Influence of Surgical Subspecialty Training on in-Hospital Mortality for Gastrectomy and Colectomy Patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 629-639

  Callahan, Mark A ^a   Christos, Paul J ^a   Gold, Heather T ^a   Mushlin, Alvin I ^a   Daly, John M ^b   Eberlein, Timothy J ^c   Pellegrani, Carlos A ^c   Pitt, Henry A ^c   Tekkis, Paris ^c   Litwin, Martin S ^c   Schwartz, Marshall Z ^c   Sarr, Michael G ^c   Maier, Ronald V ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Weill Med Coll of Cornell Univ ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAINING; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; ODDS RATIO; SURGERY;

EID: 10744233104     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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