Worse outcomes in patients undergoing urgent surgery for left-sided diverticulitis admitted on weekends vs weekdays: A population-based study of 31 832 patients

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 649-655

  Worni, Mathias ^a,b   Schudel, Inge M ^a   Østbye, Truls ^a   Shah, Anand ^a   Khare, Aarti ^a   Pietrobon, Ricardo ^a   Marosky Thacker, Julie K ^a   Guller, Ulrich ^b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACID ASPIRATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; FISTULA; FOREIGN BODY; HARTMANN PROCEDURE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ILEUS; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHLEBITIS; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEROMA; SHOCK; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; WORKING TIME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863922092     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2012.825     Document Type: Article

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