Impact of infectious complications after elective surgery on hospital readmission and late deaths in the U.S. medicare population

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 307-311

  Vogel, Todd R ^a   Dombrovskiy, Viktor Y ^b   Lowry, Stephen F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ABDOMEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84869741118     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.116     Document Type: Article

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