Quality of care and analysis of surgical complications

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 391-399

  Visser, A ^a   Ubbink, D T ^a,b   Van Wijngaarden, A K S ^a   Gouma, D J ^a   Goslings, J C ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complication; Quality of healthcare; Registry; Surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868236457     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000344007     Document Type: Article

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