Splenectomy in hereditary spherocytosis: Review of 1,657 patients and application of the pediatric quality indicators

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 834-837

  Abdullah, Fizan ^a   Zhang, Yiyi ^a   Camp, Melissa ^a   Rossberg, Mark I ^a   Bathurst, Melinda A ^a   Colombani, Paul M ^a   Casella, James F ^a   Nabaweesi, Rosemary ^a   Chang, David C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemoglobinopathies; Hereditary spherocytosis; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CHILD; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DECUBITUS; DERMATITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLENECTOMY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 67650481554     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21954     Document Type: Article

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