Complication timing and association with mortality in the American College of Surgeons' National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-87

  Wakeam, Elliot ^a,d   Hyder, Joseph A ^a,c   Tsai, Thomas C ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Orgill, Dennis P ^a   Finlayson, Sam R G ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Failure to rescue; Surgical education; Surgical quality

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; EDUCATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925025309     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.08.025     Document Type: Article

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