Recovery at home after major gynecologic surgery: How do our patients fare?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 780-784

  Evenson, Mallorie ^a   Payne, Daniel ^a   Nygaard, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84859017062     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31824bb15e     Document Type: Article

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