Contribution of body mass index to postoperative outcome in minority patients

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-123

  Nafiu, Olubukola O ^a   Ramachandran, Satya Krishna ^a   Wagner, Deborah S ^a   Campbell, Darrell A ^a   Stanley, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MORTALITY; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856673585     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.958     Document Type: Article

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