Risk stratification in emergency surgical patients: Is the APACHE II score a reliable marker of physiological impairment?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-59

  Koperna, Thomas ^a   Semmler, Dagmar ^a   Marian, Friedrich ^a  

^a Hospital Mistelbach   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 0035148425     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.136.1.55     Document Type: Article

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