Relationship among hospital ERCP volume, length of stay, and technical outcomes

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 338-347

  Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a   Kilgore, Meredith L ^a   Wilcox, Charles M ^a   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DATABASES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747162230     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.05.016     Document Type: Article

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