Lung
Cancer Surgery Volume At Individual Hospitals.
California
Hospitals.
Florida
Hospitals.
Iowa
Hospitals.
Maryland
Hospitals.
Massachusetts
Hospitals.
New
Jersey Hospitals.
New
York Hospitals.
Pennsylvania
Hospitals.
Virginia
Hospitals.
Washington
State Hospitals.
Wisconsin
Hospitals.
Research
Showing a Correlation Between Higher Volume of Lung Cancer Surgery
and Better Patient Outcomes.
Methodology.
Research
Showing a Correlation Between Higher Volume of Lung Cancer Surgery
and Better Patient Outcomes.
Hannan
et al., The Influence of Hospital and Surgeon Volume
on In-Hospital Mortality for Colectomy, Gastrectomy, and Lung
Lobectomy in Patients with Cancer (National
Library of Medicine's Medline abstract) Surgery, vol 131(1):
6-15, January 2002.
Romano
et al., Patient and Hospital Characteristics Related to In-Hospital
Mortality after Lung Cancer Resection, (National
Library of Medicine's Medline abstract) Chest, vol. 101:1332-37,
May 1992.
Methodology.
Volume
was calculated for cancer patients undergoing a lobectomy of the
lung. Only complete lung lobectomies were included in order
to increase the similiarity of the patients included in the volume
calculations.
