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5-Year follow-up of sentinel node negative breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 24 January 2006

A National Cohort Study Evaluating the Association Between Short-term Outcomes and Long-term Survival After Esophageal and Gastric Cancer Surgery

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Relationship Between Hospital/Surgeon Volume and Outcome for Radical Cystectomy: An Update for the Ongoing Debate ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

A clinical audit in a multidisciplinary care path for thoracic surgery: an instrument for continuous quality improvement

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

A combined measure of procedural volume and outcome to assess hospital quality of colorectal cancer surgery, a secondary analysis of clinical audit data

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of locoregional treatments for in-transit melanoma

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the volume-outcome relationship in the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Are breast cancer patients better of with a high volume provider?

scientific article published on September 2010

Adjusted Hospital Outcomes of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery Reported in the Dutch Surgical Aneurysm Audit.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Age Does Matter in Adolescents and Young Adults versus Older Adults with Advanced Melanoma; A National Cohort Study Comparing Tumor Characteristics, Treatment Pattern, Toxicity and Response

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

An increasing use of defunctioning stomas after low anterior resection for rectal cancer. Is this the way to go?

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

An interactive portal to empower cancer survivors: a qualitative study on user expectations

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Anastomotic leakage as an outcome measure for quality of colorectal cancer surgery

scientific article published on 17 May 2013

Association of Anti-TNF with Decreased Survival in Steroid Refractory Ipilimumab and Anti-PD1-Treated Patients in the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Balancing the Optimal and the Feasible: A Practical Guide for Setting Up Patient Registries for the Collection of Real-World Data for Health Care Decision Making Based on Dutch Experiences

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Blue dye can be safely omitted in most sentinel node procedures for melanoma

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

CO2 laser treatment for regional cutaneous malignant melanoma metastases

scientific article published on January 2015

Centralization of esophageal cancer surgery: does it improve clinical outcome?

scientific article published on 16 April 2009

Centralization of esophagectomy: how far should we go?

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

Challenges in sentinel node pathology in the era of adjuvant treatment

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Changes in nationwide use of preoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer after revision of the national colorectal cancer guideline

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Changes in treatment patterns and their influence on long-term survival in patients with stages I-III gastric cancer in The Netherlands.

scientific article published on 4 June 2013

Chest wall resection for adult soft tissue sarcomas and chondrosarcomas: analysis of prognostic factors

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Chest wall resection for internal mammary lymph node metastases of breast cancer

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Clinical prognostic markers in stage IIIC melanoma

scientific article published on 15 April 2017

Combining process indicators to evaluate quality of care for surgical patients with colorectal cancer: are scores consistent with short-term outcome?

scientific article published on 04 April 2012

Comment on "Preoperative Ultrasound Assessment of Regional Lymph Nodes in Melanoma Patients Does Not Provide Reliable Nodal Staging: Results from a Large Multicenter Trial"

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Complicated postoperative recovery increases omission, delay and discontinuation of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with Stage III colon cancer.

scientific article published on January 2013

Complications in wound healing after chest wall resection in cancer patients; a multivariate analysis of 220 patients

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Data verification of nationwide clinical quality registries

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Decisive role of SPECT/CT in localization of unusual periscapular sentinel nodes in patients with posterior trunk melanoma: three illustrative cases and a review of the literature

scientific article published on June 2012

Decrease in 30-day and one-year mortality over time in patients aged ≥75 years with stage I-III colon cancer: A population-based study

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Defining a standard set of patient-centred outcomes for lung cancer

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Detection of melanoma metastases in resected human lymph nodes by noninvasive multispectral photoacoustic imaging.

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Development of MijnAVL, an Interactive Portal to Empower Breast and Lung Cancer Survivors: An Iterative, Multi-Stakeholder Approach.

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Development of an instrument to analyze organizational characteristics in multidisciplinary care pathways; the case of colorectal cancer

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Differences in circumferential resection margin involvement after abdominoperineal excision and low anterior resection no longer significant

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Differences in outcomes of oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery across Europe

scientific article published on 23 November 2012

Different Risk Factors for Early and Late Colorectal Anastomotic Leakage in a Nationwide Audit

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy: a new guidance tool for improvement of biopsy procedures in lung malignancies

scientific article published on 24 April 2012

Disparities in quality of care for colon cancer between hospitals in the Netherlands

scientific article published in September 2010

Do Outcomes in Elective Colon and Rectal Cancer Surgery Differ by Weekday? An Observational Study Using Data From the Dutch ColoRectal Audit

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Dutch Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Audit: Automated extraction of colonoscopy data for quality assessment and improvement

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry: Quality assurance in the care of patients with metastatic melanoma in the Netherlands.

scientific article published on 25 December 2016

Effect of hospital volume on postoperative mortality and survival after oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery in the Netherlands between 1989 and 2009.

scientific article published on 27 March 2012

Empowerment of Cancer Survivors Through Information Technology: An Integrative Review

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Evaluating national practice of preoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer based on clinical auditing.

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Evaluating the validity of quality indicators for colorectal cancer care

scientific article published on 20 September 2013

Evidence and practice in spine registries

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External validation of the American Joint Committee on Cancer 8th edition melanoma staging system: who needs adjuvant treatment?

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Factors contributing to variation in the use of multimodality treatment in patients with gastric cancer: A Dutch population based study

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Failure to Rescue - a Closer Look at Mortality Rates Has No Added Value for Hospital Comparisons but Is Useful for Team Quality Assessment in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery in The Netherlands

scientific article published on 23 August 2018

Failure-to-rescue after colorectal cancer surgery and the association with three structural hospital factors

scientific article published on 4 June 2013

Failure-to-rescue in patients undergoing surgery for esophageal or gastric cancer

scientific article published on 29 July 2017

First experiences of photoacoustic imaging for detection of melanoma metastases in resected human lymph nodes.

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Focusing on desired outcomes of care after colon cancer resections; hospital variations in 'textbook outcome'.

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Gastric cancer: decreasing incidence but stable survival in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 08 July 2013

Healthcare Costs of Metastatic Cutaneous Melanoma in the Era of Immunotherapeutic and Targeted Drugs

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

High complication rate after low anterior resection for mid and high rectal cancer; results of a population-based study

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

High response rates for T-VEC in early metastatic melanoma (stage IIIB/C-IVM1a)

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

High-volume versus low-volume for esophageal resections for cancer: the essential role of case-mix adjustments based on clinical data

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Hospital costs of colorectal cancer surgery for the oldest old: A Dutch population-based study

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Hospital staff participation in a national hip fracture audit: facilitators and barriers

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Hospital variation in failure to rescue after colorectal cancer surgery: results of the Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

How to improve patient safety and quality of care in breast implant surgery? First outcomes from the Dutch Breast Implant Registry (2015-2017)

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Hybrid radioguided occult lesion localization (hybrid ROLL) of (18)F-FDG-avid lesions using the hybrid tracer indocyanine green-(99m)Tc-nanocolloid

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Identifying best performing hospitals in colorectal cancer care; is it possible?

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Impact of centralization of pancreatic cancer surgery on resection rates and survival

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

Impact of hospital volume on breast cancer outcome: a population-based study in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 9 August 2014

Improved guideline compliance after a 3-year audit of multidisciplinary colorectal cancer care in the western part of the Netherlands

scientific article published on 10 January 2012

Improved identification of peripheral lung tumors by using diffuse reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy

scientific article published on 10 February 2013

Increased incidence and survival for oesophageal cancer but not for gastric cardia cancer in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 06 February 2012

Increased resection rates and survival among patients aged 75 years and older with esophageal cancer: a Dutch nationwide population-based study

scientific article published in December 2012

Increasing incidence and survival of a rare skin cancer in the Netherlands. A population-based study of 2,220 cases of skin adnexal carcinoma

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Increasing prevalence of comorbidity in patients with colorectal cancer in the South of the Netherlands 1995-2010.

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Influence of hospital type on outcomes after oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

Initial results of imaging melanoma metastasis in resected human lymph nodes using photoacoustic computed tomography

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

International benchmarking in oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

International evaluation of circumferential resection margins after rectal cancer resection: insights from the Swedish and Dutch audits

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Isolated limb perfusion for unresectable extremity cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma; an effective limb saving strategy

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Laparoscopic conversion in colorectal cancer surgery; is there any improvement over time at a population level?

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Lessons learned from the Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing: the Dutch model for quality assurance in lung cancer treatment

Local progression after radiofrequency ablation for pulmonary metastases

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Local treatment of pulmonary metastases: from open resection to minimally invasive approach? Less morbidity, comparable local control

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Locally Advanced Colon Cancer: Evaluation of Current Clinical Practice and Treatment Outcomes at the Population Level

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Mediastinoscopy for Staging of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Surgical Performance in The Netherlands

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Meta-analysis of internal herniation after gastric bypass surgery

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Meta-analysis of the risk for anastomotic leakage, the postoperative mortality caused by leakage in relation to the overall postoperative mortality.

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Metastatic Uveal Melanoma: Treatment Strategies and Survival-Results from the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Multicenter Stratified Comparison of Hospital Costs Between Laparoscopic and Open Colorectal Cancer Resections: Influence of Tumor Location and Operative Risk

scientific article published on 8 September 2016

National quality registries: how to improve the quality of data?

Nationwide Outcomes Measurement in Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Improving Quality and Reducing Costs

scientific article published on 14 November 2015

Nationwide analysis of hospital variation in preoperative radiotherapy use for rectal cancer following guideline revision

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Nationwide outcome registrations to improve quality of care in rectal surgery. An initiative of the European Society of Surgical Oncology.

scientific article published on June 2009

Necrotizing pneumonitis caused by postoperative pulmonary torsion.

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Nonelective colon cancer resections in elderly patients: results from the dutch surgical colorectal audit.

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Optimal surgical management of pulmonary metastases: VATS versus thoracotomy.

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Outcome after surgical resections of recurrent chest wall sarcomas

scientific article published on 15 September 2008

Outcome after surgical treatment of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: Is clinical follow-up always indicated?

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

PET/CT surveillance detects asymptomatic recurrences in stage IIIB and IIIC melanoma patients: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Pneumonectomy for Lung Cancer Treatment in The Netherlands: Between-Hospital Variation and Outcomes

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Postoperative Outcomes of Screen-Detected vs Non-Screen-Detected Colorectal Cancer in the Netherlands

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Progress in Standard of Care Therapy and Modest Survival Benefits in the Treatment of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients in the Netherlands in the Last 20 Years

article by Miep A. van der Drift et al published February 2012 in Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Quality improvement of pancreatic surgery by centralization in the western part of the Netherlands

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Quality of care indicators for the surgical treatment of gastric cancer: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 09 October 2012

Quality-of-care indicators for oesophageal cancer surgery: A review

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

Ranking and rankability of hospital postoperative mortality rates in colorectal cancer surgery

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Reduced 30-Day Mortality After Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Population Based Study From the Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit (DSCA).

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Reduced Circumferential Resection Margin Involvement in Rectal Cancer Surgery: Results of the Dutch Surgical Colorectal Audit

scientific article published on September 2015

Reevaluation of the locoregional recurrence rate in melanoma patients with a positive sentinel node compared to patients with palpable nodal involvement

scientific article published on 07 November 2009

Reply to "Is obesity a determinant of perioperative and postoperative outcome in patients following colorectal cancer surgery?"

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Reproducibility and validation of tumour stroma ratio scoring on oesophageal adenocarcinoma biopsies.

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

Results of combined modality treatment in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer of the superior sulcus and the rationale for surgical resection

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Safety of elective colorectal cancer surgery: non-surgical complications and colectomies are targets for quality improvement

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Should internal mammary chain (IMC) sentinel node biopsy be performed? Outcome in 90 consecutive non-biopsied patients with a positive IMC scintigraphy

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Stage-specific disease recurrence and survival in localized and regionally advanced cutaneous melanoma

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Sternal resection for sarcoma, recurrent breast cancer, and radiation-induced necrosis

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Successful and safe introduction of laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery in Dutch hospitals.

scientific article published on May 2013

Supporting Lung Cancer Patients With an Interactive Patient Portal: Feasibility Study.

scientific article published on 08 August 2017

Surgeon perceived most important factors to achieve the best hospital performance on colorectal cancer surgery: a Dutch modified Delphi method

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Surgery for Unresectable Stage IIIC and IV Melanoma in the Era of New Systemic Therapy

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Surgery for colorectal cancer since the introduction of the Netherlands national screening programmeInvestigations into changes in number of resections and waiting times for surgery

scientific article published in January 2017

Surgical removal of the index node marked using magnetic seed localization to assess response to neoadjuvant immunotherapy in patients with stage III melanoma

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Surgical wound complications after groin dissection in melanoma patients - a historical cohort study and risk factor analysis

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Survival after treatment for carcinoma invading bladder muscle: a Dutch population-based study on the impact of hospital volume

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Switching to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors upon Response to Targeted Therapy; The Road to Long-Term Survival in Advanced Melanoma Patients with Highly Elevated Serum LDH?

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Synchronous colorectal carcinoma: a risk factor in colorectal cancer surgery

scientific article published in April 2014

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the volume-outcome relationship in pancreatic surgery.

scientific article published on April 2011

Textbook Outcome: A Composite Measure for Quality of Elective Aneurysm Surgery

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Textbook Outcome: an Ordered Composite Measure for Quality of Bariatric Surgery

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Textbook outcome as a composite measure in oesophagogastric cancer surgery

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Textbook outcome as a composite outcome measure in non-small-cell lung cancer surgery

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

The Diagnostic Value of PET/CT Imaging in Melanoma Groin Metastases

scientific article published on 26 February 2016

The Dutch Acute Stroke Audit: Benchmarking acute stroke care in the Netherlands.

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The Dutch Audit of Carotid Interventions: Transparency in Quality of Carotid Endarterectomy in Symptomatic Patients in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

The Dutch Hip Fracture Audit: evaluation of the quality of multidisciplinary hip fracture care in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

The Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing: Achieving Codman's Dream on a Nationwide Basis

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

The EURECCA project: Data items scored by European colorectal cancer audit registries

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The Preceding Surgeon Factor in Bariatric Surgery: a Positive Influence on the Learning Curve of Subsequent Surgeons

scientific article published on August 2015

The Quality of Cancer Care initiative in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

The Value of Ipsilateral Breast Tumor Recurrence as a Quality Indicator: Hospital Variation in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

The dutch national clinical audit for lung cancer: A tool to improve clinical practice? An analysis of unforeseen ipsilateral mediastinal lymph node involvement in the Dutch Lung Surgery Audit (DLSA).

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

The relationship between volume or surgeon specialty and outcome in the surgical treatment of lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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The stromal part of adenocarcinomas of the oesophagus: does it conceal targets for therapy?

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

The use of FDG-PET/CT to detect early recurrence after resection of high-risk stage III melanoma

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

The volume-outcome relation in the surgical treatment of esophageal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 25 August 2011

The yield of SPECT/CT for anatomical lymphatic mapping in patients with melanoma

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

Toward Optimizing Risk Adjustment in the Dutch Surgical Aneurysm Audit

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Use of different comorbidity scores for risk-adjustment in the evaluation of quality of colorectal cancer surgery: does it matter?

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Utility of FDG PET/CT and brain MRI in melanoma patients with increased serum S-100B level during follow-up

scientific article published on 12 February 2010

Utility of preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT and brain MRI in melanoma patients with palpable lymph node metastases

scientific article published on 27 April 2010

Validation of a Nomogram for Non-sentinel Node Positivity in Melanoma Patients, and Its Clinical Implications: A Brazilian-Dutch Study

scientific article published on 19 November 2018

Variation in Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms With Small Aortic Diameters in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Variation in case-mix between hospitals treating colorectal cancer patients in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 22 September 2011

Variation in head and neck cancer care in the Netherlands: A retrospective cohort evaluation of incidence, treatment and outcome

scientific article published on 08 March 2017

Variation in management of early breast cancer in the Netherlands, 2003-2006.

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Variation in treatment and outcome in patients with non-small cell lung cancer by region, hospital type and volume in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 3 July 2010

Variation in treatment and outcome of patients with rectal cancer by region, hospital type and volume in the Netherlands.

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Variations in treatment policies and outcome for bladder cancer in the Netherlands

scientific article published on 2 July 2010

Volume criteria for the treatment of head and neck cancer: Are they evidence based?

scientific article published on 10 March 2014

['Clinical auditing', a novel tool for quality assessment in surgical oncology]

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

[Better care and lower costs through registries; a first step to reimbursement based on outcome].

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[Financial limits to care; a survey among physicians]

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

[Recent treatment results for metastatic melanoma: data from the Dutch Melanoma Treatment Registry]

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

[The quality indicator 'tumour positive surgical margin following breast-conserving surgery' does not provide transparent insight into care]

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

[The value of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence as a quality indicator: hospital variation in the Netherlands].

scientific article published in January 2016

eHealth for Breast Cancer Survivors: Use, Feasibility and Impact of an Interactive Portal.

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

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