Improvement in the accuracy of reporting key prognostic and anatomic findings during thyroidectomy by using a novel Web-based synoptic operative reporting system

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1090-1098

  Chambers, Anthony J ^a   Pasieka, Janice L ^a   Temple, Walley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNET; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PARATHYROID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SUTURING METHOD; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; VEIN LIGATION;

HUMANS; INTERNET; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PARATHYROID GLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TAPE RECORDING; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 70549107871     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.032     Document Type: Article

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