Clinical trial evidence to advance the science of cholecystectomy

JAMA

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 135-136

  Solomkin, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOW RISK PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84903878731     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.7588     Document Type: Editorial

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