Open AccessTrends in Regionalization of Care and Mortality For Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy
Author(s) -
Nikhil Waingankar,
Katherine Mallin,
Brian L. Egleston,
David P. Winchester,
Robert G. Uzzo,
Alexander Kutikov,
Marc C. Smaldone
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001143
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , medicine , confidence interval , cystectomy , proportional hazards model , mortality rate , bladder cancer , surgery , demography , cancer , sociology
Regionalization to higher volume centers has been proposed as a mechanism to improve short-term outcomes following complex surgery.