The better colectomy project: Association of evidence-based best-practice adherence rates to outcomes in colorectal surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 507-512

  Arriaga, Alexander F ^a,b   Lancaster, Robert T ^b,c   Berry, William R ^a   Regenbogen, Scott E ^a,c   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^b   Kaafarani, Haytham M A ^a,d   Elbardissi, Andrew W ^a,b   Desai, Priya ^a,b   Ferzoco, Stephen J ^e   Bleday, Ronald ^b   Breen, Elizabeth ^b   Kastrinakis, William V ^f   Rubin, Marc S ^f   Gawande, Atul A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals   (United States)

^f NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CREATININE; INSULIN; UREA; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; URETER STENT; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WARMING; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COLECTOMY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 70349673338     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b672bc     Document Type: Article

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