Uptake and patient outcomes of laparoscopic colon and rectal cancer surgery in a publicly funded system and following financial incentives

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3740-3746

  Simunovic, Marko ^a,b   Baxter, Nancy N ^c,d,e   Sutradhar, Rinku ^d   Liu, Ning ^d   Cadeddu, Margherita ^a   Urbach, David ^d,f  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Escarpment Cancer Research Institute   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RECTUM CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84886100566     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-3123-2     Document Type: Article

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