Variations in postoperative complications according to race, ethnicity, and sex in older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1499-1507

  Brooks Carthon, J Margo ^a   Jarrín, Olga ^a   Sloane, Douglas ^a   Kutney Lee, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; disparities; ethnicity; race; sex

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; EMERGENCY CARE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL SURGERY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOCK; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND INFECTION;

COMPLICATIONS; DISPARITIES; ETHNICITY; RACE; SEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884281885     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12419     Document Type: Article

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