Evaluating preventable adverse safety events after elective lower extremity procedures

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 706-713

  Vogel, Todd R ^a   Dombrovskiy, Viktor Y ^a   Haser, Paul B ^a   Graham, Alan M ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOWER EXTREMITY ANGIOPLASTY; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEGRO; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052523221     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.03.230     Document Type: Article

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