Quality of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients undergoing oncologic surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1140-1146

  Wright, Jason D ^a,b   Lewin, Sharyn N ^a,b   Shah, Monjri ^a   Burke, William M ^a,b   Lee, Shing M ^b,c   Sun, Xuming ^a   Herzog, Thomas J ^a,b  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; SURGEON; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; CHEMOPREVENTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 79957439337     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31821287ac     Document Type: Article

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