Inpatient Hospital Admission and Death after Outpatient Surgery in Elderly Patients: Importance of Patient and System Characteristics and Location of Care

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-72

  Fleisher, Lee A ^a,b,c   Pasternak, L Reuven ^a   Herbert, Robert ^a   Anderson, Gerard F ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; DEATH; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 0347628943     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.1.67     Document Type: Article

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