The Canadian four-centre study of anaesthetic outcomes: II. Can outcomes be used to assess the quality of anaesthesia care?

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 430-439

  Cohen, Marsha M ^a,b,c   Duncan, Peter G ^a,b,c   Pope, William D B ^a,b,c   Biehl, Diane ^a,b,c   Tweed, W Arnold ^a,b,c   MacWilliam, Leonard ^a,b,c   Merchant, Richard N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

aesthesia: epidemiology, morbidity; complications: morbidity; epidemiology: anaesthesia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHETICS; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0026741647     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03008706     Document Type: Article

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