Implementation of a clinical pathway decreases length of stay and hospital charges for patients undergoing total colectomy and ileal pouch/anal anastomosis

Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 699-705

  Archer, Stephen B ^a   Burnett, Robert J ^a   Flesch, Linda V ^a   Hobler, Scott C ^a   Bower, Robert H ^a   Nussbaum, Michael S ^a   Fischer, Josef E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0030813045     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90076-3     Document Type: Article

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