Predictors of length of stay following colorectal resection for neoplasms in 183 veterans affairs patients

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2183-2188

  Leung, Anna M ^a   Gibbons, R L ^a   Vu, Huan N ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANURIA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDIDYMITIS; FASCIA DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM RESECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSVERSE COLON; URETER INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERAN; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349332480     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0148-6     Document Type: Article

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