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ArticleAmerican journal of surgery2020

Is there value in cancer center accreditation?

Cary Jo Schlick, Anthony D Yang

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Article in American journal of surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Safety Net Hospitals and the Quality of Surgical Care.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2025
    Review
  4. Geographic distance to Commission on Cancer-accredited and nonaccredited hospitals in the United States.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025
    Article
  5. Implications of missing data on reported breast cancer mortality.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Cary Jo SchlickSurgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Anthony D YangSurgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: anthony.yang@northwestern.edu.

Funding

Tailored Adaptation of the AHRQ VTE QI Guide to Local Hospital Context.K08HL145139 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI YANG, ANTHONY D. · 2019 to 2023
$800k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL145139
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AccreditationPancreatic NeoplasmsHumansMedical OncologyMedicareUnited States

Identifiers

PMID32416939
PMCPMC7755028

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