Surgical caseload is an important determinant of continent urinary diversion rate at radical cystectomy: a population-based study.

  • Firas Abdollah
  • Maxine Sun
  • Jan Schmitges
  • Rodolphe Thuret
  • Orchidee Djahangirian
  • Claudio Jeldres
  • Zhe Tian
  • Shahrokh F Shariat
  • Paul Perrotte
  • Francesco Montorsi
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

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Abstract

At radical cystectomy (RC), continent urinary diversion (CUD) provides functional outcomes that most closely approximate that of a native bladder. We tested the hypothesis that patients treated at high RC caseload hospitals and/or by high RC caseload surgeons have higher CUD rates.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number9
ISSN1068-9265
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21347778