Analysis of outpatient surgery center safety using an internet-based quality improvement and peer review program

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1760-1770

  Keyes, Geoffrey R ^a   Singer, Robert ^a   Iverson, Ronald E ^a   McGuire, Michael ^a   Yates, James ^a   Gold, Alan ^a   Thompson, Dennis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ACCREDITATION; ALLERGIC REACTION; AMBULATORY SURGERY; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST REDUCTION; BURN; BUTTOCK; CELLULITIS; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTERNET; LENGTH OF STAY; LIPOSUCTION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MASTOPEXY; NOSE SURGERY; PEER REVIEW; PLASTIC SURGERY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STANDARD;

ACCREDITATION; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; PEER REVIEW, HEALTH CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY; SURGICENTERS;

EID: 2442526398     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000124743.75839.11     Document Type: Review

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