Absence of a weekday effect on short- and long-term oncologic outcomes of gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a propensity score matching analysis

Abstract Background Day of the week when elective gastrointestinal surgery is performed may be influenced by various background and tumor-related factors. Relationships between postoperative outcome and when in the week gastrectomy is performed remain controversial. We undertook this study to evalua...

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Main Authors: Tsuneyuki Uchida, Ryuichi Sekine, Kenichi Matsuo, Gaku Kigawa, Takahiro Umemoto, Mikio Makuuchi, Kuniya Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-08-01
Series:BMC Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-022-01756-z