Impact of Hospital Teaching Status on Length of Stay and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Complex Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery in the USA

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2114-2122

  Hyder, Omar ^a   Sachs, Teviah ^a   Ejaz, Aslam ^a   Spolverato, Gaya ^a   Pawlik, Timothy M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Length of stay; Liver resection; Pancreaticoduodenectomy; Teaching hospital

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888213376     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-013-2349-4     Document Type: Article

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