Value of keeping records of mortality

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 168, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 436-440

  Lardenoye, Jan Willem H P ^a   Kappetein, Arie Pieter ^a   Vrancken Peeters, Mark Paul F M ^a   Spaander, Pieter J ^a   Breslau, Paul J ^a  

^a Red Cross Hospital Den Haag   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audit; Cause of death; Clinical discrepancy; Complications; Necropsy; Pathologist; Quality assessment; Surgical practice

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; THERAPEUTICS;

EID: 0036917905     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/110241502321116406     Document Type: Article

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