Benchmarking outcomes in plastic surgery: National complication rates for abdominoplasty and breast augmentation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2127-2133

  Alderman, Amy K ^a   Collins, E Dale ^b   Streu, Rachel ^b   Grotting, James C ^b   Sulkin, Amy L ^b   Neligan, Peter ^b   Haeck, Phillip C ^b   Gutowski, Karol A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTHETICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIPECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; BENCHMARKING; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIPECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY, PLASTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74049128902     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181bf8378     Document Type: Article

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