Association of echocardiography before major elective non-cardiac surgery with postoperative survival and length of hospital stay: Population based cohort study

BMJ

Volumn 343, Issue 7816, 2011, Pages

  Wijeysundera, Duminda N ^a,b,c   Beattie, W Scott ^b   Karkouti, Keyvan ^b   Neuman, Mark D ^d   Austin, Peter C ^b,c   Laupacis, Andreas ^a,b,c,e  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON CARDIAC SURGERY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960696634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d3695     Document Type: Article

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