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Provider Volume, Specialty, and Patient Outcomes
Provider (i.e., hospital or surgeon) procedure volume for many types of cancer operation is strongly associated with patient outcomes. For many diseases, care rendered by a specialist has been associated with better outcomes. In companion papers, Schrag et al. (p. 163) and Earle et al. (p. 172) used SEERMedicare data to examine these associations among a population-based cohort of women aged 65 years or older who had surgery for a primary ovarian cancer diagnosed from 1992 through 1999. Schrag et al. found that neither hospital- nor surgeon-specific procedure volume was associated with 60-day mortality
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