Factors associated with readmission following plastic surgery: A review of 10,669 procedures from the 2011 american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program data set

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 666-674

  Fischer, John P ^a   Wes, Ari M ^b   Nelson, Jonas A ^b   Serletti, Joseph M ^b   Kovach, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883600522     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31829acc8c     Document Type: Article

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