Why the study?
Does high hospital and surgeon caseload improve short-term outcomes in patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery?
Population
35 studies of patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer
Comparison
High hospital caseload, high surgeon's caseload… vs Low hospital caseload, low surgeon's caseload…
Design
Systematic_review
Follow-up
30-day and in-hospital
Authors
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May support centralization of colonic cancer surgery to high-caseload centers; reinforces volume-outcome associations in systematic review data.
Does high hospital and surgeon caseload improve short-term outcomes in patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery?
High hospital and surgeon caseloads are associated with improved short-term mortality following colonic cancer surgery, though this relationship was not observed for rectal cancer.
Iversen et al. (2006) studied this question.
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