Popular belief meets surgical reality: Impact of lunar phases, friday the 13th and zodiac signs on emergency operations and intraoperative blood loss

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1945-1949

  Schuld, Jochen ^a   Slotta, Jan E ^a   Schuld, Simone ^a   Kollmar, Otto ^a   Schilling, Martin K ^a   Richter, Sven ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGO; EMERGENCY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOON; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOON; REALITY TESTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052263944     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1166-8     Document Type: Article

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