Hospital variation in failure to rescue after colorectal cancer surgery: Results of the dutch surgical colorectal audit

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2117-2123

  Henneman, D ^a   Snijders, H S ^a   Fiocco, M ^a   Van Leersum, N J ^a   Kolfschoten, N E ^a   Wiggers, Th ^b   Wouters, M W J M ^a,c   Tollenaar, R A E M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAILURE TO RESCUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANPROCTOCOLECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; SIGMOID COLECTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84878832702     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-013-2896-7     Document Type: Article

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