The "july phenomenon" for neurosurgical mortality and complications in teaching hospitals: An analysis of more than 850 000 neurosurgical patients in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, 1998 to 2008

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 562-571

  Weaver, Kristin J ^a   Neal, Dan ^a   Hoh, Daniel J ^a   Mocco, J ^a   Barker, Fred G ^b   Hoh, Brian L ^a  

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

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemorrhage; Hydrocephalus; Retrospective; Trauma; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEASONS;

EID: 84865786054     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31825ea51b     Document Type: Article

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