Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 467-475 , May 2009

A systematic review of the impact of volume of hepatic surgery on patient outcome

  • Giuseppe Garcea, MD, MRCS

      Affiliations

    • University of Adelaide Discipline of Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
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  • Stephanie O. Breukink, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures—Surgical, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, Australia
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  • Nicholas E. Marlow, MAPH

      Affiliations

    • Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures—Surgical, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, Australia
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  • Guy J. Maddern, MBBS, MS, MD, PhD, FRACS

      Affiliations

    • University of Adelaide Discipline of Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
    • Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures—Surgical, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Adelaide, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Guy J. Maddern, MBBS, MS, MD, PhD, FRACS, ASERNIP-S, P.O. Box 553, Stepney, South Australia 5069, Australia.
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  • Bruce Barraclough, MBBS, FRACS, FACS

      Affiliations

    • NSW Clinical Excellence Commission, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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  • Neil A. Collier, MBMS, FRACS, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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  • Ian C. Dickinson, MBBS, FRACS

      Affiliations

    • The Wesley Medical Centre, Auchenflower, Queensland, Australia
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  • Jonathon Fawcett, DPhil, FRACS, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Queensland Liver Transplant Unit, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
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  • John C. Graham, FRACS

      Affiliations

    • St Vincent's Medical Centre, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

,Accepted 14 January 2009.

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 The ASERNIP-S project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The full Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures–Surgical (ASERNIP-S) systematic review of this procedure with data extraction tables can be found at the ASERNIP-S web site: www.surgeons.org/asernip-s/.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00055-5

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.01.005

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 467-475 , May 2009

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