Effect of endovascular aneurysm repair on the volume-outcome relationship in aneurysm repair

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 624-632

  Holt, Peter J E ^a   Poloniecki, Jan D ^b   Khalid, Usman ^a   Hinchliffe, Robert J ^a   Loftus, Ian M ^a   Thompson, Matt M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Assessment, outcomes; Mortality; Quality of health care; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; AORTA RUPTURE; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77649199107     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.109.848465     Document Type: Article

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