Costs of waiting for gall bladder surgery

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 925, 2002, Pages 668-670

  Somasekar, K ^a   Shankar, P J ^a   Foster, M E ^a   Lewis, M H ^a  

^a ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY COLIC; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SCHEDULING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; EMERGENCIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0036872518     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.78.925.668     Document Type: Article

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