Trends in mortality and hospital admission rates for abdominal aortic aneurysm in England and Wales, 1979-1999

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 968-975

  Filipovic, M ^a,b   Goldacre, M J ^a   Roberts, S E ^a   Yeates, D ^a   Duncan, M E ^a   Cook Mozaffari, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; WALES;

EID: 23844475105     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5118     Document Type: Article

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