Low rehospitalization rate for vascular surgery patients

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 767-772

  Jackson, Benjamin M ^a   Nathan, Derek P ^a   Doctor, Lynne ^b   Wang, Grace J ^a   Woo, Edward Y ^a   Fairman, Ronald M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLEEDING; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELLULITIS; CLAUDICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; STROKE; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND COMPLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PENNSYLVANIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 80052552841     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.03.255     Document Type: Article

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