ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2018
Benchmark values for transthoracic esophagectomy are not set as the defined "best possible"-a validation study.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Quality Performance Indicators for the Surgical Management of Oesophageal Cancer: A Systematic Literature Review.World journal of surgery · 2023Pooled it
- Implementation of Multimodality Therapy and Minimally Invasive Surgery: Short- and Long-term Outcomes of Gastric Cancer Surgery in Medium-Volume Center.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2022Article
- Increasing Use of PET-CT, Neoadjuvant Treatment, Minimally Invasive Approach and Surgical Radicality in Esophageal Cancer Surgery are Associated with Improved Short- and Long-term Outcomes in Real-World Setting.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2022Article
- Minimally invasive esophagectomy learning curves with different types of background experience.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Thirty years of esophageal cancer surgery in Oulu University Hospital.Journal of thoracic disease · 2021Article
- Population-based study of anastomotic stricture rates after minimally invasive and open oesophagectomy for cancer.BJS open · 2019Article
- Securing enteral nutrition with routine feeding jejunostomy after esophagectomy: lost effort or a life saver?Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Can We Increase the Resection Rate by Minimally Invasive Approach? Experience from 100 Minimally Invasive Esophagectomies.Journal of oncology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecently, benchmark values for low-comorbidity patients at high-volume centers were set to define "best achievable results" for transthoracic minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE). We aimed to validate suggested benchmark values by comparing them to outcomes at a medium-volume center in Finland.
methodsAll MIEs (n=82) performed at Central Finland Central Hospital between September 2012 and November 2017 including 75 totally MIE and 7 hybrid procedures. The aim of the study was to compare the results to previously suggested benchmark parameters for postoperative morbidity measured with the Clavien-Dindo classification and comprehensive complication index. Target benchmark parameters were ≤55.7% for any complications, ≤30.8% for major complications (Clavien-Dindo ≥3a), ≤40.8% for 30-day and ≤42.8% for 90-day comprehensive complication index, ≤20% for anastomosis leak, ≤31.6% for pulmonary complications, ≤1.0% for 30-day mortality and ≤4.6% for 90-day mortality.
resultsCompared with benchmark patients, our patients were older (median 68
conclusionsBenchmark values assessing postoperative morbidity after MIE do not represent the defined "best achievable" results after completed learning curves.
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