Association of Facility and System Factors With Survival Among Pediatric Patients With Surgically Treated Head and Neck Sarcomas

JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2018 May 1;144(5):455-456. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2018.0183.

Authors

Shayan Cheraghlou¹, Hong Li¹, Benjamin L Judson^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut.

Abstract

This study investigates the role of facility and system factors associated with survival in pediatric patients with head and neck sarcomas.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Head and Neck Neoplasms / mortality
Head and Neck Neoplasms / surgery*
Hospitals, High-Volume / statistics & numerical data
Hospitals, Low-Volume / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Male
Multivariate Analysis
Plastic Surgery Procedures / statistics & numerical data
Sarcoma / mortality
Sarcoma / surgery*
Soft Tissue Neoplasms