Post-appendectomy visits to the emergency department within the global period: A target for cost containment

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 357-362

  Aiello, Francesco A ^a   Gross, Erica R ^a   Krajewski, Aleksandra ^a   Fuller, Robert ^a   Morgan, Anthony ^a   Duffy, Andrew ^b   Longo, Walter ^b   Kozol, Robert ^a   Chandawarkar, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Cost containment; Emergency department visits; Global period; Postoperative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COST CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; COST CONTROL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77956134477     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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