Impact of academic affiliation on radical cystectomy outcomes in North America: A population-based study.

  • Marco Bianchi
  • Quoc-Dien Trinh
  • Maxine Sun
  • Malek Meskawi
  • Jan Schmitges
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Alberto Briganti
  • Zhe Tian
  • Claudio Jeldres
  • Shyam Sukumar
  • James O Peabody
  • Markus Graefen
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Mani Menon
  • Francesco Montorsi
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

: The objective of this study was to examine the rates of blood transfusions, prolonged length of stay, intraoperative and postoperative complications, as well as in-hospital mortality, stratified according to institutional academic status in patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC).

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Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN1911-6470
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 23093532