Safety of elective colorectal cancer surgery: Non-surgical complications and colectomies are targets for quality improvement

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 567-573

  Henneman, Daniel ^a   Ten Berge, Martijn G ^a   Snijders, Heleen S ^a   Van Leersum, Nicoline J ^a   Fiocco, Marta ^a   Wiggers, Theo ^b   Tollenaar, Rob A E M ^a   Wouters, Michel W J M ^a,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

colon cancer; failure to rescue; postoperative complications; postoperative mortality; rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FASCIAL DEHISCENCE; FEMALE; HEART COMPLICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY COMPLICATION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

COLON CANCER; FAILURE TO RESCUE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY; RECTAL CANCER;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CLINICAL AUDIT; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL STOMAS;

EID: 84898781112     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.23532     Document Type: Article

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