Improving outcomes following penetrating colon wounds: Application of a clinical pathway

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 235, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 775-781

  Miller, Preston R ^b   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a   Magnotti, Louis J ^a   Pritchard, Elizabeth F ^a   Minard, Gayle ^a   Stewart, Ronald M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; COLON INJURY; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLOSTOMY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0036098750     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200206000-00004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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