An intensive, structured clinical trial can markedly reduce length of stay after abdominal aortic surgery [1]

Anesthesiology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1025-

  Liu, Spencer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANALGESIA; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; AORTA SURGERY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036790268     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200210000-00044     Document Type: Letter

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