'Ideal' length of stay after colectomy: Whose ideal?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 806-810

  Schoetz Jr , David J ^a   Bockler, Marzina ^a   Rosenblatt, Michael S ^a   Malhotra, Shefali ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a   Murray, John J ^a   Coller, John A ^a   Rusin, Lawrence C ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical pathway; Colorectal surgery; Length of stay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLON RESECTION; CROHN DISEASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLOSTOMY; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 0342872073     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02055437     Document Type: Article

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