Sentence examples for high volume institutions from inspiring English sources

After adjustment for patient case mix alone, high volume institutions displayed statistically significantly lower odds of in-hospital mortality.

What is not clear is why low volume institutions seem to have comparable outcomes to high volume institutions.

It should further be remembered that high volume institutions in the USA more often treat younger patients, whites, patients with private insurance and residents of wealthier areas.

The only significant result for high volume institutions was a lower odds of in-hospital mortality in model 2 (0.47, 0.47 to 0.97, P=0.03; fig 1).

19 From the summary of adjusted probabilities (fig 3), medium volume institutions do seem to have worse in-hospital and total mortality than high volume institutions, which is consistent with previous studies.

One study 13 also reported a minimal difference in the unadjusted and adjusted (for patient characteristics) odds ratios of mortality for cystectomy between low volume and high volume institutions.

The clear consultant-led protocol that we adopt at our high volume institution is key to providing a standardised management strategy for patients, whether it is 'in hours' or 'out of hours'.

The importance of the volume outcome relationship or, more precisely, whether higher volume institutions are independently associated with worse outcomes has been intricately debated in the past two decades.

However, there is ongoing controversy regarding such policy; if patients are directed to higher volume institutions, the increased volume will overwhelm the resources of such institutions, thereby rendering these procedures even less accessible [ 27].

"We consider it imperative to understand what it is about high-volume institutions that leads to their providing higher quality of care, so that we can ultimately improve the quality of care at all institutions".

Improved outcomes realized by patients treated at high-volume institutions have led to a call for centralization of ovarian cancer care.