Does it matter where you are hospitalized for inflammatory bowel disease? A nationwide analysis of hospital volume

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2789-2798

  Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N ^a   McGinley, Emily L ^a   Binion, David G ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PERIANAL ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55349126387     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.02054.x     Document Type: Article

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