Aggressive treatment style and surgical outcomes

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1872-1892

  Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c,d   Kaestner, Robert ^e   Even Shoshan, Orit ^a,d   Wang, Yanli ^a   Bressler, Laura J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

aggressive treatment style; complications; Dartmouth Atlas; failure to rescue; Medicare; mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78449293442     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01180.x     Document Type: Article

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