High-risk surgery: Epidemiology and outcomes

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 891-901

  Moonesinghe, Suneetha Ramani ^a   Mythen, Michael Gerard ^b   Grocott, Michael Patrick William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK;

EID: 79953215319     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181e1655b     Document Type: Review

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