National trends in hospital-acquired preventable adverse events after major cancer surgery in the USA

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Sukumar, Shyam ^a   Roghmann, Florian ^b,c   Trinh, Vincent Q ^b   Sammon, Jesse D ^a   Gervais, Mai Kim ^b   Tan, Hung Jui ^d   Ravi, Praful ^a   Kim, Simon P ^e   Hu, Jim C ^f   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Noldus, Joachim ^c   Sun, Maxine ^b   Menon, Mani ^a   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^b,g  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DECUBITUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTATECTOMY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879928277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002843     Document Type: Article

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