Benefit in regionalization of care for patients treated with nephrectomy: a Nationwide Inpatient Sample

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1511-1521

  Becker, Andreas ^a,b   Bianchi, Marco ^a,c   Hansen, Jens ^a,b   Tian, Zhe ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^d   Popa, Ioana ^a   Perrotte, Paul ^a   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^e   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^a   Sun, Maxine ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic; Hospital volume; Morbidity; Nephrectomy; Renal cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84912022501     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-014-1256-y     Document Type: Article

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