The western australian audit of surgical mortality: Outcomes from the first 10 years

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 199, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 539-542

  Azzam, Diana G ^a   Neo, C Adeline ^a   Itotoh, Franca E ^a   Aitken, R James ^a,b  

^a Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (WA)   (United States)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FLUID THERAPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PEER REVIEW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FLUID THERAPY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84886066050     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.10256     Document Type: Article

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