Factors influencing readmission after curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 218, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1215-1222

  Ahmad, Rima ^a   Schmidt, Benjamin H ^a   Rattner, David W ^a   Mullen, John T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ESOPHAGOGASTRECTOMY; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION;

AGED; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84901240843     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

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