Juravinski Cancer Center, Hamilton, Canada
Regionalization of care among Canadian hospitals might improve quality of cancer procedures
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, October 13th, 2006
"There is a lack of information from Canadian hospitals on the role of hospital characteristics such as procedure volume and teaching status on the survival of patients who undergo major cancer resection. Therefore, we chose to study these relationships using data from patients treated in Ontario hospitals," investigators in Canada reported.
"We used the Ontario Cancer Registry from calendar years 1990-2000 to obtain data on patients who underwent surgery for breast, colon, lung or esophageal cancer or who underwent major liver surgery related...
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