Post anaesthesia care unit discharge: A clinical scoring system versus traditional time-based criteria

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-42

  Truong, L ^a,c   Moran, J L ^b   Blum, P ^a  

^a ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Post anaesthesia, anesthesia care: discharge criteria, postoperative recovery, time to event analysis, accelerated failure time models, missing data

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ADULT; AGE; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME;

EID: 1142299623     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0403200106     Document Type: Article

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