Surgical Mortality Score: Risk Management Tool for Auditing Surgical Performance

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 193-200

  Hadjianastassiou, Vassilis G ^a   Tekkis, Paris P ^b   Poloniecki, Jan D ^c   Gavalas, Manolis C ^d   Goldhill, David R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RISK MANAGEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONDON; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROC CURVE; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 1542375960     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7174-6     Document Type: Article

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