Postoperative morbidity index: A quantitative measure of severity of postoperative complications

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 213, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 616-626

  Strasberg, Steven M ^a   Hall, Bruce L ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLON RESECTION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART ARREST; HEMIHEPATECTOMY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE MORBIDITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; COLECTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 80055087961     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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