Letter to the Editor: Should we put more emphasis on the functional impact instead of the incidence of postoperative complications to evaluate quality of care in surgical oncology?
1 Department of Clinical Physical Therapy, VieCuri Medical Center, Venlo, the Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, GROW School for Oncology and Reproduction, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: rfranssen@viecuri.nl.
2 Department of Anesthesiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: t.vos@erasmusmc.nl.
3 Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Department of Surgery, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. Electronic address: bart.bongers@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
4 Department of Anesthesiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, The Hague, the Netherlands. Electronic address: meeteren@health-holland.com.