The challenge of education in colorectal cancer surgery: A comparison of early oncological results, morbidity, and mortality between residents and attending surgeons performing an open right colectomy

Journal of Surgical Education

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 254-261

  Montroni, Isacco ^a   Ghignone, Federico ^a   Rosati, Giancarlo ^a   Zattoni, Davide ^a   Manaresi, Alessio ^a   Taffurelli, Mario ^a   Ugolini, Giampaolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

length of surgery; lymph nodes; outcomes; surgical oncology; training

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACCURACY; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSTRUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RESIDENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

LENGTH OF SURGERY; LYMPH NODES; MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE; OUTCOMES; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING AND IMPROVEMENT; PROFESSIONALISM; SURGICAL ONCOLOGY; TRAINING;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84895526108     PISSN: 19317204     EISSN: 18787452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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