The Increasing Workload of General Surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 423-428

  Liu, Jerome H ^a,b,c   Etzioni, David A ^a   O'Connell, Jessica B ^a,b   Maggard, Melinda A ^a   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HERNIA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 1842580611     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.4.423     Document Type: Article

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