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Subspecialty

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Asubspecialty orsubspeciality (seespelling differences) is a narrow field of professionalknowledge/skills within a specialty oftrade, and is most commonly used to describe the increasingly more diversemedical specialties. Asubspecialist is a specialist of a subspecialty.

Inmedicine, subspecialization is particularly common ininternal medicine,cardiology,neurology andpathology,psychiatry and has grown as medical practice has:

  1. become more complex, and
  2. it has become clear that aphysician's case volume is negatively associated with their complication rate; that is, complications tend to decrease as the volume of cases per physician goes up.[1][2]

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  1. ^McHenry CR (2002)."Patient volumes and complications in thyroid surgery".The British Journal of Surgery.89 (7):821–3.doi:10.1046/j.1365-2168.2002.02145.x.PMID 12081730.Full TextArchived 2023-12-30 at theWayback Machine
  2. ^Birkmeyer JD; Finlayson EV; Birkmeyer CM (2001). "Volume standards for high-risk surgical procedures: potential benefits of the Leapfrog initiative".Surgery.130 (3):415–22.doi:10.1067/msy.2001.117139.PMID 11562662.
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