Reporting complications and outcome, are we there yet?

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 219-220

  Leppäniemi, Ari ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84902657943     PISSN: 14574969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1457496913511019     Document Type: Editorial

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