Surgical resident involvement is safe for common elective general surgery procedures

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-26

  Tseng, Warren H ^a   Jin, Leah ^b   Canter, Robert J ^a   Martinez, Steve R ^a   Khatri, Vijay P ^a   Gauvin, Jeffrey ^a   Bold, Richard J ^a   Wisner, David ^a   Taylor, Sandra ^b   Chen, Steven L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS NSQIP; American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; CPT; current procedural terminology; laparoscopic cholecystectomy; laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair; laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication; laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass; LC; LG; LH; LN; OC; OH; open inguinal hernia repair; open right colectomy; operative time; OpT; PGY; postgraduate year; SRI; surgical resident involvement; total thyroidectomy; TT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROIDECTOMY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959492945     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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