Is NSQIP Pediatric review representative of total institutional experience for children undergoing appendectomy?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1292-1294

  Duggan, Eileen M ^a   Gates, Dan W ^b   Slayton, Jenny M ^b   Blakely, Martin L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; NSQIP; Outcomes; Pediatric; Quality

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTIPATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NATIONAL SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TENNESSEE;

EID: 84905460399     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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