Cause and effect or conjecture? A call for consensus on defining "anesthesia-related mortality"

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1259-1261

  Deshpande, Jayant K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIA RELATED MORTALITY; ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NOMENCLATURE; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79958148466     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182182199     Document Type: Editorial

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