Do high-volume hospitals and surgeons provide better care in urologic oncology?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 417-421

  Eastham, James A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome assessment (health care); Prostate; Prostatectomy; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CONVALESCENCE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ONCOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGY;

CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGY;

EID: 67649372671     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2009.01.010     Document Type: Review

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