Age matters: A study of clinical and economic outcomes following cholecystectomy in elderly Americans

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 201, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 789-796

  Kuy, Sreyram ^a,b   Sosa, Julie Ann ^a   Roman, Sanziana A ^a   Desai, Rani ^c,d   Rosenthal, Ronnie A ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholecystectomy; Elderly patients; Mortality; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTEREMIA; BILE DUCT INJURY; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; SEPTICEMIA; SHOCK; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960174925     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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