Risk of readmission following immediate breast reconstruction: Results from the 2011 American college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program data sets

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Nelson, Jonas A ^a   Fischer, John P ^a   Chung, Cyndi ^a   Wu, Liza C ^a   Serletti, Joseph M ^a   Kovach, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84905374689     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000000319     Document Type: Article

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