Early experience with clinical indicators in surgery

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 448-451

  Collopy, B T ^a,b   Rodgers, L ^a   Woodruff, P ^a   Williams, J ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical indicators; Surgical outcome data; Surgical standards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERAL SURGERY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034045254     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01863.x     Document Type: Article

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