Prevalence of intra-abdominal surgery: What is an individualg's lifetime risk?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-29

  Nunoo Mensah, Joseph William ^a,b   Rosen, Michael ^a   Chan, Linday S ^a   Wasserberg, Nir ^a   Beart, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Incidence; Lifetime; Risk; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK; ABDOMEN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 59249091731     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318182575b     Document Type: Article

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