High volume improves outcomes: The argument for centralization of rectal cancer surgery

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 736-748

  Aquina, Christopher T ^a   Probst, Christian P ^a   Becerra, Adan Z ^a   Iannuzzi, James C ^a   Kelly, Kristin N ^a   Hensley, Bradley J ^a   Rickles, Aaron S ^a   Noyes, Katia ^a   Fleming, Fergal J ^a   Monson, John R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CENTRALIZATION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RECTUM SURGERY; REGIONALIZATION; RURAL AREA; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VERY ELDERLY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW YORK; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRALIZED HOSPITAL SERVICES; COLECTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84947968507     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.09.021     Document Type: Article

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