Has recognition of the relationship between mortality rates and hospital volume for major cancer surgery in california made a difference?: A follow-up analysis of another decade

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 472-482

  Gasper, Warren J ^a   Glidden, David V ^b   Jin, Chengshi ^b   Way, Lawrence W ^a   Patti, Marco G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; DATA ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER RESECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70249084917     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b47c79     Document Type: Article

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