Risk factors and indications for readmission after lower extremity amputation in the american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1315-1324

  Curran, Thomas ^a   Zhang, Jennifer Q ^a   Lo, Ruby C ^a   Fokkema, Margriet ^b   McCallum, John C ^a   Buck, Dominique B ^b   Darling, Jeremy ^a   Schermerhorn, Marc L ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CELLULITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; GUILLOTINE AMPUTATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATIONAL SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM; NURSING HOME; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSMETATARSAL AMPUTATION; ULCER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AMPUTATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924745589     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.05.050     Document Type: Article

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