A critical assessment of outcomes in emergency versus nonemergency general surgery using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 951-959

  Becher, Robert D ^a   Hoth, J Jason ^a   Miller, Preston R ^a   Mowery, Nathan T ^a   Chang, Michael C ^a   Meredith, J Wayne ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052045971     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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