Hospital and physician volume or specialization and outcomes in cancer treatment: importance in quality of cancer care.

By B. Hillner, T. Smith, C. Desch. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2000

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Deliberate practice and the acquisition and maintenance of expert performance in medicine and related domains. (2004, background): “High-volume hospitals that frequently perform a given surgical procedure or treatment have superior outcomes relative to hospitals with fewer procedures.(92) More directly relevant to evidence for expert performance of individual surgeons, much of the variability in outcomes is related to how often ”
Is Volume Related to Outcome in Health Care? A Systematic Review and Methodologic Critique of the Literature (2002, background): “Previous reviews have also found that the associations between procedure volume and surgery outcomes are strongest for pancreatic and esophageal cancer and are more modest or heterogeneous for most other conditions (12, 13, 15, 16).”