Variations in morbidity after radical prostatectomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 346, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1138-1144

  Begg, Colin B ^a,b   Riedel, Elyn R ^a   Bach, Peter B ^b   Kattan, Michael W ^b   Schrag, Deborah ^c   Warren, Joan L ^c   Scardino, Peter T ^a  

^a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics ^*  (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISTULA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETER STRICTURE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 0037061916     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa011788     Document Type: Article

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