Postoperative transitional care needs in the elderly: An Outcome of recovery associated with worse long-term survival

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 695-701

  Li, Linda T ^a   Barden, Gala M ^a,b   Balentine, Courtney J ^a   Orcutt, Sonia T ^a   Naik, Aanand D ^a,b   Artinyan, Avo ^a,b   Sansgiry, Shubhada ^b   Albo, Daniel ^a   Berger, David H ^a,b   Anaya, Daniel A ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Postoperative; Surgery; Survival; Transitional care needs

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONVALESCENCE; EARLY CANCER; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CENTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRANSITIONAL CARE; WOUND CARE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928759458     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000000673     Document Type: Article

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