Is there a "july effect" for head and neck cancer surgery?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1889-1895

  Hennessey, Patrick T ^a   Francis, Howard W ^a   Gourin, Christine G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; costs; July effect; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; neoplasm; surgery; teaching hospitals

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CAVITY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

COMPLICATIONS; COSTS; JULY EFFECT; NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE; NEOPLASM; SURGERY; TEACHING HOSPITALS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880571667     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23884     Document Type: Article

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