Postoperative sepsis in the United States

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1065-1071

  Vogel, Todd R ^a   Dombrovskiy, Viktor Y ^a   Carson, Jeffrey L ^a   Graham, Alan M ^a   Lowry, Stephen F ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650176914     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181dcf36e     Document Type: Article

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