title: Choosing "The best".
authors: Department of Surgery, Section of Hepatic, Pancreatic, and Biliary Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. linehand@wustl.edu
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authors: Linehan
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authors: Jaques
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000592:standards*; D003082:Colectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D016629:Esophagectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010180:Pancreatectomy / Q000401:mortality*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020379:Risk Adjustment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States