Hospital procedure volume should not be used as a measure of surgical quality

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 606-615

  Lapar, Damien J ^a   Kron, Irving L ^a   Jones, David R ^a   Stukenborg, George J ^a   Kozower, Benjamin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital volume; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; regression; surgery; volume outcome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PROCEDURE VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANCREATECTOMY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

EID: 84866534978     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31826b4be6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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