The relation between volume and outcome in health care.

Twenty years ago, Luft and colleagues1 showed that hospitals that had higher volumes of specific surgical procedures had significantly lower inpatient mortality rates than did their lower-volume co...

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  New England Journal of Medicine

• Publication date

  1999-05-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1056/NEJM199905273402112PMID 10341283
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