Core measures: Implications for plastic surgery

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1266-1271

  Collins, James B ^a   Verheyden, Charles N ^a   Mahabir, Raman C ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; STANDARD; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGERY, PLASTIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879924114     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31828bd17e     Document Type: Article

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