Association between institutional procedural preference and in-hospital outcomes in laparoscopic surgeries; Insights from a retrospective cohort analysis of a nationwide surgical database in Japan.

Association between institutional procedural preference and in-hospital outcomes in laparoscopic surgeries; Insights from a retrospective cohort analysis of a nationwide surgical database in Japan.

To assess the use of laparoscopic surgeries (LS) and the association between its performance and hospitals' preference for LS over open surgeries.LS is increasingly used in many abdominal surgeries, albeit both with and without solid guideline recommendations. To date, the hospitals' prefe...

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Main Authors: Hiroaki Miyata, Masaki Mori, Norihiro Kokudo, Mitsukazu Gotoh, Hiroyuki Konno, Go Wakabayashi, Hisahiro Matsubara, Toshiaki Watanabe, Minoru Ono, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiraku Kumamaru, Shun Kohsaka, Tadashi Iwanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5837082?pdf=render

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