Colorectal resection in Victoria: A comparison of hospital based and individual audit

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 520-524

  Thompson, G A ^a,b   Cocks, J R ^a   Collopy, B T ^a   Cade, R J ^a   Ewing, H P ^a   Rogerson, J W ^a   Turner, P L ^a  

^a ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (Australia)

^b WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

audit; colorectal cancer surgery; complications; operative mortality; wound infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0029780030     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1996.tb00801.x     Document Type: Article

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