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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Simulation of the Effects of Minimum Case Volume Thresholds on the Geographic Accessibility of Inpatient Neurosurgical Facilities in Germany.

Simon Mayer, Stervenson Jean Pierre Licht, Özlem Alarslan, Benjamin Mayer, Dalibor Bockelmann, Benjamin Voellger, Thomas Kapapa

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Simon MayerStrategic Medical Controlling, Ulm University Hospital, Albert-Einstein-Allee 29, 89081 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0009-0009-7771-0928
Stervenson Jean Pierre LichtDepartment of Neurosurgery, Ulm University Hospital, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Özlem AlarslanDepartment of Neurosurgery, Ulm University Hospital, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Benjamin MayerInstitute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, University of Ulm, Schwabstraße 13, 89075 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1042-9006
Dalibor BockelmannDepartment of Medical Strategy and Networking, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Breisacher Straße 153, 79110 Freiburg, Germany.
Benjamin VoellgerDepartment of Neurosurgery, St. Vincenz Hospital Paderborn, Am Busdorf 2, 33098 Paderborn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8615-5393
Thomas KapapaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Ulm University Hospital, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1237-5347

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6 · The paper itself

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A2N40health-services-researchKHVVGminimum case volume thresholdsneurosurgery

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PMID42588405
PMCPMC13465607

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