Transcending the Volume–Outcome Relationship in Cancer Care
Open Access
- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 98 (3) , 151-154
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djj055
Abstract
Research on the volume–outcome relationship in health care has generated both a high “volume” (more than 200 Medline-listed publications to date) and a consistently recurring “outcome”: the finding that, across a range of interventional procedures, hospitals and surgeons with higher case loads tend to have lower mortality rates ( 1 ) .Keywords
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