Association between cardiac and noncardiac complications in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: Outcomes and effects on length of stay

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 515-520

  Fleischmann, Kirsten E ^a,c   Goldman, Lee ^a   Young, Belinda ^a   Lee, Thomas H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0242266616     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(03)00474-1     Document Type: Article

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