Complications following day surgery: Is quality assurance the answer?

Ambulatory Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 105-108

  Hitchcock, Mark ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Day surgery; Quality assurance; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; CONFERENCE PAPER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030985353     PISSN: 09666532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6532(97)00059-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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