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What provider volumes and characteristics are appropriate for gastric cancer resection? Results of an international RAND/UCLA expert panel.
Matthew Dixon
1 ,
Alyson Mahar ,
Lawrence Paszat ,
Robin McLeod ,
Calvin Law ,
Carol Swallow ,
Lucy Helyer ,
Rajini Seeveratnam ,
Roberta Cardoso ,
Tanios Bekaii-Saab ,
Ian Chau ,
Neal Church ,
Daniel Coit ,
Christopher H Crane ,
Craig Earle ,
Paul Mansfield ,
Norman Marcon ,
Thomas Miner ,
Sung Hoon Noh ,
Geoff Porter ,
Mitchell C Posner ,
Vivek Prachand ,
Takeshi Sano ,
Cornelis J H Van de Velde ,
Sandra Wong ,
Natalie Coburn
Nov 2013
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Abstract
A relationship between higher volume providers and improved outcomes has been suggested by some studies and has been used to construct guidelines for many diseases. For gastric cancer (GC), however, optimal volume cutoffs are not clear.