Frequency and predictors of complications in neurological surgery: National trends from 2006 to 2011: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 736-745

  Rolston, John D ^a   Han, Seunggu J ^a   Lau, Catherine Y ^a   Berger, Mitchel S ^a   Parsa, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Complication; Error; Quality improvement

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASIAN; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMA; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT HISTORY OF CHEMOTHERAPY; PATIENT HISTORY OF RADIOTHERAPY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOBACCO USE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREND STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; REOPERATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84895463890     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.10.JNS122419     Document Type: Article

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