Effect of weight loss on short-term outcomes and costs of care after head and neck cancer surgery

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 101-110

  Gourin, Christine G ^a   Couch, Marion E ^b   Johnson, Jonas T ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Dysphagia; Head and neck neoplasms; Malnutrition; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; Surgery; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPHAGIA; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOREIGN BODY; GLOSSECTOMY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MAXILLA RESECTION; MEDICAID; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEROMA; SHOCK; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TONSILLECTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

COMPLICATION; DYSPHAGIA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MALNUTRITION; NATIONWIDE INPATIENT SAMPLE; SURGERY; WEIGHT LOSS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903530518     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003489414523564     Document Type: Article

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