@article{be6967037dab4ce5af00f576dc253151,
title = "Hospital volume does not influence long-term survival of patients undergoing surgery for oesophageal or gastric cancer",
abstract = "Guidelines suggest that surgery for oesophageal and gastric cancer should be conducted in large cancer centres. This national study examined the relationship between hospital volume and outcome in Scotland.",
author = "Thompson, {A. M.} and T. Rapson and Gilbert, {F. J.} and Park, {K. G. M.}",
note = "dc.publisher: Wiley First author of this paper describing a population-based study of 3293 consecutive patients with oesophageal or gastric cancer. There was no relationship between hospital volume and postoperative morbidity or mortality, or between survival and volume of patients either for hospital of diagnosis or hospital of surgery. ",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1002/bjs.5729",
language = "English",
volume = "94",
pages = "578--584",
journal = "British Journal of Surgery",
issn = "0007-1323",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "5",
}
