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United Press International - April 20, 2004
TORONTO, Apr 19, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX)
-- Canadian researchers said Monday that patients who receive
care at hospitals that perform complex surgical procedures have
a higher survival rate.
The researchers said the higher survival likelihood
applies even if the patient's particular problem is not one of
the hospital's specialties.
"Those hospitals that do a high volume of
complex procedures have all sorts of special resources to handle
complicated medical problems," said David Urbach, a a surgeon
at Toronto General Hospital and an adjunct scientist for the Institute
of Clinical and Evaluative Studies. "The human resources
and technical resources at these hospitals are different than
at smaller ones."
Urbach and colleagues analyzed the outcomes of
five complex surgical procedures conducted in Ontario hospitals
between 1994 and 1999: removal of the esophagus, colorectal resection
for cancer, pancreatic-duodena (removing the head of the pancreas
and a portion of the small intestine), major lung resection and
repair of an enraptured aortal aneurysm. They found the more often
any of the five surgical procedures was done at a hospital, the
lower the morality rate from most of them.
Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
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