Specificity of procedure volume and in-hospital mortality association

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-139

  Allareddy, Veerajalandhar ^a   Allareddy, Veerasathpurush ^b   Konety, Badrinath R ^c  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREATECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34347327189     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000259823.54786.83     Document Type: Article

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