Adverse events after prostatectomy in Victorian public hospitals

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 830-836

  Ansari, M Z ^a   Costello, A J ^b   Jolley, D J ^c   Ackland, M J ^a   Carson, N ^a   Mcdonald, I G ^d  

^a Health Care Evaluation   (Australia)

^b St Francis Building   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Complications; Outcome; Predictors; Prostatectomy; Transurethral resection of prostate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OLIGURIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATABASES; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTORIA;

EID: 0032408625     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.1998.01466.x     Document Type: Article

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