Surveillance bias and postoperative complication rates

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-200

  Rosenberg, Jessica J ^a   Haut, Elliott R ^b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OPEN COLORECTAL SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; RECTUM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84857407444     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.1490     Document Type: Note

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