Trends, outcomes, and predictors of open and conversion to open cholecystectomy in Veterans Health Administration hospitals

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 32-40

  Kaafarani, Haytham M A ^a   Smith, Tracy Schifftner ^b   Neumayer, Leigh ^c   Berger, David H ^d   Depalma, Ralph G ^b   Itani, Kamal M F ^a  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversion rate; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Morbidity; Mortality; Open cholecystectomy; Predictors; Quality of care; Secular trends; Surgical outcomes

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; INSULIN; NITROGEN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; SODIUM; STEROID; UREA;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGE; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANESTHESIST; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMA; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISSEMINATED CANCER; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PAIN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEPSIS; SMOKING; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID THERAPY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955456717     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.08.020     Document Type: Article

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