[Critical path for esophagectomy of esophageal cancer]

We have introduced a critical path for esophagectomy of esophageal cancer from January, 2001 and got good results. It is important of the adaptation and the evaluation of variances for the critical path. Patients and co-medicals understood deeply the disease and the treatment of esophageal cancer. We could improvement the process of treatments by changing the critical path easily. We concluded that a critical path was adapted for esophagectomy of esophageal cancer, and it will be getting important.