Association of postdischarge complications with reoperation and mortality in general surgery

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1000-1007

  Kazaure, Hadiza S ^a   Roman, Sanziana A ^b   Sosa, Julie A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECTUM RESECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869475736     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamasurg.114     Document Type: Article

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