ReviewVisceral medicine2017
Minimum Volume Standards in Surgery - Are We There Yet?
Review in Visceral medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The number of arthroscopies performed by trainees does not deduce the level of their arthroscopic proficiency.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Practice patterns of hepatobiliary surgery within the military.Surgical endoscopy · 2023Article
- Minimum Volume Standards: An Incentive To Perform More Radical Cystectomies?European urology open science · 2023Article
- Surgery for pilonidal sinus disease in Norway: training, attitudes and preferences-a survey among Norwegian surgeons.BMC surgery · 2022Article
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- The Impact of a Centralised Pancreatic Cancer Service: a Case Study of Wales, UK.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2022Article
- Effects of volume on outcome in hepatobiliary surgery: a review with guidelines proposal.Global health & medicine · 2020Review
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- Volume and Quality in Visceral Medicine.Visceral medicine · 2017Article
- Problematic Risk Adjustment in National Healthcare Safety Network Measures.American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical QualityArticle
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Abstract
The quality of surgery is directly dependent on the quantity, more specifically, on the number of operations performed at a given hospital as well as on the designated surgeon. This fact is supported by numerous studies and meta-analyses that will be presented in the following text. Most of the convincing data for complex procedures can be obtained from visceral (upper and lower gastrointestinal) surgery studies. Mortality of large oncological procedures, such as esophageal or pancreatic surgery, can be reduced by 50% if a certain number of interventions are guaranteed per year. Centralizing these operations performed by specialized surgeons is the key to success. This also ensures that the minimum volume amounts within a given hospital are well above the required levels, thus enabling to teach the necessary expertise step by step. The obligatory 'learning curve' for complex interventions cannot be completed within the framework of reference figures during residency training. Together, surgeons and their respective societies have introduced a proposal for efficient case-oriented centralized surgery. Whether 'we are there yet' in surgery will depend in the end on how these efforts will be incorporated into administrative requirements and the guidelines that will then be implemented across the board.
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