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Investigation of the Relationship Between Volume and Mortality for Surgical Procedures Performed in New York State Hospitals

Survey of AnesthesiologyPublished 1 June 1990
Edward L. Hannan, J. E. O DONNELL, Harold Kilburn, H. Russell Bernard, Ahmet Yazıcı
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TL;DR

An improved measure of physician volume is used to test the combined relationship of hospital and physician volume with in-hospital mortality rates and to explore the existence of threshold volumes that optimally discriminate high- and low-volume providers.

Abstract

HANNAN, E. L.; O'DONNELL, J. E.; KILBURN, H. JR.; BERNARD, H. R.; YAZICI, A. Author Information

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Medicine