Early Warning Scores Predict Outcome in Acute Pancreatitis

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1008-1015

  Garcea, Giuseppe ^a   Jackson, Benjamin ^a   Pattenden, Clare J ^a   Sutton, Christopher D ^a   Neal, Christopher P ^a   Dennison, Ashley R ^a   Berry, David P ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; early warning scores; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PANCREATITIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33745851824     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gassur.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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