Credentialing for Laparoscopic Bowel Operation: There Is No Substitute for Knowing the Outcomes

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 576-580

  Hyman, Neil ^a   Borrazzo, Edward ^a   Trevisani, Gino ^a   Osler, Turner ^a   Shackford, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLEEDING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; WOUND INFECTION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CREDENTIALING; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LAPAROSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648840846     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2007.05.022     Document Type: Article

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