Mortality after colon surgery: The value of a mortality registration system

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 316-320

  Maartense, S ^a   Vrancken Peeters, M P F M ^a   Spaander, P J ^a   Breslau, P J ^a  

^a Red Cross Hospital Den Haag   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Colon surgery; Mortality; Mortality registration

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATHOLOGIST; RED CROSS; REGISTER; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLECTOMY; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0038688083     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071757     Document Type: Article

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