Predictors of readmission after inpatient plastic surgery

Archives of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 116-121

  Jain, Umang ^a   Salgado, Christopher ^b   Mioton, Lauren ^c   Rambachan, Aksharananda ^a   Kim, John Y S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Inpatients; Patient readmission; Surgery, plastic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OBESITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS;

EID: 84896477867     PISSN: 22346163     EISSN: 22346171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5999/aps.2014.41.2.116     Document Type: Article

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