Classifying surgical complications: A critical appraisal

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1078-1083

  Veen, Eelco J ^a   Steenbruggen, Jessica ^a   Roukema, Jan A ^a  

^a CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CODING; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TRAINING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 27944491620     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.11.1078     Document Type: Article

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