Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5597896 Annals of Vascular Surgery 2017 30 Pages PDF
Abstract
High-volume hospitals/surgeons may undertake fewer amputations and mortality and amputations may covary. The finding that hospital and surgeon volume affected the number of secondary amputations has implications on reorganization of vascular surgery services. However, due to the small number and poor quality of some of the included studies, decisions on reorganization of LL vascular surgery services should be supplemented by results from clinical audits. There is need for standardization of definition of volume stratification of outcomes by patient's clinical conditions.
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