Complications of daytime elective laparoscopic cholecystectomies performed by surgeons who operated the night before

JAMA

Volumn 310, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 1837-1841

  Vinden, Christopher ^a   Nash, Danielle M ^b   Rangrej, Jagadish ^b   Shariff, Salimah Z ^b   Dixon, Stephanie N ^a,b   Jain, Arsh K ^b   Garg, Amit X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON;

EID: 84887041884     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.280372     Document Type: Article

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