Teaching status: The impact on emergency and elective surgical care in the US

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1017-1023

  Holena, Daniel N ^a   Hadler, Rachel ^b   Wirtalla, Chris ^a   Carr, Brendan ^c   Morris, Jon B ^a   Kelz, Rachel R ^a  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ILEUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHING; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954628517     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182171fd1     Document Type: Article

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