Standardization of Reporting Surgical Complications-Are We Ready?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1671-1672

  Krupski, Tracey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MICTURITION; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; PROFESSIONALISM; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROBOTICS; STANDARDIZATION; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77950518532     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.2374     Document Type: Editorial

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