Benefit in regionalisation of care for patients treated with radical cystectomy: A nationwide inpatient sample analysis

BJU International

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 733-740

  Ravi, Praful ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^b,d   Hansen, Jens ^b,e   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^g   Tian, Zhe ^b   Meskawi, Malek ^b   Abdollah, Firas ^d   Briganti, Alberto ^d   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^f   Perrotte, Paul ^b   Montorsi, Francesco ^d   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Sun, Maxine ^b,c  

^a WEST MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

muscle invasive bladder cancer; radical cystectomy; regionalisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

MUSCLE-INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; RADICAL CYSTECTOMY; REGIONALISATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84898907863     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bju.12288     Document Type: Article

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