State of evidence on the relationship between high-volume hospitals and outcomes in surgery: A systematic review of systematic reviews

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 216, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Pieper, Dawid ^a   Mathes, Tim ^a   Neugebauer, Edmund ^a   Eikermann, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

AAA; abdominal aortic aneurysm; CABG; coronary artery bypass grafting; hazard ratio; high volume hospitals; HR; HVH; low volume hospitals; LVH; odds ratio; OR; PCI; percutaneous coronary intervention; relative risk; RR

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTHROPLASTY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYSTECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; META ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NEPHRECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 84876683290     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.12.049     Document Type: Review

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