Serious postoperative infections following resection of common solid tumors: Outcomes, costs, and impact of hospital surgical volume

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 527-535

  Avritscher, Elenir B C ^a,c   Cooksley, Catherine D ^b   Rolston, Kenneth V ^c   Swint, J Michael ^a,d   Delclos, George L ^d   Franzini, Luisa ^d   Swisher, Stephen G ^c   Walsh, Garrett L ^c   Mansfield, Paul F ^c   Elting, Linda S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcomes; Postoperative infection; Solid tumors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; COLON CANCER; COLON RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; LUNG CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SEPSIS; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; DAY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TEXAS;

EID: 84896034459     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-2006-1     Document Type: Article

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