The influence of hospital environment on postoperative length of stay following major colorectal surgery

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1266, 2007, Pages

  Vather, Ryash ^a   Zargar Shoshtari, Kamran ^a   Metcalf, Partricia ^a   Hill, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COLON RESECTION; COLON SURGERY; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; OPERATION DURATION; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM SURGERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICENTERS;

EID: 37549056181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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