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Patients assume that there are no significant differences in the quality of surgery between comparable hospitals. If at all, they may accept some minor differences between individual surgeons with regard to postoperative complications, but they will definitely not accept differences in long-term survival following surgery for cancer.
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Hohenberger, W. (1997). The Effect of Specialization or Organization of Rectal Cancer Surgery. In: Søreide, O., Norstein, J. (eds) Rectal Cancer Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60514-7_26
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