Hospital volume and failure to rescue after head and neck cancer surgery

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 783-789

  Mulvey, Carolyn L ^a   Pronovost, Peter J ^a,b   Gourin, Christine G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; failure to rescue; hospital volume; mortality; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; surgery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAILURE TO RESCUE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL VOLUME; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84930717870     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599815570026     Document Type: Article

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