Should vascular surgery be done in the small hospital?
This article presents our successful experience with vascular surgery at the Montrose Memorial Hospital. Before a decision is made to ban vascular operations from all but referral hospitals, hard data from additional small community hospitals concerning their experience must be obtained. Surgeons from small community hospitals should be urged to analyze and objectively report their results with vascular procedures before national guidelines are formed.
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