Does resident post graduate year influence the outcomes of inguinal hernia repair?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 879-884

  Wilkiemeyer, Mark ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Giobbie Hurder, Anita ^b   Itani, Kamal M F ^c   Jonasson, Olga ^d   Neumayer, Leigh A ^c   MacDonald Jr , Kenneth G ^e   Ramshaw, Bruce ^e   O'Leary, J Patrick ^e   O'Neill Jr , James A ^e   Rout, W Robert ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e University of Illinois ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; JOB PERFORMANCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21144443891     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000164076.82559.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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