Laparoscopy decreases postoperative complication rates after abdominal colectomy: Results from the national surgical quality improvement program

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 596-601

  Kennedy, Gregory D ^a,b   Heise, Charles ^a   Rajamanickam, Victoria ^a   Harms, Bruce ^a   Foley, Eugene F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b G4/701A CSC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; COLON TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449161834     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31819ec903     Document Type: Article

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