Volume of clinical activity in hospitals and healthcare outcomes, costs, and patient access.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Preoperative physical therapy for elective cardiac surgery patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012
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2. Patient outcomes vs. service workload: an analysis of outcomes in the burn service of England and Wales.BMC health services research · 2015
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3. Cost effects of hospital mergers in Portugal.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2014
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4. Cancer patients' concerns regarding access to cancer care: perceived impact of waiting times along the diagnosis and treatment journey.European journal of cancer care · 2012
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5. Inequalities in access to cancer treatment: an analysis of cross-regional patient mobility in Greece.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2012
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6. Modeling the volume-effectiveness relationship in the case of hip fracture treatment in Finland.BMC health services research · 2010
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7. Effect of hospital ownership status and payment structure on the adoption and use of drug-eluting stents for percutaneous coronary interventions.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2007
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8. Impact of regionalisation of cardiac surgery in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2004
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9. Volume of activity and occupancy rate in intensive care units. Association with mortality.Intensive care medicine · 2004
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10. Are generalists still needed in a specialised world? The renaissance of general surgery.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

9 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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