After-hours urgent and emergent surgery in the elderly: Outcomes and prognostic factors

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1021-1024

  Griner, Devan ^a   Adams, Ashley ^a   Kotwall, Cyrus A ^a   Clancy, Thomas V ^a   Hope, William W ^a  

^a NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FLUID THERAPY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URINE VOLUME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052069213     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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