Is unplanned return to the operating room a useful quality indicator in general surgery?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 405-410

  Birkmeyer, John D ^a,b,c   Hamby, Leigh S ^b   Birkmeyer, Christian M ^a   Decker, Maureen V ^a   Karon, Nancy M ^a   Dow, Richard W ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND;

EID: 0035044029     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.136.4.405     Document Type: Article

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