Relationship between hospital surgical volume, lobectomy rates, and adverse perioperative events at US epilepsy centers: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 169-174

  Englot, Dario J ^a,b   Ouyang, David ^a,b   Wang, Doris D ^a,b   Rolston, John D ^a,b   Garcia, Paul A ^a,b   Chang, Edward F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Complication; Epilepsy; Hospital volume; Lobectomy; Seizure; Surgery; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL VOLUME; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LOBECTOMY; MORBIDITY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; EPILEPSY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84872195912     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.9.JNS12776     Document Type: Article

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