Application of variable life adjusted display (VLAD) to risk-adjusted mortality of esophagogastric cancer surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-108

  Guest, R V ^a,b   Chandrabalan, V V ^a   Murray, G D ^c   Auld, C D ^a  

^a DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866046503     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-011-1303-4     Document Type: Article

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