Open AccessMinimum Volume Discussion in the Treatment of Colon and Rectal Cancer: A Review of the Current Status and Relevance of Surgeon and Hospital Volume regarding Result Quality and the Impact on Health Economics
Author(s) -
Karl-Heinrich Link,
Peter Coy,
Mark Roitman,
Carola Link,
Marko Kornmann,
Ludger Staib
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
visceral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.598
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2297-475X
pISSN - 2297-4725
DOI - 10.1159/000456044
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , relevance (law) , volume (thermodynamics) , quality (philosophy) , current (fluid) , general surgery , intensive care medicine , cancer , political science , physics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics , law , engineering , philosophy , epistemology
To answer the question whether minimum caseloads need to be stipulated in the German S3 (or any other) guidelines for colorectal cancer, we analyzed the current representative literature. The question is important regarding medical quality as well as health economics and policy.