The effect of alcohol abuse and alcohol withdrawal on short-term outcomes and cost of care after head and neck cancer surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1739-1747

  Genther, Dane J ^a   Gourin, Christine G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; alcohol withdrawal; complications; head and neck neoplasms; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; surgery

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNGECTOMY; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INCIDENCE; LARYNGECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MAXILLA RESECTION; MORTALITY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ALCOHOLISM; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864415211     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23348     Document Type: Article

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