Effects of hospital and surgeon case-volumes on postoperative complications and length of stay after esophagectomy in Japan

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 566-571

  Yasunaga, Hideo ^a   Matsuyama, Yutaka ^b   Ohe, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophagectomy; Hospital volume; Surgeon volume; Volume outcome relationship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRONICS; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ILEUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 67651165274     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3832-5     Document Type: Article

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