title: [The management with clinical path for esophagectomy for esophageal cancer].
abstract: We have introduced a clinical path for esophagectomy of esophageal cancer from January, 2001 and got good results. It is important of the adaptation and the evaluation of variances for the critical path. Patients and co-medicals understood deeply the disease and the treatment of esophageal cancer. We could improvement the process of treatments by changing the critical path easily. We concluded that a critical path was adapted for esophagectomy of esophageal cancer, and it will be getting important.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, NTT Kanto Medical Center, 5-9-22 Higashi-gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8625, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nara
authors.forename: Toshiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Konishi
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008875:Middle Aged