The effect of provider case volume on cancer mortality: systematic review and meta‐analysis

RL Gruen, V Pitt, S Green, A Parkhill… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The authors systematically reviewed the association between provider case volume and
mortality in 101 publications involving greater than 1 million patients with esophageal …

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between hospital/surgeon volume and outcome for radical cystectomy: an update for the ongoing debate

CA Goossens-Laan, GA Gooiker, W van Gijn, PN Post… - European urology, 2011 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: There is an ongoing debate about centralisation of radical cystectomy (RC)
procedures. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the volume …

Hospital volume and operative mortality in the modern era

BN Reames, AA Ghaferi, JD Birkmeyer… - Annals of surgery, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine whether the relationship between hospital volume and mortality has
changed over time. Background: It is generally accepted that hospital volume is associated …

Predictors of comprehensive surgical treatment in patients with ovarian cancer

BA Goff, BJ Matthews, EH Larson… - … Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND. Providing appropriate surgical treatment for women with ovarian cancer is
one of the most effective ways to improve ovarian cancer outcomes. In this study, the authors …

Trends in radical prostatectomy: centralization, robotics, and access to urologic cancer care

KB Stitzenberg, YN Wong, ME Nielsen, BL Egleston… - Cancer, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: Robotic surgery has been widely adopted for radical prostatectomy. We
hypothesized that this change is rapidly shifting procedures away from hospitals that do not …

Why do high-volume hospitals achieve better outcomes? A systematic review about intermediate factors in volume–outcome relationships

R Mesman, GP Westert, BJMM Berden, MJ Faber - Health Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the role of process and structural factors in volume–outcome
relationships. Data sources Pubmed electronic database, until March 2014. Study design …

Association between hospital and surgeon radical prostatectomy volume and patient outcomes: a systematic review

TJ Wilt, TA Shamliyan, BC Taylor, R MacDonald… - The Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: We examined the association between hospital and surgeon volume, and
patient outcomes after radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Databases were …

Effect of surgeon and hospital volume on morbidity and mortality after hip fracture

K Okike, PH Chan, EW Paxton - JBJS, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Prior studies have examined the relationship between surgeon and hospital
volumes and outcome following hip fracture surgical procedures, but the results have been …

Discrete-choice experiment to analyse preferences for centralizing specialist cancer surgery services

L Vallejo-Torres, M Melnychuk… - Journal of British …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Centralizing specialist cancer surgery services aims to reduce variations in
quality of care and improve patient outcomes, but increases travel demands on patients and …

Lymphadenectomy at the time of robot‐assisted radical cystectomy: results from the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium

NJ Hellenthal, A Hussain, PE Andrews… - BJU …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? It is known that the lymph node
yield in open cystectomy is variable and dependent, in some part, upon surgeon experience …