Esophagectomy outcomes at low-volume hospitals: The association between systems characteristics and mortality

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 912-917

  Funk, Luke M ^a,b   Gawande, Atul A ^a,b   Semel, Marcus E ^a,b   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Berry, William R ^a,b   Zinner, Michael J ^b   Jha, Ashish K ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICARE; NURSE; ONCOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL WARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79954631515     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318213862f     Document Type: Article

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