Radical Prostatectomy: Hospital volumes and surgical volumes does practice make perfect?

BMC Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Urbanek, Cydney ^a   Turpen, Ryan ^a   Rosser, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; WORKLOAD; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650841526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-10     Document Type: Article

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