The use of a postoperative morbidity survey to evaluate patients with prolonged hospitalization after routine, moderate-risk, elective surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 514-519

  Bennett Guerrero, Elliott ^a,d   Welsby, I ^c   Dunn, T J ^b   Young, L R ^b   Wahl, T A ^b   Diers, T L ^b   Phillips Bute, B G ^b   Newman, M F ^b   Mythen, M G ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d Coll Phys Surgs of Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE PERFUSION;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0032766393     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199908000-00050     Document Type: Article

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