Assessing the volume-outcome hypothesis and region-level quality improvement interventions: Pancreas cancer surgery in two canadian provinces

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2537-2544

  Simunovic, Marko ^a,b   Urbach, David ^c   Major, Diane ^d   Sutradhar, Rinku ^e   Baxter, Nancy ^f   To, Teresa ^g   Brown, Adalsteinn ^g,h   Davis, Dave ⁱ   Levine, Mark N ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^f ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

ⁱ ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS SURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; REGIONALIZATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUEBEC; REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049472932     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1114-0     Document Type: Article

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