Simplified Parsonnet risk scale identifies limits to early patient discharge

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 316-322

  Ott, R A ^a   Gutfinger, Dan E ^a   Alimadadian, Hossein ^a   Steedman, Robert ^a   Miller, Mark ^a   Ott, Wendy L ^a   Tanner, Teresa ^a  

^a Memorial Health Care Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034425721     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2000.tb00464.x     Document Type: Article

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