Classifying cause of death after cancer surgery

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 274-279

  Waljee, Jennifer F ^a,b   Windisch, Stephanie ^a   Finks, Jonathan F ^a   Wong, Sandra L ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Mortality; Outcomes; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTRECTOMY; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CANCER; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VALIDATION STUDY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845676266     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350606296723     Document Type: Article

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