Case volume as a predictor of inpatient mortality after esophagectomy

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 829-837

  Rodgers, Michael ^a   Jobe, Blair A ^a   O'Rourke, Robert W ^a   Sheppard, Brett ^a   Diggs, Brian ^a   Hunter, John G ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR;

COMORBIDITY; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548725712     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.9.829     Document Type: Article

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