Erschienen in:
08.03.2018 | Gastrointestinal Oncology
Centralization of Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Care Should be Dictated by Quality of Care
verfasst von:
Wouter te Riele, Harm van Tinteren, Johanna van Sandick
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Sonderheft 3/2018
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Excerpt
We read with interest the article by Henneman et al. on “Centralization of esophagectomy: how far should we go?”
1 There is one answer: “as far as quality of care gets us.” Their study was exclusively on surgical procedure volume. Although the authors should be complimented for employing a complex statistical modeling technique, there are important methodological limitations that preclude any valid conclusions regarding centralization. …