Transfer status: A risk factor for mortality in patients with necrotizing fasciitis

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-370

  Holena, Daniel N ^a   Mills, Angela M ^a   Carr, Brendan G ^a   Wirtalla, Chris ^a   Sarani, Babak ^a   Kim, Patrick K ^a   Braslow, Benjamin M ^a   Kelz, Rachel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052281444     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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