Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality is associated with improved clinical outcomes

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 803-807

  Beiles, Charles Barry ^a   Retegan, Claudia ^a   Maddern, Guy J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dataset; Disease management; Medical audit; Mortality; Victoria

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VICTORIA;

HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VICTORIA;

EID: 84945457924     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ans.12787     Document Type: Article

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