Environmental impact of accelerated clinical care in a high-volume center

Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-349

  Sailhamer, Elizabeth A ^a   Sokal, Suzanne M ^a   Chang, Yuchiao ^a   Rattner, David W ^a   Berger, David L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON RESECTION; CRANIOTOMY; CROSS POLLINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548124599     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.03.015     Document Type: Article

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