Relationship between volume and outcome for surgery on congenital diaphragmatic hernia: A systematic review

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare and life-threatening anomaly that needs surgical therapy after clinical stabilization of the neonate. Given an existing volume-outcome relationship for other high-risk, low volume procedures, we aimed at examining the relationship between hospital or surgeon volume and outcomes for surgery on CDH.

Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - May 2, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Johannes Morche, Tim Mathes, Anja Jacobs, Barbara Pietsch, Lucas Wessel, Sabine Gruber, Edmund A.M. Neugebauer, Dawid Pieper Tags: Review Article Source Type: research