Identifying high-risk patients undergoing urgent and emergency surgery

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-156

  Neary, W D ^a   Foy, C ^a   Heather, B P ^a   Earnshaw, J J ^a  

^a GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency; High risk patients; Non elective surgery; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENERAL SURGERY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644952019     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588406X94896     Document Type: Article

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