Background Current literature favors a volume-outcome relationship in pulmonary
lobectomy that prompted centralization of these operations abroad, in national, single-payer …

Background A minimum-volume policy restricting hospitals not meeting the threshold from
performing complex operation may increase travel burden and decrease spatial access to …

Background Surgical resection with lobectomy is recommended for T1/T2 N0 small cell lung
cancer (SCLC) patients after negative mediastinal staging. We sought to characterize …

While better outcomes at high-volume surgical centers have driven the regionalization of
complex surgical care, access to high-volume centers often requires travel over longer …

Introduction Access to timely, quality, and affordable surgical services is an important
component of health care systems. A better understanding of the geographic distribution of …

Objective Regionalization of surgery for non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to high-volume
centers (HVCs) improves perioperative outcomes but frequently increases patient travel …

Background The relationship between surgeon volume and outcomes in spine surgery is
unclear and published studies report inconsistent results. Therefore, a dose-response meta …

CHS regionalization models developed for the US increase surgeon and center volume,
decrease healthcare spending, and improve patient outcomes without substantially …

Introduction Safety-net hospitals provide care to an inherently underprivileged patient
population. These hospitals have previously been shown to have inferior surgical outcomes …

Introduction A cross-sectional survey GENERATE (GEospatial aNalysis of ExtRacorporeal
membrane oxygenATion in Europe) initiated on behalf of the European chapter of the …