Relationship between patient safety and hospital surgical volume

Health Services Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 756-769

  Hernandez Boussard, Tina ^a   Downey, John R ^a   McDonald, Kathryn ^b   Morton, John M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adverse events; hospital surgical volume; Patient safety indicators

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LACERATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEPSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858328031     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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