Performance standards for therapeutic abdominal paracentesis

Hepatology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 484-488

  Grabau, Catherine M ^a   Crago, Sharon F ^a   Hoff, Linda K ^a   Simon, Julie A ^a   Melton, Cheryl A ^a   Ott, Beverly J ^a   Kamath, Patrick S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; BLEEDING; CATHETER; COMPETENCE; DEVICE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STAFF; OPERATION DURATION; PARACENTESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARD; SURGICAL TRAINING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ABDOMEN; AMBULATORY CARE; ASCITES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NURSING, PRACTICAL; PARACENTESIS; PLATELET COUNT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043172070     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20317     Document Type: Article

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