A report card on outcomes for surgically treated gastrointestinal cancers: Are we improving?

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 214-221

  O'Connell, Jessica B ^a,b   Maggard, Melinda A ^a,b   Liu, Jerome H ^a,b   Etzioni, David A ^a   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

colorectal; esophageal; gastric; gastrointestinal cancer; hepatobiliary; inpatient mortality; population based; report card; small bowel; survival

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; DATA BASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CARCINOMA; SMALL INTESTINE CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6344282599     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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