Higher complications and no improvement in mortality in the ACGME resident duty-hour restriction era: An analysis of more than 107 000 neurosurgical trauma patients in the nationwide inpatient sample database

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1369-1381

  Hoh, Brian L ^a   Neal, Daniel W ^b   Kleinhenz, Dominic T ^a   Hoh, Daniel J ^a   Mocco, J ^a   Barker II, Fred G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Medical errors; Mortality; Neurosurgery; Residency; Training; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTOXICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RESIDENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORK SCHEDULE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LENGTH OF STAY; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84861531590     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182486a75     Document Type: Article

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