Elective surgery for aortic abdominal aneurysm: Comparison of English outcomes with those elsewhere

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 226-231

  Filipovic, Miodrag ^a,b   Goldacre, Michael J ^b   Gill, Leicester ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COMORBIDITY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34147197738     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.047001     Document Type: Article

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