Costs of postoperative sepsis: The business case for quality improvement to reduce postoperative sepsis in veterans affairs hospitals

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 944-951

  Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a,b   Bayman, Levent ^a   Cullen, Joseph J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Iowa City Veterans Affairs Healthcare System   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE SEPSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 80051717341     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.78     Document Type: Article

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