Background and Purpose—The goal of this study was to examine the impact of hospital
characteristics on outcome after the treatment of ruptured and unruptured cerebral …

Purpose Regionalization of complex surgery to high-volume hospitals has been advocated
based on crosssectional volume-outcome studies. In April 2007, the agency overseeing …

Objective: To quantify the number of US hospitals that would meet “Take the Volume
Pledge”(TVP) volume thresholds and compare outcomes at hospitals meeting and not …

OBJECTIVE: Changes in neurosurgical workload can justify requests for hospital resources
and guide planning by neurosurgical training programs. Most previous studies have used …

Background Timely access to orthopedic trauma surgery is essential for optimal outcomes.
Regionalization of some types of surgery has shown positive effects on access, timeliness …

BACKGROUND: In 2006, Cancer Care Ontario created Surgical Oncology Standards for the
delivery of hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery including hepatectomy and …

There has been an increasing focus in the past number of years on the appropriateness and
effectiveness of the system of structures and governance for health services in Ireland …

Objective: This descriptive study seeks to identify the incidence rates of head injuries in a
large Canadian province, given incident cases for a ten year period. It describes cases in …

According to Iverson and colleagues' thoughtful analysis, decisions to decentralize or
regionalize surgical services must take into account contextual realities that may impede the …

In the 21st century there is much pressure to renew our health governance system in a way
that would increase direct public participation over the principles and direction of the health …