The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/55893 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation.
Author: Busweiler, L.A.D.
Title: Evaluating quality of care and setting future goals in oesophagogastric cancer treatment
Issue Date: 2017-11-29
Evaluating Quality of Care and Setting Future Goals in Oesophagogastric Cancer Treatment
Linde A.D. Busweiler
ISBN: 978-94-6361-028-5
Cover design: Neil Webb (published in de Volkskrant)
Layout and printing: Optima Grafische Communicatie, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (www.ogc.nl)
Evaluating Quality of Care and Setting Future Goals in Oesophagogastric Cancer Treatment
PROEFSCHRIFT
ter verkrijging van
de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof.mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker,
volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op woensdag 29 november 2017
klokke 15.00 uur
door
Linde Anna Drieske Busweiler Geboren te Hilversum in 1985
Dr. J.W. van Sandick (NKI-AVL) Dr. M.W.J.M. Wouters (NKI-AVL)
Leden promotiecommissie
Prof. dr. M.I. van Berge Henegouwen (AMC) Prof. dr. C. Rosman (Radboud MC)
Dr. M. Slingerland
Prof. dr. E.W. Steyerberg (LUMC, Erasmus MC)
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction and outline of this thesis 7
Chapter 2 Early outcomes from the Dutch Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Audit
19 British Journal of Surgery 2016
Chapter 3 Alternative methods displaying variation in hospital performance in oesophageal cancer surgery using funnel plots
41
Submitted
Chapter 4 International benchmarking in oesophageal and gastric cancer surgery using Swedish and Dutch quality registries
63
Submitted
Chapter 5 Textbook outcome as a composite measure in oesophagogastric cancer surgery
89 British Journal of Surgery 2017
Chapter 6 Failure-to-Rescue in patients undergoing surgery for oesophageal or gastric cancer
109 European Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017
Chapter 7 The influence of a composite hospital volume on outcomes for gastric cancer surgery: a Dutch population-based study
129
Journal of Surgical Oncology 2017
Appendices Dankwoord 181
Curriculum Vitae 185
List of Publications 187
