The significance of discharge to skilled care after abdominopelvic surgery in older adults

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 250-255

  Legner, Victor J ^a   Massarweh, Nader N ^a   Symons, Rebecca G ^a   McCormick, Wayne C ^a   Flum, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; OVARIECTOMY; PELVIS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; UNITED STATES; HOME FOR THE AGED; STATISTICS; SURGERY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 61549114352     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318195e12f     Document Type: Article

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