Perioperative- and long-term mortality rates after major vascular surgery: The relationship to preoperative testing in the medicare population

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 849-855

  Fleisher, Lee A ^a,c   Eagle, Kim A ^b   Shaffer, Thomas ^a   Anderson, Gerard F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0032835396     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199910000-00007     Document Type: Article

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