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ArticleCancers2021

Effects of 1-Year Hospital Volume on Surgical Margin and Biochemical-Failure-Free Survival in Patients Undergoing Robotic versus Nonrobotic Radical Prostatectomy: A Nationwide Cohort Study from the National Taiwan Cancer Database.

Shyh-Chyi Chang, Chia-Hao Hsu, Yi-Chu Lin, Szu-Yuan Wu

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Shyh-Chyi ChangDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan 256, Taiwan.
Chia-Hao HsuDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan 256, Taiwan.
Yi-Chu LinDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan 256, Taiwan.
Szu-Yuan WuDepartment of Food Nutrition and Health Biotechnology, College of Medical and Health Science, Asia University, Taichung 413, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5637-558X
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWFu Jen Catholic University · TWLuodong Poh-Ai Hospital · TW

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Abstract

purposeTo examine the effect of hospital volume on positive surgical margin (PSM) and biochemical-failure-free survival (BFS) rates in patients with prostate cancer (PC) undergoing robotic-assisted or nonrobotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RP). PATIENTS AND

methodsThe patients were men collected in the National Taiwan Cancer Registry diagnosed as having PC without distant metastasis who received RP from 44 multi-institutes in Taiwan. The logistic regression method was used to analyze the risk from RP to PSM in included patients with hospital volume (i.e., number of patients with PC receiving robotic RP per year), and the Cox proportional hazards method was used to analyze the time from the index date to biochemical recurrence.

resultsAfter propensity score adjustment, compared with hospitals with >100 patients/year, the adjusted odds ratios (aORs; 95% confidence intervals) of PSM in the robotic RP group in hospitals with 1-25, 26-50, and 51-100 patients/year were 2.25 (2.10-3.11), 1.42 (1.25-2.23), and 1.33 (1.13-2.04), respectively (type III

conclusionsHospital volume significantly affected PSM and BFS in robotic RP, but not in nonrobotic RP. When patients with PC want to receive robotic RP, it should be performed in a relatively high-volume hospital (>100 patients/year).

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biochemical-failure-free survivalhospital volumenonrobotic radical prostatectomypositive surgical marginrobotic radical prostatectomy

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PMID33513885
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