Variation in readmission by hospital after colorectal cancer surgery

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1272-1277

  Lucas, Donald J ^a   Ejaz, Aslam ^b   Bischof, Danielle A ^b   Schneider, Eric B ^b   Pawlik, Timothy M ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CANCER REGISTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RECTUM RESECTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLECTOMY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919629922     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: 21686262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.988     Document Type: Article

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