What happens after discharge? Return hospital visits after ambulatory surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 319-324

  Twersky, Rebecca ^a,b   Fishman, David ^a   Homel, Peter ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; VARICOCELE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031046212     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199702000-00014     Document Type: Article

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