Using Administrative Databases to Measure Surgical Quality for Rectal Cancer at The Ottawa Hospital from 1996-2010
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was threefold: 1) To explore the use of text-search methods for identifying rectal cancer patients in large datasets; 2) To examine temporal trends of surgical quality indicators for rectal cancer at a single, tertiary-care institution; 3) To validate the use of a...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34300 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-5229 |