Comparison of 30-day outcomes after emergency general surgery procedures: Potential for targeted improvement

Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-238

  Ingraham, Angela M ^a,b   Cohen, Mark E ^a   Bilimoria, Karl Y ^c   Raval, Mehul V ^a,c   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,d   Nathens, Avery B ^e   Hall, Bruce L ^f,g,h  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATININE; SODIUM;

ABSCESS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLITIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIALYSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SMOKING; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLVULUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURGERY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955290381     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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