The more the better?: The impact of surgeon and hospital volume on in-hospital mortality following colorectal resection

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 954-959

  Karanicolas, Paul J ^a,d   Dubois, Luc ^a   Colquhoun, Patrick H D ^a   Swallow, Carol J ^b   Walter, Stephen D ^c   Guyatt, Gordon H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANADA; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; COLON DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; COLECTOMY; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 67649204243     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181a77bcd     Document Type: Article

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