Open and Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: Analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 953-959

  Lee, James ^a   El Tamer, Mahmoud ^a   Schifftner, Tracy ^b   Turrentine, Florence E ^d   Henderson, William G ^c   Khuri, Shukri ^e   Hanks, John B ^d   Inabnet III, William B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK; SEPSIS; SMOKE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSFUSION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERAN; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43049133534     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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