Missing data and interpretation of cancer surgery outcomes at the American college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 379-391

  Parsons, Helen M ^a   Henderson, William G ^b   Ziegenfuss, Jeanette Y ^c   Davern, Michael ^d   Al Refaie, Waddah B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS NSQIP; American College of Surgeon's National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; odds ratio; OR; partial thromboplastin time; PTT

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; PELVIS CANCER; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; THORAX CANCER; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052970548     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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