Ranking and rankability of hospital postoperative mortality rates in colorectal cancer surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 844-849

  Henneman, Daniel ^a   Van Bommel, Annelotte C M ^a   Snijders, Alexander ^b   Snijders, Heleen S ^a   Tollenaar, Rob A E M ^a   Wouters, Michel W J M ^c   Fiocco, Marta ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

case mix correction; hospital variation; mortality; rankability; ranking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE MIX; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84899071258     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000561     Document Type: Article

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