Surgical Risk Factors, Morbidity, and Mortality in Elderly Patients

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 203, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 865-877

  Turrentine, Florence E ^a   Wang, Hongkun ^b   Simpson, Virginia B ^a   Jones, R Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; STEROID;

AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLEEDING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GANGRENE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; VENTILATOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33750968522     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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