Spinal anesthesia versus general anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair: Propensity score analysis;Anesthésie locorégionale versus anesthésie générale pour la hernie inguinale: Analyse par le score de propension

Tunisie Medicale

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 686-691

  Samaali, Imen ^a,b   Ben Osman, Samia ^a,b   Bedoui, Riadh ^a,b   Bouasker, Ibtissem ^a,b   Chaker, Youssef ^a,b   Slama, Anis ^a,b   Houissa, Mohamed ^a,b   Nouira, Ramzi ^a,b   Dziri, Chadli ^a,b  

^a CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Administrative database; Assessment; Care; Comparative study; Inguinal hernia; Quality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUNISIA;

EID: 84870341212     PISSN: 00414131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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