Hospital-level variability in incisional hernia repair technique affects patient outcomes

Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-191

  Hawn, Mary T ^a,b   Snyder, Christopher W ^b   Graham, Laura A ^a   Gray, Stephen H ^b   Finan, Kelly R ^b   Vick, Catherine C ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751554678     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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