How many sunsets? Timing of surgery in adhesive small bowel obstruction: A study of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 181-189

  Schraufnagel, Dean ^a   Rajaee, Sean ^a   Millham, Frederick Heaton ^a  

^a NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; complication; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; timing of surgery

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 84872062997     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31827891a1     Document Type: Article

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