Is day surgery safe? A Danish multicentre study of morbidity after 57,709 day surgery procedures

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 323-331

  Majholm, B ^a   Engbaek J ^a   Bartholdy, J ^a   Oerding, H ^b   Ahlburg, P ^c   Ulrik, A M G ^d   Bill, L ^e   Langfrits, C S ^f   Moller A M ^a  

^a Copenhagen University Hospital ^*  (Denmark)

^b LILLEBAELT HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Hospital of Southern Jutland   (Denmark)

^e Regional Hospital   (Denmark)

^f Department of Anaesthesiology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOIDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BREAST SURGERY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENDOMETRITIS; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMATURIA; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INFECTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SHOULDER SURGERY; SUPERFICIAL THROMBOPHLEBITIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TONSILLECTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857209187     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02631.x     Document Type: Article

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