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- Title
Survival after treatment for carcinoma invading bladder muscle: a Dutch population-based study on the impact of hospital volume.
- Authors
Goossens-Laan, Catharina A; Visser, Otto; Hulshof, Maarten C C M; Wouters, Michel W; Bosch, J L H Ruud; Coebergh, Jan-Willem W; Kil, Paul J M
- Abstract
Study Type - Prognosis (cohort). Level of Evidence 2a. What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? The subject of mortality and survival rates after radical cystectomies in high-volume hospitals in comparison to low-volume hospitals has been extensively studied. Postoperative mortality is known to be significantly lower with high-volume providers, but for survival rates there was only a trend forwards this finding. For this reason, we performed this Dutch population-based study on survival rates, to see if we had enough power to support this trend with significant findings. To our knowledge, this is the first study of good quality showing a significant beneficial effect for survival in high-volume hospitals.
- Publication
BJU international, 2012, Vol 110, Issue 2, p226
- ISSN
1464-410X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10694.x