Teaching hospital status associated with death rate after colon surgery

Monday, April 19, 2010 - 15:15 in Health & Medicine

When both cancer and benign diagnoses are taken into consideration, patients undergoing colon surgery appear to have increased odds of death if their procedure is performed at a teaching hospital, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Surgery.

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