The effect of gender on postoperative mortality after emergency abdominal surgery

Gender Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-40

  Harten, Johann ^a,b   McCreath, Brian J ^a   McMillan, Donald C ^a   McArdle, Colin S ^a   Kinsella, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency; Gender; Laparotomy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DUODENUM ULCER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MINOR SURGERY; PANCREAS SURGERY; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; ULCER PERFORATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABDOMEN; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 18444387698     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1550-8579(05)80007-5     Document Type: Article

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