Outcomes after rectal cancer surgery in elderly nursing home residents

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1229-1235

  Finlayson, Emily ^a,b   Zhao, Shoujun ^b   Varma, Madhulika G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal incontinence; Nursing home; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPHINCTER SPARING PROCTECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872227811     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e318267bfe3     Document Type: Article

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