Impact of surgical experience on in-hospital complication rates in patients undergoing minimally invasive prostatectomy: A population-based study

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 839-847

  Budäus, Lars ^a,b   Sun, Maxine ^b   Abdollah, Firas ^b,c   Zorn, Kevin C ^b   Morgan, Monica ^b   Johal, Rupinder ^b   Liberman, Daniel ^b   Thuret, Rodolphe ^b   Isbarn, Hendrik ^a   Salomon, Georg ^a   Haese, Alexander ^a   Montorsi, Francesco ^c   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^b   Perrotte, Paul ^b   Graefen, Markus ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; ETHNICITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IN HOSPITAL COMPLICATION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL EXPERIENCE; TRANSFUSION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WORK EXPERIENCE; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FLORIDA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955718974     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1300-0     Document Type: Article

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