Outcome - More than just operative mortality

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 470-477

  Brennan, Murray F ^a   Radzyner, Mark ^a   Rubin, David M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HETASTARCH; INSULIN; METOPROLOL; PLACEBO; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTRECTOMY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTESTINE PREPARATION; JAUNDICE; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STENT; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; CANCER REGISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS; SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

BENCHMARKING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEW YORK CITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SEER PROGRAM; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 67049160787     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21174     Document Type: Review

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