Do Germans keep patients too long in hospital? A prospective randomized trial

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1189-1193

  Dotzenrath, Cornelia M E ^a,b   Cupisti, Kenko ^a   Raffel, Andreas ^a   Aust, Birgit ^a,c   Yang, Quh ^a   Krüger, Björn ^a   Ohmann, Christian ^a   Röher, Hans Dietrich ^a   Goretzki, Peter E ^a,d  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b St Antonius Kliniken   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^d Lukas Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOCALCEMIA; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NERVE FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SUCTION DRAINAGE; THYROID SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOITER; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744451851     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-7742-z     Document Type: Article

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