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Major HPB Procedures Must be Undertaken in High Volume Quaternary Centres?

Author(s) -

Andrew N. Kingsnorth

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

hpb surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.561

H-Index - 26

eISSN - 1607-8462

pISSN - 0894-8569

DOI - 10.1155/2000/52097

Subject(s) - medicine , pancreaticoduodenectomy , quartile , referral , confounding , case mix index , logistic regression , emergency medicine , population , multivariate analysis , mortality rate , general surgery , surgery , family medicine , confidence interval , nursing , environmental health , resection

Reports of better results at national referral centers than at low-volume community hospitals have prompted calls for regionalizing pancreaticoduodenectomy (the Whipple procedure). We examined the relationship between hospital volume and mortality with this procedure across all US hospitals.

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