The burden of appendicitis-related hospitalizations in the United States in 1997

Surgical Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 160-165

  Davies, Glenn M ^a   Dasbach, Erik J ^a   Teutsch, Steven ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONITIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10944263935     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2004.5.160     Document Type: Article

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