Risk factors for 30-day readmission in patients undergoing ventral hernia repair

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 702-710

  Lovecchio, Francis ^a   Farmer, Rebecca ^a   Souza, Jason ^a   Khavanin, Nima ^a   Dumanian, Gregory A ^a   Kim, John Y S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HERNIOPLASTY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMOKING; SUPERFICIAL SITE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MESH; UNPLANNED INTUBATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897077233     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.12.021     Document Type: Article

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