Establishing standards of quality for elderly patients undergoing pancreatic resection

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 950-956

  Pratt, Wande B ^a   Gangavati, Anupama ^a   Agarwal, Kathryn ^a   Schreiber, Robert ^a   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^a   Callery, Mark P ^a   Vollmer Jr , Charles M ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350233449     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.107     Document Type: Article

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