Complications, failure to rescue, and mortality with major inpatient surgery in medicare patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1029-1033

  Ghaferi, Amir A ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73449114588     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181bef697     Document Type: Article

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