Determining Surgical Complications in the Overweight (DISCOVER): A multicentre observational cohort study to evaluate the role of obesity as a risk factor for postoperative complications in general surgery

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Nepogodiev, Dmitri ^a   Chapman, Stephen J ^b   Glasbey, James ^c   Kelly, Michael ^d   Khatri, Chetan ^e   Drake, Thomas M ^f   Kong, Chia Yew ^g   Mitchell, Harriet ^h   Harrison, Ewen M ⁱ   Fitzgerald, J Edward ^j   Bhangu, Aneel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILE DUCT INJURY; BLADDER INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELLULITIS; CHYLOTHORAX; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; ILEUS; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROMA; SPLEEN INJURY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; URETER INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS INDEX; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84941635844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008811     Document Type: Article

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