Patient and hospital characteristics on the variance of perioperative outcomes for pancreatic resection in the United States: A plea for outcome-based and not volume-based referral guidelines

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 713-721

  Teh, Swee H ^a   Diggs, Brian S ^a   Deveney, Clifford W ^a   Sheppard, Brett C ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEG DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68949146089     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.67     Document Type: Article

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