Impact of Hospital Volume on Surgical Outcome for Head and Neck Cancer

The objective of this study was to define the prognostic significance of surgical center case volume on outcome for head and neck cancer (HNC). Florida cancer registry and inpatient hospital data were queried for HNC diagnosed from 1998 to 2002. Of the 11,160 operative cases of HNC identified, 35.3%...

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Published in:Annals of surgical oncology 2009-04, Vol.16 (4), p.1001-1009
Main Authors: Cheung, Michael C., Koniaris, Leonidas G., Perez, Eduardo A., Molina, Manuel A., Goodwin, W. Jarred, Salloum, Rabih M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Female
Head and Neck Neoplasms - surgery
Head and Neck Oncology
Hospitals - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Oncology
Prognosis
Registries
Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:The objective of this study was to define the prognostic significance of surgical center case volume on outcome for head and neck cancer (HNC). Florida cancer registry and inpatient hospital data were queried for HNC diagnosed from 1998 to 2002. Of the 11,160 operative cases of HNC identified, 35.3% were treated at low-volume centers (LVCs), 32.7% in intermediate-volume centers (IVC), and 32.1% at high-volume centers (HVC). A larger proportion of high-grade tumors (27.9%) and lesions over 30 mm (39.7%) were resected at HVC ( p  
ISSN:1068-9265
1534-4681
DOI:10.1245/s10434-008-0191-9