作者: Iris D Nagtegaal , Cornelis JH van de Velde , Erik van der Worp , Ellen Kapiteijn , Phil Quirke
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摘要: PURPOSE: Quality assessment and assurance are important issues in modern health care. For the evaluation of surgical procedures, there indirect parameters such as complication, recurrence, survival rates. These limited value for individual surgeon, is an obvious need direct parameters. We have evaluated criteria by which pathologists can judge quality or completeness resection specimen a randomized trial rectal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The pathology reports all patients entered onto Dutch multicenter were reviewed. All participating had been instructed workshops videos order to obtain standardized work-up. A three-tiered classification was applied assess total mesorectal excision (TME). Prognostic this tested using log-rank analysis Kaplan-Meier curves data who did not receive any adjuvant treatmen...