Determinants of hospital mortality in surgical patients aged 80 years and over;Determinanten van ziekenhuissterfte bij hoogbejaarde chirurgische patiënten

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 39, 2003, Pages 1915-1918

  Beenen, E ^a,b   Simons, M P ^a   Vahl, A C ^a  

^a ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 0141572329     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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