Representative case series from public hospital admissions 1998 II: Surgical adverse events

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1219, 2005, Pages

  Briant, Robin ^a   Morton, John ^b   Lay Yee, Roy ^a   Davis, Peter ^a   Ali, Wasan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 27244443044     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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