Accordion severity grading system: Assessment of relationship between costs, length of hospital stay, and survival in patients with complications after esophagectomy for cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 331-336

  Carrott, Philip W ^a   Markar, Sheraz R ^a   Kuppusamy, Madhan Kumar ^a   Traverso, L William ^a   Low, Donald E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACCORDION SEVERITY GRADING SYSTEM; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATHETER INFECTION; CHYLE; CHYLE LEAK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS DYSPLASIA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INFECTION; JEJUNOSTOMY INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84865238262     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.04.030     Document Type: Article

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