Major abdominal surgery in octogenarians

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1172, 2003, Pages

  Abbas, Saleh ^a   Booth, Michael ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ABDOMEN; AGE; EMERGENCY; EVALUATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ABDOMEN; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038284012     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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