal cancer resection. Ann Surg 236 (2002) 583-592
39. Schrag D., Panageas K.S., Riedel E., et al. Surgeon volume compared to hospital volume as a predictor of outcome following primary colon cancer resection. J Surg Oncol 83 (2003) 68-78
40. Schrag D., Earle C., Xu F., et al. Associations between hospital and surgeon procedure volumes and patient outcomes after ovarian cancer resection. J Natl Cancer Inst 98 (2006) 163-171
41. Evidence-Based Hospital Referral (EBHR) and Common Acute Conditions (CACs) Coding Specifications for Volume. The Leapfrog Group, 2008. https://leapfrog.medstat.com/pdf/volumestdcodes.pdf Accessed April 24, 2008
42. Standards for hepato-pancreato-biliary training. International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, 2006. http://www.ihpba.org/assets/downloads/pdf/publications/hpb_training_standards.pdf Accessed April 24, 2008
43. Helling T.S., and Khandelwal A. The challenges of resident training in complex hepatic, pancreatic, and biliary procedures. J Gastrointest Surg 12 (2008) 153-158