The connection between hospital volume and outcome in thorax surgery
Steinbrüchel, D.A.; Ravn, J.B.
Ugeskrift for Laeger 168(15): 1524-1526
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 1603-6824 PMID: 16640971 Document Number: 598855
A review of current literature with respect to a possible correlation among hospital volume, caseload and outcome of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery supports quite convincingly the theory that, from a probability point of view, the combination of high-volume hospitals with high-volume surgeons produces the best results. During the last decade, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery has to a certain degree been centralized in Denmark, reducing the number of public centres to the five university hospitals. None of these centres is low-volume, and two are high-volume hospitals.