The value of voluntary morbidity and mortality meetings at a New Zealand metropolitan hospital

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1279, 2008, Pages 57-65

  Sakowska, Magdalena ^a   Connor, Saxon ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSULTATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; VOLUNTARY REPORTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL AUDIT; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; REOPERATION; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 50449095914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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