Annual surgical caseload and open radical prostatectomy outcomes: improving temporal trends.

  • Lars Budäus
  • Firas Abdollah
  • Maxine Sun
  • Monica Morgan
  • Rupinder Johal
  • Rodolphe Thuret
  • Kevin C Zorn
  • Hendrik Isbarn
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Francesco Montorsi
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Markus Graefen
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

Radical prostatectomy is the standard of care for localized prostate cancer. Numerous previous reports show the relationship between surgical experience and various outcomes. We examined the effect of surgical experience on complications and transfusion rates, and determined individual surgeon annual caseload trends in a contemporary radical prostatectomy cohort.

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Original languageGerman
Article number6
ISSN0022-5347
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 20952010