Small can be beautiful: 10 years managing colorectal cancer in a rural general hospital

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-29

  Grant, A J ^a   Sedgwick, D M ^b  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b Belford Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Colorectal; Complications; Resections; Rural; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHEST INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTESTINE BYPASS; LIVER CANCER; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WORKLOAD; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 79959335775     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/smj.2010.010012     Document Type: Article

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