Failure to rescue as a source of variation in hospital mortality for ovarian cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 3976-3982

  Wright, Jason D ^a,c   Herzog, Thomas J ^a,c   Siddiq, Zainab ^a   Arend, Rebecca ^a   Neugut, Alfred I ^a,b,c   Burke, William M ^a   Lewin, Sharyn N ^a,c   Ananth, Cande V ^a   Hershman, Dawn L ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLEEDING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SHOCK; TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869395737     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.43.2906     Document Type: Article

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