Adjusting surgical mortality rates for patient comorbidities: More harm than good?

Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 787-794

  Finlayson, Emily V A ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^b   Stukel, Therese A ^b   Siewers, Andrea E ^b   Lucas, F Lee ^b   Wennberg, David E ^b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

EID: 0036870611     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2002.126509     Document Type: Article

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