Effect of postoperative epidural analgesia on morbidity and mortality following surgery in medicare patients

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 525-533

  Wu, Christopher L ^a,d   Hurley, Robert W ^a   Anderson, Gerard F ^b   Herbert, Robert ^b   Rowlingson, Andrew J ^a   Fleisher, Lee A ^c  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural; Medicare; Postoperative Pain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CYSTECTOMY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 11144260953     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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