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In this study, we estimate the effects of regionalization for cardiovascular surgery in Japan, accounting for both its advantages and disadvantages.This study includes 209,221 procedures from nearly 572 hospitals that conducted cardiovascular surgery in Japan between 2001 and 2004. For the regionalization parameter, hospital surgical volume was divided into four categories: under 10, 10–24, 25–49,...