Extended length of stay after surgery: Complications, inefficient practice, or sick patients?

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 815-820

  Krell, Robert W ^a   Girotti, Micah E ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84906688859     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.629     Document Type: Article

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