An easy-to-use solution for clinical audit in colorectal cancer surgery

Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 86-92

  Ugolini, Giampaolo ^a   Rosati, Giancarlo ^a   Montroni, Isacco ^a   Zanotti, Simone ^a   Manaresi, Alessio ^a   Giampaolo, Luca ^a   Taffurelli, Mario ^a   Pricolo, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57149094222     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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