In-hospital mortality after stomach cancer surgery in Spain and relationship with hospital volume of interventions

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baré, Marisa ^a   Cabrol, Joan ^a   Real, Jordi ^a,c   Navarro, Gemma ^a   Campo, Rafel ^a   Pericay, Carles ^a   Sarría, Antonio ^b  

^a Institut Universitari Parc Tauli UAB   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c USR Lleida ICS IDIAP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; SPAIN; STOMACH CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70349669105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-312     Document Type: Article

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