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Fuchs, Hans F., Harnsberger, Cristina R., Broderick, Ryan C., Chang, David C., Sandler, Bryan J., Jacobsen, Garth R., Bouvet, Michael and Horgan, Santiago (2017). Mortality after esophagectomy is heavily impacted by center volume: retrospective analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Surg. Endosc., 31 (6). S. 2491 - 2498. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1432-2218

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Abstract

The effects of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality after esophageal resection are disputed in the literature. We sought to analyze treatment effects in patient subpopulations that undergo esophagectomy for cancer based on hospital volume. We performed a retrospective analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 1998 to 2011. Patients who underwent open or laparoscopic transhiatal and transthoracic esophageal resection were identified using ICD-9 codes. Patients < 18 years and those with peritoneal disease were excluded. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used with mortality as the independent variable to evaluate the effect of low (< 6), intermediate (6-19), and high (20) hospital volume of esophagectomies. These analyses were repeated in different subsets of patients to determine whether hospital volume affected mortality depending on the subpopulation evaluated. Subgroups were created depending on age, race, gender, operative approach, comorbidities, and tumor pathology. A total of 23,751 patients were included. The overall perioperative mortality rate was 7.7 % (low volume: 11.4 %; intermediate volume: 8.39 %, high volume: 4.01 %), and multivariate analysis revealed that high hospital volume had a protective effect (OR 0.54, 95 % CI 0.45-0.65). On subgroup analyses for low- and intermediate-volume hospitals, mortality was uniformly elevated for the subpopulations when comparing to high-volume hospitals (p < 0.05). There was no difference in mortality between low- and medium-volume hospitals and between subgroups. No lower mortality risk subgroup could be identified in this nationwide collective. This analysis emphasizes that perioperative mortality after esophagectomy for cancer is lower in high-volume hospitals.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Fuchs, Hans F. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Harnsberger, Cristina R. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Broderick, Ryan C. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Chang, David C. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sandler, Bryan J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Jacobsen, Garth R. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bouvet, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Horgan, Santiago UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-230231
DOI:	10.1007/s00464-016-5251-9
Journal or Publication Title:	Surg. Endosc.
Volume:	31
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 2491 - 2498
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1432-2218
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SQUAMOUS-CELL CARCINOMA; PREOPERATIVE RISK ANALYSIS; ADMINISTRATIVE DATABASES; NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION; TRANSHIATAL ESOPHAGECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY; CANCER; RESECTION; OUTCOMES; ESOPHAGUS Multiple languages Surgery Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23023