Sentence examples for minimum volume procedures from inspiring English sources

* Minimum volume OPS minimum volume procedures for complex oesophageal interventions were conducted by 297 hospitals.

This demonstrates the already highly centralised provision of care in these chosen minimum volume procedures.

The indicator is calculated by dividing the state or federal surface area by the number of hospitals serving one of the minimum volume procedures.

* Minimum volume ** German foundation for organ transplantation OPS minimum volume procedures for kidney transplantation were conducted by 43 hospitals with 2489 cases treated.

The average care area per hospital was 785 km, which varied from 51 km2 in Bremen to 3311 km2 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. * Minimum volume OPS minimum volume procedures for complex pancreatic interventions were conducted by 455 hospitals.

On the contrary, the percentage of hospitals performing the respective minimum volume procedures rose for four of the procedures by between 2.5 and 11 % over the 5-year period, remained constant only for liver transplantations, and declined for kidney transplantations.

The currently applicable minimum volume of 50 procedures per year must be considered as low to medium, based on the systematic review by Marlow [ 13].

Compliance with minimum volume standards for specific procedures serves as a criterion for high-quality patient care.

The quality reports were analysed according to hospital type, hospital location, and information on type and number of procedures with minimum volume standards conducted (including the OPS number level).

This might be enhanced by successively distending minimum hospital volumes on a greater number of interventions as already happened in 2006 by introducing minimum volume standards on knee-replacement procedures (50 per year) and on cardiac surgery (still without a number agreed upon).

In these cases the minimum volume standards affect far less centralised procedures.