Surgery for primary supratentorial brain tumors in the United States, 2000-2009: Effect of provider and hospital caseload on complication rates

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 280-296

  Trinh, Victoria T ^a,b   Davies, Jason M ^a   Berger, Mitchel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caseload; Complications; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; Oncology; Supratentorial brain tumors

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASIAN; BENIGN TUMOR; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUMOR BIOPSY; UNITED STATES; VENA CAVA FILTER; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND COMPLICATION; ADOLESCENT; ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926112589     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.9.JNS131648     Document Type: Article

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