POSSUM accurately predicts morbidity for pancreatic resection

Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-19

  Pratt, Wande ^a   Joseph, Saju ^a   Callery, Mark P ^a   Vollmer Jr , Charles M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGIC AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR THE ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND MROBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 37249066111     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2007.07.035     Document Type: Article

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