Hospital characteristics associated with failure to rescue from complications after pancreatectomy

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-330

  Ghaferi, Amir A ^a   Osborne, Nicholas H ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

AHA; American Hospital Association; failure to rescue; FTR; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; NIS; odds ratio; OR

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; FAILURE TO RESCUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; PANCREAS RESECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND INFECTION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES; ODDS RATIO; PANCREATECTOMY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956183389     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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