Predicting the unpredictable: Comparing readmitted versus non-readmitted colorectal surgery patients

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 207, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 346-351

  Keller, Deborah S ^a   Swendseid, Brian ^b   Khorgami, Zhamak ^a   Champagne, Bradley J ^a   Reynolds Jr , Harry L ^a   Stein, Sharon L ^a   Delaney, Conor P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal surgery; Enhanced recovery pathways; Healthcare outcomes; Healthcare utilization; Readmissions

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADHESIOLYSIS; ADULT; AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGIST SCORE; ANORECTAL SURGERY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; GROUPS BY AGE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HERNIOPLASTY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ILEOCOLIC RESECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING CARE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT HISTORY OF SURGERY; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEGMENTAL COLECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; STOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

COLORECTAL SURGERY; ENHANCED RECOVERY PATHWAYS; HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES; HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION; READMISSIONS;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PATIENT READMISSION; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84895440021     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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