The impact of surgeon volume on postoperative outcomes after surgery for Crohn's disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 301-306

  Nguyen, Geoffrey C ^a,b,c   Steinhart, A Hillary ^a,c  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CROHN DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RURAL AREA; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK EXPERIENCE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INCIDENCE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGEONS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84893781073     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MIB.0000438247.06595.b9     Document Type: Article

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