PURPOSE We performed a systematic review and critique of the literature of the relationship between hospital or surgeon volume and health outcomes in patients undergoing radical surgery for cancer of the bladder, kidney or prostate. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four electronic databases were searched to identify studies that describe the relationship between hospital or surgeon volume and health out...

BACKGROUND There is a growing literature on the importance of hippocampal volume in geriatric depression. METHODS We examined hippocampal volume in a group of elderly depressed patients and a group of elderly control subjects (N = 66 geriatric depressed patients and 18 elderly nondepressed control subjects) recruited through Duke's Mental Health Clinical Research Center for the Study of Depre...