Impact of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality of infants undergoing repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 635-641

  Bucher, Brian T ^a   Guth, Rebecca M ^a   Saito, Jacqueline M ^a   Najaf, Tasnim ^a   Warner, Brad W ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; WORKLOAD;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INPATIENTS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD; HERNIAS, DIAPHRAGMATIC, CONGENITAL;

EID: 77958001579     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181f5b538     Document Type: Article

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