Changes in prognosis after the first postoperative complication

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 122-131

  Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^c   Trudeau, Martha E ^a,d   Chen, Wei ^a,b   Zhang, Xuemei ^a   Kelz, Rachel Rapaport ^b   Mosher, Rachel E ^a   Even Shoshan, Orit ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Philadelphia VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Complications; Failure to rescue; General surgery; Medicare; Mortality; Multivariate matching; Orthopedic surgery; Outcomes research; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 13544249880     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200502000-00005     Document Type: Article

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