Reexamining the relationship of breast cancer hospital and surgical volume to mortality an instrumental variable analysis

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1033-1039

  Pezzin, Liliana E ^a,b   Laud, Purushottam ^b,c   Yen, Tina W F ^b   Neuner, Joan ^a,b   Nattinger, Ann B ^a,b  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Institute for Health and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer outcomes; Hospital volume; Instrumental variables; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCOME; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948121438     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000439     Document Type: Article

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