Predictors of adverse events in surgical admissions in Australia

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 406-411

  Kable, Ashley ^a   Gibberd, Robert ^a   Spigelman, Allan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Elective; Predictors; Risk factors; Surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LIFESTYLE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE RETENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749179153     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzn032     Document Type: Article

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