Influence of hospital characteristics on operative death and survival of patients after major cancer surgery in Ontario.

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of information from Canadian hospitals on the role of hospital characteristics such as procedure volume and teaching status on the survival of patients who undergo major cancer resection. Therefore, we chose to study these relationships using data from patients treated in Ontario hospitals. METHODS: We used the Ontario Cancer Registry from calendar years 1990-2000 to obtain data on patients who underwent surgery for …