Readmission after colectomy for cancer predicts one-year mortality

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 659-669

  Greenblatt, David Yu ^a   Weber, Sharon M ^a   O'Connor, Erin S ^a   Loconte, Noelle K ^b   Liou, Jinn Ing ^c   Smith, Maureen A ^c  

^a Departments of Surgery   (United States)

^b University of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Colon cancer; Hospital discharge; Mortality; Outcomes; Readmission; Rehospitalization; Risk factors; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77950859069     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181d3d27c     Document Type: Article

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