Key messages from the national prospective tonsillectomy audit

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 717-724

  Lowe, David ^a   Van Der Meulen, Jan ^a   Cromwell, David ^a   Lewsey, James ^a   Copley, Lynn ^a   Browne, John ^a   Yung, Matthew ^a   Brown, Peter ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Complications; Hemorrhage; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIATHERMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMED CONSENT; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TONSILLECTOMY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 34147186187     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/mlg.0b013e318031f0b0     Document Type: Article

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