Trends in hospital volume and operative mortality for high-risk surgery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2128-2137

  Finks, Jonathan F ^a   Osborne, Nicholas H ^a   Birkmeyer, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYSTECTOMY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREND STUDY;

EID: 79957795474     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa1010705     Document Type: Article

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