Lower hospital volume is associated with higher mortality after oesophageal, gastric, pancreatic and rectal cancer resection.

CONCLUSION: This population-based analysis - the first of its kind in the literature - demonstrates a higher postoperative mortality in low-volume hospitals for patients undergoing oesophageal, gastric, pancreatic and rectal cancer resection in Switzerland. Hence, such operations should preferably be performed in high-volume hospitals. PMID: 28750418 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28750418?dopt=Abstract

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - July 27, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Güller U, Warschkow R, Ackermann CJ, Schmied B, Cerny T, Ess S Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research