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Hospital procedure volume and outcomes.

Joshi AV, Miller LA.

Ann Intern Med. 2004 Jun 15;140(12):1061-2; author reply 1062. No abstract available. PMID: 15197031 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Summaries for patients. Choice of statistical analysis can change the results of studies of the relationship between hospital and surgeon volume and outcomes of cancer surgery.

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Ann Intern Med. 2003 Oct 21;139(8):I44. No abstract available. PMID: 14568877 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Summaries for patients. Relationships between the amount of colon cancer surgery a hospital performs and patient outcomes.

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Ann Intern Med. 2003 Oct 21;139(8):I28. No abstract available. PMID: 14568876 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The effect of clustering of outcomes on the association of procedure volume and surgical outcomes.

Panageas KS, Schrag D, Riedel E, Bach PB, Begg CB.

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Volume-outcome analysis in rectal cancer: a plea for enquiry, evidence and evolution.

Hogan AM, Kennelly R, Winter DC.

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Influence of hospital characteristics on operative death and survival of patients after major cancer surgery in Ontario.

Simunovic M, Rempel E, Thériault ME, Coates A, Whelan T, Holowaty E, Langer B, Levine M.

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Volume and outcome for major upper GI surgery in England.

Pal N, Axisa B, Yusof S, Newcombe RG, Wemyss-Holden S, Rhodes M, Lewis MP.

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Surgeon and hospital characteristics as predictors of major adverse outcomes following colon cancer surgery: understanding the volume-outcome relationship.

Billingsley KG, Morris AM, Dominitz JA, Matthews B, Dobie S, Barlow W, Wright GE, Baldwin LM.

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Influence of hospital volume on local recurrence and survival in a population sample of rectal cancer patients.

Engel J, Kerr J, Eckel R, Günther B, Heiss M, Heitland W, Siewert JR, Jauch KW, Hölzel D.

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Influence of hospital volume on the frequency of abdominoperineal resection and long-term oncological outcomes in low rectal cancer.

Ptok H, Marusch F, Kuhn R, Gastinger I, Lippert H.

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Outcome-based referral to improve quality of care in upper GI surgery.

Wouters M.

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An attempt to analyze the relation between hospital surgical volume and clinical outcome.

Committee for Scientific Affairs, Kazui T, Osada H, Fujita H.

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Hospital characteristics affect outcomes for common pediatric surgical conditions.

Cosper GH, Hamann MS, Stiles A, Nakayama DK.

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Associations between hospital and surgeon procedure volumes and patient outcomes after ovarian cancer resection.

Schrag D, Earle C, Xu F, Panageas KS, Yabroff KR, Bristow RE, Trimble EL, Warren JL.

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Outcomes following pancreatic resection: variability among high-volume providers.

Riall TS, Nealon WH, Goodwin JS, Townsend CM Jr, Freeman JL.

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The surgeon as a prognostic factor in the surgical treatment of rectal cancer.

Di Cataldo A, Scilletta B, Latino R, Cocuzza A, Li Destri G.

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Surgery for colorectal cancer in a low-volume unit: assessment of key issues in the achievement of acceptable clinical results.

Paimela H, Lindström O, Tomminen T, Iivonen M, Könönen E, Kuusanmäki P.

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Time to evaluate why high-volume hospitals have better surgical outcomes.

Webster P.

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Hospital volume and outcome of rectal cancer surgery in Denmark 1994-99.

Harling H, Bülow S, Møller LN, Jørgensen T; Danish Colorectal Cancer Group.

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Reoperation as a quality indicator in colorectal surgery: a population-based analysis.

Morris AM, Baldwin LM, Matthews B, Dominitz JA, Barlow WE, Dobie SA, Billingsley KG.

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