Burden of emergency and non-emergency colorectal cancer surgeries in west virginia and the USA

Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-53

  Shah, Neel A ^a   Halverson, Joel ^a   Madhavan, Suresh ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Emergency surgery; Inpatient death; Length of stay; Screening; Total charges

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873722982     PISSN: 19416628     EISSN: 19416636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-012-9455-5     Document Type: Article

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