Acute generalized peritonitis in adult African patients: Assessment of severity using APACHE II score

Annals of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-28

  Adesunkanmi, Abdul Rashid K ^a   Badmus, Tajudeen A ^a   Agbakwuru, E Augustine ^a   Ogunronbi, Akinwumi B ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Acute peritonitis; APACHE II; Nigerian rural; Semi urban community; Severity grading; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM FISTULA; REOPERATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SEPSIS; SURGEON; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0038207920     PISSN: 10284001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2034.2003.00151.x     Document Type: Article

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