Is the decline in the surgical treatment for diverticulitis associated with an increase in complicated diverticulitis?

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1558-1563

  Ricciardi, Rocco ^a,c   Baxter, Nancy N ^b   Read, Thomas E ^a   Marcello, Peter W ^a   Hall, Jason ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Colectomy; Complicated; Diverticulitis; Perforation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLECTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70249098882     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181a90a5b     Document Type: Article

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