HOSPITAL VARIATION IN SPHINCTER PRESERVATION FOR ELDERLY RECTAL CANCER PATIENTS

PURPOSE: To evaluate hospital variation in the use of low anterior resection (LAR), local excision (LE) and abdominoperineal resection (APR) in the treatment of rectal cancer in elderly patients. METHODS: Using SEER-Medicare linked data, we identified 4,959 stage I–III rectal cancer patients over ag...

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Main Authors: Dodgion, Christopher M., Neville, Bridget A, Lipsitz, Stuart R., Schrag, Deborah, Breen, Elizabeth, Zinner, Michael J., Greenberg, Caprice C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4134697/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24750983
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2014.03.047
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