Hospital lymph node counts and survival
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Brent K. Hollenbeck; Zajoun Ye; Sandra L. Wong; James E. Montie; John D. Birkmey
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND. Several studies suggest that patients in whom more lymph nodes are examined have improved survival after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Despite growing calls for using lymph node counts as a hospital quality indicator, it has not been established that hospitals t