Hospital Volume and Patient Outcomes in Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery: Is Assessing Differences in Mortality Enough?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2105-2115

  Schneider, Eric B ^a   Ejaz, Aslam ^a   Spolverato, Gaya ^a   Hirose, Kenzo ^a   Makary, Martin A ^a   Wolfgang, Christopher L ^a   Ahuja, Nita ^a   Weiss, Matthew ^a   Pawlik, Timothy M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual; Hospital volume; HPB; Outcomes; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CANCER REGISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BILIARY TRACT SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911986767     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: 18734626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-014-2619-9     Document Type: Article

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