Unplanned reoperations for infection complications: A survey for quality control

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 263-268

  Fröschl, Uwe ^a   Sengstbratl, Michael ^a,b,c   Huber, Jürgen ^a,b,c   Függer, Reinhold ^a  

^a ELISABETHINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746866319     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.263     Document Type: Article

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