Elective, major noncardiac surgery on the weekend: A population-based cohort study of 30-day mortality

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 557-564

  McIsaac, Daniel I ^a   Bryson, Gregory L ^a   Van Walraven, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

health care delivery; health service research; mortality; observational studies; outcomes research; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CANADA; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE RISK POPULATION; INTESTINE SURGERY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84901314738     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000137     Document Type: Article

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