Editorial comment

摘要

These authors conclude that higher volume hospitals showed fewer complications and lower costs than low volume hospitals. This finding is similar to those of almost all prior studies of the volume-outcome relationship in general and specifically in urology (reference 10 in article). We now know that the volume-outcome relationship also applies to RALP. Perhaps the surprise would be if it did not. Does anyone believe that experience, for which volume is a surrogate, is important in a wide range of surgeries but not for robotic prostatectomy?