Trends in neurosurgical complication rates at teaching vs nonteaching hospitals following duty-hour restrictions

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1041-1046

  Dumont, Travis M ^a   Tranmer, Bruce I ^b   Horgan, Michael A ^b   Rughani, Anand I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Craniotomy; Meningioma; Training

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEUROSURGERY; NONTEACHING HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRANIOTOMY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84868192150     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31826cdd73     Document Type: Review

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