Journal article
Assessing the Volume-Outcome Hypothesis and Region-Level Quality Improvement Interventions: Pancreas Cancer Surgery in Two Canadian Provinces
Abstract
BackgroundThe volume-outcome hypothesis suggests that if increased provider procedure volume is associated with improved patient outcomes, then greater regionalization to high-volume providers should improve region-level outcomes. Quality improvement interventions for pancreas cancer surgery implemented in year 1999 in Ontario, Canada were designed to regionalize surgery to high-volume hospitals and decrease operative mortality. Similar …
Authors
Simunovic M; Urbach D; Major D; Sutradhar R; Baxter N; To T; Brown A; Davis D; Levine MN
Journal
Annals of Surgical Oncology, Vol. 17, No. 10, pp. 2537–2544
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
October 2010
DOI
10.1245/s10434-010-1114-0
ISSN
1068-9265