Advancing age and 30-day adverse outcomes after nonemergent general surgeries

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1608-1614

  Gajdos, Csaba ^a   Kile, Deidre ^b   Hawn, Mary T ^a   Finlayson, Emily ^c   Henderson, William G ^b   Robinson, Thomas N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; postsurgical outcomes; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGING; POSTSURGICAL OUTCOMES; SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884286592     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12401     Document Type: Article

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