Associations between hospital and surgeon procedure volumes and patient outcomes after ovarian cancer resection.

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Published in J Natl Cancer Inst on February 01, 2006

Authors

Deborah Schrag1, Craig Earle, Feng Xu, Katherine S Panageas, K Robin Yabroff, Robert E Bristow, Edward L Trimble, Joan L Warren

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. schragd@mskcc.org

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