Hepatic resection in the United States: Indications, outcomes, and hospital procedural volumes from a nationally representative database

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-191

  Dimick, Justin B ^a   Cowan Jr , John A ^a   Knol, James A ^a   Upchurch Jr , Gilbert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037319780     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.2.185     Document Type: Article

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