The impact of July hospital admission on outcome after surgery for spinal metastases at academic medical centers in the United States, 2005 to 2008

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1429-1438

  Dasenbrock, Hormuzdiyar H ^a   Clarke, Michelle J ^b   Thompson, Richard E ^c   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a,d   Bydon, Ali ^a,d  

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

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

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

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic medical centers; quality of healthcare; resident education; seasons; spinal metastases; spinal surgery; surgical education; surgical residency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE SURGERY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CARCINOMA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857365257     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26347     Document Type: Review

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