Traveling to a high-volume center is associated with improved survival for patients with esophageal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 265, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 743-749

  Speicher, Paul J ^a   Englum, Brian R ^a   Ganapathi, Asvin M ^a   Wang, Xiaofei ^a   Hartwig, Matthew G ^a   D'Amico, Thomas A ^a   Berry, Mark F ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

esophageal cancer; esophageal surgery; propensity matching; travel burden; volume outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; TUMOR INVASION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961226882     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001702     Document Type: Article

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