Geriatric emergency general surgery: Survival and outcomes in a low-middle income country

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 562-569

  Shah, Adil A ^a,b   Haider, Adil H ^b   Riviello, Robert ^b   Zogg, Cheryl K ^b   Zafar, Syed Nabeel ^c   Latif, Asad ^d   Rios Diaz, Arturo J ^b   Rehman, Zia ^a   Zafar, Hasnain ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FISTULA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSTOMY; GENERAL SURGERY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HERNIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL; THORAX DISEASE; TRACHEOSTOMY; VASCULAR DISEASE; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY; EVALUATION STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84937517267     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.03.045     Document Type: Article

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