Assessing outcomes following surgery for colorectal Cancer using quality of Care indicators

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 232-240

  Vergara Fernandez, Omar ^a,b   Swallow, Carol J ^b   Victor, J Charles ^c   O'Connor, Brenda I ^a,b   Gryphe, Robert ^a,b   MaCrae, Helen M ^b   Cohen, Zane ^b   McLeod, Robin S ^a,b,c  

^a Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955374058     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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