Thirty-day readmission after ventral hernia repair: Predictable or preventable?

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1446-1451

  Blatnik, Jeffrey A ^a   Harth, Karem C ^a   Aeder, Mark I ^a   Rosen, Michael J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Hernia; Readmission; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; PANNICULECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STOMA; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 79954444616     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-010-1412-4     Document Type: Article

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