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  • Title: [The connection between hospital volume and outcome in thorax surgery].
    Author: Steinbrüchel DA, Ravn JB.
    Journal: Ugeskr Laeger; 2006 Apr 10; 168(15):1524-6. PubMed ID: 16640971.
    Abstract:
    A review of current literature with respect to a possible correlation among hospital volume, caseload and outcome of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery supports quite convincingly the theory that, from a probability point of view, the combination of high-volume hospitals with high-volume surgeons produces the best results. During the last decade, thoracic and cardiovascular surgery has to a certain degree been centralized in Denmark, reducing the number of public centres to the five university hospitals. None of these centres is low-volume, and two are high-volume hospitals.
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