Rates and predictors of readmission after minor lower extremity amputations

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-105

  Beaulieu, Robert J ^a   Grimm, Joshua C ^a   Lyu, Heather ^a   Abularrage, Christopher J ^a   Perler, Bruce A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ICD-9; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG AMPUTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AMPUTATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FOOT; LIMB SALVAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

AGED; AMPUTATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIMB SALVAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937523778     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2015.02.021     Document Type: Article

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