Cost-effectiveness of Defunctioning Stomas in Low Anterior Resections for Rectal Cancer: A Call for Benchmarking

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1334-1339

  Koperna, Thomas ^a   Heald, Richard J ^b  

^a Hospital Mistelbach   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEFUNCTIONING STOMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXPERT SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKILL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMA; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BENCHMARKING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLOSTOMY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMAS;

EID: 0344629902     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.138.12.1334     Document Type: Article

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