Hospital esophageal cancer resection volume does not predict patient mortality risk

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1690-1698

  Kozower, Benjamin D ^a   Stukenborg, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84860236444     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.01.111     Document Type: Article

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