Mediation of smoking-associated postoperative mortality by perioperative complications in veterans undergoing elective surgery: Data from Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program (VASQIP)a cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Singh, Jasvinder A ^a,b,c,d   Hawn, Mary ^a,b   Campagna, Elizabeth J ^e,f   Henderson, William G ^e   Richman, Joshua ^a   Houston, Thomas K ^f,g  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYSPNEA; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VETERAN; WORK;

EID: 84877698711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002157     Document Type: Article

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