Erratum: Is a clear benefit in survival enough to modify patient access to the surgery service? A retrospective analysis in a cohort of gastric cancer patients [Gastric Cancer, (2014), DOI 10.1007/s10120-014-0346-2];Is a clear benefit in survival enough to modify patient access to the surgery service? A retrospective analysis in a cohort of gastric cancer patients

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 159-166

  Altini, Mattia ^a   Carretta, Elisa ^a   Morgagni, Paolo ^b   Carradori, Tiziano ^c   Ciotti, Emanuele ^d   Prati, Elena ^a   Garcea, Domenico ^b   Dino, Amadori ^a   Falcini, Fabio ^a   Nanni, Oriana ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (Italy)

^c Directorate General for Health and Social Policy   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; Hospital volume; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL; ITALY; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; ITALY; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84916242757     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: 14363305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-014-0373-z     Document Type: Erratum

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