Relative importance of preoperative health status versus intraoperative factors in predicting postoperative adverse outcomes in geriatric surgical patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1080-1085

  Leung, Jacqueline M ^a,b   Dzankic, Samir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric; Outcomes; Predictors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 0034869886     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49212.x     Document Type: Article

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