An audit of the management of patients with acute pancreatitis against national standards of practice

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 844-848

  Mofidi, R ^a   Madhavan, K K ^a   Garden, O J ^a   Parks, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34447336182     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5670     Document Type: Article

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