Risk adjustment for evaluating the outcome of urological operative procedures

Journal of Urology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 968-972

  Sommer, Frank ^b   Ehsan, Amgad ^b   Caspers, Hans Peter ^b   Klotz, Theodor ^b   Engelmann, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hospitals; Morbidity; Mortality; Risk; Urological disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER SURGERY; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

EID: 0034891775     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)65875-2     Document Type: Article

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