Population-based analysis of the risk of adhesion-related readmissions after abdominal surgery in children

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1453-1456

  Grant, Hugh W ^a   Parker, Michael C ^b   Wilson, Malcolm S ^b   Menzies, Donald ^b   Sunderland, Graham ^b   Thompson, Jeremy N ^b   Clark, David N ^c   Knight, Alastair D ^b   Crowe, Alison M ^b   Ellis, Harold ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Surgical and Clinical Adhesions Research (SCAR) group

^c INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Adhesions; Children

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERITONEUM ADHESION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION RISK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL INTESTINE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ADHESIONS; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; PATIENT READMISSION; RISK;

EID: 33746092086     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.04.023     Document Type: Article

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