Surgical site infections and cost in obese patients undergoing colorectal surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1068-1072

  Wick, Elizabeth C ^a   Hirose, Kenzo ^a,b   Shore, Andrew D ^a   Clark, Jeanne M ^a,b   Gearhart, Susan L ^a   Efron, Jonathan ^a   Makary, Martin A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COST; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053073657     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.117     Document Type: Article

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