Gastrointestinal surgery - Why specialisation?;Gastrointestinal kirurgi - Hvorfor specialisering?

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 168, Issue 15-16, 2006, Pages 1519-1521

  Kehlet, Henrik ^a   Laurberg, Søren ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENMARK; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SHORT SURVEY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EMERGENCY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL PROFESSION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD;

CENTRALIZED HOSPITAL SERVICES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL RESTRUCTURING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; SPECIALISM; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 33646183035     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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