Operation Volume in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery: How Long Will We Keep Looking the Other Way?

Tiago Bouça Machado; Humberto Gigante Cristino; Jan Sven David Mieog; Michael Bau Mortensen; Gil Gonçalves

doi:10.20344/amp.21621

Operation Volume in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery: How Long Will We Keep Looking the Other Way?

Authors

Tiago Bouça Machado Department of Surgery. Unidade Local de Saúde de São João. Porto.
Humberto Gigante Cristino Department of Surgery. Unidade Local de Saúde de São João. Porto.
Jan Sven David Mieog Department of Surgery. Leiden University Medical Center. Leiden.
Michael Bau Mortensen Department of Surgery. Odense Pancreas Centre, Upper GI and HPB Section. Odense University Hospital. Odense.
Gil Gonçalves Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre. Lisbon.

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https://doi.org/10.20344/amp.21621

Keywords:

Failure to Rescue, Health Care, Hospitals, High-Volume, Hospitals, Low-Volume, Pancreatic Neoplasms/surgery, Postoperative Complications/economics

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2024-07-01

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Bouça Machado T, Gigante Cristino H, Mieog JSD, Mortensen MB, Gonçalves G. Operation Volume in Pancreatic Cancer Surgery: How Long Will We Keep Looking the Other Way?. Acta Med Port [Internet]. 2024 Jul. 1 [cited 2026 Jun. 6];37(7-8):565-6. Available from: https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/21621

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Vol. 37 No. 7-8 (2024): July-August

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