Impact of procedure volumes and focused practice on short-term outcomes of elective and urgent colon cancer resection in Italy.

The relationship between hospital volumes and short-term patients' outcomes of colon cancer (CC) surgery is not well established in the literature. Moreover, evidence about short-term outcomes of urgent compared with elective CC procedures is scanty. The aims of this study are 1) to determine w...

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Main Authors: Jacopo Lenzi, Raffaele Lombardi, Davide Gori, Nicola Zanini, Dario Tedesco, Michele Masetti, Elio Jovine, Maria Pia Fantini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3656123?pdf=render