Computerised audit of carotid endarterectomy: Audit loopholes closed?

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 455-459

  Lewis, David R ^a   Irvine, Craig D ^a   Cole, Susan E A ^a   McGrath, Christine ^a   Baird, Roger N ^a   Lamont, Peter M ^a  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Carotid endarterectomy; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE MIX; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0030665484     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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