Unplanned emergency surgery in relation to length of wait lists at registration

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 193-200

  Sobolev, Boris ^a,b   Kuramoto, Lisa ^b   Levy, Adrian ^a,c   Hayden, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR HEALTH EVALUATION AND OUTCOME SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d British Columbia Cardiac Registries Surgical Research Committee   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33748560458     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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