Creation and implementation of an emergency general surgery registry modeled after the National Trauma Data Bank

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-163

  Becher, Robert D ^a   Meredith, J Wayne ^a   Chang, Michael C ^a   Hoth, J Jason ^a   Beard, H Randall ^a   Miller, Preston R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AAST; ACS; ACSCOT; American Association for the Surgery of Trauma; American College of Surgeons; American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma; EGS; EGSR; emergency general surgery; emergency general surgery registry; National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; National Trauma Data Bank; NSQIP; NTDB

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALCOHOLISM; ANGINA PECTORIS; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLEEDING DISORDER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED CANCER; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG ABUSE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY GENERAL SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTEROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GASTROSTOMY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMIPLEGIA; HERNIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JEJUNOSTOMY; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PERITONITIS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ABSCESS; TRACHEOSTOMY; ULCER; VASCULAR DISEASE;

COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856100840     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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