Quality improvement in gastrointestinal surgical oncology with American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 593-601

  Lucas, Donald J ^a   Pawlik, Timothy M ^b,c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897051012     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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