Impact of hospital volume on postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality after renal surgery: Data from the Japanese diagnosis procedure combination database

Urology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 548-552

  Yasunaga, Hideo ^a,b,c,d,e   Yanaihara, Hitoshi ^a,b,c,d,e   Fuji, Kozo ^a,b,c,d,e   Horiguchi, Hiromasa ^a,b,c,d,e   Hashimoto, Hideki ^a,b,c,d,e   Matsuda, Shinya ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77956527194     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.03.021     Document Type: Article

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