A Hospital's Annual Rate of Esophagectomy Influences the Operative Mortality Rate

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 186-192

  Patti, Marco G ^a   Corvera, Carlos U ^a   Glasgow, Robert E ^a   Way, Lawrence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032009810     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(98)80011-5     Document Type: Article

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