Surgeon age and operative mortality in the United States

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 353-360

  Waljee, Jennifer F ^a   Greenfield, Lazar J ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JOB EXPERIENCE; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33747668787     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000234803.11991.6d     Document Type: Article

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